I wonder if anyone is keeping track of how many locals use the San Juan River for recreation? Compared to tourist use, for example?
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 Preservation of Aquatic Life in Archuleta County, Part Three
“The success and relevance of stream management planning efforts are highly dependent on stakeholder engagement…”
EDITORIAL: The Preservation of Aquatic Life in Archuleta County, Part Two
“We bring together diverse interests to care for and recover rivers and streams, so our children can experience the joy of wild and native trout and salmon…”
EDITORIAL: The Preservation of Aquatic Life in Archuleta County, Part One
On any warm summer day, you can watch dozens of tubers drift past Town Park, under the Hot Springs Boulevard bridge, and past the geothermally-heated soaking pools at the Springs Resort…
EDITORIAL: Response to a Reader’s Email Questions About COVID
You mentioned that you’ve “not been sick” since you moved to Pagosa six years ago. Congratulations on that…
EDITORIAL: The Best Things in Life are Free? Part Five
La Plata Election Association (LPEA) staff hosted their Customer Appreciation Lunch at their downtown service center… with live music by the talented Tim Sullivan. The dance floor was open…
EDITORIAL: The Best Things in Life are Free? Part Four
In my experience, it’s always easier to get a new tax approved, when the tax will be paid by someone other than the folks voting to approve it…
EDITORIAL: The Best Things in Life are Free? Part Three
The commissioners allocated $280,000 to build a covered walkway connecting the County’s new $15 million jail to their new $6 million courthouse…
EDITORIAL: The Best Things in Life are Free? Part Two
But as we know, the regulation and subjugation and restraint is often practiced on an ‘unequal’ playing field…
EDITORIAL: The Best Things in Life are Free? Part One
“The conservative sensibility finds the lack of design and lack of control of a spontaneous-order, free market society to be exhilarating…”
OPINION: A Few Reactions to the BLM Relocation Proposal
“It’s clear that moving the agency’s headquarters out of Washington, D.C. was meant to force out career employees and hollow out its leadership…”
EDITORIAL: My 11th Opinion About Pagosa’s Future, Part Five
But over the past couple of months, the BOCC did take a couple of small steps to encourage smaller, more affordable housing for our local workforce…
EDITORIAL: My 11th Opinion About Pagosa’s Future, Part Four
In 1970, when Ralph Eaton and his company began building out the 21-square-miles of suburban neighborhoods known today as Pagosa Lakes, we understood that Americans were rejecting the big-city lifestyle…
EDITORIAL: My 11th Opinion About Pagosa’s Future, Part Three
Young families, escaping from other places, were finding Pagosa to be affordable and attractive. Within a few years, the School District was proposing a new high school…
EDITORIAL: My 11th Opinion About Pagosa’s Future, Part Two
Looking back, we can see that the wholesale destruction of ‘slum’ neighborhoods, and their replacement with high-rise public housing projects, was an unmitigated disaster…
EDITORIAL: My 11th Opinion About Pagosa’s Future, Part One
I’ve been working my way through a book written in 1961 — a classic on urban planning: ‘The Death and Life of Great American Cities’, by Jane Jacobs…
EDITORIAL: Pagosa’s New Rules for Vacation Rentals
I suspect the attempts to control vacation rentals will not end with Ordinance 958. The Town Council and the Town Planning Commission have also been discussing an excise tax on vacation rentals…
EDITORIAL: Folk Festival Frustrations at Town Hall
“So I went into the [Town’s] Municipal Code and I found section 14, article 2, that deals with Parks & Recreation facilities…”