Once again Sheriff Dennis Spruell has resorted to lies and misinformation in an attempt to retain his position. Sheriff Spruell and his band of followers have been telling prospective voters that Stev...

This letter is in response to the article in the Cortez Journal concerning the arsonist getting a “slap on wrist.” It seems to me that it is more of a slap in the face to the firefighters ...

The 2014 Colorado legislative session is in its final hours. The state’s constitution allows the General Assembly 120 days and, after that, more legislation is only allowed if the governor calls a sp...

The decision by the Cortez Sanitation District board to boot one of its members, Jim Candelaria, for running for county commission is just plain bad politics. One reason representative gov...

In response to Wayne Keene’s letter to the editor (Journal, April 22). I take my hat off to Keene for his honest remarks about the Republican Party’s attempt to kill what has made this country great. ...

This letter is in response to the April 25 story in The Cortez Journal concerning the arsonist getting a “slap on wrist.” It seems to us that it is more of a slap in the face to the firefighters that ...

It is with rather bemused detachment that I am following the antics of certain Sanitation district board members. As the former director of public works for Cortez I have had the opportunity in intera...

I was dismayed to observe the outrageous conduct of current and past city council members, as well as other city representatives, at the Sanitation District meeting on April 30. What an embarrassment ...

I am a disabled Vietnam veteran who has dealt with the VA for 45 years, since my medical discharge in June 1968 and it has always been adversarial and unpleasant. In my case coping with the VA has mai...

A Navajo coal mine and the adjacent electric power plant it feeds have scaled back operations in northern New Mexico. But the Four Corners Power Plant – operated by Arizona Public Service –...