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Editor:Regardless of who spouts statistics, we should all be skeptical. For one thing, it's a good mental exercise (may prevent Alzheimer's). Secondly, we might avoid making big mistakes by blindly...
DATE: Jan. 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Things are moving into first gear here in Denver at the Capitol. A couple of years ago, we passed a law called the SMART Act, (plenty of joke material there, I know), that was intended to increase...
DATE: Jan. 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:Conservatives are obsessed by the notion that the only way to economic recovery is a ruthless cutting of social programs: Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, education, scientific research,...
DATE: Jan. 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:In the Jan. 17 Cortez Journal, there is a cartoon of an upside-down turtle. The caption states that 2012 was the hottest year on record.When I end a letter to the editor, about half the time...
DATE: Jan. 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:The reason we have so many homeless people is because they lack money management skills.Betty HoughtonCortez
DATE: Jan. 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:At the first of a lot of years, a wide variety of regulations are passed into law. Some, however, like the Clean Air Act, were signed into law but there was a five-year set point after the...
DATE: Jan. 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:I am not sure how Gordon Black came to the conclusion that a rainbow flag represents the Democratic Party (Journal, Jan. 15). If it does represent the Democratic Party's ideals it makes me...
DATE: Jan. 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:Since the inception of representative government and the universal installation and respect for a one-representative/one-vote system of ethics, the rule by majority has made way for a...
DATE: Jan. 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:Our liberal friends keep telling us that if we will just ban guns most evil people will just disappear. Now I am certain they would never dream of tossing a homemade bomb into a classroom or...
DATE: Jan. 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:In the Thursday, Jan. 10 edition of the Cortez Journal, we once again find a far-left diatribe written by Denton May with statements he writes as facts, but are nothing more than biased...
DATE: Jan. 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:Now that every comment is considered an "opinion," the opinions submitted to the Journal about the Forest Service road closings point out something more interesting than someone's...
DATE: Jan. 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:The common denominator among many seems to be historical ignorance and its illegitimate stepchild, political correctness. The current and seemingly neverending flap over the Confederate...
DATE: Jan. 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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