The settlement leader William Bradford was already aware of the death toll from “Indean fever.” His scouts had ventured inland and noted “sculs and bones were found in many places lying still above ground…”
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.
Gov. Polis Extends Disaster Order to August 4
In total, it appears that about $226 million from Colorado’s Disaster Emergency Fund has been “encumbered for response activities related to COVID-19″…
EDITORIAL: Independence Day, Part Two
“First the question shall be passed upon by the Mohawk and Seneca Chiefs, then it shall be discussed and passed by the Oneida and Cayuga Chiefs…”
EDITORIAL: Independence Day, Part One
But no parade took place this year, unless you wanted to count the seemingly endless stream of SUVs and pickup trucks and RVs with New Mexico and Texas license plates that crept through town, eastbound and westbound on Highway 160…
EDITORIAL: Council Makes No Final Decision on Masks… Part Three
“The only people that we’ve really heard from are people who go and visit Durango for a day, and then come back and say, ‘Oh, it’s roses and daisies over there’…
Colorado Governor Issues Latest COVID-19 Orders
“We are making some much-needed investments in our local public health agencies, so they can contain and quell an outbreak before it gets out of control….”
EDITORIAL: Council Makes No Final Decision on Masks… Part Two
“I saw people, from other places, coming to my community and having what I viewed as a complete disregard and lack of respect for our community members, and our local businesses….”
VIDEO: A Somewhat Unusual Fourth of July Schedule
According to Tourism Director Jennie Green “We’re still trying not to encourage large gatherings, so hopefully the tubes will keep them separated and people will just kind of do it throughout the day….”
EDITORIAL: Council Makes No Final Decision on Masks… Part One
“I think the town is overcrowded. I’ve been on the ‘recovery task force’ and I don’t think we saw this coming. It doesn’t look like any other year during Fourth of July that I can remember…”
Primary Election Results, in Brief
In the statewide elections, five-term US Representative Scott Tipton was ousted in the Republican primary by restaurant owner Lauren Boebert…
EDITORIAL: Town Council to Consider Mandatory Face Coverings Tonight, June 30
“So, I know this is contentious. It’s really become a politicized issue all over the country, but I would like for the Council to have a discussion…”
Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Gun Control Measure
“Though we didn’t succeed in striking down the Magazine Ban, we did win on two very important points,” said Dudley Brown, Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners…
EDITORIAL: The Fragile Health of a Rural Hospital District, During COVID…Part Three
“We have it mapped out; we know what we would do, the issues we would have with supply; what our staff would do; what if our staff gets sick and we have to quarantine…”
EDITORIAL: More School Testing Needed? Better Ways to Spend Limited Funds?
“There’s no need to spend our precious, very limited resources to go to private corporations for testing. We need to trust our educators to do what they do best…”
EDITORIAL: How to Get Fired From a Volunteer Job, Part Twelve
“…Bill Hudson has had a large part in circulating a petition that would require a Town vote for any URA project that involves over $1 million in [Tax Increment Financing] money…”
EDITORIAL: The Fragile Health of a Rural Hospital District, During COVID…Part Two
“We provide excellent care, but we’re not used to keeping critical patients here, past the Emergency Room visit. We send the critically ill patients somewhere else…”
EDITORIAL: The Fragile Health of a Rural Hospital District, During COVID…Part One
According to the audit report, the district’s ‘Net position’ increased from $9.7 million in 2018 to $10.9 million in 2019. Net patient service revenue increased by almost $1.4 million year over year “due primarily to expansion of services and charge capture…”
EDITORIAL: How to Get Fired From a Volunteer Job, Part Eleven
I do not expect to be beheaded at the meeting. Shamed, perhaps? Painted as “unethical” and “continuously seeking to sway opinions”?
EDITORIAL: How to Get Fired From a Volunteer Job, Part Ten
I assume the five Council members who voted to appoint me already knew who I was. I assume they already knew, from my 16 years of editorials in the Daily Post, that I was not afraid to ask questions…