Yes, in the face of such disgraceful inaction in Congress we must, elect leaders who have the courage to stand up to the gun lobby and enact real, meaningful change.…
Thanks to the great crews of Cortez Public Works, Parks and Recreation and to City Hall. A fine job in getting our city spiffied in advance of Memorial Day. We…
Civil rights, human rights and the rule of law, as well as the norms of decency and civility, have taken a beating under the Republican-enabled Trump administration. Unlike Scott Tipton,…
Let’s always keep the flag at half-staff for the shooting victims at our nation’s schools and all the souls that will be snuffed out in their classrooms in the future…
Congressman Scott Tipton was swept into office during the tea party wave of 2010, and fixing health care was one of his big campaign promises. Well, it’s been eight long…
I would like to clear up some of the misinformation about Rosa Sabido, in sanctuary in Mancos. I received a phone call as the contact for media for Rosa. The…
In a recent letter to the editor, Rick Corbitt of Dolores asserted that “Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and the rest of the anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment politicians have admitted on several…
I cannot find in this country’s Constitution where the Founding Fathers sought to limit the arms a citizen could own for defense of property, life and liberty. Earl Charles Moore…
The Bridge Emergency Shelter was formed 11 years ago in response to multiple deaths from hypothermia during the winter. At that time, there were no seasonal shelters for the homeless…
I have a few helpful hints I’d like to share. I read with interest about the freak frost that wiped out the apple crop of TLazyT Orchard. A trick I…
The Second Amendment reads, “A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”…
The stock market crash in 1929 was engineered. It was designed to take our choice away, knowing the only way we could continue to protect ourselves from inflation was through…
An important petition is circulating from CoRising.org to pass a statewide ballot initiative establishing a 2,500-foot buffer zone between fracking operations and water sources, homes, schools and playgrounds. Currently, there…
The High Desert district election slated to be held on May 8, pertaining to a tax “increase,” should have been labeled a new tax, because that is precisely what it…
If the median project has been in the planning stages since 2012 ( That the project is planned to start at the height of tourist season is unconscionable not only…
This question might have been relevant in the 1950s, but with powerfully able women leaders as ambassadors to the U.N., justices of the Supreme Court, governors and senators, it’s a…
The letters that are printed in daily papers and online all seem to be the type that show bias by the writer and the publication regardless of basis in in…
On April 24, a group of Great Old Broads began our season of sponsorship of Maverick Trail weed control. Bonnie Loving was there with her expertise, shovels and encouragement. This…
I am writing to you as part of a class project for the novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham. My classmates and I are contacting newspapers across the country in…
I’ve been privileged to hunt elk and turkeys in the high and wild San Juan Mountains of Southwest Colorado for over a decade now. And although the San Juans are…
