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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: The Ruins of Prosperity, Part Seven

EDITORIAL: The Ruins of Prosperity, Part Seven

Posted on September 24, 2020September 25, 2020 by Bill Hudson

If your lucky family has a an annual income of $58,400… (and you didn’t lose your job during the COVID crisis)… and you happen to have $10,000 saved up for a down payment…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Four

Posted on September 24, 2020September 28, 2020 by Bill Hudson

As I write this in September 2020, the ‘demand management’ mechanism is still a somewhat vague idea. Perhaps even a pipe dream…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

VIDEO: The Mysterious Effects of COVID-19

Posted on September 24, 2020September 24, 2020 by Bill Hudson

The video features four women who are suffering from lingering health effects following a COVID-19 diagnosis — health effects that don’t align with commonly held beliefs about the disease…

Posted in Education/Health, Video
EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Three

EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Three

Posted on September 23, 2020September 27, 2020 by Bill Hudson

No one will tell us why a New York hedge fund, Water Asset Management, has bought up thousands of acres of irrigated agricultural land in the communities of Fruita, Loma and Mack, west of Grand Junction…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: The Ruins of Prosperity, Part Six

Posted on September 23, 2020September 24, 2020 by Bill Hudson

I read somewhere, long ago, that the Hindu god Shiva had a ‘dual’ personality — that he embodies both the power to destroy and the power to create…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: The Ruins of Prosperity, Part Five

Posted on September 22, 2020September 23, 2020 by Bill Hudson

Some might say, the Board of County Commissioners is totally out of control, with regards to debt creation. And all of the new debt seems to be serving one group of people: County employees…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Two

EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Two

Posted on September 22, 2020September 23, 2020 by Bill Hudson

“The evidence currently of record does not demonstrate that the Districts have carried their burden of proving a non-speculative intent to put the water amounts contained in the remand decree to beneficial use…”

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part One

EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part One

Posted on September 21, 2020September 28, 2020 by Bill Hudson

“I’m encouraged by the participation in the Work Group, which represents diverse stakeholders from all across the state,” said Dan Gibbs, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Natural Resources…”

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: The Ruins of Prosperity, Part Four

EDITORIAL: The Ruins of Prosperity, Part Four

Posted on September 21, 2020September 22, 2020 by Bill Hudson

The property at 574 S. 5th St (at the NE corner of Apache St. and S. 5th St.) is currently listed and could be a possible property for workforce housing units…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: The Ruins of Prosperity, Part Three

EDITORIAL: The Ruins of Prosperity, Part Three

Posted on September 18, 2020September 21, 2020 by Bill Hudson

Americans do indeed value property rights — in some situations. And the STR industry has certainly helped to bring about higher home prices in Archuleta County, according to everything I’ve heard from local realtors…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: The Ruins of Prosperity, Part Two

EDITORIAL: The Ruins of Prosperity, Part Two

Posted on September 17, 2020September 18, 2020 by Bill Hudson

“The strategy that I determined maybe to use, working with Tara Hardy from Silver Thread — she’s the Director there — was to do a new proposal for a pre-season opening, where we don’t have any of our indoor facilities open…”

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: Capitalism, on the Operating Table

Posted on September 17, 2020September 17, 2020 by Bill Hudson

I first heard about capitalism back in high school, but I’ve never been sure who, exactly, invented it. Whoever invented it, they obviously missed the boat…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: The Ruins of Prosperity, Part One

EDITORIAL: The Ruins of Prosperity, Part One

Posted on September 16, 2020September 18, 2020 by Bill Hudson

As County Attorney Todd Weaver explained, the original ground lease mentioned “approximately 40 rental units”, but the project has since been scaled back to 34 units…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: Keep Your Mask Handy

Posted on September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 by Bill Hudson

Polis claims that mask-wearing has been key to allowing the state to reopen as much as it has so far. He has not commented, yet, on the direct impacts to the fashion industry…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Colorado Secretary of State Griswold vs USPS

EDITORIAL: Colorado Secretary of State Griswold vs USPS

Posted on September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 by Bill Hudson

“…my office received notice that the United States Postal Service would be sending out a national pre-election mailer to every household in America that contains incorrect election information for Colorado…”

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Amendment B Makes the Headlines

EDITORIAL: Amendment B Makes the Headlines

Posted on September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 by Bill Hudson

“If the Gallagher Amendment is not repealed, owners of high-end homes in Denver’s wealthiest neighborhoods would get a tax cut next year, while small businesses and farmers would pay a larger share of property taxes…”

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: Your Thoughts About Water? Part Six

Posted on September 11, 2020December 12, 2025 by Bill Hudson

“Nearing or at the end of their service life.” That’s an interesting comment, considering that many of the water pipelines in Archuleta County date back to the 1970s… almost fifty years ago…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Health, and Safety, in Pagosa Springs... Part Three

EDITORIAL: Health, and Safety, in Pagosa Springs… Part Three

Posted on September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 by Bill Hudson

I stopped by the Pagosa Peak Open School on Tuesday morning, to snap a few pictures of the “First Day of School During a Pandemic”. Most people were wearing masks, and they waited, socially distanced, to check in…

Posted in Education/Health, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: Your Thoughts About Water? Part Five

Posted on September 10, 2020December 12, 2025 by Bill Hudson

We currently have one massive reservoir in Archuleta County — Navajo Lake, the fifth largest reservoir in the Colorado River Basin system, built in 1962. But the lake sits on the far southwestern corner of the county…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
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