Guest Columns - The Journal

This November, our pets depend on us to reject Proposition 129

As a veterinarian serving equine patients and their owners across Colorado, I have a unique perspective on the dangers posed by Proposition 129, and I feel compelled to speak out about the s...

DATE: Oct 1, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

We can take steps to turn down the political heat

Unless you have been fortunate enough to be out in the wilderness for the last nine months, I am sure that you are aware that election season is upon us. Actually, I think that election sea...

DATE: Sep 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Mountain lions are our natural allies

I’ve hunted practically as long as I can remember, pursuing small game, upland birds, waterfowl, and deer, elk and caribou. It’s been a lifelong passion, and helped shape my values as a care...

DATE: Sep 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Serving on the hospital board is one way to support the hospital

We are fortunate to live in a rural community that has a hospital; many rural residents must travel long distances for health care. Dr. Emil E. Johnson opened the first hospital in Cortez in...

DATE: Sep 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Polis is wrong to call for another special session on property taxes

Gov. Jared Polis has made a big mistake calling for another special session to further cut property taxes. Yes, property taxes have caused concern for many Coloradans in recent years. But th...

DATE: Aug 20, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

‘Current weather worse than prior times’

In reponse to a guest column in The Colorado Sun on July 19, Trish Zornio said: “Fifteen years ago not having an AC in this part of Colorado was probably fine. Now it’s not thanks to climate...

DATE: Aug 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Project 2025 puts public lands in peril

Google “Project 2025.” It’s a 920-page manifesto for a potential second Trump administration that has something (bad) for everyone, but our great public lands estate is put in particular per...

DATE: Aug 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Content to move at a cow’s pace. Ungulates amble’

I like cows. Yes, I am a bovinophile. They are warm cuddly independent beasts who choose to go through life at their own pace. If you want to befriend a cow, you must adapt to its leisurely ...

DATE: Aug 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Unmined coal ‘follows market, law, public opinion’

The coal mining industry reacted with outrage when the Bureau of Land Management recently announced plans to stop issuing new coal leases on the eastern plains of Wyoming and Montana. From i...

DATE: Aug 7, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘I’ve become a person I could not even imagine in my youth’

The quest for a personal and unique identity attracts a great deal of attention these days. Contemporary society seems to urge each of us to adopt an identity, a definition of who we are com...

DATE: Aug 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Rapid growth, water: ‘Not just concerning; it’s alarming’

Colorado and the other six states that share the Colorado River will not solve the current water crisis without implementing intelligent land use. We can address our disconnect between water...

DATE: Aug 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Advocate, reliable source of support’ came in principal at Indigenous Wyo. school

By the time she took the dais at the Arapaho Charter High School graduation this spring, Principal Katie Law was beyond tired. She’d spent the last two days coaching students at the state tr...

DATE: Aug 2, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion