The elected Archuleta School District Board of Education will make the final decision about putting this measure on the November ballot…
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 School District Mill Levy Override Decision, Part Two
The basic assumption behind the Public School Finance bill is that each school in Colorado ought to be funded at the same amount, per student…
EDITORIAL: The School District Mill Levy Override Decision, Part One
If the measure should fail, then ASD would still have the opportunity to go back to the voters in 2024 or 2025, for another try…
EDITORIAL: The Cost of a County Airport, Part Five
Is this the right time to increase our subsidies for airplane owners?
EDITORIAL: The Cost of a County Airport, Part Four
During that same period, he calculated, local taxpayers had contributed about $1.1 million to subsidize the County Airport’s everyday operations…
EDITORIAL: The Cost of a County Airport, Part Three
Increasingly, our 21st century definition of ‘political truth’ has come to mean: ‘whatever numbers can be generated by computers…’
Ribbon Cutting for New Pickleball Courts Set for This Thursday
The new courts were funded in part by the Pagosa Pickleball Club, with public funding donated by the Pagosa Springs Tourism Board, the Town of Pagosa Springs, and Archuleta County…
EDITORIAL: The Cost of a County Airport, Part Two
I would propose, dear reader, that this is a true statement. “All five of the airplanes shown in these photographs are private jets…”
EDITORIAL: The Cost of a County Airport, Part One
The central focus of Commissioner Brown’s comments seemed to be on the problems at Stevens Field…
EDITORIAL: A Perfectly Good Little Town, Part Seven
Yesterday in Part Six, I shared the comment that the Pagosa Springs Apartments wanted to convert 98 motel rooms into tiny apartment units…
EDITORIAL: A Perfectly Good Little Town, Part Six
I awoke this morning, early, from a dream about Julie McCluskie. Actually, not about Julie McCluskie, the person, but about her name. “Julie McCluskie”…
EDITORIAL: A Perfectly Good Little Town, Part Five
“Tiny Home Villages may be served by a public sanitation district, by a centralized On-site Wastewater Treatment System (OWTS), or by individual OWTSs…”
EDITORIAL: A Perfectly Good Little Town, Part Four
Apparently, things have gotten bad enough to make even the BOCC reconsider its beliefs…
EDITORIAL: July 15 is Deadline for Property Valuation Appeals
As I understand the appeals process, the Assessor or her staff will have a chance to review your appeal before it is sent to the CBOE…
EDITORIAL: A Perfectly Good Little Town, Part Three
So we have a curious situation. Workers, who were in their 20s in 1948, were already ‘mid-career’ when American wages began to stagnate…
EDITORIAL: A Perfectly Good Little Town, Part Two
I find it hard to believe that a store on Main Street can survive selling old discarded toys, license plates and kitchenware…
EDITORIAL: A Perfectly Good Little Town, Part One
100 years ago, the town of Pagosa Springs had grown up around an unusual geological feature: a sulfur-smelling hot spring with purported healing properties…
‘Coal Mine Fire’ Now 95% Contained
The fire, which was first reported on June 26, had grown from about 40 acres on June 28 to 267 acres on June 29…
EDITORIAL: Senator Hickenlooper Comes to Pagosa Springs, Part Four
“We can’t ignore the fact that we’ve got school teachers and firefighters… who are being priced out of our market…”