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The Colorado General Assembly is three-quarters of the way through. The past couple of weeks have been budget time. The budget started in the Senate this year. The budget process alternates from...
DATE: April 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
We were encouraged to learn that Connie Clementson, Bureau of Land Management’s Tres Rios Field Office manager, recently committed to putting a Master Leasing Plan back on the table for southwest...
DATE: April 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – On any given day, you can expect news of major corporate mergers. Last week, we had decisions from FedEx to buy the Dutch delivery company TNT for $4.8 billion and from Royal Dutch...
DATE: April 13, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
With less than a month to go before the end of the legislative session, the piles of bills and the amount of committee work still to be done are daunting. We’ll get through it all even if it means...
DATE: April 13, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – As Henry Kissinger and George Shultz wrote in the Wall Street Journal, April 8, “Negotiations ... to prevent an Iranian capability to develop a nuclear arsenal are ending with an...
DATE: April 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
A couple mornings over the past couple of weeks I have noticed a city of Cortez employee using water to wash the curbs and gutters along Main Street. The water is supposed to be used to water the...
DATE: April 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
The Montezuma County Commissioners are perpetrating a land grab pure and simple. It will end up in the hands of good old boys and monied interests. The public will be the losers, as always. Jim...
DATE: April 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
We just want to tell the city that the duck pond in the Centennial Park looks beautiful. Thanks for keeping our park from looking ratchet. Misty & Shawn Kvasnicka Cortez
DATE: April 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Not surprisingly, our county commissioners have joined the American Lands Council which promotes transferring ownership of federal lands to the states. Certain radicalized members of Congress,...
DATE: April 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I urge everyone who lives near the Cortez ditch bank or uses it for walking, biking, dog walking, etc., to be vigilant about fire danger, especially in the area between Brandon’s Gate and the north...
DATE: April 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Water conservation must have been the topic of conversation in California last week, as that state’s governor mandated a 25 percent reduction in water usage by municipalities and water districts,...
DATE: April 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – “Of all the things that could kill more than 10 million people around the world,” writes philanthropist Bill Gates in The New England Journal of Medicine, “the most likely is an...
DATE: April 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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