“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…”
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: 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…”
EDITORIAL: The Downtown Parking Discussion Continues, Part Three
“People want to walk through neighborhoods that are interesting and vibrant. And when every other parcel is a parking lot, that kills that vibrancy in the downtown area…”
EDITORIAL: The Downtown Parking Discussion Continues, Part Two
“And then we’re talking about building parking structures? I just don’t see a lot of opportunities within the downtown…”
EDITORIAL: The Downtown Parking Discussion Continues, Part One
This was a rather drastic recommendation for commercial properties, comparing it with the existing LUDC requirements for downtown…
EDITORIAL: Testing… Testing… One, Two, Three…
Even as schools focus more and more effort on improving math and reading scores, and less and less effort on a well-rounded education, our children are doing worse and worse…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Nine
I look forward to a community-wide effort, to provide the necessary funding to begin addressing this massive problem…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Eight
Let’s take a bird’s eye view of the problem…
EDITORIAL: How to Spot the Delta Variant from 100 Yards Away
No, I actually don’t know how to spot the Delta variant from 100 yards away. I wish I did….
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Seven
Fully 100 respondents picked “Shipping Container Home” as their second-best choice, making that option the most popular one, as a ‘second choice’….
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Six
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…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Five
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…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Four
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?…