Nine military bases in Colorado were affected by PFAS from the aqueous film-forming foam AFFF…
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Exploring Pagosa’s East End Multimodal Plan, Part Three
We also mentioned, previously, the fact that motor vehicles making left turns are among the most dangerous hazards in modern life…
HMPRESENTLY: Comparing Crises
Telling your county commissioners, or town officials, they’ve got to own up to problems, might be a cakewalk by comparison…
EDITORIAL: Exploring Pagosa’s East End Multimodal Plan, Part Two
Over the past 30 years, the Town of Pagosa Springs has invested millions of dollars into making the historical downtown more pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly…
OPINION: Conflicting Interpretations of Root Policy Study
I find the Comments posted to each YouTube video helpful to understanding local public sentiment…
OPINION: An Unfortunate Rush to Lease Public Land
Rather than rushing to lease over 100,000 acres of public land, the BLM should focus on permanently implementing reforms to the oil and gas leasing system…
EDITORIAL: Exploring Pagosa’s East End Multimodal Plan, Part One
In Coleridge’s poem, a sailor kills a harmless albatross — a bird considered lucky in maritime folklore…
EDITORIAL: Mr. Beatty’s Complaint
It seems that the ABA has concerns about the diversity of its profession…
HMPRESENTLY: Whatever it Was… Was Really Something
Well… long story short, all of us in our household came down with something, but we tested negative for COVID…
EDITORIAL: An Oversized Building? Part Four
Take ‘smaller scale buildings’, as one example. Three words, written in a certain pattern, and open to interpretation…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Idiocy of Diversity
I took the LSAT test on a bet, without a preparation course, and with a hangover…
HMPRESENTLY: The Problem With Messaging
…And then you’re maybe missing something, and some deal is finalized, when you perhaps aren’t entirely sure what the deal is really all about…
EDITORIAL: An Oversized Building? Part Three
To some of us, the drawings approved by the Design Review Board lacked the kind of ‘residential’ character found in the East Village…
OPINION: Reducing Our Impacts on Colorado Water
Water Education Colorado has a trusted 20-year history as the state’s leading organization for informing and engaging Coloradans on water…
EDITORIAL: An Oversized Building? Part Two
The Town Planning Commission looked at the 232 Pagosa Street proposal last July and determined that the design failed to meet the intent of various Town regulations…
EDITORIAL: Are STRs Bad for Pagosa?
We’ve often heard the warning, “Don’t do math in public.” More importantly, don’t do math in public — or in a YouTube video — without understanding what the numbers actually mean…
EDITORIAL: An Oversized Building? Part One
“Each era of construction and building style was built for a community at a certain point in time. Every building has a useful life…”
HMPRESENTLY: PR-101 and the Archuleta County BOCC
So, a business might come up with some wishy-washy PR lingo, like “We’re aware of the problem, and we’re taking immediate steps to address it…”
OPINION: ‘Save The Colorado’ Promotes Nature-Based Solutions, Climate Action for Colorado River Crisis
Comments to the Bureau of Reclamation for the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement include Decommissioning Glen Canyon Dam…