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Dear Editor:Monday evening at the candidate meet session sponsored by the Farm Bureau, I was surprised to learn that being young was a negative thing. DA candidate Russ Wasley kept referring to...
DATE: May 25, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:It was with some amazement that I read the headline over the letter stating Congressman Tipton efforts to repeal the death panel, since there is no such thing so no need to repeal it.This...
DATE: May 23, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:A sign of our times is the facile use of euphemisms to camouflage unpleasant facts, with governments the chief practitioner of this cynical corruption of language. Our own government has...
DATE: May 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:A few of us have been trying to understand what happened at the Republican caucus this year when our incumbent D.A. lost to an unknown and inexperienced opponent. We could see no obvious...
DATE: May 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:A message for Congress. Now that your Bush tax breaks will end in December and President Obama will not be extending them, you are planning to change the tax code to include loopholes for...
DATE: May 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:Zach Sullivan was not shot down, as your paper stated. He was shot while resisting arrest. Sullivan was in control of the situation that night over a year ago. He made the choice to be...
DATE: May 19, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:Unless there are clouds at sunset on Sunday, we will be able to view an annular solar eclipse: the moon will almost completely cover the bright solar disk. Please view the Wikipedia link ...
DATE: May 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:Its not surprising that a career defense attorney, like Rae Dreves, would write a letter in support of candidate Will Furse for district attorney. From a defense perspective, what better...
DATE: May 15, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:The county clerk will soon be mailing out the ballots to registered voters in Montezuma County for the Republican primary. I can not stress how important it is that you exercise your right...
DATE: May 15, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:As this community is well aware, the U.S. Postal Service is facing budgetary challenges that have endangered rural post offices. Potential closures rightly concern local residents who depend...
DATE: May 12, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:Schools are a place of learning but when schools dont fulfill their requirements it becomes a place of riot. What I have faced and noticed problems with is our lunchtime food supply. In...
DATE: May 10, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:Exhibited by those who call themselves Republicans here in our county, many of whom support Russell Wasley for District Attorney, is the overwhelming concern that Will Furse, who is a...
DATE: May 8, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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