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In the picturesque regions of the western United States, particularly Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah, an abundance of your public lands are being landlocked by private land...
DATE: April 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – The world is agog at Donald Trump’s head-snapping foreign policy reversal. He runs on a platform of America First. He renounces the role of world policeman. He excoriates parasitic...
DATE: April 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – For euphemism, dissimulation and outright hypocrisy, there is nothing quite as entertaining as the periodic Senate dust-ups over Supreme Court appointments and the filibuster. The...
DATE: April 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
On Thursday, April 13th, from 6-8 pm at the county courthouse at 109 W Main Street, the Montezuma County Planning and Zoning Commission will review a High Impact Permit for 35 acres at 25716 Road L...
DATE: April 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I am deeply disturbed by the blatant disregard for public health by the current presidential administration. Our health should not be a political issue at all, let alone a partisan one. The value...
DATE: April 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I hope you will read this letter and consider my stance that methane is a serious problem and most toxic for those of us living under the largest methane cloud ever witnessed. To not support...
DATE: April 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), as a part of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), were a couple of the extravagances that President...
DATE: April 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
To Montezuma County Commissioners and all others: can’t you please find another area to build a homeless shelter? Why all the buildings in one formerly quiet place – trucks, lights and a two-story...
DATE: April 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
We oppose President Trump’s proposal to wipe out federal funding for public broadcasting. Seventy-three percent of Americans, both Republican and Democrat, agree. At just $1.35 per citizen...
DATE: April 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
An open letter to Montezuma Valley Irrigation (MVI) and the Dolores Water Conservancy District (DWCD) and Cortez Journal readers: My kids, grandkids, extended family and I have boated and fished on...
DATE: April 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON — Repeal-and-replace (for Obamacare) is not quite dead. It has been declared so, but what that means is that, for now, the president has (apparently) washed his hands of it and the House...
DATE: April 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
The Four Corners Community band has had six rehearsals since resuming practice in January, and the band is sounding incredible! Anyone in the Four Corners area who was ever a member of a high...
DATE: April 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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