Which brings me around to the Town’s new Urban Renewal Authority — the URA — and the ongoing political controversy surrounding it. You might even classify it as a ‘personality conflict’…
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: Dying Alone in a Nursing Home, Part Two
In an article on the FREOPP.org website, reporter Gregg Girvan referred to the nursing home crisis as the “most underappreciated aspect of the novel coronavirus pandemic…”
EDITORIAL: A Season of Educational Confusion, Part Three
“In some of your schools, it might be that almost everybody needs to be back, because they’re working parents, they’re single parents; they need the schools…”
EDITORIAL: A Season of Educational Confusion, Part Two
“Unfortunately, we’re just not going to have the answer very soon around, you know, if we can start school in the fall, as normal, or what precautions will be in place…”
EDITORIAL: Dying Alone in a Nursing Home, Part One
CMS — the federal bureaucracy that certifies nursing homes and writes the checks — has forbidden family members from visiting… certainly a cause for depression and feelings of abandonment…
Pagosa Peak Open School Receives ‘Colorado Health Foundation’ Donation
“Charter Schools, by the nature of their geographic placement in Colorado, often lack equitable access to needed resources…”
EDITORIAL: A Season of Educational Confusion, Part One
This past Tuesday, May 26, members of the news media were invited to listen to a Zoom presentation by the Colorado Department of Education (CDE), featuring Colorado Education Commissioner Katy Anthes…
EDITORIAL: Colorado’s Mysterious Death Statistics, Part Three
My young granddaughters and I took a stroll through Pagosa’s Hilltop cemetery on Memorial Day. We don’t have any family members buried there, but we recognized some familiar names…
EDITORIAL: Colorado’s Mysterious Death Statistics, Part Two
I think of my dear mother, one of the sweetest people you could ever hope to meet, who passed away a few years ago at the ripe old age of 92…
EDITORIAL: Colorado’s Mysterious Death Statistics, Part One
A new disease, COVID-19, has appeared in the statistical records, and has passed up heart disease as a reported cause of death. But something else equally dramatic has taken place…
EDITORIAL: Clean Drinking Water, Considered, Part Five
To judge by the news articles I’ve come across, California’s Imperial Irrigation District is a political sacred cow…
EDITORIAL: Ready for Lower Taxes?… Part Two
Whether those same folks believe a Governor can toss out (temporarily?) the well-established laws governing the placement of a citizen initiative on the November ballot, I cannot say…
EDITORIAL: Clean Drinking Water, Considered, Part Four
Here’s a photo of the lovely view looking northwest from Snowball Road on May 20, 2020. I’m not sure how many ranches we can see in this photo… maybe two.. or three?
EDITORIAL: Ready for Lower Taxes?… Part One
“Protecting our democracy, access to the ballot and making sure citizens can qualify ballot measures and can qualify as candidates to run for office during this time is critical…”
EDITORIAL: Clean Drinking Water, Considered, Part Three
The truth is difficult to get at, when we’re faced with apparently contradictory evidence. Are we really in the midst of a megadrought that will last for decades? Are we actually just wasting our limited water resources in a careless, devil-may-care manner?…
EDITORIAL: Our New Normal
“This implies that by staying home, you’re doing something that helps protect people. To not stay home then, would mean putting others at risk….”
EDITORIAL: Clean Drinking Water, Considered, Part Two
Under the “Irrigation” tab, we can find the amount of water that USGS believes was used for that purpose in Archuleta County in 2015…
EDITORIAL: Clean Drinking Water, Considered, Part One
“The purpose of the Dry Gulch Reservoir Project is to provide adequate water for the health and welfare of the Districts’ constituents due to unprecedented growth within their boundaries….”
EDITORIAL: Contact Tracing, For Fun and Profit
Archuleta County has been surprisingly free of infections — only 8 confirmed cases and no reported fatalities — but we assume that travelers from other parts of the country could easily bring new infections with them…