“So we have what are referred to as the trustafarians, which is a tribe of people who live off their trust funds…”
Category: Opinion/Letters
HMPRESENTLY: Shrugging It Off
There was the gallows, with a noose, out front at the nation’s capital building, set up, allegedly, by January 6, 2021 protesters…
EDITORIAL: Archuleta County Proposes BOCC Redistricting Map
“In no event shall there be more than five percent deviation between the most populous and the least populous district in each county…”
HMPRESENTLY: What Makes the World Go Around?
How sad, we were thinking, that someone might feel threatened, because of a design on some cookies…
EDITORIAL: Property Value Trend Lines
Computer intelligence has developed to a point where we no longer think to question it…
EDITORIAL: Citizen Petition Cites Poor Road Maintenance on Cat Creek Road, Part Two
All of the testimony painted a picture of a poorly-maintained county road…
EDITORIAL: Opportunities to Work Together, on Problems… Part Four
PAWSD is moving ahead with engineering and planning for a (potentially $15 million?) upgrade to the Vista Treatment Plant…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: My Problem with Current Public Education
“Thank you for the question!” I obviously don’t “hate” education or teachers… since (as you so astutely point out)… I am both educated, and a teacher…
OPINION: Colorado Limits Residential Use of ‘Neonics’ Pesticides
Bees are being decimated in Colorado, but a new law will help…
EDITORIAL: Opportunities to Work Together, on Problems… Part Three
In the spring of 2011, it appeared that the Town had the financing in hand to build a new treatment facility…. because Jim Isgar had pulled some political strings…
LETTER: I Will Not Concede the Fraudulent Sheriff’s Election
This scenario occurred all across our nation, as the globalists successfully accomplished a coup d’état of our constitutional republic…
EDITORIAL: Opportunities to Work Together, on Problems… Part Two
Pagosa wastewater customers will pay for those upgrades, unless the federal government or state government decides to help out…
EDITORIAL: To Protest or Not to Protest…That is the Question
How does a duplex get valued at half the price of a single-family home? Could this have something to do with a flood of wealthy vacation rental investors snapping up single-family homes?…
HMPRESENTLY: What’s the Differences?
When I was in school, I recall kids with differences being the victims of abuse, because of how they looked, or acted…
EDITORIAL: Opportunities to Work Together, on Problems… Part One
Cost of the pipeline would be maybe $4.5 million. Or so we were told…
EDITORIAL: A Few More Thoughts About Protesting Property Valuations, Part One
For example, I learned that the Assessor offers a helpful link in the left-hand column of her web page, called “2023 Reappraisal Comparable Sales”…
EDITORIAL: Schools of Choice, and the Cost Thereof, Part Five
It would be interesting to know how ASD is evaluating the possible benefits — and possible harms — from having police in the school buildings…
OPINION: Your Taxes, Funding Lobbyists in Denver
Leading the opposition to SB 213 was neither a gutsy grassroots crusade, nor a billionaire political player…
HMPRESENTLY: Ellipsis Journalism
“We try to go with someone who is familiar,” noted the official…