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Yes, it is insulting when The Cortez Journal is being used by unqualified individuals to peddle the reprobate politics of Obama and the Democratic party. This act of political subterfuge to use a...
DATE: June 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON The Republican nominating race is a mess: a strong field, but with 10 declared candidates and a half-dozen more to come, we need a bouncer to keep order. I’ve given myself the job. Rope...
DATE: June 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Did you hear the one about the Latina mother who tried to commit suicide in one of our family detention centers? Yah, even I have no punch line for that. So as I was reading more about this woman,...
DATE: June 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
There was an op-ed by High Country News intern Kindra McQuillan (Journal, June 2) regarding the American Lands Council or ALC. Our county commissioners have sent $1,000 of taxpayer money to this...
DATE: June 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
It is interesting that The Cortez Journal (June 5) made an editorial decision to focus on the June 2 cable rafting accident on the Dolores River as an isolated incident. Actually, there have been...
DATE: June 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – Was the Federal Reserve’s massive bond-buying program an engine of economic inequality? It’s easy to think so. The Fed bought more than $3 trillion of U.S. Treasury securities and...
DATE: June 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
It’s been a month since the end of the legislative session and it’s been great to be home more. Driving over Red Mountain pass last week to attend two town-hall meetings in Montrose, I stopped...
DATE: June 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Since 2012, the American Lands Council has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to advocate and lobby for the transfer of federal lands to states. Such a move could dramatically change how these...
DATE: June 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Farewell Montezuma-Cortez High School. Your time has come and we all must say goodbye. Many generations of know-it-all teenagers have walked and learned in your halls and classrooms. Bathrooms have...
DATE: June 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Kelly Ogle’s letter to the editor “Cortez opens its arms to all drunks” is a sad statement on society (Journal, May 26) — and not necessarily about the drunks. Everyone has the ability to work to...
DATE: June 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – About a decade ago, a doctor friend was lamenting the increasingly frustrating conditions of clinical practice. “How did you know to get out of medicine in 1978?” he asked with a...
DATE: May 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
As director at Renew, Inc., Crisis Agency for Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, I would like to clarify a misconception stated in a recent letter to the editor. Renew, Inc., has...
DATE: May 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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