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Letters: All should have followed the guidelines

As anyone having served in the military knows, the effectiveness of a unit depends on “One for all, all for one” or “no man left behind.” Without this commitment, cohesiveness and effectiven...

DATE: Aug 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Trump is turning the U.S. into Venezuela

Our stable genius president is putting his ghost battalion troops into Chicago and Albuquerque in order to save them from their Democratic selves. But if the governors are Republican, their ...

DATE: Aug 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: Michael Phelps was golden

Sometimes, a child takes to the water so naturally he never wants to get out. He just swims away. On Aug. 10, 2008, Michael Phelps, 23, stepped up to his block at the pool at the ...

DATE: Aug 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Troops sent to cities good for economy?

The president’s move to put Homeland Security battlefield forces into our cities to quell rioting Democrats bent on destroying America will have a hugely positive effect on the economy. ...

DATE: Aug 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Montezuma officials are endangering us

Reading about baseball I was sickened to learn of a complete disregard by Montezuma County officials to follow COVID-19 guidelines. No fans or vendors were seen following guidelines. ...

DATE: Aug 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Don’t be confused by commission voting

I believe the District 2 and District 3 have a race for those two seats. What most people are unaware of is that they can vote for both districts even if they don’t live in that district. ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

W.S. Robinson: Climbing walls in the West while sitting in a chair

Reclining in my favorite chair recently in vanishingly small Inez, Wyoming, I found myself close to tears. My wife, Maria, sat beside me to ask what was troubling me. ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: Should editorial be different than news?

I am curious why The July 23 editorial was a classic example (“Colorado Democrats throw a little ... mud: QAnon-curious candidate Lauren Boebert gets slammed by national media”). ...

DATE: Aug 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Democrat climate ‘science’ is just junk

When given misinformation, lies and deception by one side of an argument (which should be a discussion), should they be given any credibility? No! This of course would be the Demo...

DATE: Aug 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: Did we have to bomb Hiroshima?

World War II in the Pacific ended in burning controversy. Was it necessary?

DATE: Aug 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

David Brooks: Nonconformity must have a future; we need it

Like other realms, American intellectual life has been marked by a series of exclusions. The oldest and vastest was the exclusion of people of color from the commanding institutio...

DATE: Aug 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: Virus not silly to informed Americans

Responding to Dick Riethmiller’s letter, I am appalled but not shocked, at his callous disregard for human life (“ Stating that only about 5% of people who get COVID-19 die and most of them...

DATE: Aug 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor