“Seems like a choice to go the $6 million route makes sense, given other demands on the county like schools, roads, water, etc. Not to mention our tax burden we all get to share…”
Author: Bill Hudson
Bill Hudson began sharing his opinions in the Pagosa Daily Post in 2004 and can't seem to break the habit. He claims that, in Pagosa Springs, opinions are like pickup trucks: everybody has one.
EDITORIAL: Shooting in the Dark… at Tax Targets, Part One
At the end of that BOCC work session, a discussion took place between the three commissioners that had not been indicated on the meeting agenda…
EDITORIAL: Archuleta County Hints at Plans to Discontinue Road Maintenance, Part Three
For 22 years, past commissioners have not had the cojones to fully follow a reasonable road policy…
Lake Mead Hits Record Low Water Level, August 2026
Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone?
EDITORIAL: Archuleta County Hints at Plans to Discontinue Road Maintenance, Part Two
In 1998, Archuleta County entered into an agreement with 12 Pagosa Lakes subdivisions, guaranteeing road maintenance for five years…
EDITORIAL: Archuleta County Hints at Plans to Discontinue Road Maintenance, Part One
There’s a simple fact that’s been well known, and often discussed, by various County commissioners and Road & Bridge Managers, for 30 years…
EDITORIAL: Archuleta County Hears a Rio Blanco Fire Update, Part Two
“We’re working with hand line, aircraft, everything in that area, to make sure it does not go west of Frio Canyon…”
EDITORIAL: Archuleta County Wants Your Help, Updating the Community Plan… Part Two
One of these documents — the 2025–2028 Archuleta County Strategic Plan — was the result of a couple of years of work…
EDITORIAL: Archuleta County Hears a Rio Blanco Fire Update, Part One
“We understood very quickly that we needed help, so we requested help from a Type 3 incident management team…”
EDITORIAL: Archuleta County Wants Your Help, Updating the Community Plan… Part One
“Planning ahead helps ensure that as the County grows, residents keep access to a range of housing options, reliable infrastructure, a strong local economy…”
EDITORIAL: Ballots, Taxes, and Debts, Part Three
“Give us a ballot measure we can feel good about approving…”
EDITORIAL: Ballots, Taxes, and Debts, Part Two
The survey was a bit more extensive, however, than simply asking how voters felt about the sample ballot language…
EDITORIAL: Ballots, Taxes, and Debts, Part One
We already know that Pagosa Springs Medical Center will have a tax measure on the November ballot…
EDITORIAL: Data Centers in Pagosa Springs? Part Five
Their letter comes in the wake of a recent incident in which AI systems from OpenAI “broke out of their testing environment and hacked into the tech startup Hugging Face….”
EDITORIAL: Data Centers in Pagosa Springs? Part Four
“Until there are reasonable regulations on AI that protect us, we need a national moratorium…”
EDITORIAL: Data Centers in Pagosa Springs? Part Three
“Are you suggesting that there might be technologies in the future that we would want to keep ourselves open to?…”
Archuleta County Landfill Closed
As we can see, the posting does not indicate why the landfill has been closed, or the expected duration of the closure…
EDITORIAL: Data Centers in Pagosa Springs? Part Two
“Archuleta County shall not accept applications or engage in pre-submittal activities for data center facilities…”
EDITORIAL: Data Centers in Pagosa Springs? Part One
I attended the PLPOA annual meeting on Saturday and heard about budgets, the recreation center, trails, fishing, youth activities, pine needles…