“Instead, it is a culmination of sophisticated, organized campaigns of targeted intimidation, radicalization, threats, and violence designed to silence opposing speech…”
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Countering Organized Political Violence, Everywhere, Part One
“The Colorado Health Foundation is deeply concerned about a new federal memo directing government agencies to investigate and disrupt networks, organizations and funders…”
EDITORIAL: Springs Resort Attorney Suggests a Geothermal Lawsuit, Part Four
“A Mineral Fee is also proposed under Scenario 2. Instead of charging the hot springs resorts directly, the cost is shifted to the hot springs customers as a “turnstile” fee…”
EDITORIAL: Springs Resort Attorney Suggests a Geothermal Lawsuit, Part Three
I mentioned, previously, my opinion that the Springs Resort has had its operations generously subsidized by the town taxpayers since the mid-1990s…
EDITORIAL: Springs Resort Attorney Suggests a Geothermal Lawsuit, Part Two
The geothermal heat exchanger is housed in a metal building currently receiving colorful murals on all four sides…
LETTER: Trump Betrayed Us
He promised to protect Medicaid. Instead, his “Big Beautiful Bill” stripped healthcare from 11.8 million Americans…
EDITORIAL: Springs Resort Attorney Suggests a Geothermal Lawsuit, Part One
Back in the early 1980s, in the midst of an oil crisis, the U.S. Department of Energy provided a sizable grant to the Town of Pagosa Springs…
OPINION: History Repeating as Federal Shutdown Looms?
“We started having damage and we started having human waste issues. Everything that we told them would happen started happening…”
Open Letter to the Archuleta Commissioners
A request to pause, and right-size, the proposed $20 million administration building…
LETTER: Clean Energy is an Opportunity, Not a Threat
International agreements, far from being acts of self-punishment, are acts of solidarity and recognition of common responsibility…
EDITORIAL: Yet Another Sad and Confusing Meeting… Part Four
“Are you living on the same amount of money that you were living on 30 years ago? I’m not. None of us are, because we can’t…”
OPINION: McCarthyism, Then and Now
I binge-read the book amid a storm of news as the administration of President Donald Trump ramped up attacks on leftwing activists…
EDITORIAL: Yet Another Sad and Confusing Meeting… Part Three
“That’s way too much money to take out of an economy as small as ours. It will hurt us. And I think the biggest hurt will be Road & Bridge…”
EDITORIAL: The Message on the Chalkboard, Part Two
“What were we doing? How did we do it? And how could we know if we were having the effect we wanted?…”
OPINION: Recognition Without Action is Meaningless
Several Western powers, including the UK, Canada, Australia, and Portugal, have now formally recognized a Palestinian state, joining Spain, Ireland, and Norway…
EDITORIAL: Yet Another Sad and Confusing Meeting… Part Two
“I’ve already written to you folks about what I think of this administration building, and I am going to hold my ground on that today…”
EDITORIAL: The Message on the Chalkboard, Part One
“We believe that all children deserve access to a quality education — one that prepares them for the duties of citizenship in a democracy and connects them to economic opportunity…”
OPINION: Denver City Council Votes to Cease Using ‘Flock’ Surveillance Cameras
Many Colorado communities are under mass surveillance. Constitutional rights should take precedence…
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: Censorship in America
Is this unprecedented? To investigate, I started by looking at how Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama handled conservative media…
