“It’s clear that moving the agency’s headquarters out of Washington, D.C. was meant to force out career employees and hollow out its leadership…”
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: My 11th Opinion About Pagosa’s Future, Part Five
But over the past couple of months, the BOCC did take a couple of small steps to encourage smaller, more affordable housing for our local workforce…
LETTER: A Three-Pronged Approach to the Climate Emergency
The National Academy of Sciences advocates putting a rising national price on carbon dioxide emissions as the most effective way for the United States to meet its emissions reduction targets…
EDITORIAL: My 11th Opinion About Pagosa’s Future, Part Four
In 1970, when Ralph Eaton and his company began building out the 21-square-miles of suburban neighborhoods known today as Pagosa Lakes, we understood that Americans were rejecting the big-city lifestyle…
EDITORIAL: My 11th Opinion About Pagosa’s Future, Part Three
Young families, escaping from other places, were finding Pagosa to be affordable and attractive. Within a few years, the School District was proposing a new high school…
EDITORIAL: My 11th Opinion About Pagosa’s Future, Part Two
Looking back, we can see that the wholesale destruction of ‘slum’ neighborhoods, and their replacement with high-rise public housing projects, was an unmitigated disaster…
EDITORIAL: My 11th Opinion About Pagosa’s Future, Part One
I’ve been working my way through a book written in 1961 — a classic on urban planning: ‘The Death and Life of Great American Cities’, by Jane Jacobs…
EDITORIAL: Pagosa’s New Rules for Vacation Rentals
I suspect the attempts to control vacation rentals will not end with Ordinance 958. The Town Council and the Town Planning Commission have also been discussing an excise tax on vacation rentals…
EDITORIAL: Folk Festival Frustrations at Town Hall
“So I went into the [Town’s] Municipal Code and I found section 14, article 2, that deals with Parks & Recreation facilities…”
OPINION: Income Caps and Inequality
But note, the war effort is only the second of his justifications for the income cap; the first half refers to correcting “gross inequities”…
HMPRESENTLY: Spin or Consequences?
There is another kind of spin, that’s also full of BS, that’s not so innocent…
EDITORIAL: The Downtown Parking Discussion Continues, Part Three
“People want to walk through neighborhoods that are interesting and vibrant. And when every other parcel is a parking lot, that kills that vibrancy in the downtown area…”
LETTER: They Paved Paradise
I read with interest Mr. Hudson’s September 6 editorial regarding the discussions concerning downtown parking….
EDITORIAL: The Downtown Parking Discussion Continues, Part Two
“And then we’re talking about building parking structures? I just don’t see a lot of opportunities within the downtown…”
LETTER: Simpson Nails the Wild Horse Issue
Thank you for publishing William Simpson’s article on wild horses on September 6, 2021…
EDITORIAL: The Downtown Parking Discussion Continues, Part One
This was a rather drastic recommendation for commercial properties, comparing it with the existing LUDC requirements for downtown…
EDITORIAL: Testing… Testing… One, Two, Three…
Even as schools focus more and more effort on improving math and reading scores, and less and less effort on a well-rounded education, our children are doing worse and worse…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Learning Disturbing Things… About People
From my research, I’ve learned the only consensus about much of “the science” related to COVID is that there is no consensus. That uncertainty comports with my experience getting answers about my personal health situation…
OPINION: The Youngest Victims of Sunday’s Airstrike
What seems not to be part of the editorial board’s sense of unutterable tragedy is this…