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Category: Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: 22 Ways to Care About Water, Part Three

Posted on November 30, 2022December 1, 2022 by Bill Hudson

We’ve noted that “Public supply” — municipal water systems — accounts for about 1% [“one percent”] of water use in the Upper Colorado River Basin…

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OPINION: CDOT Leads the Way in Not Building Highways

Posted on November 29, 2022November 29, 2022 by Post Contributor

Departments of transportation have notoriously turned toward expanding highways to solve traffic congestion…

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EDITORIAL: 22 Ways to Care About Water, Part Two

EDITORIAL: 22 Ways to Care About Water, Part Two

Posted on November 29, 2022November 30, 2022 by Bill Hudson

While the region’s growth has decreased somewhat over the decades, it was still over 20 percent from 2000 to 2010…

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HMPRESENTLY: Editing The Lord’s Prayer

Posted on November 29, 2022November 29, 2022 by Harvey Radin

It’s the word ‘power,’ I suppose, that seems strange. Is it really necessary? And appropriate?

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EDITORIAL: 22 Ways to Care About Water, Part One

Posted on November 28, 2022November 29, 2022 by Bill Hudson

But this claim, that you can “save” 15-30 gallons per laundry load has almost no relationship on the actual problem…

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HMPRESENTLY: Don’t Break out the Bubbly, Quite Yet

Posted on November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 by Harvey Radin

There’s been a lot of news, lately, about the sudden spate of layoffs at high-tech companies…

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BIG PIVOTS: Is Tri-State Changing Fast Enough to Survive?

Posted on November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 by Allen Best

Tri-State delivers power to 42 electrical cooperatives in four states, including 17 in Colorado…

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EDITORIAL:  The Once and Future Public Health Department, Part Four

EDITORIAL: The Once and Future Public Health Department, Part Four

Posted on November 25, 2022November 25, 2022 by Bill Hudson

When the SJBPH district was formed in 1947, the population of Archuleta County consisted of about 3,000 rural residents…

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OPINION: The Likely Outcome from COP27

Posted on November 25, 2022November 25, 2022 by Post Contributor

But all signs now point toward a scenario in which the world will overshoot the 1.5 C limit, likely by a large amount…

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EDITORIAL:  The Once and Future Public Health Department, Part Three

EDITORIAL: The Once and Future Public Health Department, Part Three

Posted on November 24, 2022November 25, 2022 by Bill Hudson

“We can have some very serious debates and disagreements about public health issues, but we can’t as the La Plata Board of County Commissioners let this go on much longer…”

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EDITORIAL: The Once and Future Public Health Department, Part Two

Posted on November 23, 2022November 24, 2022 by Bill Hudson

“While in all honesty, the disagreements between the two counties were certainly exacerbated by the pandemic, these problems date back… many years…”

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EDITORIAL:  The Once and Future Public Health Department, Part One

EDITORIAL: The Once and Future Public Health Department, Part One

Posted on November 22, 2022November 24, 2022 by Bill Hudson

The Archuleta BOCC and the La Plata BOCC each voted on November 15 to approve an orderly dissolution of the San Juan Basin Public Health district…

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OPINION: Is Servitas The Baddie?

Posted on November 22, 2022January 30, 2024 by Glenn Walsh

At UC Boulder the rent for half of a 250-square-foot studio, after subtracting the meal plan, is $1400 per month, or $2800 per studio…

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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Danger Inherent in Police ‘Theories’

Posted on November 22, 2022November 22, 2022 by Gary Beatty

If you want to know what the evidence actually is, you have to hear it from the prosecutors…

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EDITORIAL: Concerns About the Town's Workforce Housing Plans, Part Six

EDITORIAL: Concerns About the Town’s Workforce Housing Plans, Part Six

Posted on November 21, 2022October 3, 2024 by Bill Hudson

We were probably justified in laughing out loud, except it was not actually funny…

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LETTER: Servitas Out of Touch with Pagosa Springs Housing Needs

Posted on November 21, 2022October 3, 2024 by Post Contributor

Why is Town Staff trying to “Boil the Ocean”, and hire the same architects who were hired to design Bootjack Ranch, and the Village at Wolf Creek?

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HMPRESENTLY: Little Nuggets, Sometimes…

Posted on November 21, 2022November 21, 2022 by Harvey Radin

Business firms, on the other hand, often seem to eschew little nuggets in their communication, which sometimes is necessary, for legal or other reasons…

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EDITORIAL: Concerns About the Town's Workforce Housing Plans, Part Five

EDITORIAL: Concerns About the Town’s Workforce Housing Plans, Part Five

Posted on November 18, 2022November 21, 2022 by Bill Hudson

On Mr. Clark’s recommendation, the Town Council directed Mr. Scharton to bring back a new pro forma, showing a cash flow model based on 5% and 7% vacancy rates…

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EDITORIAL: Concerns About the Town's Workforce Housing Plans, Part Four

EDITORIAL: Concerns About the Town’s Workforce Housing Plans, Part Four

Posted on November 17, 2022November 18, 2022 by Bill Hudson

“Due to change in scope and focus on sites, the Town has paid $458k in pre­-development fees and costs…”

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