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Congratulations and good luck to Larry Don Suckla, who, along with Keenan Ertel, will join the Montezuma County Board of Commissioners.They, along with incumbent commissioner Steve Chappell, have a...
DATE: Nov. 8, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
What an immense relief it is to discover that the local habit of voting no on nearly everything has ended with the passage of 3B, the bond issue that will fund construction of a state-of-the-art...
DATE: Nov. 8, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Who would have predicted that Montezuma County residents would go to bed on Election Night knowing who had won the hard-fought presidential contest but still waiting to hear about local races?As...
DATE: Nov. 8, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Today if not at some time in the past several weeks voters will have their say.Tomorrow, they want to wake up to a different political climate. When they get up, theyll want to know who won,...
DATE: Nov. 6, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Elections used to be relatively straightforward. On Election Day, voters stood in line to mark a ballot. This year, most local voters have already cast their mail-in ballots or voted early at the...
DATE: Nov. 3, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Many solid reasons exist to support ballot issue 3B. The high school is inadequate for its mission, not because it was poorly planned and built in the 1960s and not because its been poorly...
DATE: Nov. 1, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
As disastrous as Hurricane Sandy is proving to be, she is drowning out at least some of the most vitriolic campaigning of the season. No doubt the barrage will resume after Sandy weakens, but for...
DATE: Oct. 30, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Definitions of culture are almost as diverse as the sources used to find them. This one is illustrative: (1) the evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to...
DATE: Oct. 27, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Women have borne the brunt of some very harsh statements lately, from Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akins Legitimate rape rarely causes pregnancy to Wisconsin state Rep. Roger Rivards, Some...
DATE: Oct. 25, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In Montezuma County, politics happens differently than in most other places.For example, the conventional wisdom is that primary contestants should remain somewhat restrained, in order not to...
DATE: Oct. 24, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The question before presidential voters is simple: Who will better serve this country for the next four years? When couched in straightforward terms, the answer is clear: President Barack Obama...
DATE: Oct. 23, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Most 14-year-old girls are eager, energetic and full of big ideas and bigger questions. The way that age-appropriate awareness of the world and discerning of their place in it can manifest in...
DATE: Oct. 20, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
