Category: Opinion/Letters

PAWSD and SJWCD expected water demand to grow as fast as the Archuleta County population. Which seemed like common sense…

Pressure is growing in the American West to view water as a commodity… something to sell… rather than as the glue that holds together a traditional agriculture-based society…

Not just an ordinary bus stop.  This will be a “Park & Ride” facility, where you can park your pickup truck and catch a bus ride into the bustling metropolis of Pagosa Springs, ten miles away.

Unfortunately, in the battles over scarce water, both native and agricultural plants are increasingly seen as competitors because of the fact that they consume water…

All of these crops are grown in the Lower Basin states by the corporations that are currently demanding $1.2 billion in federal funding as a ransom payment…

“By this wonderful provision, which is only man’s mastery over nature, the clouds are dispensing copious rains… [the plow] is the instrument which separates civilization from savagery…”

“There’s only 20,000 tons [of rock waiting to be crushed]. It’s not that much…”

It seems the majority of the current Court Justices believe it’s time Orwellian big-government bureaucracy is brought to heel…

Ron gave us his business card and said if we were ever in Colorado to look him up and visit Pagosa Springs…

At its peak, the XIT Ranch was home to around 150,000 head of cattle, with 1,500 miles of fencing…

If that is what Congress intended, then that Act is (in effect) corporate welfare on a massive scale…

This editorial series will provide a few thoughts about a meeting of the San Juan Water Conservancy board meeting on June 17…

Hopefully, the failed Vulnerable Road User Protection Enterprise was only one iteration of a policy to disincentivize light trucks…