Columnists - The Journal

Get real about broadband in rural areas

“Electricity is a modern necessity of life, not a luxury. That necessity ought to be found in every village, in every home, and on every farm in every part of the United States.” – Presiden...

DATE: May 28, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

False comments, social media cause harm

The Montezuma-Cortez Board of Education on May 16 was a meeting held in public, not a public meeting. This distinction means members of the public may comment but board members don’t respond...

DATE: May 24, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Give ‘old-timers,’ ‘legends’ their lifetime Purg passes

Another ski season has come and gone, and to the unsuspecting tourist, everything was business as usual. Stellar, in fact. “Record-breaking” on all fronts to anyone who wasn’t around in the ...

DATE: May 21, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Yin and yang of two separate selves

Yin-Yang is the ancient Chinese philosophical concept that describes opposite but interconnected forces. The yin is represented by the black; the yang by the white. The yin represents the ne...

DATE: May 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Thanks, senator. You must be reading the Herald’

Well, I had no idea that The Durango Herald was so powerful. If you caught my March 10 column with the headline, “Betting, transfer rules make CU ‘Compromise University,’ ” you know I was n...

DATE: May 12, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Need entire team’ for higher-achieving M-CSD

When I showed up here in March 2022, the Montezuma-Cortez School District ranked near the bottom, according to one Colorado Department of Education assessment. Based on scores, CDE put our d...

DATE: May 10, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Sometimes ya just gotta laugh

Fishing, and failing, in Belize

DATE: May 5, 2023 | CATEGORY: Sports

MCHS principal on paid, leave, electives and teachers

Rumors of wrong information escalated concerns and chaos at Montezuma-Cortez High School, and throughout our community. A news story in The Journal did not help the situation. The Journa...

DATE: May 3, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Intergovernmental cooperation means work on landfills, roads

Working for the State of Colorado helps me appreciate the importance of good government-to-government relations. We work with members of city councils, school boards, metro districts and tri...

DATE: May 1, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Focus on ‘surgical’ solution to ‘gotcha’ litigation

As is, HB 1259 like ‘burning down house to roast a pig’

DATE: Apr 26, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Better if we work together’

The recent guest column by George Sharpe of Merrion Oil & Gas with the headline, “No evidence people living near wells in danger,” only serves to further divide Colorado communities and thei...

DATE: Apr 23, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Boebert: ‘Science is clear, gray wolf is fully recovered’

I’ve witnessed the devastation farmers and ranchers face due to wolf attacks. People in the Denver suburbs do not understand wolf attacks. They only see images filtered through the media of ...

DATE: Apr 19, 2023 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns