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WASHINGTON – There is no tooth fairy. Republicans and Democrats take note. Taxes will surely continue to play a big role in the presidential campaign. The Republicans contend that cutting rates...
DATE: Nov. 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
The top secret “trade deal” TPP is about to become a top secret law, because we the people aren’t to know what is in it for a full five years after it becomes the law of the land. At best TPP will...
DATE: Oct. 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
In response to “God expelled from U. S. schools, sports” (Letters, Journal, Oct. 13), Article 6 of the Constitution and the First Amendment of the Constitution, upon which our laws are based, take...
DATE: Oct. 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
“Thou shall not steal except by majority vote” (Exodus 20:15 as modified by society’s do-gooders). Most people have a moral compass and will agree that theft is wrong. In a moral and free society,...
DATE: Oct. 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – At a certain point, you have to realize you can’t hit a fastball. House Republicans don’t quite get that they are hopeless at oversight hearings. They keep losing – and now the...
DATE: Oct. 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – By now, it must be obvious to almost everyone that the federal debt ceiling has outlived whatever usefulness it once had. It does not discipline government spending in any predictable...
DATE: Oct. 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
It’s unfortunate that Colorado voters have not been offered the correct choice for what to do with the tens of millions of dollars in excess revenue generated by the state’s retail marijuana sales....
DATE: Oct. 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Here is an experience I would like to share with our community. This year in June, due to damage to my heart about which I had been previously unaware, I was admitted to the emergency room at...
DATE: Oct. 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – Guess who just popped up in the Kremlin? Bashar al-Assad, Syrian dictator and destroyer, now Vladimir Putin’s newest pet. After four years holed up in Damascus, Assad was summoned to...
DATE: Oct. 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
The Dolores Water Conservancy District has received resolutions in support of DWCD Ballot Issue 4A from five other community level governing boards including: the Dolores Fire Protection District,...
DATE: Oct. 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I read the article about Chaco Canyon in New Mexico being a satellite of the greater prehistoric cultures in Mexico. (Journal, Oct. 13.) My non-traditional research also supports that premise. The...
DATE: Oct. 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I don’t know who thought up the great idea of having all the Dolores homecoming activities on the same day but this is just horrible. Not only are a lot of parents not able to attend them, but...
DATE: Oct. 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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