WASHINGTON – The recent meeting of the Organization of Petrolem Exporting Countries (OPEC) provides an opportunity to understand the mysteries of the global oil market. As expected, OPEC decided not…
Yes, it is insulting when The Cortez Journal is being used by unqualified individuals to peddle the reprobate politics of Obama and the Democratic party. This act of political subterfuge…
WASHINGTON The Republican nominating race is a mess: a strong field, but with 10 declared candidates and a half-dozen more to come, we need a bouncer to keep order. I’ve…
Did you hear the one about the Latina mother who tried to commit suicide in one of our family detention centers? Yah, even I have no punch line for that.…
There was an op-ed by High Country News intern Kindra McQuillan (Journal, June 2) regarding the American Lands Council or ALC. Our county commissioners have sent $1,000 of taxpayer money…
It is interesting that The Cortez Journal (June 5) made an editorial decision to focus on the June 2 cable rafting accident on the Dolores River as an isolated incident.…
WASHINGTON – Was the Federal Reserve’s massive bond-buying program an engine of economic inequality? It’s easy to think so. The Fed bought more than $3 trillion of U.S. Treasury securities…
It’s been a month since the end of the legislative session and it’s been great to be home more. Driving over Red Mountain pass last week to attend two town-hall…
Since 2012, the American Lands Council has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to advocate and lobby for the transfer of federal lands to states. Such a move could dramatically…
Farewell Montezuma-Cortez High School. Your time has come and we all must say goodbye. Many generations of know-it-all teenagers have walked and learned in your halls and classrooms. Bathrooms have…
Kelly Ogle’s letter to the editor “Cortez opens its arms to all drunks” is a sad statement on society (Journal, May 26) — and not necessarily about the drunks. Everyone…
WASHINGTON – About a decade ago, a doctor friend was lamenting the increasingly frustrating conditions of clinical practice. “How did you know to get out of medicine in 1978?” he…
As director at Renew, Inc., Crisis Agency for Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, I would like to clarify a misconception stated in a recent letter to the editor.…
As a taxpaying citizen of Montezuma County I would like to know where the $1,000 our county commissioners donated to the American Lands Council came from. Was it their own…
In the Feb. 13, 2015 edition of the Cortez Journal, Montezuma County Commissioner Larry Don Suckla is quoted as saying, “Our job (as county commissioners) is to protect property rights…
Calling all drunks! Cortez welcomes you with open arms! You can join the already swelling ranks of your peers here in the beautiful Southwest. Get as sloppy drunk as much…
WASHINGTON – Guess what? This isn’t a low-wage job recovery. Listen to the media, and you might think that the only kind of jobs being created are in fast-food restaurants…
As the days, months, and years go by I hear of friends and family who served in the United States armed forces go on their final journey to be with…
President Obama said recently, “We are not at war with Islam, we are at war with those who have perverted Islam.” Why? Why are we at war with those who…
WASHINGTON – Ramadi falls. The Iraqi army flees. The great 60-nation anti-Islamic State coalition so grandly proclaimed by the Obama administration is nowhere to be seen. Instead, it’s the defense…
