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Our View: Redistricting

Proposed 3rd Congressional District could benefit Western Slope

September 8, 2021

Get involved to ensure best 21st-century education for our children

Sherri Maxwell After reading the recent article in The Journal regarding last week’s Montezuma-Cortez school board meeting, I feel compelled…

August 25, 2021

New Mexico joins Colorado in reducing methane pollution

New Mexico, the third-ranking U.S. oil producer, has taken action to curtail methane pollution from the oil and gas industry,…

August 11, 2021

Robocall rebellion

Gail Collins(CREDIT: Earl Wilson/The New York Times)du1-i-syn Let’s find something fun to talk about. Really, we need a little break.…

August 4, 2021

Our View: Bipartisanship

State Sen. Don Coram stubbornly models how to avoid polarization, work with others

July 21, 2021

Our View: Orphan wells

Bennet advances pollution solutions

July 14, 2021

As Lake Powell dwindles, wonders open up for visitors

On May 9, protected by neoprene, I bobbed around in a flooded canyon in Utah’s Lake Powell. The reservoir had…

July 14, 2021

Make it a fire-free, safe Fourth of July

Despite a few brief days of cooler temperatures, it’s been hot. Some days recently, depending on where you were in…

June 30, 2021

Housing prices are over the moon

One hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. That’s what it takes for a down payment to buy an average-priced home in…

May 12, 2021

Writers on the Range: Pumping up fear on the Colorado River

du1-i-syn Some Colorado River tribulations today remind me of a folk story: A young man went to visit his fiancé…

April 27, 2021

Guest Columns

Our View: Decline to sign animal cruelty ballot initiative

Don’t sign animal cruelty ballot initiative

April 27, 2021

Letter: Decline to sign for Ballot Initiative 16

The Montezuma County Democratic Party’s Central Committee recently passed a resolution opposing proposed Initiative 16. This citizen-initiated proposal would criminalize…

April 26, 2021

Letter: National forest needs to rethink harvest plans

In regard to the Salter Y Vegetation Management Project proposed by the San Juan National Forest, it seems to me…

April 23, 2021

Letter: Writer claims Herald fails to publish letters

It appears that the Letters to the Editor in The Cortez Journal are a thing of the past. Letters still…

April 21, 2021

Our View: COVID-19 state restrictions: lifted too soon?

Were state restrictions lifted too soon?

April 21, 2021

Jeff Kass: Columbine reporter connects the dots between mass shootings

Jeff Kassdu1-i-syn I was one of the first reporters on scene at the Columbine shootings on April 20, 1999. And…

April 21, 2021

Jack Turner: Both political parties practice voter suppression

du1-i-syn There is great media focus on the Republican-dominated legislatures determined to unfairly reduce, restrict or eliminate likely Democratic Party…

April 20, 2021

Our View: Health care bill steps in the right direction

Public option

April 14, 2021

Benjamin Bellorado: Bears Ears murals, rock art, textiles deserve protection

Benjamin Belloradodu1-i-syn For decades, the iconic archaeological sites of the stunning canyon country of Bears Ears in southeastern Utah have…

April 13, 2021

Our View: In wake of shootings, grief

‘It could have been me’

April 6, 2021

Letter: Dolores River Festival canceled again this year

As you may have read in the Journal in recent weeks, we had to cancel the 2021 Dolores River festivalfestival…

April 6, 2021

Our View: Solution to loneliness is connection

Human connection is important to all

March 31, 2021

Michael Fields: 10 ideas for a GOP “Contract with Colorado”

du1-i-syn A week after this last election, I wrote a column saying that Republicans need to develop a “Contract with…

March 24, 2021

Writers on the Range: An Idaho congressman aims to dump dams

du1-i-syn Rep. Mike Simpson is a conservative Republican from Idaho whose concept of wildness in the 1990s was going into…

March 23, 2021