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Our view – Motorcycle safety: Riders wear a helmet, drivers slow down

Motorcycle riding has its risks, and here is the largest risk, with numbers: during 2024, 165 riders were killed in Colorado, which was about 25% of all vehicle-involved fatalities. What per...

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Where are our former presidents?

I would love to see all of our former presidents standing up for our country, our constitution and our civil liberties. Where are they? A couple have spoken out here and there, but not enou...

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Breach of trust in school district salary decision

I’m writing to voice concern over the Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1’s recent decision to exclude teachers from a cost-of-living adjustment, citing the mill levy as justification. Thi...

Dismantling a vital federal agency – the IMLS

Several grants awarded to the Cortez Public Library during my tenure as children’s librarian were administered by the Colorado Department of Education. The grant money came from the Institut...

Rep. Hurd fights to protect national forests, advances bill to fix them before they burn again

Our forests are burning. And Washington can’t keep standing by, stuck in process and politics, while homes go up in smoke. Over the past decade, we’ve watched catastrophic wildfires sweep ac...

Our view: The spirit of service

Since early last month, the Trump administration and DOGE have been quietly dismantling AmeriCorps (Journal, May 3). Successful or not, the negative effects will be felt locally and national...

Planet of the Republicans is here

Last night, I watched the sci-fi classic ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes.’ It tells the evolution of a chimpanzee named Caesar under genetic manipulation to a semiliterate state of rising in...

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Ordinary citizens, time to speak out

By birth or by choice, we Americans are united by the common civic values documented in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. In our 248 years as an inde...

At the front lines fighting for Colorado

We live in a challenging time. Rising costs make Colorado more unaffordable for working families; climate change creates serious risks for our land, air and water; unnecessary red-tape block...
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