The conditions stipulated by the ASD School Board included a requirement that the Pagosa Peak Open School board of directors raise an additional $175,000 in grants and donations during their first year in operation…
Category: Opinion/Letters
HMPRESENTLY: Getting Pelted and Belted by… Beliefs?
When religions imbue people with goodness, hope and love, that’s something to be thankful for…
EDITORIAL: Becoming an Authentic Community, Part Six
Read Part One First and foremost, community is not a place, a building, or an organization… Community is both a feeling and a set of READ MORE
EDITORIAL: Becoming an Authentic Community, Part Five
In the photo above, we see people walking through Main Street USA… basically a completely fake version of a quintessential American small town, circa 1910. In the distance we see the iconic Castle…
HMPRESENTLY: Rebranding Places… and Other Unusual Goings-On
Now, before you start thinking what’s so bad about snuggling up with a pet, here’s the thing… The energy crisis is pretty serious and difficult for the company’s customers…
EDITORIAL: Becoming an Authentic Community, Part Four
Of the fourteen ideas listed, more than half — eight of them, to be exact — referenced “walking” or “recreation….”
EDITORIAL: Becoming an Authentic Community, Part Three
“Which makes me wonder, why even have the ordinance? If we can spend zero percent. It seems like an unnecessary ordinance if we have the option to spend zero percent…”
HMPRESENTLY: Psyops, of Sorts?
It might have been psyops, but, all those years ago, who could have known, for sure? ‘Psyops’ wasn’t, exactly, a household word. But, in the READ MORE
EDITORIAL: Becoming an Authentic Community, Part Two
Instead of biting the tourism bullet, and aggressively addressing our housing crisis, the Council set the stage for continuing division and discord…
EDITORIAL: Some Encouraging Signs on the COVID Front
A few days ago, NPR ran a story about two Texas-based virus researchers who have developed a very low-cost vaccine that’s now being administered in India…
LETTER: The Wrong Expenditure of Federal Money
I was sad to learn the Biden administration plans to spend $1 billion to increase the nation’s slaughter capacity…
EDITORIAL: Becoming an Authentic Community, Part One
Back in those bygone days, certain kings seemed focused on fighting wars, crucifying criminals, and keeping the treasury well-stocked with gold and jewels…
HMPRESENTLY: The Will of the People
Those thousands of complaints got me thinking, about the will of a considerable number of people…
EDITORIAL: The Myth of the ‘Thin Blue Line’, Part Three
“Well, here it is, in black and white. I am not ashamed of letting the world see the truth…”
BIG PIVOTS: The Marshall Fire, Climate Change, and Colorado’s Legislative Agenda
“At no time during these fires did it occur to us that we might be in personal danger. That perception has now changed forever…”
EDITORIAL: The Myth of the ‘Thin Blue Line’, Part Two
“My case took over a freaking year to settle. I did learn that if you are injured on the job and are on Workers Compensation, there is an ‘injury cap’….”
HMPRESENTLY: In Possibly Perilous Moments… Burning the Midnight Oil
“…From his first days as a 16-year-old recruit at the newly seized Guantanamo Bay, he blazed a path for empire: helping annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal…”
EDITORIAL: The Myth of the ‘Thin Blue Line’, Part One
“Even though my life and career, or lack thereof, has changed, I will always be a police officer at heart, even if my injuries prevent me from serving…”
OPINION: A Year of Living with Intention
Those lavish efforts were essentially a joint project between the titans of industry (let’s just call them “corporations”) and those who had the ability to change public policy (let’s simplify and call them “government”)…