Any business at all “provides job opportunities.” That’s the very definition of a business. But some businesses destroy the community they move into, and some enhance the community…
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: Chairlift to Heaven, Part Four
When measured simply by “income” — which includes our many retirees — we’re comfortably in the middle of the pack, here in Colorado…
EDITORIAL: Chairlift to Heaven, Part Three
I mention these two political conversations because they’re part of the Chairlift Effect… an experience where we’re being shuttled towards some destination… and we seem to have no control of the ride…
EDITORIAL: Chairlift to Heaven, Part Two
“It’s all a bet on the Chinese middle class, a consumer force McKinsey analysis predicts could reach 550 million in three years…”
EDITORIAL: Chairlift to Heaven, Part One
I’ve wanted to explore the idea of responsibility for quite a while now, and I guess this might be as good a time as any…
EDITORIAL: Our Electric Destiny, Part Six
Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval estimated that Nevada would enjoy $100 billion in economic benefits over two decades from its construction and operation…
EDITORIAL: Our Electric Destiny, Part Five
You cannot drill into the ground and find ‘electricity’… the way you can drill a well, and find oil or natural gas. But at the same time, we have a theoretically unlimited supply of electricity…
EDITORIAL: Our Electric Destiny, Part Four
Governments have various clever ways of providing economic benefits, however. Tax credits are merely one technique. Restrictive or permissive regulations are another…
EDITORIAL: Our Electric Destiny, Part Three
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is loosening regulations to allow cars to burn more gasoline… only to get push-back from the same auto companies that would seemingly benefit from such relaxed regulations…
EDITORIAL: Our Electric Destiny, Part Two
The situation is a bit more challenging if you’re a tourist, and you’re planning to travel 250 miles in your EV… because you will pretty much drain your battery…
EDITORIAL: Our Electric Destiny, Part One
“The goal is to have all the stations installed by June 30, 2020. So it is a tight timeline…”
EDITORIAL: On Our Own, with No Direction Home… Part Seven
I have the sense that Jim and Nancy ended up with a completed house, without any debt or mortgage to pay off, but I can’t say for sure…
EDITORIAL: Is it News… or Opinion… or PR?
“My question would be whether the newspapers running this kind of thing, especially as news and not opinion and without disclosures, are thinking it through completely when they do….”
EDITORIAL: On Our Own, with No Direction Home… Part Six
“That sounds like a lot of money. And it is,” she told us. “But it’s only enough to build one 45-unit apartment building…”
EDITORIAL: On Our Own, with No Direction Home… Part Five
HomesFund believes that a community that has healthy and happy homeowners is a vibrant and thriving community…
VIDEO: Michael Bennet Ends Campaign After Poor Showing in New Hampshire
“I am going to do absolutely everything I can do… to make sure that Donald Trump is a one-term president. I will support the nominee of my party no matter who it is…”
EDITORIAL: On Our Own, with No Direction Home… Part Four
“Someone had a three-bedroom condo, and they wanted us to rent out all three rooms for them. But they don’t live there, so that’s outside our scope…”
EDITORIAL: On Our Own, with No Direction Home… Part Three
“One of the things we heard about at the 2019 conference, and that we’re investigating and trying to learn more about, are Community Land Trusts — and what that could possibly mean for housing…”
EDITORIAL: On Our Own, with No Direction Home… Part Two
This massive MID tax giveaway to mostly very wealthy families has been staunchly defended, since the 1950s, by America’s real estate industry as necessary to keep real estate prices headed upwards…