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The sheriffs call came at 3:30 a.m.: Leave immediately. Luckily, my wife, SueEllen, and I were already up, grabbing passports, photos, dog food, wall hangings from Thailand and Zanzibar. A...
DATE: June 27, 2012 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
As the recently inducted president of our local CSPERA group (Colorado State Public Employees Retirement Association), I am very interested in the mistaken views about our retirement system...
DATE: June 20, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
When I first went to Washington in the 1960s as a novice congressman, the Democratic Party was clearly in control. It held the White House and enjoyed big majorities in both houses of Congress.So...
DATE: June 15, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
I am responding to Casey McClellans statements regarding route closures in Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. In a June 7 Cortez Journal article, McClellan was quoted as stating, Ive...
DATE: June 13, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
My name is Will Furse and I am your Republican candidate for district attorney.Our system of criminal justice is the best in the world. It is an adversarial system that requires both prosecutors...
DATE: June 8, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
On Tuesday afternoon, June 5, all of North America will be treated to another rare astronomical event a transit of the planet Venus across the face of the sun. Weather permitting, this will be...
DATE: May 30, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Presidential campaigns have become obscenely expensive, last far too long, and seem to bring out the worst in cable-TV hosts. But the real shame is that the next president will be chosen by...
DATE: May 28, 2012 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons
Although the Bridge Emergency Shelter has been a fixture in the community for 6+ years, it has had its first executive director for only the last two years. The Bridge was begun as an all-volunteer...
DATE: May 25, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
The Cortez Day Labor Center, a program of the Bridge Emergency Shelter, is starting our second season, and the atmosphere is encouraging and hopeful. Our center is a community of skilled and...
DATE: May 19, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
In AD 64, Nero fiddled while Rome burned. In 2011, the western United States burned and the federal government fiddled.The year is now 2012, and the fires have already started and the federal...
DATE: May 19, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
On late afternoon of Sunday, May 20, the southwestern United States will be treated to a rare astronomical event — an eclipse of the sun. Weather permitting, this will be the first annular solar...
DATE: May 17, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Who needs TV with its bad acting when we can watch the Oval Office race between President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney? The overheated rhetoric and overdramatized...
DATE: May 12, 2012 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons
