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Vote for BEST match, kids and community

Editor:To those who have written against the proposed BEST grant for the Cortez schools I say, “Shame on you!”Writing with ramblings that new buildings do not educate children and that “we give...

DATE: Sept. 1, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

A businessman or a con man

Editor:Let’s touch on Medicare. We are already seeing rationing of medicare. Luckily my husband has court ordered private insurance that pays for everything he needs. Those on Medicare, Medicaid,...

DATE: Sept. 1, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

What a mighty God we have!

Editor:Concerning Leigh Waggoner’s column of Aug. 18, where she sets out “a conversation starter,” if God cannot be all powerful and all loving at the same time, he is no better than a rabbit’s...

DATE: Sept. 1, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

No more hope and change

Editor:I, for one have had enough of the current administration. A fate of four more years would only take our great nation deeper into being more of a socialist nation and closer to a dictator as...

DATE: Sept. 1, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Defeat Tipton, but don’t condemn him

Editor:I commend Christopher Isensee for his letter of Aug. 18, and his criticism of Scott Tipton, who voted subsidies for big oil in Washington, but then raised our payroll taxes and voted against...

DATE: Sept. 1, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

The Hollywood served its community well

Editor:I am deeply saddened about Vikki Harris Broderick’s judgmental opinion of her hometown and its people.I had been an employee of the Hollywood Bar for eight years, and to me it was more than...

DATE: Sept. 1, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Barking up the wrong tree again

Editor:The Romney/Ryan election platform of tinkering with Social Security and Medicare defies explanation. exorbitant spending and the national debt are because Congress steals money from the...

DATE: Aug. 30, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

The founders’ intentions are well known

Editor:I am happy to provide a fact-based response to Denton May’s Aug. 21 letter to the editor, titled “Reasonable gun control is long overdue.”Mr. May accuses advocates for unrestricted gun...

DATE: Aug. 30, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

The responsibility to own firearms

Editor:Firearms ownership is a right and a responsibility. Most people do not want to talk about the responsibility to own firearms. Our forefathers recognized that responsibility and included it...

DATE: Aug. 30, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Reasonable reasons gun control is unreasonable

Editor:After reading yet another of Denton May’s almost weekly far-left letters to the editor, this one under the subject of “Reasonable gun control is long overdue” in the Cortez Journal Aug. 21,...

DATE: Aug. 30, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Lose the fear

Editor:Second Amendment: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”Power is vested in the...

DATE: Aug. 30, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

None of this is a surprise to God

Editor:Concerning Colin Kincade’s letter, “A cancer deep within our nation’s marrow,” Aug. 21: I hear your pain, Colin. And no, the answer is not red or blue; and yes, it is definitely “not just a...

DATE: Aug. 30, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

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