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Colorado’s investment in higher education ranks abysmally low. It is dead last among the states for funding research universities – the University of Colorado and Colorado State University – and...
DATE: Feb. 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Recently we read about the declining deer herds in our area. We moved to Cortez in June 1970 and enjoyed excellent deer hunting for years. Then the uninformed voters in the metro areas voted to...
DATE: Feb. 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Editorials
It has never been a secret that congressional Republicans resoundingly disdain the Affordable Care Act. After all, the U.S. House of Representatives has voted 46 times to repeal the measure, which...
DATE: Feb. 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Editorials
As is the custom with the annual State of the Union address, President Barack Obama’s visit to the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday was rife with handshakes, hugs, kisses, timed and...
DATE: Jan. 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Editorials
When the U.S. Justice Department announced last summer that it would not prosecute marijuana growers and retailers in states where voters had approved its use for medical or recreational uses in...
DATE: Jan. 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Editorials
I am writing in response to a Jan. 14 Journal story from which I quote District Attorney Will Furse, who said, “Two years in a cage is probably enough, but I’m not sure.” This regards the...
DATE: Jan. 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Colorado’s abundance of public lands is one of the state’s chief draws – for residents, businesses and visitors. Those counties rich in public lands, though, face diminished property taxes for that...
DATE: Jan. 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Editorials
To the many, many friends of the Dolores Public Library District, a great big thanks for all of you who attended my retirement party, who called, or dropped by the library wishing me a happy...
DATE: Jan. 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Editorials
As I was reading the story (Journal, Dec. 24) concerning our school district and our new high school ground breaking, something struck me. Dan Porter (mayor of Cortez and principal in the RE-1...
DATE: Jan. 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The National Security Agency has come under increasingly heavy fire as details of its vast data-monitoring operations emerge bit by bit, and the list of individuals, decision-makers, organizations,...
DATE: Oct. 31, 2013 | CATEGORY: Editorials
There are three questions related to funding for fire and emergency services in Montezuma County and voters will weigh in on up to two of them, depending on where they live. The issues differ...
DATE: Oct. 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Proposition AA is couched in the arcane language of ballots and taxation, but its meaning is simple: If approved by the voters, it would impose a 15 percent excise tax on recreational marijuana...
DATE: Oct. 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Editorials
