WASHINGTON – On June 1, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued its latest economic forecasts. In 2016, it predicted that the world economy would grow 3 percent, the…
If you are asked to sign a petition to put Initiative 78 on the statewide ballot, I encourage you to say no. The initiative calls for amending the state constitution…
In response to Nels Lopez’s opinion (Journal, June 10), “Support for Saudis is support for terror:” This is a classic response to what the mainstream media has wanted everyone to…
Plight of river downstream of McPhee Dam is a sad story indeed
I attended the Bureau of Land Management’s Southwest Resource Advisory Council (RAC) meeting that considered a Tres Rios Master Leasing Plan (MLP) to help determine the future of oil and…
I am a retired Air Force and airline pilot and I don’t know Garth Greenlee, but I agree with him on his concerns with Boutique Air (Journal, June 16). I…
On June 21, Hillary Clinton said, “I believe in an America always moving toward the future.” This was not the most important line in Clinton’s Ohio economic policy speech, only…
The killing of nearly 50 citizens in Orlando confirms to me the total useless nature of our government in its ability to provide basic personal safety for citizens. I have…
The headline, “Advisory Board Rejects Plans for Oil and Gas Regulation” (Journal, June 14), is not a truthful summary of the meeting of the Bureau of Land Management Southwest Regional…
On Memorial Day, Senator Michael Bennet met with 10th Mountain Division veterans of World War II and announced that he would be supporting a proposal to designate Camp Hale as…
I’m writing in reference to the article about the Four Corners’ weather radar blind spot (Journal, June 3). The illustration on the front page shows the lowest radar return to…
Probably most Europeans regard Americans’ obsession with work as lunacy. In Europe, vacations are a right. WASHINGTON — We Americans have a confused and contradictory relationship with vacation. In theory;…
Memorial Day services in Rico this year were special with a dedication of a new sign at the Valley Rico Cemetery. Opening remarks were given by John Shriner, following prayer…
WASHINGTON — When in his 1964 GOP acceptance speech Barry Goldwater declared that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice,” a reporter sitting near journalist/historian Theodore White famously…
With the 2016 Colorado legislative session behind us, the interim committees now begin their work to dig deeper into the issues that present some of Colorado’s biggest challenges. Many legislators…
It’s been almost 12 years since my husband came back to our home in California and told me of a little town called Cortez that he discovered on a road…
My city garbage can “cratered” this winter. One hinge broke off, with a large crack down the other side. I was home this morning and told one of our trash…
I am writing to express my concern about the suspension of registration at San Juan College for the medical lab technician program. As a registered nurse at Southwest Memorial Hospital,…
WASHINGTON — The morning after, the nation awakes asking: What have we done? Both parties seem intent on throwing the election away. The Democrats, running against a man with highest-ever…
The Cortez Journal thinks that support of the United States’ “reasonably friendly relationship with Saudi Arabia” is what is needed in Congress right now? So the Journal supports supporting (and…
