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Foreign woes may turn out to be U.S. economy’s Achilles’ heel

WASHINGTON – President Obama has declared the economic crisis over – and for the United States, maybe it seems that way. But most other countries, not so much. Their recoveries are faltering. The...

DATE: Jan. 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

America is acquiescing to Iran’s emerging empire

WASHINGTON — While Iran’s march toward a nuclear bomb has provoked a major clash between the White House and Congress, Iran’s march toward conventional domination of the Arab world has been largely...

DATE: Jan. 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Detective made bad situation better

We are writing to you to let the people of Montezuma County know how blessed we are to have Detective Tony Blevins here in our county working for us. We were unexpectedly faced with a situation and...

DATE: Jan. 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Enlightened budgeting – or cooking the books?

The dustup over “dynamic scoring” is a small indicator of the routine irrelevancy of Washington’s budget debate. Instead of facing the real issues – how much we should spend, on what, who should be...

DATE: Jan. 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Cortez buildings are mostly full

Paul Eckert wrote about “all the empty buildings” in Cortez (Letters, Journal, Jan. 6). Actually, Cortez pales in comparison to most of America in the empty building department. There are currently...

DATE: Jan. 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Republicans threatening privacy, freedom

Now that they control both houses of Congress, Republicans have submitted six bills attacking constitutionally protected abortion rights. One bill in the House bans all abortions after 20 weeks,...

DATE: Jan. 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Ronald Reagan was key to 1980s inflation decline

WASHINGTON – It’s important to get history right – and economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has got it maddeningly wrong. Krugman recently wrote a column arguing that the decline of...

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

Protect our state’s pot profits

I am sorry but didn’t Sheriff Dennis Spruell just ask for input on our new pot laws? I sort of got the feeling he was talking to me for some reason. When Alexander the Great went to the Oracle of...

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

American media are hurting America

Our nation is on the brink of social breakdown because of the unrest and division that has been promoted by biased and sensational reporting; as well as by the unscrupulous actions of some of our...

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

Companies seek monopoly on pot seeds

The Colorado Plateau Growers Association is glad to see our city and counties moving forward on issues regarding cannabis, but there are still areas of misinformation that need to be clarified. The...

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

Pondering the rich and their anti-vaccine quacks

California parents are refusing to vaccinate their kindergartners at twice the rate of seven years ago. So the Los Angeles Times reports. The result has been the return of measles and other serious...

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

Women, get tested for cervical health

January is National Cervical Health Awareness Month and the American Cancer Society would like to encourage all women between the ages of 21 and 65 to talk to their medical provider about getting...

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

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