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Simpler tax code a good goal that will not happen

WASHINGTON – Almost everyone agrees that America’s income tax is too complex. Considering this, you might expect that simplifying the income tax would be a slam dunk. Sure enough, the various...

DATE: April 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Thanks to Cortez for vote of confidence

Thank you to the citizens of Cortez for the confidence you have shown by re-electing me to another four-year term on City Council. I am honored by your support and will work hard to keep the trust...

DATE: April 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Commissioners ignore dissent on lands

Our county commissioners’ joining the American Lands Council last year without citizen input was a bad decision, considering many of the people in this county love our public lands and many make...

DATE: April 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Streets need widening, new stoplight

With the plans to build a new courthouse, the streets at Empire and Mildred need to be widened out to five lanes and a stoplight needs to be put in. Someone needs to be planning things like this. ...

DATE: April 14, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Hillary Clinton dealing with the end of Clintonism

WASHINGTON — How far they’ve come. And I’m not talking about the GOP, whose front-runner representing 37 percent of the Republican electorate has repudiated post-Reagan orthodoxy on trade,...

DATE: April 14, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Street sweepers are really dust blowers

We talk about it as a street sweeper but in Cortez it is used as a dust blower. The people operating these machines go down the street blowing dust on everything and everyone. This isn’t cleaning...

DATE: April 14, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Let Montezuma County run McPhee

Where are the environmentalists? According to the story headlined “Malfunction at McPhee’s pond kills hundreds of fish” (The Journal, March 15), local fish are dying while the local federal...

DATE: April 14, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Take Saturday’s Decisions Day to discuss end-of-life advance directives

The Colorado Legislature again this session failed to advance end-of-life power of control to residents. That cautious and narrow right, which in its more recent form would have given those deemed...

DATE: April 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Brazil’s nightmare could end its culture of graft

WASHINGTON – Woe is Brazil. As the summer Olympics approach in August, Latin America’s largest country – with a population of 206 million and an economy that is 40 percent of the region’s total –...

DATE: April 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Long bill’s passage a bipartisan success

Last week, the Senate passed the 2016-2017 budget bill, also called the long bill, since it’s the most detailed and lengthy piece of legislation each year. Despite dire predictions from the...

DATE: April 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Blame the Rothschilds and fiat money

U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, addressed the public a couple of weeks ago. One of his main concerns was our national debt of $19 trillion, and with that the eternal hope of Congress balancing...

DATE: April 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Journal should allow online comments

When is The Journal going to get up to speed with the rest of the world and allow public commenting on online articles? You have a tabbed section for “read” “commented” and “emailed” Only the...

DATE: April 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

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