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Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Amendment B Makes the Headlines
“If the Gallagher Amendment is not repealed, owners of high-end homes in Denver’s wealthiest neighborhoods would get a tax cut next year, while small businesses and farmers would pay a larger share of property taxes…”
LETTER: Suckers and Losers
“Well, I (Griffin) circled back with my source this morning and he firmly said this was not a one-off…”
EDITORIAL: Your Thoughts About Water? Part Six
“Nearing or at the end of their service life.” That’s an interesting comment, considering that many of the water pipelines in Archuleta County date back to the 1970s… almost fifty years ago…
HMPRESENTLY: Was POTUS Feeling a Little Chummy?
I’ve been interviewed by journalists. Sometimes, I suppose, you might start thinking there’s good chemistry going on. You’re feeling good rapport…
EDITORIAL: Health, and Safety, in Pagosa Springs… Part Three
I stopped by the Pagosa Peak Open School on Tuesday morning, to snap a few pictures of the “First Day of School During a Pandemic”. Most people were wearing masks, and they waited, socially distanced, to check in…
EDITORIAL: Your Thoughts About Water? Part Five
We currently have one massive reservoir in Archuleta County — Navajo Lake, the fifth largest reservoir in the Colorado River Basin system, built in 1962. But the lake sits on the far southwestern corner of the county…
HMPRESENTLY: What’s It Called? A Rock and a Hard Place?
Seeing this Boston Herald headline — “Biopharma CEOs sign pledge committing to safety and science in hunt for COVID-19 vaccine” – I realized that fear may still be working…
EDITORIAL: Your Thoughts About Water? Part Four
Lately, some folks have been pointing to the University of Nebraska “Drought Monitor” maps, and reminding us that ‘climate change’ is very real and the American West is destined to become drier…
OPINION: A Return to Decency
Many of us think there is much wrong with our government. Things need to change. But the change has to be more than shaking up and tearing down…
EDITORIAL: Your Thoughts About Water? Part Three
“…A group of farmers sat around a patio shaking their heads, frowning, frustration etched on their faces — down by 150,000 acre-feet of water below their aquifer-pumping target…”
LETTER: Lauren Boebert vs The Constitution
Never one to shy away from publicity, our GOP District 3 Sarah Palin wanna-be candidate for Congress has been busy. She wants us to believe that dark forces of the “deep state” are at work to destroy America…
EDITORIAL: Your Thoughts About Water? Part Two
To get back to the Strategic Plan, I will note that this particular 40-page draft was written primarily by the six Board members who were serving during the past two years…
EDITORIAL: Health, and Safety, in Pagosa Springs… Part Two
The report provided to the Town Council on Tuesday noted the issue of ‘visual clutter’. This challenge — the avoidance of ‘visual clutter’ — has more than one problematic aspect…
EDITORIAL: Health, and Safety, in Pagosa Springs… Part One
Apparently, parents no longer feel safe allowing younger children to walk home from school. Even grandparents feel insecure making the trip on foot, it would seem…
EDITORIAL: Your Thoughts About Water? Part One
Water reservoirs are not cheap, and when they are located at some distance from where people are living, the infrastructure needed to deliver the water from the reservoir is also expensive to build, and maintain…
HMPRESENTLY: Troubling, Breaking News, and Two Veterans’ Meaningful Words
My unit was not called up to serve in Vietnam or the Middle East. After basic training and advanced individual training, that lasted six months, I spent the remainder of my six-year commitment in the US…
OPINION: The Radiation Scandal Revealed
An activist anti-nuclear population views all radiation as problematic, whether that view is rational, irrational or actually harmful to people’s health and welfare…