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I’m sincerely disappointed in Sen. Ellen Roberts for her recent column on public lands issues (Journal, July 7). Her characterization of people within the district that disagreed with her vote to...
DATE: July 13, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Kansas and Oklahoma are most likely going to win the Supreme Court argument against legal marijuana. This means states I have never imagined living in I do now have the right to make me a criminal...
DATE: July 13, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Nullification, in U.S. constitutional history, is a legal theory (not in the Constitution). The theory of nullification has never been legally upheld by federal courts or the Supreme Court. Why is...
DATE: July 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
If you are like most residents in Montezuma County, when you hear “conservation easement,” it sounds like a good idea, but leaves you with a lot of unanswered questions. What does it really mean...
DATE: July 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I am horrified to learn that the city of Cortez is now condoning warehousing of our children! Montessori Kiva elementary students will attend school in two 1950s warehouses where there has been no...
DATE: July 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
It’s been an interesting start to my summer. Responding to a reporter’s question of whether I’d be thinking about running for the U.S. Senate during the interim, I answered honestly that I’d...
DATE: July 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – We have the Greeks to thank for an elementary tutorial in what ails the world economy. Greece’s central problem is that it has too much debt and too little economic growth (none...
DATE: July 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – The devil is not in the details. It’s in the entire conception of the Iran deal, animated by President Obama’s fantastical belief that he, uniquely, could achieve detente with a...
DATE: July 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Republicans in Cortez put East Coast liberals to shame when it comes to big government, and big government spending. I moved here from “liberal” Vermont several years ago and am shocked at how...
DATE: July 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
The Cortez Cultural Center is an integral part of the community. How can you let it go by the wayside? There is surely some business person that can go in there and get it back on its feet. The...
DATE: July 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
By approving a conditional use permit to allow the Children’s Kiva Montessori School to be housed in the business district on North Beech, the majority of City Council members have once again...
DATE: July 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – A central economic question of our time is whether the policies undertaken to recover from the last financial crisis are laying the groundwork for the next. We now have two reports...
DATE: June 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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