The homes were priced at between $320,000 and $390,000. According to Zillow.com, a Pagosa family cannot comfortably afford a $320,000 home…
Author: Bill Hudson
EDITORIAL: Dream of a Tiny Home Village, Part Six
We don’t have a large homeless population in Pagosa Springs, but do we have a large population that are “severely cost burdened” by housing costs…
EDITORIAL: Dream of a Tiny Home Village, Part Five
The Professor mentions two topics that we’ve tried to address here in the Daily Post on a regular basis…
EDITORIAL: Dream of a Tiny Home Village, Part Four
“We’d like to pitch this as ‘Bring Your Own Tiny Home’. That’s what Escalante Village did in Durango…”
EDITORIAL: Dream of a Tiny Home Village, Part Three
Almost exactly four years ago — in March 2021 — the Daily Post ran an op-ed about a “tiny home village” proposed by Dallas-based developers Legacy Alliance…
EDITORIAL: Dream of a Tiny Home Village, Part Two
“So I started researching, and Durango has a tiny home village, and another one out by Bayfield. And I thought, ‘This could actually work!’…”
EDITORIAL: Dream of a Tiny Home Village, Part One
“So three years ago, we were living in Dallas, Texas. You know, deep in suburbia. We both had full-time jobs and three little kids…”
EDITORIAL: The Politics of Charter Schools, Part Three
“So many of us fall into the trap of, ‘I just want to be an educator. This politics stuff is not for me. I don’t want to do that’…”
EDITORIAL: The Politics of Charter Schools, Part Two
“Dr. Perry is completely committed to closing the educational inequities that plague our youth and families in low-income communities…”
EDITORIAL: The Politics of Charter Schools, Part One
Just as different pupils learn differently… in a similar sense, different teachers teach differently… and different parents raise their children differently…
EDITORIAL: A Few Facts About the Highway Reconstruction Project, Part Two
The Town government, especially, has an interest in the reconstruction project, for several reasons…
EDITORIAL: Sorry, Not a Town That Loves Kids
We all have our suspicions about the type of community we live in, but there’s hardly a better way to find out, than to put something on a ballot and let the community weigh in…
EDITORIAL: Cutting the Budget for Forest Health, Part Two
“There have been some significant changes in our federal government since January 20, 2025…”
EDITORIAL: Cutting the Budget for Forest Health, Part One
“We’re a 501c3. Most of our funding comes from federal grants, from various sources. Our big grant for Archuleta County was about $1 million…”
EDITORIAL: The Paradox of Economic Development, Part Six
It’s widely acknowledged that the highway reconstruction project will be stressful on businesses…
EDITORIAL: The Paradox of Economic Development, Part Five
“We’re sitting here in the county with 14,000 people. The median income is $54,000 a year. The ‘Livable Wage’ index for Archuleta County is $92,000 for a family of four…”
EDITORIAL: The Paradox of Economic Development, Part Four
We want our community to remain the same as it was. But we also want our community to steadily improve and change…
EDITORIAL: The Paradox of Economic Development, Part Three
I had not heard of HB24-1172, prior to Ms. Lashbrooke’s January 7 presentation. It was signed into Colorado law by Governor Jared Polis last June…