Opinion

Nullify lawn laws to avoid rebellion

Thanks to the fascists lawn laws of Cortez, I was assaulted by a homeowner for taking pictures of mushrooms while…

June 29, 2015

A modest capitalist detention proposal

I can’t stop with the Latino detention centers! So let me get this right. Somewhere out there is a corporate…

June 26, 2015

Public lands rhetoric increasingly surreal

The arguments in the letters from the same two or three redundant voices over public lands get more surreal every…

June 26, 2015

Tell Tipton to join Team America

Rep. Scott Tipton was sent back to Washington, not because it’s better than having him here, but presumably to oppose…

June 26, 2015

Canyons of the Ancients

Monument is regional mainstay

June 25, 2015

Climate change cannot be fought with denial

WASHINGTON – Reducing Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si” to a white paper on global warming is, in George Weigel’s fitting…

June 25, 2015

CEOs and their pay make for good punching bags

“Prosperity can’t be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers.” – Hillary Clinton WASHINGTON – It seems inevitable that the…

Fuel standards

Government rules have unleashed engineering breakthroughs

Education more important than parking

The city of Cortez Planning and Zoning Commission recently heard a proposal by the Children’s Kiva Montessori School to create…

Do not open Sage Hen for camping

I grew up in Cortez with an avid outdoorsman as a father. I love living in this area for the…

Dolores corridor

Collaborative group is building a foundation for federal legislation

June 19, 2015

Trade vote

A welcome glimpse of an independent branch of American government

Concern about park’s drunks is shared

I want to applaud Kelly Ogle’s letter headlined “Cortez opens its arms to all drunks” (Journal, May 26.) About a…

Still low prices signal the retreat of ‘peak oil’

WASHINGTON – The recent meeting of the Organization of Petrolem Exporting Countries (OPEC) provides an opportunity to understand the mysteries…

Editorial on insulting Muslims insulting

Yes, it is insulting when The Cortez Journal is being used by unqualified individuals to peddle the reprobate politics of…

Presidential election racing form, second edition

WASHINGTON The Republican nominating race is a mess: a strong field, but with 10 declared candidates and a half-dozen more…

Are Latin Americans exceptional as well?

Did you hear the one about the Latina mother who tried to commit suicide in one of our family detention…

County should drop its ALC connection

There was an op-ed by High Country News intern Kindra McQuillan (Journal, June 2) regarding the American Lands Council or…

Rafters, landowners must work together

It is interesting that The Cortez Journal (June 5) made an editorial decision to focus on the June 2 cable…

Bennet and reform

Keeping the issue of campaign spending before the voters is worthwhile in itself

Strategic plan on aging

Demographic projections suggest a gray wave is building in Colorado, with nearly 25 percent of the state’s population expected to…

June 8, 2015

Is the Fed’s impact just welfare for the wealthy?

WASHINGTON – Was the Federal Reserve’s massive bond-buying program an engine of economic inequality? It’s easy to think so. The…

June 8, 2015