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WASHINGTON — What lies behind Donald Trump’s nomination victory? Received wisdom among conservatives is that he, the outsider, sensed, marshaled and came to represent a massive revolt of the...
DATE: May 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
In the past two weeks, 103 8th grade students from the Cortez Middle School traveled to Fort Collins. Accompanied and supervised by 15 adults, these students visited two college campuses and...
DATE: May 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I’m a relative new comer to Montezuma County. I moved here in ’96. Since then I have taken advantage of many of the outdoor opportunities the area affords me: hunting, fishing, biking, birding,...
DATE: May 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
For people who don’t know, here is the sales tax rate for Cortez: 2.9 percent state, 4.05 percent city of Cortez, and 0.04 percent for the hospital district. If you add that up I get 6.99 percent...
DATE: April 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON — Foreign policy does not determine American elections. Indeed, of all Western countries, we are the least interested in the subject. The reason is simple: We haven’t had to be. Our...
DATE: April 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
It’s been a great time for public lands and conservation. The Senate passed a bipartisan Energy bill (by a vote of 85-12), a major accomplishment in these divided political times. This is the first...
DATE: April 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
A group of students from Cortez Middle School was on a field trip on April 22 and they ended up with a stop at the Cabela’s store, in Thornton, Colo. I am writing because I was absolutely floored...
DATE: April 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – The gender pay gap is back in the news – and may become a major issue in the presidential campaign. It seems an open-and-shut case of job discrimination. Women earn only 79 percent of...
DATE: April 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Heavy Denver snowstorms and the return of the Colorado Rockies from baseball’s spring training join the increasingly frenzied pace at the Capitol to signal that May will soon be here. I’m kept busy...
DATE: April 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON — We all have our ways of marking the seasons. I know it’s spring when in early April I start my morning by skipping The Washington Post front page and going right to the sports section....
DATE: April 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Regarding the master leasing plan and the proposed increased environmental protections for Montezuma County, I find it telling that the commissioners have agreed to allow expanded protections for...
DATE: April 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
For those of you who saw the news recently and are wondering why, after 146 years, the Rockefeller family is exiting the oil business? It’s most likely that free energy is dawning. Russia published...
DATE: April 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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