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If you thought Biden was bad ...

Attention, Democrats: For 30 years between 1986 and 2016, middle-class workers feel they’ve been left behind and ignored. During that period, consumer prices went up 86%, but workers’ wages ...

Select county and Colorado election contrasts and comparisons

Montezuma County voters, with its very strong turnout of 76.5% (15,200 ballots cast of 19,936 active voters), favored the Donald Trump/JD Vance ticket with 59% of the vote, 21 greater than H...

Grateful for your investment in student success, commitment to their future

My career as an educator spans more than three decades. I was a principal in the Montezuma-Cortez School District, in the mid 1990s, when Superintendent Bill Thompson and Business Manager Ji...

Weed control abandoned

I want to congratulate The Journal for their reporting on the weed issue here in Montezuma County. I read with concern your three articles, because I have acreage that I continually need to ...

Recent win of Tri-State for big renewable energy plans, funding

I read with interest the recent Oct. 29 Colorado Sun article, “Tri-State won 2.5 billion to close coal plants, get new renewable energy for rural customers. Officials say the funds will deli...

Four more years of unbridled insanity

The people have spoken. As a former great democracy, we’ll get what we deserve. God help America. Keith Riker Mancos ...

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McLachlan reflects on eight years of service listening, compromising and understanding

Only 100 Coloradans at any one time have the job I have been honored to hold for the last eight years as a state legislator; I never really thought about that until I started nearing the end...

Our view: Righting historic inequities in water

It has been a decade since Lake Nighthorse filled with about 124,000 acre feet of water, and the two tribes that collectively own almost half of it are asking when they will be able to put i...

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Internet connectivity is unreliable

I’ve lived in Montezuma County for 31 years and I love it here, but one thing that bothers me is the unreliable internet/Wi-Fi service. Where I live on Lebanon Road, we still rely on a burie...
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