Don’t wait until it’s too late
Dear Editor:
In years of failed budget talks, Obama has threatened to cut military, Social Security, border control, and disability payments. His "sequester" furloughed air traffic controllers, causing flight delays and reducing safety.
Guidelines should be prominently displayed
Dear Editor:
Thanks for printing the recycling guide. It would make sense to have this guide prominently and permanently displayed right where the recycling occurs, if the county wants the recycling service to be "properly utilized."
Lisa Wolf Johnson
Hotchkiss
Solar Energy International thanks you!
Dear Editor:
Starting the week of April 29 through the end of September, over 600 people will be coming to Paonia to participate in Solar Energy International's (SEI) renewable energy training program. The participants and their families come from all 50 states and around the world for intensive hands-on training on solar electric, heating, and water pumping systems.
Help preserve the North Fork for future generations
Dear Editor:
In 1881, Enos Hotchkiss camped on Rogers Mesa, awestruck by the beauty of the North Fork Valley. But it was Samuel Wade who recognized that the climate was ideal for growing fruit and who planted the first peach and apple trees in the valley.
Article answers recycling questions
Dear Editor:
Thank you for the article in last week's DCI about North Fork recycling.
Shortly after the North Fork recycling started, I several times tried to get information about what was and was not accepted for recycling at the North Fork center.
Emotion, haste and law
Dear Editor:
Emotion, haste, and law (legislation) join to produce a poisonous brew. When innocent children are brutally murdered, we have every right to be outraged.
A wolf in sheep’s clothing
Dear Editor:
The latest bill under consideration in the democratically controlled Colorado legislation will increase the mandate for renewable energy (wind or solar power for example) for rural co-ops. This is Senate Bill 252 and, if passed, will double the requirement of renewables.
The full measure of a man
Dear Editor:
Thank you for printing the letter written by Dusty and Dani Carson of Delta about Kent Calhoun. I share their thankfulness that the Montrose deputy survived the incident.
Proposed gravel pit raises many questions
Dear Editor:
I am a Delta County resident out on 25 Mesa Road west of Delta. I was just wondering if anybody else has heard about the new, proposed Delta County gravel pit that they are planning on putting next door to my 35-acre family home.
Here’s proof gun laws don’t work
Dear Editor:
In the news this morning it was confirmed that the two Tsarnaev brothers responsible for the Boston bombings did not have the necessary gun permits required for gun ownership in their city and the state of Massachusetts. So in spite of some of the strictest gun laws in the United States these two terrorists were able to procure firearms used in the killing of a campus police officer, the wounding of a transit officer, and firing numerous rounds at pursuing law enforcement officials.