I look forward to a community-wide effort, to provide the necessary funding to begin addressing this massive problem…
Category: Opinion/Letters
OPINION: Reflections on the End of America’s Longest War
What began as a limited campaign to deny al-Qaeda safe haven grew into a futile nation-building effort…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Eight
Let’s take a bird’s eye view of the problem…
EDITORIAL: How to Spot the Delta Variant from 100 Yards Away
No, I actually don’t know how to spot the Delta variant from 100 yards away. I wish I did….
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Seven
Fully 100 respondents picked “Shipping Container Home” as their second-best choice, making that option the most popular one, as a ‘second choice’….
OPINION: Protecting the Pagosa Riverwalk Wetlands with Setbacks
Setbacks provide three main kinds of protection to wetland wildlife: 1) protection from pollutants, 2) protection from invasive species and 3) protection from nearby disturbances…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Six
Here’s the Town zoning map. We’ll look more closely at some details in a moment, but what we can see in the overall map is a dotted line outlining the Town limits…
LETTER: Where is Our Representative, When We Need Her Most?
This drought and climate change are wreaking havoc on the people of the West, but Rep. Boebert is busy elsewhere becoming famous…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Five
The Town Planning Commission, this week, recommended that the Pagosa Springs Inn & Suites be permitted to convert all of its motel rooms into long-term rental units…
OPINION: I Quit Teaching at the University Over COVID-19
I’ve been chronically underpaid, overworked and short-resourced. I’ve faced harassment, discrimination and inflated egos…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Four
Can we dig ourselves out of this hole? Or are we looking at a ‘black hole’ that’s going to suck in everything within its gravitational field?…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Three
According to national vacation rental management company Vacasa, the people most likely to convert single-family homes into vacation rentals are between the ages of 20 and 50…
HMPRESENTLY: Your Neighbor, the LLC
If you’re thinking this smacks of the short-term rental business model, or the timeshares business model, the startup’s founders would disagree…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Two
As we see, the financial stress was not evenly distributed among the various income levels…
OPINION: Celebrating Labor Day
In 1894, it was common for employees to work twelve or more hours per day, seven days a week…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part One
“WHEREAS, Town Council hereby finds that the use of residential property as a short-term vacation rental impacts the Town and its residents in various ways…”
LETTER: Curtains Up Pagosa, Cinderella & COVID
In this case, “…the show must go on…” was a reckless and dangerous choice that caused COVID spread within the CUP cast…
LETTER: From the Curtains Up Board, to Our Wonderful Community
We are trying to be as transparent as possible as we continue to grow this organization to be a more present part of this community…
EDITORIAL: Re-Imagining the Constitution
“We have found our way back to those precious founding documents. And in those documents we find all that we need to operate as a Constitutional county…”