Author: Bill Hudson

Here are the crises our community faces, which, if not addressed, will seriously affect our community’s viability…

A possible moral to the story: adding more individuals to a stable population can have a negative effect…

“After day 600, the social breakdown continued and the population declined toward extinction…”

You could almost call them human. Like, for example, the humans living in Pagosa Springs….

A few years ago, a small group of well-meaning citizens approached the Town Council complaining that the rustic Hilltop Cemetery was a bit too rustic…

Given that choice, the town voters might find a proposed 0.5% sales tax to be an attractive option…

“So my suggestion would be to vote a 1/2 of 1% sales tax. Based on the 2023 income, you would end up with approximately $2.2 million…”

So we have a couple of possible prices to work with.  $4.5 million for “urgent” repairs, and $44.8 million for the whole enchilada…

Presumably, a community that cannot provide important needs and desires, will eventually be abandoned, like the ghost towns that dot the Colorado landscape…

The ten PSCDC homes currently under construction this year have similar “Mountain Resort Modern” styling…

Back in 1943, American psychologist Abraham Maslow published a paper entitled “A Theory of Human Motivation”…

The 200-page plan proposed a significant expansion of recreational amenities in Archuleta County…

I’m thinking about these bumper stickers as I listen to my audio recording of a joint meeting, held on September 17…

“But it sounds like there are people at this table who want to get back there… want to get back to 2021, and even higher levels…”

“So I asked the Tourism Board the other day, ‘What would we do if we had $300,000 more?’ And nobody had a quick and ready answer…”

Here’s a photo of the Dry Gulch valley that would be completely flooded, if the reservoir were built to the size proposed by SJWCD…

A local government’s budget defines, in a very real sense, which problems will be addressed in 2025, and which will not…

Here in Archuleta County, about 43% of the property taxes collected each year goes into our local public schools…