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Letters to the Editor

Support for Referendum 5D

Editor: I am pleased to write this letter on behalf of the Board of Trustees in support of Referendum 5D. The Montezuma-Cortez Hospital District provides an excellent service to the residents of...

DATE: Oct. 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Lamborn among those leading shutdown charge

Editor: National parks are being closed, hundreds of thousands of government employees are out of work, and people are wondering how they are going to pay their bills with a fat stack of “IOU’s.”...

DATE: Oct. 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

A kind-hearted community showed itself

Editor: To the “good Samaritan” who noticed my vehicle was smoking at City Market last Friday, Oct. 4, and pushed it away from the gas pumps, thank you. I don’t know who you are, but you put out...

DATE: Oct. 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Southwest Memorial offers fine medical care

Editor: On Aug. 22 I entered Southwest Memorial Hospital for a complete knee replacement. I couldn’t have been treated better, compared with other hospitals we have the best. I have heard negative...

DATE: Oct. 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Vote yes on hospital district referendum

Editor: In the coming election, people of this county will have an opportunity to do something they can’t do very often. They can vote to give the hospital the ability to request state grant money...

DATE: Oct. 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Vote yes to fund full-time firefighters

Editor: I support the Cortez Fire Protection District’s request for a 2.5 percent mill-levy increase to keep full-time firefighters on duty 24 hours a day and fund replacement apparatus when...

DATE: Oct. 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Feds responsible for decline in hunting, fishing

Editor: I am quoting from Sept. 17 newspaper, “The fading popularity of hunting and fishing is catching up to Colorado’s wildlife agency, which needs to cut about $10 million out of it’s budget...

DATE: Oct. 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Obamacare aims to fix headaches by removing legs

Editor: Yes, I know, we are all tired of the Obamacare discussion. So why don’t we just kill it and put it out of our misery? This is a socialist, wealth-redistribution, power-grabbing mess of a...

DATE: Oct. 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Mill-levy increase is a positive thing

Editor: It is no secret that the Cortez Fire Protection District has a proposed mill-levy increase on this November’s ballot, but most people don’t know what the benefits will be if this proposal...

DATE: Oct. 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Put integrity back in tribal administration

Editor: In our government structure corruption is something that is bred by the very nature of the structure of the administration establishment. In the Ute Mountain Ute tribal structure we have...

DATE: Sept. 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

We have duty to be informed of lawmakers’ actions

Editor: I begin by saying, I am neither Democrat nor Republican. I am unaffiliated. I cannot believe when either party votes 100 percent for some legislation that there are not one or two or...

DATE: Sept. 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Support Fire Protection District mill-levy increase

Editor: We strongly support the upcoming mill-levy proposal that will not only allow our community to have more career professional firefighters but consequently have less reliance on the...

DATE: Sept. 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

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