Mancos Valley Resources, a pass-through fiscal sponsor for grants and donations in Mancos and Montezuma County, was awarded a $5,000 Anschutz grant in June for administrative overhead. The ...

This year's Junior Livestock Sale, which featured 107 animals raised by local 4-H members, brought in a grand total of $170,450 at the Aug. 1 event at the Montezuma County Fair. The Saturda...

Drafted into the U.S. military at age 18, Bill Saulters said one of the most horrific scenes he ever witnessed was in Hiroshima, Japan. He served there after the atomic bomb was dropped 70 years ago o...

WASHINGTON – A while back – in January 1997, to be precise – I wrote a column on the euro, which was to be introduced in 1999. I didn’t find much to like. It was a “lunatic idea.” A single currency wo...

To appreciate the dumbing down of American politics, consider this: Conservative Republicans, indignant about abortion, are trying to destroy a government program that helps prevent 345,000 abortions ...

In her July 17 column in the Journal, the Rev. Leigh Waggoner wrote that publicly confessed racism can move souls to peace. I think she is right, and will confess that I am prejudiced. I grew up in no...

Concerning the front page article on prairie dogs (Journal, July 10), it was an interesting local story but it does contain one huge item of misinformation. The story stated that prairie dogs have a “...

This is not a cheerful commentary, nor is it one with a solution. If there is a solution, it almost has to involve the federal government, and that will not please some. Americans are not s...

DURANGO –The Center of Southwest Studies continues its 2015 summer lecture series, “Imagining the West,” with Ann Butler’s talk “Bury My Heart at Boot Hill: Death in Southwest Colorado,” on Wednesday,...