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A recent editorial (Herald, June 3) mentioned the Trump administration wants to open the Coastal Plain of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. The Coastal Plain’s ecological diversity...
DATE: June 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
The fairgrounds is in desperate need of staff onsite to assist in parking during the Ute Mountain Rodeo events. My family attended the Midway Carnival event. We got there at 5:00 pm and had a good...
DATE: June 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I am glad that the “Good Old Broads” are expanding their network and that they are staying in Colorado. There was an incident a few years ago that involved the Great Old Broads for Wilderness in...
DATE: June 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Yahoo News recently ran a headline about Drew Gintis, a high school wrestler given opioid pain meds that eventually led to heroin and a fentanyl overdose. My own son, Jordan Hankins, was in a...
DATE: June 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Our Representative Scott Tipton joined with the other congressional Republicans and voted for corporations and against Colorado citizens. The vote was on roll call No. 200, and it overturns a...
DATE: June 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
It was disgusting to see that ex-President Barack Obama was in Europe during the NATO conference trying to undermine President Trump. Will someone please tell the dummy that he is not president...
DATE: June 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Minority President Donald John Trump is right; it’s about time America started producing coal again! Let’s get all those coal-fired, steam-powered locomotives from a century ago working again on...
DATE: June 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Government policies are clear, and they encourage local police to allow drugs to flow on the streets. Here’s why: If the police seize drugs, they have to destroy them. If the police seize cash...
DATE: June 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I am getting tired of always reading about these right-wing county commissioners denouncing federal public lands. I will have to advise these supposed representatives of U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz...
DATE: June 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I am aware that it is not your No. 1 concern to please the people that you are reporting to, but I have a complaint. I am from Cortez and have lived here my whole life. Recently I have noticed that...
DATE: June 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
One thing that truly makes America great is our wild and public land. No other modern democracy has made such a commitment to set aside land for its people. But it almost didn’t happen. When Teddy...
DATE: June 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
In late March, my wife and I were leaving Cortez, heading for the Grand Canyon on day five of our spring break trip. Unfortunately, as we were leaving town, a deer decided to try and leap the hood...
DATE: June 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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