Commissioner Maez responded. “The financial advisor also needs to focus on the County, as far as us building a new building…”
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: County Commissioners Delay Decision on Potential Courthouse Sale, Part One
An offer from Bob Hart would allow the County to remain in the building for an unlimited amount of time, with the first five years being rent-free…
EDITORIAL: Town Council Discusses Significant Property Purchase East of Downtown, Part Three
“What we are proposing is the 35-acre parcel as kind of a ‘palette’ that we can kind of control, for workforce housing development in the future…”
EDITORIAL: Strange Bedfellows in the Next Era of Water, Part Six
About 40% of our water district’s treated water was apparently leaking out of our community’s 40-year-old water pipelines, never to be seen again…
EDITORIAL: Town Council Discusses Significant Property Purchase East of Downtown, Part Two
How exactly the solutions proposed by the Town of Pagosa Springs qualify as “innovative”, we have no idea, because, as noted above, the public knows almost nothing about this proposed project…
EDITORIAL: Town Council Discusses Significant Property Purchase East of Downtown, Part One
“By 1974, there was a demand for housing, mainly because of the sawmill… there had always been small sawmills here, that employed five or six guys… but when John Hudspeth came in, from Oregon, his sawmill employed 200 people…”
EDITORIAL: Strange Bedfellows in the Next Era of Water, Part Four
This image comes from a 90-second video produced by the World Economic Forum, portraying eight predicted changes to the world economy certain experts expect to see by the year 2030…
EDITORIAL: Strange Bedfellows in the Next Era of Water, Part Three
Perhaps Carbondale-based PR firm, Project Resource Studio, will provide the community with an answer to that question…
EDITORIAL: Strange Bedfellows in the Next Era of Water, Part Two
We pretty much stopped building new homes following the financial meltdown, between 2008-2012… and then began building them again in recent years…
EDITORIAL: Strange Bedfellows in the Next Era of Water, Part One
“The doomsday parade on the news and social media leaves many in our communities fearful, frustrated, or numb to act…”
EDITORIAL: Real Estate Sale Stops the Proposed Gravel Pit? Part Three
The email does not clearly identify “The Gravel People”, but we might assume Mr. Lemon is referring to the Urbanczyk family, who purchased the Dutton Ranch in 2021…
EDITORIAL: County Clarifies the Gravel Pit Rules and Public Hearing Protocols, Part Two
According to a search on the County Assessor’s website, all of the (rather large) properties immediately adjacent to the Oakbrush Hill site are zoned ‘Agricultural Ranching’… except for one property zoned “Agricultural Estate”…
EDITORIAL: Steep Drop in Pagosa COVID Cases Since Mid-January
As we see, the peak of confirmed infections on a single day took place on January 12, 2022, when SJBPH reported 54 cases in Archuleta County…
EDITORIAL: County Clarifies the Gravel Pit Rules and Public Hearing Protocols, Part One
“We know the County is fully aware that this issue is very important to so many of us, but it appears they really do NOT want to hear from us that oppose of this location…”
EDITORIAL: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly… Housing Solutions… Part Four
Fortunately, Rose Mountain is nothing like the monstrous, crime-ridden ‘public housing projects’ that were constructed in urban areas during the 1950s and 1960s…
EDITORIAL: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly… Housing Solutions… Part Three
“We did this because we care. Despite our community knowing for many years that this is a community-wide problem, nothing has materialized as a solution….”
EDITORIAL: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly… Housing Solutions… Part Two
The Archuleta Board of County Commissioners had a number of real estate decisions on their agenda on Tuesday. Three of them were tucked into the so-called ‘consent agenda’…
EDITORIAL: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly… Housing Solutions… Part One
“It’s a sobering moment, and it’s not something that I ever thought we would do, but I believe we’re almost delaying the inevitable…”
EDITORIAL: An Historic Juncture in the History of LPEA
“I want to take an extra moment to thank all of the staff, not just for taking the time to participate in the Town Hall, but also for the two-plus years of hard work that have led to this moment in time…”