The For Pet’s Sake annual membership drive is in full steam right now! For Pets’ Sake Humane Society is a steady and dependable source of assistance for pets and their…
Many seniors will tell you they don’t know how they’d get along without Medicare, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in July. Medicare has done so much and it can…
We read “One of the worst places to live?” in the July 10 issue of The Cortez Journal. We were amazed that anyone would rank Cortez among the worst cities…
WASHINGTON – It was exactly 50 years ago this week that President Lyndon Johnson flew to Independence, Missouri and, with former President Harry Truman at his side, signed into law…
Fracking, eating habits show change to even entrenched trends comes
OK, OK I can’t stand it. Somebody’s got to speak up, and act on removing the horrible junk pile to the south of our new high school which is opening…
In the story headlined “Medicine men lead blessing ceremony” (Journal, July 14) two items require correction. First, the Ceremonial Ground is located on Southwest Intertribal Voice property that used to…
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump can’t help himself. Nor can we. The “worse” he gets, it seems, the better we like it. Watching Trump is so deliciously awful, we don’t hang…
Thanks for the story about the pending restoration of the Calkins Building, and the great video of the interior (Journal, July 14). It is gratifying to see progress being made…
State Sen. Ellen Roberts is totally right: Her district, which consists of eight counties across southwestern Colorado, includes a huge amount of public lands, including the San Juan Mountains, Phil’s…
I almost got up and danced with joy when I read the story (Journal, July 10) condemning Cortez as one of the worst places to live in Colorado. Don’t get…
What are the district attorney and his deputies doing to protect our community? Very little. Sadly, it appears that our prosecutors would rather act like defense attorneys. If you pay…
This summer, Head Start, a program created under Lyndon B. Johnson as a cornerstone of his war on poverty, turns 50. Head Start lays a foundation for future success by…
WASHINGTON – We’re told Puerto Rico is our Greece, and sometimes, it seems so. The U.S. territory (its residents have been American citizens since 1917) has a heap of economic…
We had seven people scheduled to arrive last week on a Great Lakes flight into Cortez. Great Lakes cancelled the flight and these folks scrambled to find alternate transportation from…
I was an original supporter of Scott Tipton for the State Legislature and supported him with time and money to get him elected to Congress. I must admit that sadly…
WASHINGTON – China’s spectacular stock crash poses three questions. First, what caused it? Next, will it harm the “real” economy of spending and hiring, inside China and beyond? And, finally,…
I’m sincerely disappointed in Sen. Ellen Roberts for her recent column on public lands issues (Journal, July 7). Her characterization of people within the district that disagreed with her vote…
Kansas and Oklahoma are most likely going to win the Supreme Court argument against legal marijuana. This means states I have never imagined living in I do now have the…
Nullification, in U.S. constitutional history, is a legal theory (not in the Constitution). The theory of nullification has never been legally upheld by federal courts or the Supreme Court. Why…
