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Some year-end roundups look like reruns of one a year ago. Not much has changed. And then there are years like 2012.Locally, two school districts passed bond issues and the third passed a mill-levy...
DATE: Dec. 28, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In its collection of Christmas quotations, the Salt Lake Tribune included this one by former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm:"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it....
DATE: Dec. 26, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And...
DATE: Dec. 24, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned [Scrooge's] nephew. "Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of...
DATE: Dec. 24, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Montezuma County is not an affluent place, as most define that word. It's not Westchester County or Summit County or even La Plata County.Montezuma County, is, though, a great place to live. More...
DATE: Dec. 22, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The profile of the gunman responsible for 27 deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary School is all too familiar, as is the massacre itself. Here was a young man alienated from his community, known to be...
DATE: Dec. 19, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Yesterday morning, parents sent their children off to school for the first time since they learned of the latest school shooting. Understandably, they want assurances that school officials have...
DATE: Dec. 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
There was no chance that the Boggy/Glade travel plan would be met with universal approval. Government actions, almost by definition, are unpopular in Montezuma County.There was also no chance that...
DATE: Dec. 14, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Gov. John Hickenlooper is not known for carrying the political water of any particular industry or interest group - a trait that has landed him in some trouble with those who thought they had a...
DATE: Dec. 12, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
According to a Yale University librarian, the year's best quote was former presidential candidate Mitt Romney's statement that 47 percent of Americans were beyond the reach of his campaign because...
DATE: Dec. 10, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
With the election settled and a decisive answer given as to whether the Affordable Care Act will be implemented, the question remains as to how division about the measure's contraception provisions...
DATE: Dec. 7, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Since the election, it has been difficult for readers and opinion writers alike to get through a sentence without consuming or producing the words, fiscal cliff. After all, it has been the...
DATE: Dec. 5, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
