Even the Town Planning Commission knew nothing about the Mountain Crossing plan until Tuesday night, assuming they were listening as the Council approved a $3 million grant application to support the project…
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: County Commissioners Delay Decision on Potential Courthouse Sale, Part Two
Commissioner Maez responded. “The financial advisor also needs to focus on the County, as far as us building a new building…”
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Preserving American Values?
Besides, it doesn’t look like the Ukrainians need our troops. So far they are doing pretty well without our boots being on the ground…
EDITORIAL: Town Council Discusses Significant Property Purchase East of Downtown, Part Three
“What we are proposing is the 35-acre parcel as kind of a ‘palette’ that we can kind of control, for workforce housing development in the future…”
EDITORIAL: Strange Bedfellows in the Next Era of Water, Part Six
About 40% of our water district’s treated water was apparently leaking out of our community’s 40-year-old water pipelines, never to be seen again…
EDITORIAL: Town Council Discusses Significant Property Purchase East of Downtown, Part Two
How exactly the solutions proposed by the Town of Pagosa Springs qualify as “innovative”, we have no idea, because, as noted above, the public knows almost nothing about this proposed project…
EDITORIAL: Strange Bedfellows in the Next Era of Water, Part Five
But all is not lost. PAWSD still owns a 660-acre ranch which was recently appraised at $4.6 million…
EDITORIAL: Strange Bedfellows in the Next Era of Water, Part Four
This image comes from a 90-second video produced by the World Economic Forum, portraying eight predicted changes to the world economy certain experts expect to see by the year 2030…
OPINION: We Don’t Want to Admit the Real Worker Shortage Problem
Meanwhile, inflation and housing prices have continued to escalate faster than wages, meaning those already overworked workers are doing more, falling farther behind…
LETTER: More Dangerous Than a Nuclear Bomb?
Are these the lessons taught by our parents, or the ones we “figure out as kids” when hiding under our desk?
EDITORIAL: Strange Bedfellows in the Next Era of Water, Part Three
Perhaps Carbondale-based PR firm, Project Resource Studio, will provide the community with an answer to that question…
HMPRESENTLY: Repetitive Ads… Along With Breaking News
And there’s an ad about a product that, apparently, can sharpen a mature individual’s mind. And, sure enough, mature folks do seem to be as sharp as tacks, in the ad…
EDITORIAL: Strange Bedfellows in the Next Era of Water, Part Two
We pretty much stopped building new homes following the financial meltdown, between 2008-2012… and then began building them again in recent years…
LETTER: In Support of Ballot Question A
It’s time that these second home owners, who have been paying a mere 7.15% yearly property tax rate, contribute something in line with all other commercial property owners…
EDITORIAL: Real Estate Sale Stops the Proposed Gravel Pit? Part Three
The email does not clearly identify “The Gravel People”, but we might assume Mr. Lemon is referring to the Urbanczyk family, who purchased the Dutton Ranch in 2021…
OPINION: Why We Need to Embrace Traffic Congestion
We have spent trillions making it easy to drive everywhere, so much so that we made it difficult to walk anywhere…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Crazy Mass Paranoia
Those of us in elementary school in the 1950s remember “duck and cover”. We were told that in the event of nuclear attack we should crawl under our desks, with our arms over our faces…
HMPRESENTLY: Stopping Those Rocks, and Such… Takes a Lot of Grit
It does take a lot to be heard, and to alter the course of things…
EDITORIAL: County Clarifies the Gravel Pit Rules and Public Hearing Protocols, Part Two
According to a search on the County Assessor’s website, all of the (rather large) properties immediately adjacent to the Oakbrush Hill site are zoned ‘Agricultural Ranching’… except for one property zoned “Agricultural Estate”…