“We had signs on our fence — the one fence that we had — and those signs said, ‘Fishermen welcome, respect your privilege…”
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: The Price of Gravel, Part One
“The roads being considered have had significant degradation since the county began allowing truck traffic along Cascade Avenue, a steep and winding gravel road as well as Buttress Avenue, Meadows Blvd., and South Pagosa Blvd…”
EDITORIAL: Voters Can Make Colorado History in PAWSD Election
“The first benefit of TABOR protection is obvious: general property tax revenue is placed under commonsense controls…”
EDITORIAL: Facts and Fantasies About the Bridge to Nowhere, Part Five
I have a fantasy, for example, about honest local government, making legal decisions in open meetings and valuing the opinions of the citizens who fund them and for whom these governments were created…
EDITORIAL: Facts and Fantasies About the Bridge to Nowhere, Part Four
“So, could you address those? If those are questions that have been asserted before, and we have them tonight, can you answer those questions?”
EDITORIAL: Facts and Fantasies About the Bridge to Nowhere, Part Three
Some others — including many who attended the March 17 meeting at the Ross Aragon Community Center — seem to view Pagosa’s municipal government as a slightly insane father…
EDITORIAL: Facts and Fantasies About the Bridge to Nowhere, Part One
Mayor Volger began by explaining, as best he could, why the Town Council had chosen to discuss the 5th Street Bridge proposal in closed-door meetings for the past six months, releasing no information to the public
ESSAY: The Amazing Universe of ‘Big History’
Here in 2016, we have apparently lost the intellectual distinction, not only between ‘History’ and ‘Prehistory’ but also between fact and fiction…
EDITORIAL: Concerning the Sewer Pipeline IGA, Part Four
“… That PSSGID will need to institute legal action to require PAWSD to finish the pipeline, pay the costs it is obligated to pay for operations and maintenance, and accept PSSGID’s sewage until PSSGID can make other arrangements…”
EDITORIAL: Concerning the Sewer Pipeline IGA, Part Three
We now have yet another law firm involved in the Town’s ongoing negotiations with Pagosa Area Water and Sanitation District (PAWSD) over the poorly-written 2012 IGA…
EDITORIAL: Concerning the Sewer Pipeline IGA, Part Two
And another thing was rather apparent: numerous key employees at PAWSD, who were used to hooking up 200-300 new homes every year to their water and sewer systems, were now without real work to do…
EDITORIAL: Concerning the Sewer Pipeline IGA, Part One
“Collins, Cockrel, Cole can sue me for slander; this is one of the most prominently miswritten agreements I’ve ever read for a large project. …”
EDITORIAL: The Secrets of the Sewer Pipeline, Part Three
We have a perpetual problem, here in Pagosa. Lack of transparency, too many secret meetings, and too many rushed decisions that open, public discussion could have greatly improved…
EDITORIAL: The Secrets of the Sewer Pipeline, Part Two
I really respect John Bozek… and when he asked repeatedly to view the IGA, many months in advance, and was never given a chance to review the document, I think that was a loss for all of us…
EDITORIAL: The Secrets of the Sewer Pipeline, Part One
Good question. Why are the taxpayers now being asked to fork out another $600,000? Is there no end to this mess?
EDITORIAL: Life & Death in the Rural West, Part Two
“It’s like, people would be crazy not to do it, if they had any question about whether their property was in jeopardy…”
EDITORIAL: Life & Death in the Rural West, Part One
By 7:40pm, there were 73 people and four aircraft working the fire…
ESSAY: What the EPA Really Said About Fracking
If you read the EPA draft Executive Summary, you may reach the same conclusion that I’ve come to. Fracking does not always poison drinking water supplies. Fracking does, in some cases, poison drinking water supplies…
EDITORIAL: A Few Idle Thoughts About a Housing Crisis, Part Five
Read Part One Let’s take this statement at face value, for the sake of argument: Governments can use their taxpayer revenues to somehow subsidize affordable housing in a rural community, and such subsidies can benefit both the low-paid worker and the employer who pays the low wages. Making it feasible for employers to continue paying READ MORE