Over the past several decades, new concerns about the Colorado River and its tributaries have developed — concerns that didn’t exist when the Hoover Dam was built…
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: Digging Into the Ditches, and Such, Part Six
Would it be possible to modify the behavior of the San Juan River, artificially, so that a two-month recreational ‘rafting season’ could be extended by a couple more weeks?
EDITORIAL: Digging Into the Ditches, and Such, Part Five
Water-related recreation is playing an ever-larger role in Colorado water planning, it seems….
EDITORIAL: Digging Into the Ditches, and Such, Part Four
If 4,664 acres of agricultural land using ‘ditch irrigation’ (40% efficient) could be upgraded to ‘gated pipe irrigation’ (55% efficient)… hmmm…
EDITORIAL: Just Your Average American
We write about ‘averages’ here in the Daily Post, on a pretty regular basis. The average wage in the local hospitality industry, for example…
EDITORIAL: Digging Into the Ditches, and Such, Part Three
The ditch improvements and repairs suggested by the WEP survey appear to total nearly $5.5 million…
EDITORIAL: Digging Into the Ditches, and Such, Part Two
Here is a slight close-up of Ms. Purcell’s map, showing the area surrounding downtown Pagosa Springs, with some identifying words added. Hatcher Lake. Walmart. Downtown. Wolf Creek Pass…
EDITORIAL: Digging Into the Ditches, and Such, Part One
But it takes basically the same number of employees, working the same number of hours, to treat and deliver 1,000 acre-feet of water as it takes to treat and deliver 2,000 acre-feet of water…
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Eight
In James Cameron’s film version of the Titanic disaster, the steersman spun the ship’s wheel “hard to starboard”, as far as the wheel would turn. It almost worked. But not quite…
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Seven
“My biggest comment is, I would love to simplify the LUDC. I feel like maybe it’s made some unintended consequences…”
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Six
I know very little about real estate, and even less about multi-family housing developments. But I do have a pocket calculator…
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Five
Here’s a photo of the proposed site, viewed from the rear of the Walmart store. The development would apparently try to preserve some of the mature pine trees…
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Four
This was not going to be a mobile home park. Not exactly. Although it would indeed be a ‘park’… and all the homes would be ‘mobile’…
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Three
As stated in the Planning Commission packet, “Riverwalk Townhomes will have a positive effect on the economy as it provides more housing opportunities to the Town…”
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Two
That package includes about $128 billion for K-12 education… along with other provisions that will also affect school spending…
ESSAY: A Plan to Re-Open the Liberty Theatre, Part Two
“And eventually, we’d also like to try to do movie festivals. I know Durango and Telluride have movie festivals. Why can’t we have something in Pagosa, as well?”
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part One
Instead of flying somewhere in a plane, for a vacation — wearing a face mask in a crowded airplane cabin, breathing recycled air — families and individuals were looking for exotic places they could drive to — in their own SUV…
ESSAY: A Plan to Re-Open the Liberty Theatre, Part One
Last week, I had a pleasant Zoom conversation with two local business owners and community activists, Sherry Phillips and Evelyn Tennyson, about the historic Liberty Theatre…
EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Ten
Where childhood poverty is concerned — and childhood malnutrition — public schools have been instrumental, since the 1960s, in providing at least one daily meal for school-age children…