Centuries of legal experts confirm our Founding Fathers intention: to keep The People’s government free from the control of any church…
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: ‘Main Street’ as a Government Planning Project, Part Two
We might conclude, from this quick, casual survey, that downtown Pagosa Springs is fairly thriving, economically, compared to many struggling downtown districts in the US…
HMPRESENTLY: ‘Bulbus Stercum’
It will be a higher sales tax than you’re currently paying, and you’ll be paying it, not just for a while, but in perpetuity, perhaps…
EDITORIAL: ‘Main Street’ as a Government Planning Project, Part One
Theoretically, the program is focused on ‘historical preservation’… basically, taking the existing assets of your downtown and improving them somehow, without significantly changing the district’s overall architectural character…
EDITORIAL: The Fog of Tax Increases, Part Eleven
If our two primary local governments have particular projects they would like to start, or complete, the most sensible way to approach the voters would be to show us the plan…
HMPRESENTLY: Forgive Us Our Trespasses
I’ve not been all that religious, but at a school I once attended, we recited The Lord’s Prayer, most mornings…
LETTER: Shelli Shaw Could Prevent a Civil War?
She claimed the conservative voice will not go away. It hasn’t…
EDITORIAL: The Fog of Tax Increases, Part Ten
So… where did the additional $700,000 per year from 1A … that was supposed to be spent on roads… actually go?
LETTER: Whoops… Rights Violations… Again
It’s interesting to see that Halloween signage has less regulation than a political sign under County Land Use Regulations…
EDITORIAL: The Fog of Tax Increases, Part Nine
We can probably understand why four of the seven council members, serving on the Pagosa Springs Town Council, voted to support a $6.5 million sales tax increase ballot measure…
EDITORIAL: The Fog of Tax Increases, Part Eight
One of the selling points for the proposed $6.5 million County sales tax increase that will appear on the November ballot, is that ‘tourists’ will pay a large portion of the sales tax…
HMPRESENTLY: A Reporter, in a Way
I keep wondering if your town and county officials have been reaching out enough, to fully understand peoples’ concerns and desires…
EDITORIAL: The Fog of Tax Increases, Part Seven
The film’s subtitle is “Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara.” Lesson #1 was to empathize with your enemy…
EDITORIAL: The Fog of Tax Increases, Part Six
If they actually end up conducting a tax increase campaign, will the government-funded PSCDC make an effort to share both sides of the issue?
LETTER: Too Little, Too Late
Now, Commissioner Brown has had an epiphany? Now, he realizes that Archuleta County does not have the financial or professional capacity to run a health district?
LETTER: We Can Do Better
We could remain constitutionally compliant meanwhile declaring mandates and rules as suggestions rather than freedom-destroying law directives…
EDITORIAL: The Fog of Tax Increases, Part Five
During yesterday’s BOCC discussion of Resolution 2022-98, Commissioner Ronnie Maez made some interesting comments about “principles”…
EDITORIAL: ‘Pagosa Views’ Jumps Through Another Hoop
This is the second hoop that the developers have successfully jumped through at Town Hall, the first being a preliminary sketch plan approval, by Town Council, last month…
LETTER: Shelli Shaw Predicting Civil War?
Davis reported, “Shaw published a since-deleted post about the Capitol insurrection, in which she expressed her belief that ‘Antifa, BLM activists, and anarchists’ were behind the deadly riot…”