Right now, some of the safest roads are in our local metro districts. But a County sales tax increased won’t help the metro districts that maintain their own roads…
Category: Opinion/Letters
HMPRESENTLY: Chlorophyll Deprivation
Hopefully, someday, the rain and chlorophyll will return, and enrich our lawns and foliage, once again…
BIG PIVOTS: A Hydrogen Economy?
The US Technology Hub is to develop green hydrogen and other innovations and technologies, with a focus on decarbonizing hard-to-abate industries…
EDITORIAL: Extraordinary Changes, Part Four
Professional campaign manager Beth Lamberson was sharing images, via Zoom, related to Ballot Measure 1A, which the BOCC has placed on this November’s ballot…
EDITORIAL: Extraordinary Changes, Part Three
But Archuleta County decided, decades ago, that they wanted to be a suburban paradise, with lots of roads and infrastructure needs — but without the municipal revenues that typically support this level of development…
OPINION: A World Beyond War… or Else!
Militarism is a paradigm that needs to go into the dustbin of history alongside slavery, child labor, and treating women as chattel…
EDITORIAL: Extraordinary Changes, Part Two
We might see some more changes in the coming months, regarding the vacation rental industry…
OPINION: Facebook Fascism? Part Two
A definition of Facism is “A way of organizing a society in which a government controls the lives of the people – and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government…”
OPINION: Where Will Housing Prices Be, a Year from Now?
Interest rates near zero is like removing gravity from the financial markets. Do it briefly and it feels kind of fun, but do it for a decade and a half and things start to grow and morph in strange ways…
EDITORIAL: Extraordinary Changes, Part One
At the same time, many people assumed the expanding STR market was having a positive effect on our tourism industry… but again, no one could say for certain how big the effect might be…
OPINION: Facebook Fascism? Part One
This clinical evidence that COVID vaccines contain compounds that have been shown to cause blood clots is significant…
OPINION: The Need for Healthcare Reform
Patients are typically unable to get an accurate price for what they will pay after visiting a primary-care doctor or undergoing a medical procedure…
EDITORIAL: ‘Main Street’ as a Government Planning Project, Part Six
Fast forward to 2022, and maybe 90% of our economic activity now takes place west of the old elementary school…
OPINION: You Belong to Me
Sylvia McGauley, a teacher in an impoverished school district outside Portland, Oregon, described her school as the “perfect prey for military recruiters…”
EDITORIAL: ‘Main Street’ as a Government Planning Project, Part Five
Here’s a map showing the Town of Pagosa Springs, overlaid with a white color…
EDITORIAL: ‘Main Street’ as a Government Planning Project, Part Four
“We know that a lot of people are not aware of what is about to happen, and what sorts of support they are going to need…”
BIG PIVOTS: What Boebert and Frisch Did Not Say During the Club 20 Debate
I heard fear, grievance and anger — and not just a few clichés. Where was there talk about opportunities in this energy transition?
EDITORIAL: ‘Main Street’ as a Government Planning Project, Part Three
The photo shows members of the new ‘Main Street Advisory Board’ using adhesive dots to indicate the work they’d most like to see their board engage in, going forward…
LETTER: An Obituary for Cordova
Cordova was a working horse, ridden by Range Specialist John Garcia for 15 years throughout the San Juans…