A big thank-you from the Bridge

I want to thank the Cortez City Council support for the Bridge Emergency Shelter, as evident in their unanimous vote for a surcharge on every ticket written into Cortez Municipal Court. New...

DATE: March 27, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Patriotism

In 2013, Private Bradley Manning spent his 1,000th day in jail. Those 1,000 days equal 2.75 years. The first 10 months were spent in solitary confinement, where he was routinely denied sleep and...

DATE: March 25, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Your community hospital is a great hospital

On March 11, 2013, your local community hospital, Southwest Memorial Hospital of Cortez was named one of the HealthStrongT Top 100 Critical Access Hospitals in the United States.This is a huge and...

DATE: March 22, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Colorado River forecast calls for cooperation

Like many people in Western Colorado, I start most mornings looking at the weather forecasts and studying the current snowpack estimates. On most of those mornings my laptop stares back at me with...

DATE: March 22, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Media, public share oversight roles

The caller on the other end of the phone line was aggravated. He had been given the run-around by government officials, the very people he put in office to represent him, and his quest for answers...

DATE: March 15, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Paranoid

Those who read my commentaries regularly, especially those who vehemently disagree, believe that the above term aptly describes me. I am about to provide further grist for your mill.I have been...

DATE: March 13, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

The Legislature: eventful, challenging

This year's session has been quite eventful! We have faced challenges never seen before in the history of the Colorado Legislature. The Democrats are in control of all three branches and are...

DATE: March 8, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

The wrong time to reduce the deficit

There is a right time and a wrong time to reduce national deficits. Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned the hard way, as Europe and the United States are today. Many economists and corporate analysts...

DATE: Feb. 15, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Guns and Roses, Part II

This was to be the wrap-up of Guns and Roses. But as I was writing the essay a strange thing happened! I was constrained by the Emperor's decrees. You know, the 23 proclamations that will...

DATE: Feb. 13, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Manage the forest for its future

"Hey, what are you doing here? This is my trail, and no mountain bikes are allowed on it! Oh no, there's a cow pie right in the middle of my mountain bike trail. It will get all over me! Yuk! What...

DATE: Feb. 9, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Hate speech and the First Amendment

"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought - not free thought for those who agree with us, but...

DATE: Feb. 9, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Dolores is too great for hate

Editor:Recently, there has been a lot of commentary in board meetings, letters to the editors, Albuquerque news and on social media about Dolores school district 4A administration's actions to...

DATE: Feb. 1, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

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