Gothic shale: The costs are too high

Because I so deeply appreciate our lives here in beautiful Montezuma County, as I’m sure you do, I want to make sure that you all are aware of the fact that the Bureau of Land Management will be...

DATE: Jan. 14, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

We’ll walk hand in hand together someday

The words in the title are from the second verse of “We Shall Overcome,” which I learned in the jailhouse in Selma, Ala., where I ended up while marching with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965....

DATE: Jan. 14, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

MVI should push for water lease

Every Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company shareholder should consider the economic benefits of the proposal to lease water to the Colorado water Conservation Board. We have an opportunity to use...

DATE: Dec. 20, 2011 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Shopping small can make a big difference

For the third consecutive month, NFIB’s Small Business Economic Trends report, a key economic benchmark used by Federal Reserve officials and congressional leaders, showed an increase in...

DATE: Dec. 20, 2011 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

The Occupy Movement is on target

I’d like to clarify who are the “Occupy Cortez” participants. You may have seen us holding signs on Fridays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the corner of Main and Market. The person who started the...

DATE: Dec. 17, 2011 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Wilderness: a romantic, impossible idea

For the past 60 years I have been enjoying the luxury benefits from the ingenuity and hard work of my father, grandfather and those before them. I have no desire to return to the “good ole days” of...

DATE: Dec. 10, 2011 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Remember Pearl Harbor

As veterans of foreign wars, we have seen firsthand the tremendous cost of freedom. For that reason, we pay tribute to those who have paid so dearly for our freedom. Seventy years ago Wednesday...

DATE: Dec. 6, 2011 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

CMS band seeks instrument donations

My name is Andrew Campo and I am the new band director at Cortez Middle School. At the middle school, we are growing at a great rate. We are bursting at the seams! This exciting situation has...

DATE: Dec. 1, 2011 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Local management, new accrediting process

Chief executive officer of Southwest Health SystemI’ve been in my position at Southwest Memorial Hospital for a little over four months now, and would like to take this opportunity to update the...

DATE: Nov. 29, 2011 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

‘Resources’ and ‘damage’

Do we really need a road between Cortez and Durango? Do we need a road to Groundhog Lake? I’m not sure we need paved streets in Cortez! After all, just look at the damage these things cause by...

DATE: Nov. 19, 2011 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

The 50th anniversary of DWCD

The seven people who convened the first board meeting of the Dolores Water Conservancy District, 50 years ago, knew that the key to the future depended on being able to store enough water during...

DATE: Nov. 12, 2011 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

MVIC water lease: What are the issues?

Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company’s board of directors got a loud message from their stockholders last May: “we do not want to lease water to maintain instream flows.” Now the board is seeking to...

DATE: Nov. 8, 2011 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

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