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Editor:About a year ago I began supporting the Wounded Warrior Project with a monthly contribution. The ads I saw on television and my friendship with a severely wounded Recon Marine from Vietnam...
DATE: Jan. 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:I have a suggestion about the national financial cliff we are about to hit head on. This has been going on for how long now? My suggestion is to fine every legislator $10,000 a day until a...
DATE: Dec. 28, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:I have a bumper sticker that reads "Don't believe everything you think." I love that sticker and mentally I add to it and say "Don't believe everything you think or feel." It kind of goes...
DATE: Dec. 26, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:Our Colorado community and our country have endured so much this year, from the Weber Fire and Waldo Canyon to Superstorm Sandy, from Aurora to Newtown, and all the heart-wrenching moments...
DATE: Dec. 24, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:The Sandy Hook tragedy made me remember my last day of fifth grade, when three law-enforcement officers were shot in Cortez, my safe little home. I slept on my parents' floor for days...
DATE: Dec. 24, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:In response to Betty Ann Kolner's letter titled "Don't crowd out the wildness," I have been following this issue from the start. I may have missed something along the way but I can't...
DATE: Dec. 22, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:From reading the letters to the editor, and, some of the editorials, there seems to be some misconception in Montezuma County about who is spending the money in Washington.Many letters are...
DATE: Dec. 22, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:When I opened the Dec. 13 edition of the Cortez Journal, I was surprised by a very loud braying sound. Then I discovered that it was just Larry Berger doing a very good imitation of the...
DATE: Dec. 22, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:The basic principals of the United States constitution were founded on Christian ideals. For about 200 years, it had been of critical importance to the majority of the people in our nation...
DATE: Dec. 22, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:I saw the preview for Quentin Tarentino's film "Django." Please boycott this movie in memory of 2012 shooting victims. We must, as a nation, say no to violence. Please pass it on.Nancy...
DATE: Dec. 22, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:In response to the confederate flag article, for those of you who are completely ignorant as to what the confederate flag stands for, this letter would do you a great deal of good. The...
DATE: Dec. 19, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:I think all the networks just revel in making as many people miserable as they can, they latch onto any disaster, tragedy, or anything that pulls at your heart, and mind. Then they dwell on...
DATE: Dec. 19, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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