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Editor:It is very frustrating to me that the federal government is holding up the project to connect public institutions across the state with broadband using EAGLE-Net Alliance (ENA). Evidently...
DATE: Feb. 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:The recent controversy over the banning of the Confederate flag and purported hate speech and conduct within the Dolores Schools has prompted the kind of discourse that characterizes a...
DATE: Feb. 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:We stopped by Belt Salvage Thursday to admire the great new sculpture we'd heard about, and upon returning home found the Cortez Journal had arrived with a feature story on this fine piece...
DATE: Feb. 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:I think arming school officials is a fantastic idea. If the state rules that schools are "no gun areas", then that makes them great targets for the shooters. You always hear that the police...
DATE: Feb. 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:So all of your readers are fully informed of the facts: No "assault" style rifle was used in the Connecticut school shooting (which, of course, does not lesson the tragedy). Four handguns...
DATE: Feb. 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:Dolores is too great to hate, so, why are the school board and superintendent spreading so much hate? I have attended the last several board of education meetings and I have seldom seen more...
DATE: Feb. 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:No point in asking where the irrational approval of the abject disregard of existing federal statute law violated by a ballot issue that legalizes marijuana as some kind of monumental...
DATE: Feb. 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:In two of your recent opinion pieces, you said there was a racist element within the TEA Party and that Republicans were to blame for not extending the debt ceiling. I understand that these...
DATE: Feb. 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:I happened by chance to stumble on a TV station (C-span) that was showing a program on gun policy, being put on by Johns Hopkins and other universities. I only saw the last part of it. One...
DATE: Feb. 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:Thank you for (columnist Larry) Tradlener's meticulously detailed dissertation on the mechanics of assorted weaponry (Guns and Roses, Part I). Granted, I had to rouse myself to attention by...
DATE: Feb. 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:How unfortunate for the health of our democracy that so many Americans limit their sources of information on national and foreign affairs to Fox News, the propaganda arm of the right wing,...
DATE: Feb. 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:I have to agree with Ken Chester to a great degree. The U.S. government has a long history of atrocities against others, from slavery to the vanquishing of the native peoples. It is...
DATE: Feb. 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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