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In southwest Colorado this past winter, high country snowfall was abundant – overly so, from the viewpoint of mountain dwellers who had few breaks during the season of snow removal. The snowpack...
DATE: July 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Tens of thousands of viewers have now seen a video of local T-ball spectators engaging in a knock-down, drag-out fight at Parque de Vida. The video is embarrassing for the whole community, because...
DATE: June 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke apparently has told members of Colorado’s congressional delegation that he is not inclined to alter or eliminate Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. Both of...
DATE: June 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The Montezuma County commissioners have done the right thing in temporarily halting use of “fossil water” as a dust retardant on county-maintained gravel roads. The arguments for the liquid, a...
DATE: June 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Earlier this month, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a controversial bill that, he says, begins to reform the state’s civil asset forfeiture system. The legislation mandated new reporting...
DATE: June 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
It’s a testament to Ray Harriman’s influence on his students’ lives that many of them will attend the celebration of his own life tonight. Those students remember him as caring and supportive, and...
DATE: June 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The Cortez Sanitation District is right to revisit tap fees, or plant investment fees, for hotels and RV parks. Kudos to board members for their willingness to do that. While some of them don’t...
DATE: June 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Some of your letters to the editor were misplaced. After a recent update to The-Journal.com , some letters to the editor – about 50 of them – languished in our website’s out basket, never reaching...
DATE: June 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In 1978, when the airline industry was deregulated and airlines wanted to pull out of small markets to focus on profitable large airports, the Essential Air Service program of subsidies was created...
DATE: June 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Tourism is an important economic force in Southwest Colorado, and its success depends on multiple factors: weather, wildfires, gas prices, airfares, news coverage, terror threats, violence against...
DATE: June 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
At least twice over the past two years, radioactive sludge has leaked from a truck traveling between an eastern Wyoming uranium mine and White Mesa, Utah, south of Blanding. En route, the trucks...
DATE: June 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
It is good to find simple solutions to what seem to be complicated problems. That is the case with Gov. John Hickenlooper’s signature on Senate Bill 117, now a law that declares Colorado water...
DATE: June 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
