Here are the crises our community faces, which, if not addressed, will seriously affect our community’s viability…
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 Rats of NIMH, Part Three
A possible moral to the story: adding more individuals to a stable population can have a negative effect…
EDITORIAL: The Rats of NIMH, Part Two
“After day 600, the social breakdown continued and the population declined toward extinction…”
EDITORIAL: The Rats of NIMH, Part One
You could almost call them human. Like, for example, the humans living in Pagosa Springs….
EDITORIAL: Cleaning Up the Cemetery
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…
EDITORIAL: Big Debts in Pagosa’s Not-So-Distant Future? Part Three
Given that choice, the town voters might find a proposed 0.5% sales tax to be an attractive option…
EDITORIAL: Big Debts in Pagosa’s Not-So-Distant Future? Part Two
“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…”
EDITORIAL: Big Debts in Pagosa’s Not-So-Distant Future? Part One
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…
EDITORIAL: Keeping Pagosa Weird, Part Five
Presumably, a community that cannot provide important needs and desires, will eventually be abandoned, like the ghost towns that dot the Colorado landscape…
Archuleta County Election Office ‘Counting Room’ Entered by an Unauthorized Person
“Apparently, he was looking for a shovel or something? And he said he didn’t know that the room was off limits, even though it had a keypad entrance…”
EDITORIAL: Keeping Pagosa Weird, Part Four
The ten PSCDC homes currently under construction this year have similar “Mountain Resort Modern” styling…
EDITORIAL: Keeping Pagosa Weird, Part Three
Back in 1943, American psychologist Abraham Maslow published a paper entitled “A Theory of Human Motivation”…
EDITORIAL: Keeping Pagosa Weird, Part Two
The 200-page plan proposed a significant expansion of recreational amenities in Archuleta County…
EDITORIAL: Keeping Pagosa Weird, Part One
I’m thinking about these bumper stickers as I listen to my audio recording of a joint meeting, held on September 17…
EDITORIAL: Hunting Season, Election Season, Budget Season, Part Four
“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…”
EDITORIAL: Hunting Season, Election Season, Budget Season, Part Three
“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…”
EDITORIAL: Hunting Season, Election Season, Budget Season, Part Two
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…
EDITORIAL: Hunting Season, Election Season, Budget Season, Part One
A local government’s budget defines, in a very real sense, which problems will be addressed in 2025, and which will not…