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The best of us on display in Cortez

I was shopping with my wife at the Cortez City Market last week and we wanted to leave a couple of unused food items at the northwest corner of the parking area where indigent people tend to...

House reconciliation’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ contains some good, bad and ugly

On May 22, the House of Representatives passed the One Big Beautiful Bill, otherwise known as the Budget Reconciliation Act, with a vote of 215 to 214 with 1 “present” vote. The heart of the...

Due process is fundamental to democracy

Max A. Clark asked an important question in a letter to the editor (J ournal, May 21), “How is deporting criminals unconstitutional?” The answer depends on whether the “criminal” was affo...

Our view: EPA

Protecting public health and the environment, but will it last? Last week, the City of Cortez was one of seven recipients to learn that on May 16, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency aw...

Editorial cartoon

Editorial cartoon

Property tax increase is a county ploy

We are being victimized by the recent property tax assessment. My home value assessment increased by approximately 70% over the last couple of years. This is a ploy by the county to substan...

Greenhouse and desert farming PSA

Colorado charity, NPI, has a new website – needfulprovision.com – with videos on counterindesertification, an innovative greenhouse and desert farming technique. The FBI, DHS, Border 911 an...

How is deporting criminals unconstitutional?

My wife and I are graduates of Montezuma-Cortez High School and still own property in the Cortez area so we subscribe to our “hometown” newspaper. As a Jeffersonian conservative and politic...

For waste and inefficiency, you really can’t beat corn ethanol

Corn ethanol, also known as grain alcohol, has been burned in gasoline engines and human stomachs since before Henry Ford was born. It’s hard on both, so until 35 years ago it never caught o...

Our view: GOP budget -Trillions in the dark

There are only days remaining in the House Republicans’ pledge to submit the coming year’s federal budget. While the larger components in play today are known, their fates and sizes are not....
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