Category: Opinion/Letters

When the Saudi’s made their deal with Russia, they ended the exclusive use of U.S. petro-dollars as the means of buying oil…

Developers sometimes use phrases like “middle income” and “missing middle” to disguise the fact that they are actually serving higher income households…

By 1927, the planned U.S. inflation was accomplishing its goal of helping England. Two years later that inflation resulted in the 1929 stock market crash…

The sales pitch seems to be, “If the County becomes our anchor tenant, then we promise to build some workforce housing on the parcel next door…”

We sometimes envision private, for-profit businesses keeping the American economy going.  In fact, here in Pagosa Springs, most of the best paid employees are working for local governments…

Democrats at the Colorado Legislature are increasingly hostile to open government, and they have learned that they will pay little price for drawing a curtain around their work…

“Colorado House Bill 24-1300 proposed to create a mandatory wildfire certification program. From my cheap seats, I see this as similar to the septic transfer process…”

Prices are artificially high due primarily to the downstream effects of financialization. Localized supply and demand dynamics are a mess…

Over the past couple of decades, forestry professionals have adopted the perspective that periodic wildfire is an essential feature of healthy forests…

“Well, I will say, although we don’t have a plan fully developed, I was talking to an East End business owner today…”

How to best use the money we have? That’s something we’ll never agree on, even among the town residents who serve on the Pagosa Springs Town Council…

As I’ve written before, the United States Supreme Court long ago held “that speakers are protected against all government agencies and officials”…