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Category: Opinion/Letters

OPINION: We Don’t Want to Admit the Real Worker Shortage Problem

Posted on March 1, 2022March 14, 2022 by Post Contributor

Meanwhile, inflation and housing prices have continued to escalate faster than wages, meaning those already overworked workers are doing more, falling farther behind…

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LETTER: More Dangerous Than a Nuclear Bomb?

Posted on March 1, 2022March 1, 2022 by Post Contributor

Are these the lessons taught by our parents, or the ones we “figure out as kids” when hiding under our desk?

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EDITORIAL: Strange Bedfellows in the Next Era of Water, Part Three

Posted on February 28, 2022March 14, 2022 by Bill Hudson

Perhaps Carbondale-based PR firm, Project Resource Studio, will provide the community with an answer to that question…

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HMPRESENTLY: Repetitive Ads… Along With Breaking News

Posted on February 28, 2022March 14, 2022 by Harvey Radin

And there’s an ad about a product that, apparently, can sharpen a mature individual’s mind. And, sure enough, mature folks do seem to be as sharp as tacks, in the ad…

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EDITORIAL: Strange Bedfellows in the Next Era of Water, Part Two

Posted on February 25, 2022April 16, 2022 by Bill Hudson

We pretty much stopped building new homes following the financial meltdown, between 2008-2012… and then began building them again in recent years…

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LETTER: In Support of Ballot Question A

Posted on February 24, 2022February 24, 2022 by Post Contributor

It’s time that these second home owners, who have been paying a mere 7.15% yearly property tax rate, contribute something in line with all other commercial property owners…

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EDITORIAL: Real Estate Sale Stops the Proposed Gravel Pit? Part Three

EDITORIAL: Real Estate Sale Stops the Proposed Gravel Pit? Part Three

Posted on February 23, 2022March 14, 2022 by Bill Hudson

The email does not clearly identify “The Gravel People”, but we might assume Mr. Lemon is referring to the Urbanczyk family, who purchased the Dutton Ranch in 2021…

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OPINION: Why We Need to Embrace Traffic Congestion

Posted on February 23, 2022March 14, 2022 by Charles Marohn

We have spent trillions making it easy to drive everywhere, so much so that we made it difficult to walk anywhere…

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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Crazy Mass Paranoia

Posted on February 23, 2022March 14, 2022 by Gary Beatty

Those of us in elementary school in the 1950s remember “duck and cover”. We were told that in the event of nuclear attack we should crawl under our desks, with our arms over our faces…

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HMPRESENTLY: Stopping Those Rocks, and Such… Takes a Lot of Grit

Posted on February 23, 2022February 23, 2022 by Harvey Radin

It does take a lot to be heard, and to alter the course of things…

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EDITORIAL: County Clarifies the Gravel Pit Rules and Public Hearing Protocols, Part Two

EDITORIAL: County Clarifies the Gravel Pit Rules and Public Hearing Protocols, Part Two

Posted on February 22, 2022February 22, 2022 by Bill Hudson

According to a search on the County Assessor’s website, all of the (rather large) properties immediately adjacent to the Oakbrush Hill site are zoned ‘Agricultural Ranching’… except for one property zoned “Agricultural Estate”…

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EDITORIAL: Steep Drop in Pagosa COVID Cases Since Mid-January

Posted on February 22, 2022March 14, 2022 by Bill Hudson

As we see, the peak of confirmed infections on a single day took place on January 12, 2022, when SJBPH reported 54 cases in Archuleta County…

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OPINION: Prescribed Burning a Second-Class Option

Posted on February 22, 2022February 22, 2022 by William E Simpson II

According to wildfire forensics reported for hundreds of wildfires at InciWeb, the predominant fuel in a majority of western wildfires is grass and brush, which is now overgrown virtually everywhere in western states…

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EDITORIAL: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly… Housing Solutions… Part Four

Posted on February 21, 2022March 21, 2022 by Bill Hudson

Fortunately, Rose Mountain is nothing like the monstrous, crime-ridden ‘public housing projects’ that were constructed in urban areas during the 1950s and 1960s…

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LETTER: Another Hill We Climb

Posted on February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 by Post Contributor

I’m also a proud veteran, but regardless of veteran status, I consider most Americans to be humble, patriotic and anti-war…

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EDITORIAL: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly... Housing Solutions... Part Three

EDITORIAL: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly… Housing Solutions… Part Three

Posted on February 18, 2022March 21, 2022 by Bill Hudson

“We did this because we care. Despite our community knowing for many years that this is a community-wide problem, nothing has materialized as a solution….”

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HMPRESENTLY: ‘A Harmonious Effect’

Posted on February 18, 2022February 18, 2022 by Harvey Radin

About that problem on the planet he’d mentioned, and his hopes for the future…

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EDITORIAL: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly... Housing Solutions... Part Two

EDITORIAL: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly… Housing Solutions… Part Two

Posted on February 17, 2022February 18, 2022 by Bill Hudson

The Archuleta Board of County Commissioners had a number of real estate decisions on their agenda on Tuesday. Three of them were tucked into the so-called ‘consent agenda’…

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LETTER: Fixing a Broken Housing Market

Posted on February 17, 2022February 17, 2022 by Post Contributor

The funds raised by Ballot Question A would augment the workforce housing fund the Town has already put in place…

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