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High school students maraud at Walmart

I just wanted to draw attention to a noticeable problem with the new high school’s relation to our Walmart. If you have gone to Walmart lately during school lunch hours, you know it has become a...

DATE: Oct. 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Another massacre and another rhetorical charade

WASHINGTON – There’s the cycle of poverty. There’s the cycle of violence. And then there’s the cycle of gun talk. It starts with a mass shooting. Gun-control advocates blame the deaths on...

DATE: Oct. 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Master lease plan is superfluous

The Tres Rios master leasing plan is being undertaken at the discretion of the BLM state director. This MLP is not required by any substantive or mandatory categories contemplated under BLM...

DATE: Oct. 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Enforce school zone to avoid tragedy

I live not far from the Kemper School and I like driving Montezuma because there is less traffic. Where the school is, the speed limit is 15 mph during school days. There are speed traps set up at...

DATE: Oct. 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Time to invest in hospital infrastructure

Cortez and Montezuma County are growing – not just getting bigger, but better as well. We have a terrific new high school and the city and county have done a pretty good job keeping up with our...

DATE: Oct. 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Dishonorable discharges

The country knows much more today about post traumatic stress disorder than it did not that long ago, and Americans have much more consideration of differing sexual orientation. The military,...

DATE: Oct. 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Economic magicians wanted to boost slow growth

WASHINGTON – It’s no secret that although the U.S. economy is near “full employment” (September’s jobless rate: 5.1 percent), its rate of growth of about 2 percent annually has been maddeningly...

DATE: Oct. 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Republican resolution could help climate

As a science educator and resident living near Cortez, I am thrilled and relieved to see that 11 Republican Congressmen have co-sponsored the historic Gibson resolution on climate change. Climate...

DATE: Oct. 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Master leasing plan good for community

I am writing in response to, “Montezuma County irked by BLM map,” (Journal, Sept. 29). We’ve all come to know and love the public lands here in our backyard in Montezuma County. Whether mountain...

DATE: Oct. 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Will 2016 be the United States’ populist moment?

WASHINGTON – The most fateful, unanswered question of the 2016 campaign: Is this a populist moment in America? It certainly sounds like one. The “establishment” is so universally despised that one...

DATE: Oct. 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Invite citizens to help with lease plan

Montezuma County’s Board of County Commissioners just rejected the chance to help guide development of oil and gas resources on federal government lands in the county. They claim the oil and gas...

DATE: Oct. 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Vote yes on 5A to invest in health care

On Nov. 3, the voters of Montezuma County will be asked to vote on Ballot Initiative 5A, which is a four-cents-on-every-$10 limited sales tax increase on non-exempt purchases (which includes, but...

DATE: Oct. 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

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