What a waste! … my father must have been thinking, while he was thinking some other things, I’m sure, about the person in charge…
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Town Council Discusses Significant Property Purchase East of Downtown, Part Eight
Here’s a map I drew, which shows a lake about twice the size of our existing Stevens Reservoir…
OPINION: Town Planning Commission Takes Its Mission Seriously
Last July, the Planning Commission recommended four policies aimed at addressing the housing crisis in Archuleta County…
EDITORIAL: Town Council Discusses Significant Property Purchase East of Downtown, Part Seven
“And I would say that this property, that Town Council is considering… you know, there’s a lot of properties with topography challenges. Geologically challenged properties. And it’s rare to find something this large…”
EDITORIAL: Colorado River News You Can Believe, or Not
“Drought contingency plans define the 3,525-foot mark as a significant ‘target elevation’ for the reservoir, under which the situation becomes dire…”
EDITORIAL: Town Council Discusses Significant Property Purchase East of Downtown, Part Six
“Probably not best that we’re in the development business. There probably was a better way. There have been mistakes made along the way… Could we have been more transparent? Most likely….”
LETTER: Without a Workforce, There is No Tourism Industry
Archuleta County is a wonderful place to live, but I have seen first-hand how the cost of living impacts my colleagues and clients…
HMPRESENTLY: The One and Only Poem I’ve Ever Written
The thing about poems, I remember from school, is their meaning, often, is open to interpretation. Someone interprets them one way. Someone else interprets them in other ways, entirely…
Time to Renegotiate the Management of the Colorado River
‘Save The Colorado’ believes the ecological health of the Colorado River must be given a center seat at the table…
EDITORIAL: Town Council Discusses Significant Property Purchase East of Downtown, Part Five
I also assume that most people wouldn’t have an opinion, one way or the other, if they did know something about the Town’s plans…
HMPRESENTLY: Pitch Perfect?
What Aeschylus had to say about truth, for some reason got me thinking about eternal vigilance being the price of liberty…
EDITORIAL: Town Council Discusses Significant Property Purchase East of Downtown, Part Four
Even the Town Planning Commission knew nothing about the Mountain Crossing plan until Tuesday night, assuming they were listening as the Council approved a $3 million grant application to support the project…
EDITORIAL: County Commissioners Delay Decision on Potential Courthouse Sale, Part Two
Commissioner Maez responded. “The financial advisor also needs to focus on the County, as far as us building a new building…”
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Preserving American Values?
Besides, it doesn’t look like the Ukrainians need our troops. So far they are doing pretty well without our boots being on the ground…
EDITORIAL: Town Council Discusses Significant Property Purchase East of Downtown, Part Three
“What we are proposing is the 35-acre parcel as kind of a ‘palette’ that we can kind of control, for workforce housing development in the future…”
EDITORIAL: Strange Bedfellows in the Next Era of Water, Part Six
About 40% of our water district’s treated water was apparently leaking out of our community’s 40-year-old water pipelines, never to be seen again…
EDITORIAL: Town Council Discusses Significant Property Purchase East of Downtown, Part Two
How exactly the solutions proposed by the Town of Pagosa Springs qualify as “innovative”, we have no idea, because, as noted above, the public knows almost nothing about this proposed project…
EDITORIAL: Strange Bedfellows in the Next Era of Water, Part Five
But all is not lost. PAWSD still owns a 660-acre ranch which was recently appraised at $4.6 million…
EDITORIAL: Strange Bedfellows in the Next Era of Water, Part Four
This image comes from a 90-second video produced by the World Economic Forum, portraying eight predicted changes to the world economy certain experts expect to see by the year 2030…