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The recent story (Journal, Sept. 23) on the sheriff candidates took up a lot of space in the paper. Most of the content was opinions and accusations. Opinions, particularly from defense attorneys...
DATE: Oct. 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Your pictures of Silverton and up river from Durango were beautiful (Journal, Sept. 26). T oo bad you couldn’t get in pictures from travels up Highway 145 and take in scenes along that part of the...
DATE: Oct. 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
It is difficult to understand how a man can be seeking to serve us in the highest of public offices and yet tarnish the very same legacy of public service the current officeholder and his family...
DATE: Oct. 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – Alibaba, China’s giant e-commerce firm, is a harbinger. We are going to see more Chinese firms venturing out onto the world stage. The most ambitious are no longer content to operate...
DATE: Sept. 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
The proposal for expanding Fairview Cemetery next to a residence is an important issue not only from our cultural standpoint, but also from a private property-owner standpoint. This issue has come...
DATE: Sept. 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I visited Orange, Calif., 12 years ago, when Colorado was in a severe drought. Many farmers had to cut back watering their farmland so drastically that they had to sell many of their cattle. It was...
DATE: Sept. 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Why didn’t the Montezuma County commissioners ask me about the sale of my land to Canyons of the Ancients National Monument before they fired off a letter opposing the sale to various Colorado...
DATE: Sept. 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – Christian conservatives are often the subject of study by academics, who seem to find their culture as foreign as that of Borneo tribesmen. And this is a particularly interesting time...
DATE: Sept. 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
We Americans seem to be trapped in a Groundhog Day scenario featuring a sneering Dick Cheney, over and over again defending the invasion of Iraq and the use of torture, a term his tender...
DATE: Sept. 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I accidentally attended the city’s recreational marijuana legalization debate Aug. 26 when I went to ask the city to take a symbolic stand against the misuse of the media in the Ferguson, Missouri,...
DATE: Sept. 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
The Montezuma County Patriots are a group of principled men and women who share one thing in common: We believe that the Constitution is the guardian, the keeper of the key. It stands between us...
DATE: Sept. 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – We live in the shadow of “secular stagnation,” to use a phrase now fashionable among economists. Even assuming a full recovery from the Great Recession, it’s widely expected that the...
DATE: Sept. 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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