Keeping our sights on protecting the Dolores River Canyons, our Western heritage, and outdoor recreation economy

This fall, we visited the heart of the Dolores River Canyons in Western Colorado. I biked an old mining road…

Our View: Affordable health care for Southwest Colorado, deadline 11:59 p.m.

Health care has become a deadly business. Last month’s murder of Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, has become a symbol of…

Ellen Stein returns to Opinion section

Ellen Stein Ellen Stein will assume the full-time responsibilities of Opinion Editor for The Journal in Cortez and The Durango…

Our View: No to industrial rezoning next to Cortez open space

All it takes is one look at Independent Log Co.’s northeast property line where it meets the trailhead for the…

Our View: Call for letters to the editor. What’s on your mind?

A favorite task in our Opinion section is to review letters to the editor, with readers sharing what’s on their…

Have we lost our sense of humor?

Jim Crosscca Numerous comedians have stopped performing at college campuses because they have found the students to be overly politically…

Our View: Fireworks envy

Durango drone show a dud as neighbors equate patriotism with explosives

Editorial cartoon: Florida these days

Editorial cartoon: On the road again

Editorial cartoon: Nuggets on home court

Drew Litton

Our View: Thank you, doctors, who spoke about tubal surgery

There’s risk in speaking out. We journalists knew this when we signed up for this profession. We also have the…

Editorial cartoon: AI talk?

Our View: Lower basin states’ water reduction agreement a substantial start

Critics quickly dismissed the Colorado River’s lower basin states of California, Arizona and Nevada’s agreement to reduce water consumption by…

Editorial cartoon: Job competition

Editorial cartoon: Tina Turner

Editorial cartoon: Fallen heroes

Our View: Proposed BLM rule conservation timestamp in history

better outcomes with balanced decision-making

Jim Mimiaga ‘Montezuma County journalism legend’

Congratulations to longtime Journal reporter Jim Mimiaga on his retirement. For 15 years, Jim has kept readers throughout Montezuma County…

Our View: Treat Dolores parents as school stakeholders

Distrust remains after Boebert’s assembly, lack of transparency

False comments, social media cause harm

Tom Burriscca The Montezuma-Cortez Board of Education on May 16 was a meeting held in public, not a public meeting.…

Our View: Don’t fear indoctrination – just be the parent

2022 may go down as the year of momentum to ban books, with conservative groups Moms for Liberty, Daughters of…

Our View: AG’s police training redesign makes good sense

on officers’ mental health, new competencies mean effective policing

Editorial cartoon: Digging in

Our View: Parents must know when school assembly is Christian

Montezuma-Cortez Middle School’s Facebook page includes flyers and images you’d expect to see – reminders to order yearbooks, a summer…