“I don’t know if you’ve had much of a chance to read through the [report] at this point; it’s a long read, so I’ll just summarize why we wanted to get it in front of you guys…”
Category: Opinion/Letters
LETTER: Are We Embarrassed by Lauren Boebert Yet?
According to Colorado Newsline (September 29, 2021), she has failed Coloradans in a number of ways: Her role in the January 6 Capitol attack; has not passed a single bill; voted against cancer patients and military families…
EDITORIAL: Is Pagosa Going to Pot? Part One
Archuleta County is facing some huge social problems as we head into 2022. Some of the problems are already at a crisis level. Is marijuana cultivation one of those?
BIG PIVOTS: Colorado is Now Talking About Closing Its Last Coal Plant
If accepted by the PUC, this likely will be the first time that social cost of carbon has been applied to operation of any fossil fuel plant in the United States…
EDITORIAL: Considering the Growth of Archuleta County… and Its Governments, Part Four
Following the work session, the three commissioners sat down for a lunch of pizza and salad with four other elected County officials…
EDITORIAL: Considering the Growth of Archuleta County… and Its Governments, Part Three
The original budget predicted expenditures of $7.2 million, but the Great Recession had got off to an early start in Archuleta County, and the Town ended up spending only about $5.3 million in 2007…
OPINION: Wild Horses on the Virginia Range… Land of the Walking Dead?
All treated horses will soon vanish from the landscape over a 10-15-year period… slowly dying-off on the landscape beyond the public eye…
EDITORIAL: Considering the Growth of Archuleta County… and Its Governments, Part Two
How did the population growth patterns affect local government growth? Between, say, 2007 and 2020?…
OPINION: Colorado at the Center of Election Denialism?
With MyPillow money, activists are poised to go national with their efforts to dismantle democracy…
EDITORIAL: Considering the Growth of Archuleta County… and Its Governments, Part One
The BOCC didn’t like my idea. They really wanted to spend $20 million, or maybe $25 million, on something totally new. A state-of-the-art “justice center”…
EDITORIAL: Organismal Biology, and the Soil That Sustains Us, Part Four
Near the other end of the visual spectrum, we have forest fires. One of the larger natural phenomena know to us — especially if you include the clouds of smoke…
EDITORIAL: Organismal Biology, and the Soil That Sustains Us, Part Three
Fact is, fire is a time-tested part of forest ecology. Human beings are another time-tested part of the ecology…
OPINION: From the Office of Dodge, Wiggle, Hack, Shrug & DeCamp, LLC
As part of my catching up with old friends, I reached out to some folks in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to see how their latest project was going…
EDITORIAL: Organismal Biology, and the Soil That Sustains Us, Part Two
If you have been able to watch the embedded video, you saw that the fire killed individual trees and plants, but did not kill the forest. Quite the contrary….
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Bank Offered Me a Job
She said, if I wanted the job she could arrange for me to be hired, and start “as soon as possible”…
LETTER: Thanks to the Pagosa SUN for Oak Ridge Drive Photo
Colorado is an open-range, fence-out state. Anyone who wants to drive to the top of Oak Ridge Drive will find that Mr. Kazarinoff has placed fences around much of his property…
EDITORIAL: Organismal Biology, and the Soil That Sustains Us, Part One
Previous to the appearance of conifer trees, dinosaurs wandered among gigantic ferns and horsetails, not really knowing what they were missing….
Denver Housing Program So Successful, Federal Government Offers Millions to Expand It
“It has really confirmed everything that we as an organization have known about housing with supportive services…”
HMPRESENTLY: präpəˈɡandə and kəˈpriSHisnəs
The 45th president doesn’t cotton much to journalists, unless they’re with certain media… like some, but not all journalists and commentators, at Fox News…