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Story showed what sports should be

What an inspiring story (“Team gives opponent a TD to remember,” Journal, Sept. 18.) This illustrates exactly what high school sport events should be. There is more to life than only the score on...

DATE: Sept. 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

The life-expectancy gap is becoming a problem

WASHINGTON – And now comes the life-expectancy gap. It may change the national conversation over Social Security and an aging society – for the worse. We all know that America is aging, but...

DATE: Sept. 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Watch ‘Pandora’s Promise’ to see future

Twitter and Facebook litter and waste our reason to extinction. Go ahead. Google it. Find out what you already know about climate change. We may as well be driving off a cliff, no seatbelts, and...

DATE: Sept. 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Double suicide: The presidential campaign of 2015

WASHINGTON — Meanwhile, on the Democrats’ side: They are running a presidential campaign decrying wage stagnation, income inequality and widespread economic malaise -- as if they’ve not been in...

DATE: Sept. 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

A pox on false prophets’ empty words

I am writing to respond to an article in the Sept. 18 Cortez Journal entitled, “The true meaning of Christianity” by Fran Kruk. There comes a time in our lives when we realize that God is not a...

DATE: Sept. 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Help from Blondies, community welcome

The Montezuma-Cortez High School Panther Football Team would like to thank Blondies for their time and effort to host our team dinners. The support of Blondies and our community was amazing! We...

DATE: Sept. 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Story brought back memories of Mama’s

I loved the story about Mama’s Deli (Journal, April 23.) Mae Prunty was my grandmother. My father, her son, had not seen her or knew where she was since he was about 9 years old. I did a genealogy...

DATE: Sept. 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

GOP has gone from Whigs to wreckage

I attended Scott Tipton’s town hall meeting Aug. 18 hoping to get some honest answers to several questions I have about recent government actions or I should say lack of action. My first question...

DATE: Sept. 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Do not reintroduce wolves to Colorado

On a recent trip to Cortez, I read the story headlined “Are wolves coming back to Colorado?” (Journal, Sept. 9) and I almost vomited. The article featured Michael Soul’e a conservation biologist...

DATE: Sept. 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Politics meets the scarcity of economic growth

WASHINGTON – Amid all the new government programs and tax cuts that have been proposed by the various presidential candidates – or will be as the campaign unfolds – there lurks a nasty statistic...

DATE: Sept. 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Sign the petition for Colorado Care

According to a recent Cortez Journal article, 11.1 percent of Southwest Colorado citizens are still without health insurance even under the Affordable Care Act. Now imagine a health care payment...

DATE: Sept. 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

High school should let the quitters quit

Two weeks ago three assistant coaches “sort of” resigned from the Montezuma-Cortez High School football staff. A fourth secretly convinced the athletic director and administration to unjustifiably...

DATE: Sept. 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

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