Columnists - The Journal

‘Government doesn’t think consumers know how to drive’

I’ve been a car guy for 70 years, going back to the first AMT model car kit I built when I was 12 years old. Over that period of time, I’ve had customs, sports cars, hot rods, RVs, daily dri...

DATE: Jun 7, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Get real about broadband in rural areas

“Electricity is a modern necessity of life, not a luxury. That necessity ought to be found in every village, in every home, and on every farm in every part of the United States.” – Presiden...

DATE: May 28, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

False comments, social media cause harm

The Montezuma-Cortez Board of Education on May 16 was a meeting held in public, not a public meeting. This distinction means members of the public may comment but board members don’t respond...

DATE: May 24, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Give ‘old-timers,’ ‘legends’ their lifetime Purg passes

Another ski season has come and gone, and to the unsuspecting tourist, everything was business as usual. Stellar, in fact. “Record-breaking” on all fronts to anyone who wasn’t around in the ...

DATE: May 21, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Yin and yang of two separate selves

Yin-Yang is the ancient Chinese philosophical concept that describes opposite but interconnected forces. The yin is represented by the black; the yang by the white. The yin represents the ne...

DATE: May 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Thanks, senator. You must be reading the Herald’

Well, I had no idea that The Durango Herald was so powerful. If you caught my March 10 column with the headline, “Betting, transfer rules make CU ‘Compromise University,’ ” you know I was n...

DATE: May 12, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Need entire team’ for higher-achieving M-CSD

When I showed up here in March 2022, the Montezuma-Cortez School District ranked near the bottom, according to one Colorado Department of Education assessment. Based on scores, CDE put our d...

DATE: May 10, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Sometimes ya just gotta laugh

Fishing, and failing, in Belize

DATE: May 5, 2023 | CATEGORY: Sports

MCHS principal on paid, leave, electives and teachers

Rumors of wrong information escalated concerns and chaos at Montezuma-Cortez High School, and throughout our community. A news story in The Journal did not help the situation. The Journa...

DATE: May 3, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Intergovernmental cooperation means work on landfills, roads

Working for the State of Colorado helps me appreciate the importance of good government-to-government relations. We work with members of city councils, school boards, metro districts and tri...

DATE: May 1, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Focus on ‘surgical’ solution to ‘gotcha’ litigation

As is, HB 1259 like ‘burning down house to roast a pig’

DATE: Apr 26, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Better if we work together’

The recent guest column by George Sharpe of Merrion Oil & Gas with the headline, “No evidence people living near wells in danger,” only serves to further divide Colorado communities and thei...

DATE: Apr 23, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion