A panel of local residents, connected to various water uses, fielded audience questions at the “This is Your Watershed” film event at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts…
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: Trust Issues… Part Six
“Maybe we can find someone who wants to buy the Ranch, and also work with the community to build a reasonable reservoir project in the middle of it…”
EDITORIAL: Trust Issues… Part Five
One type of survey is intentionally designed to discover new and useful information, which is needed to make the best possible decisions, moving forward…
EDITORIAL: Trust Issues… Part Four
Superintendent Holt and Chief Executive of Operations Sanchez seemed to be suggesting that our local school buildings were reaching — or had already reached — the end of their useful lives…
EDITORIAL: Trust Issues… Part Three
Archuleta School District (ASD) had been growing its student enrollment by leaps and bounds through the 1990s and on into 2008…
EDITORIAL: Trust Issues… Part Two
“I don’t think this has a chance of passing. Period. And I’ll just state that, and give you the reasons why I believe that…”
EDITORIAL: Trust Issues… Part One
The BOCC will be holding a couple of meetings today: a work session at 8:30am, and a special meeting at 1:30pm…
EDITORIAL: The SJWCD Empire Strikes Back, Part Three
Since 2012, when PAWSD removed itself as a potential partner on the project, SJWCD has been searching in vain for a partner to help them build the Dry Gulch Reservoir…
EDITORIAL: The SJWCD Empire Strikes Back, Part Two
The San Juan Water Conservancy District [SJWCD] convened a “public meeting” yesterday, November 7, to discuss the possible sale of the Running Iron Ranch…
EDITORIAL: The SJWCD Empire Strikes Back, Part One
“SJWCD encourages the public to reach out to board members of both SJWCD and PAWSD about the potential sale of public property…”
ELECTION 2024: Archuleta County and the Nation Embrace the Republican Party; Colorado Leans Blue
Locally in Archuleta County, voters supported exclusively Republican candidates for federal, state and local offices…
EDITORIAL: How to Grow a Small Town… Or Not… Part Four
The Pagosa Springs Area Tourism Board and its staff had applied for — and had been awarded — a grant from the Colorado Tourism Office…
EDITORIAL: How to Grow a Small Town… Or Not… Part Three
During the 30 years I’ve lived in Pagosa Springs, our local leaders have generally acted as if our population was going to multiply steadily and abundantly…
EDITORIAL: How to Grow a Small Town… Or Not… Part Two
The development of a new subdivision in 2024 has become incredibly expensive, compared to the cost 50 years ago…
EDITORIAL: The Accomplishments of President Donald Trump, Considered
Our federal government was specifically designed to make it hard to royally screw everything up…
EDITORIAL: How to Grow a Small Town… Or Not… Part One
Downtown is a preferred site for trick-or-treating because Pagosa Springs was designed, from the very beginning, to be a walkable town…
EDITORIAL: Misinformation About Pagosa Water Resources, Part Four
The controversy between SJWCD and PAWSD, regarding the Running Iron Ranch, is complicated by personalities…
EDITORIAL: Misinformation About Pagosa Water Resources, Part Three
3,000 acre-feet is more than double the amount of drinking water used by PAWSD customers last year…