Presidential Debate Fact Check

Obama said Mitt Romney “called the Arizona law a model for the nation.” That statement mischaracterizes Romney’s salute to Arizona’s mandate that employers electronically verify the legal status of...

DATE: Oct. 24, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Come Back to Our Valley

Last week I introduced drought in the Mancos Valley. I didn’t, however, write anything about priorities that regulate who gets water and who doesn’t as the amount of water in the various ditches...

DATE: Oct. 24, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Art, music in the area

MUSIC FOR YOUR SOUL: Gracing the stage at Montezuma-Cortez High School for the 59th season of the Southwest Colorado Concert Series on Nov. 11 at 3 p.m. will be Cahal Dunne. He is known as...

DATE: Oct. 24, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Choose your war — then pick your Battle Tactics

In my listening to others — to myself as well — I have come to recognize one most common desire by nearly all of us. That most frequent want is: to add, to improve, to mitigate or eliminate...

DATE: Oct. 24, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Report from FactCheck.org

Sue Simmons(Editor’s note: These facts have been taken from factcheck.org. There is more about each subject under “Obama’s numbers.”)Obama’s numbers — Statistical measures of the president’s term...

DATE: Oct. 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

VP debate check

(Editor’s note: These facts have been taken from factcheck.org. “Caution: no single number can tell the whole story.”)Biden and Ryan sparred over the effect of Obama’s proposed tax policies on...

DATE: Oct. 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Youth technology club a growing phenomenon

For the last year or so, there has been a lot of buzz in the library community about the development of technology laboratories in libraries around the country. Also dubbed “makerspaces”,...

DATE: Oct. 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Nov. 1 deadline for chamber grant application

Here is a reminder that the Mancos Valley Chamber of Commerce grant application is due Nov. 1. It is available on-line at www.mancosvalley.com. Or, you can send an e-mail to...

DATE: Oct. 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Come Back to Our Valley

I went to the town board meeting on the 10th of October and heard the trustees decide that all outside watering must stop as of the next day because it has been so dry and because Jackson is so...

DATE: Oct. 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Come Back to Our Valley

I figured last week’s column was the last for George Bauer but he and his family touched many lives. George wrote a letter to his brother Henry in 1888 convincing Henry to come to the Mancos...

DATE: Oct. 10, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Artists show coming to Olio

THE LAST DAYS OF FALL: Whilst the balloons were flying, your columnist (with friends and husband) was oohing and aahing along Highway 70, gasping at dazzling mile after mile of glowing aspens! We...

DATE: Oct. 10, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Debate check

Romney used the number “$90 billion” five times in the first presidential debate, claiming, “In one year, (Obama) provided $90 billion in breaks to the green energy world ... into solar and wind,...

DATE: Oct. 10, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

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