Category: Opinion/Letters

“Uses by Zoning District in the County Regulations does not allow asphalt or concrete batch plants in Agricultural Ranching (AR) zoning district….”

Those old downtown buildings… I’d just stand there, gazing at them, totally transfixed. They were so svelte…

Since the Town and County governments began seriously looking at our housing crisis, in 2016, we have added fewer than 50 affordable workforce housing units…

Those who claim they have lived here with the ‘old mine’ in harmony for three or four decades are right, because the old mine was not a destructive mining operation…

Pagosa Springs businessman and developer Bob Hart explained his Courthouse proposal to the Board of County Commissioners on February 1, 2022…

A common criticism of President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda has been from the perspective of limiting the size of government. The best response I’ve seen to this position is from Brink Lindsey…

“The Thingamajig Theater Company, in residence at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts, has sunk its foundations deeper into the community…”

The City of Industry, near Los Angeles, has shopping malls, and fast food franchises, and a golf course, and hotels… and many of the things you might imagine a real city having…

I have a suggestion for President Biden, if he is so anxious to go to war…

Years ago, Colin Kaepernick, who threaded the needle at times, when he was quarterbacking the San Francisco 49ers, took a knee during the National Anthem…

It appeared that perhaps one or more apartment units have already been vacated by the current tenants, because I found a large (and rather sad) collection of furniture and household goods sitting in a pile…

This romantic vision of the American West — wide open spaces, big sky, freedom to roam — must certainly have been embraced by the ranchers and businessmen who arrived in Pagosa Springs during the last quarter of the 19th century…

Now is the time to be Community Strong, to be Constitutionally and Ethically Strong, and I will strive towards these goals as District 3 Archuleta County Commissioner…

“We also really want to applaud the decision to get a separate environmental assessment. That’s something that I think is absolutely critical to what we all want to achieve here, and I’m very happy to see that’s happening…”

Even in social media, focusing on business, and on business people, and people seeking to have some role in business, there’s groupthink…

Among the interested members of the public were the associates of the local Audubon Society, who had been — for many years — enjoying the abundant wildlife making use of the warm-water wetlands…

Will new natural gas plants end up being like many coal plants, assets stranded long before the debt is paid?