The Journal really needs to start these editorials so we know who writes some of this nonsense. The editorial on the Poes’ land sale to Canyons of the Ancients (Sept.…
I’ve become increasingly dismayed by the actions of our elected county commissioners who seem fixated on their personal, philosophical opposition to the federal government – even when that opposition costs…
WASHINGTON – I have been reading Martin Wolf’s The Shifts and the Shocks, an analysis of the 2008-09 financial crisis and its aftermath. Wolf is the chief economic columnist of…
While efforts to promote angling by Colorado’s Trout Unlimited chapters are commendable and uncontroversial, readers should be aware that the activities of Trout Unlimited’s national headquarters are far less so…
Wait, can I revote in the last sheriff election? I think I messed up. I was under the impression we were sending people to a political sacrifice. We are actually…
The editorial in (Journal, Sept. 26) failed to adequately address the basic issue. The Montezuma County commissioners seem to be simply taking a position of following the “rule of law.”…
WASHINGTON – You can win midterm elections without a positive agenda. You can’t win presidential elections that way. It is therefore vitally important for Republicans to win the Senate in…
The recent story (Journal, Sept. 23) on the sheriff candidates took up a lot of space in the paper. Most of the content was opinions and accusations. Opinions, particularly from…
Your pictures of Silverton and up river from Durango were beautiful (Journal, Sept. 26). T oo bad you couldn’t get in pictures from travels up Highway 145 and take in…
It is difficult to understand how a man can be seeking to serve us in the highest of public offices and yet tarnish the very same legacy of public service…
WASHINGTON – Alibaba, China’s giant e-commerce firm, is a harbinger. We are going to see more Chinese firms venturing out onto the world stage. The most ambitious are no longer…
The proposal for expanding Fairview Cemetery next to a residence is an important issue not only from our cultural standpoint, but also from a private property-owner standpoint. This issue has…
I visited Orange, Calif., 12 years ago, when Colorado was in a severe drought. Many farmers had to cut back watering their farmland so drastically that they had to sell…
Why didn’t the Montezuma County commissioners ask me about the sale of my land to Canyons of the Ancients National Monument before they fired off a letter opposing the sale…
WASHINGTON – Christian conservatives are often the subject of study by academics, who seem to find their culture as foreign as that of Borneo tribesmen. And this is a particularly…
We Americans seem to be trapped in a Groundhog Day scenario featuring a sneering Dick Cheney, over and over again defending the invasion of Iraq and the use of torture,…
I accidentally attended the city’s recreational marijuana legalization debate Aug. 26 when I went to ask the city to take a symbolic stand against the misuse of the media in…
The Montezuma County Patriots are a group of principled men and women who share one thing in common: We believe that the Constitution is the guardian, the keeper of the…
WASHINGTON – We live in the shadow of “secular stagnation,” to use a phrase now fashionable among economists. Even assuming a full recovery from the Great Recession, it’s widely expected…
Sheldon Baker (“Public lands are perfectly constitutional,” Letters, Journal, Sept. 2) must not know that the government is the citizen or at least was. It used to be the taxpayers…
