As stated in the Planning Commission packet, “Riverwalk Townhomes will have a positive effect on the economy as it provides more housing opportunities to the Town…”
Category: Opinion/Letters
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Natural Law
Under natural law, we each have the right to life, and to defend ourselves accordingly…
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Two
That package includes about $128 billion for K-12 education… along with other provisions that will also affect school spending…
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part One
Instead of flying somewhere in a plane, for a vacation — wearing a face mask in a crowded airplane cabin, breathing recycled air — families and individuals were looking for exotic places they could drive to — in their own SUV…
HMPRESENTLY: Selling a Bill of Goods?
Let’s see if we understand Don Jr’s jabs at the current President of the United States…
EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Ten
Where childhood poverty is concerned — and childhood malnutrition — public schools have been instrumental, since the 1960s, in providing at least one daily meal for school-age children…
EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Nine
Our government planning documents, written over the past couple of decades, tend to define “character and atmosphere” in terms of overall architectural design…
EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Eight
Between 2008 and 2018, our construction industry produced 838 new single-family homes outside of the Town limits…
OPINION: The US Government, and the General Welfare
By contrast, the Constitution of the United States declares clearly, in its Preamble, that a key purpose of the U.S. government is to “promote the general welfare…”
EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Seven
Five years ago, a gentleman named Eddy Dunn — a recent transplant from Portland, OR — was beginning work on a cozy duplex on South 6th Street. Here’s that duplex, in a photo I took last weekend…
EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Six
I cannot recall any past BOCC complaining about the existence of the 1.9-million-acre San Juan National Forest, or the 500,000-acre Weminuche Wilderness…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Human Misconduct is Ubiquitous
This is not to excuse what happened to American Indians after the arrival of white Europeans. It only illustrates similar things had been going on amongst the Indians themselves long before that arrival…
EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Five
But the BOCC did weigh in, last month, on the subject of access to federal lands, by sending a letter to “For Whom It May Concern”…
OPINION: The Return of Jim Crow
This puts voter suppression into the deep context of American racism. The wound is still wide open…
EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Four
She discusses the curious situation where company or organization is heading for a massive failure, and everyone can see it coming, but management continues to act as if everything is hunky dory…
EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Three
Should we have “debt” included in our conceptual map? Easier said than done. We can’t easily create a map of consumer debt, or even business debt, in Archuleta County in 2021…
OPINION: A Frame of Reference for Health Care Reform
When evaluating these and other proposals for healthcare reform, it is important to remember that there are not likely to be any “perfect” solutions…
EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Two
Apparently, during the summer of 2016, US real estate agents were listing close to 1.5 million homes available for purchase…