For far too long, Coloradans have struggled to get the care they desperately need…
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Attorney Todd Starr at the December 7 BOCC Meeting, Part One
“There is absolutely no evidence in the record, whatsoever, that this unit has ever been rented. What there is, and what you saw, is a screenshot of an advertisement to rent…”
OPINION: An Unhealthy Consolidation of Political Power in Archuleta County
This political monopoly is how the Sheriff’s Office is allowed to go $302,000 over budget (and counting) on renovations to a house now used for an office…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Common Sense and Criminal Justice
The op-ed by Quentin Young that appeared in the Daily Post on December 20 is an example of political rhetoric posing as scholarship…
EDITORIAL: Misleading COVID Information Regarding Colorado Hospitals?
“We have a very big disconnect between the accuracy of what’s reported and the decisions that are being made…”
HMPRESENTLY: Conniving… or Coldly Scheming?
A little conniving in politics, out in Washington DC, and in state and municipal governments… we’ve come to know that occurs, and maybe we’ve gotten accustomed to some conniving…
EDITORIAL: Is Pagosa Going to Pot? Part Seven
Preliminary data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment indicated that an average of 4.2 Coloradans fatally overdosed each day during the first eight months of 2020…
LETTER: Infrastructure Bill a ‘Bipartisan Achievement’
Although $47 billion for adaptation has been called transformational, it’s a fraction of the sum needed…
EDITORIAL: Is Pagosa Going to Pot? Part Six
Based on the tax revenue being generated by this industry, one might suggest the voters made a fine decision back in 2012…
OPINION: Shrug? Sue? Lie? Maybe Listen? What Will the Urban Renewal Commission Do Tonight?
Nothing is more effective at preventing gross giveaways to developers like a requirement of voter approval…
LETTER: The Drug Landscape is Changing
The drug landscape is changing and everyone should acknowledge why…
EDITORIAL: Is Pagosa Going to Pot? Part Five
“It’s nothing personal; nothing against the County Coroner’s office, it’s just that we’re constantly full, and there’s just nowhere else to put them….”
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Hook, Line and Sinker
That experience taught me the way the “drug war” was, and still is, being “fought” is futile — if the objective is reduction of the availability of illicit drugs…
HMPRESENTLY: Getting My Tooth Drilled While Pondering Democracies, Republics, and the Weather
There was, long ago, Vlad the Impaler, for example, and with a name like that, he probably wasn’t an understanding kind of guy…
LETTER: Open Letter to the Westminster City Council
The Equity Washers punch down, not up. Nature, which has no voice other than what you give it, is their favorite punching bag…
EDITORIAL: Is Pagosa Going to Pot? Part Four
“Colorado’s drug overdose rate spiked 50% from May 2019 to May 2021, trending directly with a nationwide increase….”
EDITORIAL: Is Pagosa Going to Pot? Part Three
“And that’s my main concern now. If I were going to put all my eggs in a basket, that’s where they would have to go, because that is a very dangerous drug…”
EDITORIAL: Work Hard
At the bleakest moment in the pandemic, when you felt your most stressed, most scared, least centered, you probably heard some variation of the phrase: “This is really hard…”
LETTER: Zoom Water Conference ‘Dam the Status Quo’ Today, Monday Dec. 13
The online event includes Save the Colorado board member, Daniel P. Beard, a former Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation appointed by President Clinton…