Historically, political debate degenerates into sound-bytes. It happens on both sides…
Category: Opinion/Letters
LETTER: Camels, Straws, STRs, and Residential Use Zoning
If, as in many other sunshine active states, the State of Colorado does experience a general slowdown in discretionary spending…
OPINION: Before the Bombs, the Platitudes
I mention this to put Biden’s words in perspective. Does “a brighter and more hopeful tomorrow” ignore the demands of most of the world?
EDITORIAL: Goals for 2023, Part Eight
Meanwhile, PAWSD has its own sewer treatment issues at the Vista Treatment Plant…
OPINION: Are Prescribed Burns the Silver Bullet?
Just days before, the Colorado State Forest Service had set fire to the dangerously overgrown forest near the Lower North Fork of the Platte River…
BIG PIVOTS: Less Water, More Food? Part Three
Healthy soil is full of organisms necessary for growing plants. Wiggling worms demonstrate fecund soil, but most networking occurs on the microscopic level…
HMPRESENTLY: Storms, and Advertising
That intense weather we’re experiencing isn’t preempting reality shows and game shows, and that’s probably a good thing…
EDITORIAL: Goals for 2023, Part Seven
At this week’s Town Council meeting, the Council members heard a presentation about a potential $20 million ‘workforce housing’ project…
BIG PIVOTS: Less Water, More Food? Part Two
Taking the long, big picture view, Colorado spent most of its first 100 to 150 years as a state developing its water resources…
OPINION: The Tragedy of Closed Borders
Lawmakers came close to a comprehensive immigration reform package in the final days of the last Congress, but the clock ran out in December…
EDITORIAL: Goals for 2023, Part Six
The Colorado Universal Preschool Program is expected save families an average of $4,300 per year on child care…
BIG PIVOTS: Less Water, More Food? Part One
Thirty days after sprouting, trays of green and red lettuce, kale, arugula, and mustard greens slide from the greenhouse to be shorn, weighed and sealed in plastic clamshell packages…
HMPRESENTLY: Screwing Up a Brand Image… Continued
The new Congress is about to be sworn in, with California’s very own GOP Congressman Kevin McCarthy breathlessly hoping he’ll be selected as the new Speaker of the House…
EDITORIAL: Goals for 2023, Part Five
Just to be clear, I am definitely not using the word ‘entitlement’ in a purely derogatory sense…
EDITORIAL: Goals for 2023, Part Four
Starting back in the 1960s, the Archuleta County commissioners began approving every subdivision development application that crossed their desks…
HMPRESENTLY: Mr. Deutsch Was Riveting
A few days before the first day of 2023, I heard Donny Deutsch, on MSNBC, talking about brand images…
EDITORIAL: Goals for 2023, Part Three
I’m not sure how Ms. House picked the responses she shared, but it might be meaningful that 30 of the 33 responses mentioned roads or highways…
EDITORIAL: Weird News Regarding the STR Fee Battle
According to the SUN article, Judge Wilson’s December 26 order listed five reasons for ruling the citizen-led amendment to be invalid…
EDITORIAL: Goals for 2023, Part Two
Back in July, the Pagosa Springs Town Council published eleven priority goals for ‘2022-2023’. The first three on the list…