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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: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Seven

EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Seven

Posted on August 31, 2021September 1, 2021 by Bill Hudson

Fully 100 respondents picked “Shipping Container Home” as their second-best choice, making that option the most popular one, as a ‘second choice’….

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Six

EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Six

Posted on August 30, 2021October 23, 2022 by Bill Hudson

Here’s the Town zoning map. We’ll look more closely at some details in a moment, but what we can see in the overall map is a dotted line outlining the Town limits…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Five

EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Five

Posted on August 27, 2021October 23, 2022 by Bill Hudson

The Town Planning Commission, this week, recommended that the Pagosa Springs Inn & Suites be permitted to convert all of its motel rooms into long-term rental units…

Posted in Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Four

Posted on August 26, 2021October 23, 2022 by Bill Hudson

Can we dig ourselves out of this hole? Or are we looking at a ‘black hole’ that’s going to suck in everything within its gravitational field?…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Three

EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Three

Posted on August 25, 2021October 24, 2023 by Bill Hudson

According to national vacation rental management company Vacasa, the people most likely to convert single-family homes into vacation rentals are between the ages of 20 and 50…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Two

EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Two

Posted on August 24, 2021August 25, 2021 by Bill Hudson

As we see, the financial stress was not evenly distributed among the various income levels…

Posted in Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part One

Posted on August 23, 2021October 24, 2023 by Bill Hudson

“WHEREAS, Town Council hereby finds that the use of residential property as a short-term vacation rental impacts the Town and its residents in various ways…”

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Re-Imagining the Constitution

EDITORIAL: Re-Imagining the Constitution

Posted on August 20, 2021August 20, 2021 by Bill Hudson

“We have found our way back to those precious founding documents. And in those documents we find all that we need to operate as a Constitutional county…”

Posted in Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: Turning Off Arizona’s Water Tap?

Posted on August 20, 2021August 20, 2021 by Bill Hudson

Beginning next year, certain Arizona farmers will be cut off from much of the water they’ve been extracting from the Colorado River for decades…

Posted in Opinion/Letters

Pagosa Peak Charter School Adopts ‘Masks Optional’ Policy

Posted on August 20, 2021August 20, 2021 by Bill Hudson

Three parents testified at the PPOS board meeting, requesting that all staff and students be required to wear masks indoors…

Posted in Education/Health
EDITORIAL: Strange Tales from Pitkin County, Colorado

EDITORIAL: Strange Tales from Pitkin County, Colorado

Posted on August 19, 2021August 19, 2021 by Bill Hudson

“In fact, 66% of all positive COVID-19 cases among residents in Pitkin County… have been so-called ‘breakthrough’ cases, or those involving fully vaccinated residents…”

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: School Board Hears About Mask Policy... and Housing... Part Five

EDITORIAL: School Board Hears About Mask Policy… and Housing… Part Five

Posted on August 18, 2021March 11, 2023 by Bill Hudson

Not too far behind — in fact, at number 19 in the Vacasa list — is Pagosa Springs, Colorado, where the median home price (Vacasa claims) is $361,000…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: School Board Hears About Mask Policy... and Housing... Part Four

EDITORIAL: School Board Hears About Mask Policy… and Housing… Part Four

Posted on August 17, 2021August 18, 2021 by Bill Hudson

Pagosa Springs High School students are now starting their fourth year of learning the construction business, and, last May, built the chicken coops shown above for their annual fundraising auction…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: School Board Hears About Mask Policy... and Housing... Part Three

EDITORIAL: School Board Hears About Mask Policy… and Housing… Part Three

Posted on August 16, 2021August 17, 2021 by Bill Hudson

As I see it, the arguments coming from the opponents of mask-wearing fell into three general categories…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
Pagosa Springs 'Urban Renewal Authority' to Host Listening Sessions This Week

Pagosa Springs ‘Urban Renewal Authority’ to Host Listening Sessions This Week

Posted on August 16, 2021August 16, 2021 by Bill Hudson

Consultants from Short Elliott Hendrickson (SEH), a Durango-based planning and design firm, will help guide the listening sessions…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: School Board Hears About Mask Policy... and Housing... Part Two

EDITORIAL: School Board Hears About Mask Policy… and Housing… Part Two

Posted on August 13, 2021August 16, 2021 by Bill Hudson

The audience members who came to testify apparently arrived with the assumption… that the School District would be requiring masks?

Posted in Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: School Board Hears About Mask Policy… and Housing… Part One

Posted on August 12, 2021August 14, 2021 by Bill Hudson

The next question asked about masking intentions, for the start of the 2021-22 school year.  Are parents planning to send their kids to school with masks? 62% said ‘No’…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL:  A Flubbed Town Council Hand-off on Short-Term Rentals, Part Four

EDITORIAL: A Flubbed Town Council Hand-off on Short-Term Rentals, Part Four

Posted on August 11, 2021August 11, 2021 by Bill Hudson

“But other than that, I want to move on to the other items about short-term rentals, so we can give staff some more guidance…”

Posted in Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: A Flubbed Town Council Hand-off on Short-Term Rentals, Part Three

Posted on August 10, 2021August 11, 2021 by Bill Hudson

“Are we ready to get rid of the Lodgers Tax and funding for external marketing? And do we want to put an excise tax on short-term rentals?…”

Posted in Opinion/Letters
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