WASHINGTON – The gender pay gap is back in the news – and may become a major issue in the presidential campaign. It seems an open-and-shut case of job discrimination.…
Heavy Denver snowstorms and the return of the Colorado Rockies from baseball’s spring training join the increasingly frenzied pace at the Capitol to signal that May will soon be here.…
WASHINGTON — We all have our ways of marking the seasons. I know it’s spring when in early April I start my morning by skipping The Washington Post front page…
Regarding the master leasing plan and the proposed increased environmental protections for Montezuma County, I find it telling that the commissioners have agreed to allow expanded protections for Phil’s World…
For those of you who saw the news recently and are wondering why, after 146 years, the Rockefeller family is exiting the oil business? It’s most likely that free energy…
WASHINGTON – Almost everyone agrees that America’s income tax is too complex. Considering this, you might expect that simplifying the income tax would be a slam dunk. Sure enough, the…
Thank you to the citizens of Cortez for the confidence you have shown by re-electing me to another four-year term on City Council. I am honored by your support and…
Our county commissioners’ joining the American Lands Council last year without citizen input was a bad decision, considering many of the people in this county love our public lands and…
With the plans to build a new courthouse, the streets at Empire and Mildred need to be widened out to five lanes and a stoplight needs to be put in.…
WASHINGTON — How far they’ve come. And I’m not talking about the GOP, whose front-runner representing 37 percent of the Republican electorate has repudiated post-Reagan orthodoxy on trade, entitlement reform,…
Where are the environmentalists? According to the story headlined “Malfunction at McPhee’s pond kills hundreds of fish” (The Journal, March 15), local fish are dying while the local federal bureaucrats…
We talk about it as a street sweeper but in Cortez it is used as a dust blower. The people operating these machines go down the street blowing dust on…
Take Saturday to discuss and fill out end-of-life advance directives
WASHINGTON – Woe is Brazil. As the summer Olympics approach in August, Latin America’s largest country – with a population of 206 million and an economy that is 40 percent…
Last week, the Senate passed the 2016-2017 budget bill, also called the long bill, since it’s the most detailed and lengthy piece of legislation each year. Despite dire predictions from…
U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, addressed the public a couple of weeks ago. One of his main concerns was our national debt of $19 trillion, and with that the eternal…
When is The Journal going to get up to speed with the rest of the world and allow public commenting on online articles? You have a tabbed section for “read”…
WASHINGTON — Yes, the big Wisconsin story is Ted Cruz’s crushing 13-point victory. And yes, it greatly improves his chances of denying Donald Trump a first-ballot convention victory, which may…
Last year, state senator Ellen Roberts voted yes twice on bills that supported the idea of state takeovers of our national public lands. Now that she’s had a year to…
In 2015, our elected county commissioners donated funds to American Lands Council, a nonprofit organization dedicated to state and private takeover of our nation’s public lands. Only two other counties…
