Author: Bill Hudson

I honestly can’t recall our commissioners discuss a plan — a real plan — for dealing with our roads…

No doubt this situation put Mr. Woodman in an awkward position, since he is also, to some degree, responsible for trying to get Ballot Issue 1A approved by the voters…

This coming Friday, Archuleta County Clerk Kristy Archuleta will mail out a letter to “all registered voters” in Archuleta County…

Our Daily Post readers might want to stash away some extra savings, in preparation for their 2024 tax bill…

Right now, some of the safest roads are in our local metro districts.  But a County sales tax increased won’t help the metro districts that maintain their own roads…

Professional campaign manager Beth Lamberson was sharing images, via Zoom, related to Ballot Measure 1A, which the BOCC has placed on this November’s ballot…

But Archuleta County decided, decades ago, that they wanted to be a suburban paradise, with lots of roads and infrastructure needs — but without the municipal revenues that typically support this level of development…

We might see some more changes in the coming months, regarding the vacation rental industry…

At the same time, many people assumed the expanding STR market was having a positive effect on our tourism industry… but again, no one could say for certain how big the effect might be…

Fast forward to 2022, and maybe 90% of our economic activity now takes place west of the old elementary school…

Here’s a map showing the Town of Pagosa Springs, overlaid with a white color…

“We know that a lot of people are not aware of what is about to happen, and what sorts of support they are going to need…”

The photo shows members of the new ‘Main Street Advisory Board’ using adhesive dots to indicate the work they’d most like to see their board engage in, going forward…

We might conclude, from this quick, casual survey, that downtown Pagosa Springs is fairly thriving, economically, compared to many struggling downtown districts in the US…

Theoretically, the program is focused on ‘historical preservation’… basically, taking the existing assets of your downtown and improving them somehow, without significantly changing the district’s overall architectural character…

If our two primary local governments have particular projects they would like to start, or complete, the most sensible way to approach the voters would be to show us the plan…

So… where did the additional $700,000 per year from 1A … that was supposed to be spent on roads… actually go?

We can probably understand why four of the seven council members, serving on the Pagosa Springs Town Council, voted to support a $6.5 million sales tax increase ballot measure…