Bolsonaro’s well-deserved defeat could help save the Amazon rainforest, which has been ravaged under his criminal rule…
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Financial Blessings Bestowed Upon the Archuleta Senior Center, Part Three
I borrowed the photo, showing an elderly couple celebrating the creation of a salad in their kitchen, from the Archuleta Seniors Inc. website…
EDITORIAL: Vote Like Your Future Depends on It… and Mine
The amount of influence we have — that you and I have — to determine how our governing boards spend our tax money, is rather limited…
EDITORIAL: Financial Blessings Bestowed Upon the Archuleta Senior Center, Part Two
The request, to the Council, had essentially two parts…
HMPRESENTLY: Sibling Cats?
When we got her from the pound, she had some respiratory issues, and we were told they didn’t put her down because there was just something about her…
EDITORIAL: Financial Blessings Bestowed Upon the Archuleta Senior Center, Part One
“So that we don’t get lost in the weeds, I want to be upfront with you today about our request…”
EDITORIAL: Werewolves of Pagosa, Part Two
Now, 29 years later, Ursala was experiencing Mesa Heights with her own children, ages 8 and 12…
EDITORIAL: Werewolves of Pagosa, Part One
Mesa Heights was already the prime trick-or-treating territory when we moved to Pagosa Springs in 1993…
EDITORIAL: Considering Proposition 122, Part Three
According to DrugPolicy.org, we have considerable evidence that ‘magic mushrooms’ have medical applications, especially in the realm of mental health…
HMPRESENTLY: Under Suspicion
The hippie-looking guy, apparently playing around with the airport official, was bringing laughter to the folks around me…
LETTER: Example of a Proper TABOR Notice
A failed election in Durango will cost the city $1 million in revenues, but she followed the law down to the letter and gained trust of the citizens in the community…
EDITORIAL: Considering Proposition 122, Part Two
“Psilocybin is considered to have extremely low toxicity, and cases of death have been extremely rare….”
OPINION: Get a Lawyer If You Want Real Answers About Ballot Issue 1A
It is incumbent upon Attorney Weaver to tell people the specific case that he is referencing, that states that this resolution cannot be amended…
HMPRESENTLY: Abortions, Too… on the County Commissioners’ Plates?
Dr. Mehmet Oz has said that “women, doctors and local political leaders should decide whether a woman can obtain an abortion…”
OPINION: Loving Nature, or Profiting from It… Take Your Pick
The potential has arisen, according to this prophecy, “for the Eagle and the Condor to come together, to fly in the same sky…”
EDITORIAL: Considering Proposition 122, Part One
This measure allows individuals aged 21 and older to use five specific types of natural psychedelic substances…
LETTER: Ballot Issue 1A Demonstrates County Insensitivity
In the last reported 4 years, without 1A funds, the county government has seen a $800,000 yearly increase in sales tax revenue…
EDITORIAL: The Bitter and the Suites, Part Three
A 100% increase in the cost of a typical single-family home in Pagosa Lakes, between 2014 and 2021, has been pretty devastating to working families here…
EDITORIAL: The Bitter and the Suites, Part Two
A sizable construction crew was working hard in the cool October air, putting a new roof on the 98-unit apartment building…