Opinion

Clean Power Plan

Naysayers are repeating the same tired objections they always invoke

August 6, 2015

Urban renewal authorities a blight tool

In regard to the lead story in the July 21 Cortez Journal, “City eyes funds for removing blight,” I would…

August 6, 2015

Minimum-wage demands follow path of the euro

WASHINGTON – A while back – in January 1997, to be precise – I wrote a column on the euro,…

Our sex-crazed Congress backing moronic ideas

To appreciate the dumbing down of American politics, consider this: Conservative Republicans, indignant about abortion, are trying to destroy a…

Prejudice can lead to fervent racism

In her July 17 column in the Journal, the Rev. Leigh Waggoner wrote that publicly confessed racism can move souls…

Prairie dogs have one set of pups each year

Concerning the front page article on prairie dogs (Journal, July 10), it was an interesting local story but it does…

Retirement planning

These numbers do not indicate that a comfortable cushion will be there

Medicare at 50

Program part of fabric of American life

Conservative bloc holding Boehner, House hostage

WASHINGTON – For the first time in 105 years, a speaker of the House is the target of what parliamentarians…

Join For Pet’s Sake membership drive

The For Pet’s Sake annual membership drive is in full steam right now! For Pets’ Sake Humane Society is a…

Add hearing aids to Medicare services

Many seniors will tell you they don’t know how they’d get along without Medicare, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary…

Website’s ranking does not measure up

We read “One of the worst places to live?” in the July 10 issue of The Cortez Journal. We were…

Medicare and Medicaid – are a tarnished triumph

WASHINGTON – It was exactly 50 years ago this week that President Lyndon Johnson flew to Independence, Missouri and, with…

Major changes

Fracking, eating habits show change to even entrenched trends comes

Clean up trash pile near high school

OK, OK I can’t stand it. Somebody’s got to speak up, and act on removing the horrible junk pile to…

Ceremonial Ground part of SIV program

In the story headlined “Medicine men lead blessing ceremony” (Journal, July 14) two items require correction. First, the Ceremonial Ground…

Wondering whether Trump will trump himself

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump can’t help himself. Nor can we. The “worse” he gets, it seems, the better we like…

Thanks for Calkins Building coverage

Thanks for the story about the pending restoration of the Calkins Building, and the great video of the interior (Journal,…

Conservation fund

Reauthorize this beloved program without redefining its focus

Scrape land transfers from policy plate

State Sen. Ellen Roberts is totally right: Her district, which consists of eight counties across southwestern Colorado, includes a huge…

Story might help keep Cortez wonderful

I almost got up and danced with joy when I read the story (Journal, July 10) condemning Cortez as one…

Deals show prosecutor’s office is broken

What are the district attorney and his deputies doing to protect our community? Very little. Sadly, it appears that our…

July 20, 2015