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Our new normal endangers the republic

Regarding the “Public Comments” editorial in the Herald (12/16): While I strongly agree with your view that brute-strength partisanship is no way to govern our nation, I can’t help but wonder...

DATE: Dec. 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Many of us fought hard for playground

With a heavy heart, I share that the trustees have voted to “demolish” our gem of a playground. I want to share my thoughts of how I see things, so you can understand that this playground never...

DATE: Dec. 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

There is something wrong with the right

There’s something wrong with the right. I get it; makers and takers, fetuses are people, and guns make the world go around. But the thing is, you’re killing it. You know that thing you think you...

DATE: Dec. 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Tax proposal already failed in Kansas

George H.W. Bush called trickle-down economics “voodoo economics,” and cutting taxes to large corporations and the very wealthy has never worked. Never. Have you read about the recent Kansas tax...

DATE: Dec. 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Searching for family member in Cortez

I have found some pictures from the family of Wilbur C. Foth and his wife, Lorraine, who have a son who lives in Cortez. My family would like to have Donald Foth receive these family photos. If...

DATE: Dec. 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Monument reductions are anti-hunting

Although President Donald Trump came into office praising America’s greatest hunter-conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt, and vowing to follow in his footsteps, he’s instead opted to do the...

DATE: Dec. 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Be sure shelter gets adequate funding

Of all the many services in Montezuma County, I see that the animal shelter as one of the most valuable. I hear of people using and needing this service nearly every week. This shelter has been...

DATE: Dec. 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Show respect to other public land users

As a user of public lands, waterways and roadways, I pay fees for licenses, tags, registrations and habitat stamps – all to be able to keeps the land and access available. All of us who pay these...

DATE: Dec. 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Proposed tariff on solar panels: bad idea

As a supporter of alternative, renewable energy, I’m concerned about Trump’s announcement to impose a tariff on solar panel imports. As reported by the Solar Energy Industries Association, the...

DATE: Dec. 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Support MVR’s fundraising campaign

As leaders in two of the sixteen charitable organizations that operate under the financial sponsorship of Mancos Valley Resources, we’re writing to ask the community to support MVR in its Heart of...

DATE: Dec. 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Tipton column was full of half-truths

Scott Tipton’s column in the Friday, Dec. 1 Journal is full of non-truths and half-truths that at best are very deceptive. First, this tax bill will hurt most Coloradans. It will increase health...

DATE: Dec. 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Don’t run bad fuel in your snowmobile

Colorado Parks and Wildlife advises that you run all of that old stale fuel through your snowmobile at the start of the season. Don’t do it! Drain that crummy fuel. Dispose of it; maybe have a...

DATE: Dec. 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

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