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Category: Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: Springs Resort Management Evicting 16 Families on Eaton Drive, Part Three

Posted on February 4, 2022March 21, 2022 by Bill Hudson

“The Thingamajig Theater Company, in residence at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts, has sunk its foundations deeper into the community…”

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EDITORIAL: Springs Resort Management Evicting 16 Families on Eaton Drive, Part Two

Posted on February 3, 2022March 21, 2022 by Bill Hudson

The City of Industry, near Los Angeles, has shopping malls, and fast food franchises, and a golf course, and hotels… and many of the things you might imagine a real city having…

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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Another War America Cannot Win?

Posted on February 3, 2022February 3, 2022 by Gary Beatty

I have a suggestion for President Biden, if he is so anxious to go to war…

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HMPRESENTLY: Sharp Intakes of Breath

Posted on February 3, 2022March 21, 2022 by Post Contributor

Years ago, Colin Kaepernick, who threaded the needle at times, when he was quarterbacking the San Francisco 49ers, took a knee during the National Anthem…

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EDITORIAL: Springs Resort Management Evicting 16 Families on Eaton Drive, Part One

Posted on February 2, 2022March 21, 2022 by Bill Hudson

It appeared that perhaps one or more apartment units have already been vacated by the current tenants, because I found a large (and rather sad) collection of furniture and household goods sitting in a pile…

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EDITORIAL: Give Me Land, Lots of Land, Under Starry Skies Above, Part Seven

Posted on February 2, 2022March 21, 2022 by Bill Hudson

This romantic vision of the American West — wide open spaces, big sky, freedom to roam — must certainly have been embraced by the ranchers and businessmen who arrived in Pagosa Springs during the last quarter of the 19th century…

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OPINION: Time to ACCT

Posted on February 2, 2022February 2, 2022 by Post Contributor

Now is the time to be Community Strong, to be Constitutionally and Ethically Strong, and I will strive towards these goals as District 3 Archuleta County Commissioner…

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EDITORIAL: Give Me Land, Lots of Land, Under Starry Skies Above, Part Six

Posted on February 1, 2022March 21, 2022 by Bill Hudson

“We also really want to applaud the decision to get a separate environmental assessment. That’s something that I think is absolutely critical to what we all want to achieve here, and I’m very happy to see that’s happening…”

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HMPRESENTLY: Groupthink… and Groupdo, too?

Posted on February 1, 2022February 1, 2022 by Harvey Radin

Even in social media, focusing on business, and on business people, and people seeking to have some role in business, there’s groupthink…

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EDITORIAL: Give Me Land, Lots of Land, Under Starry Skies Above, Part Five

Posted on January 31, 2022March 21, 2022 by Bill Hudson

Among the interested members of the public were the associates of the local Audubon Society, who had been — for many years — enjoying the abundant wildlife making use of the warm-water wetlands…

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BIG PIVOTS: Crossing the Natural Gas Bridge?

Posted on January 28, 2022January 28, 2022 by Allen Best

Will new natural gas plants end up being like many coal plants, assets stranded long before the debt is paid?

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EDITORIAL: Give Me Land, Lots of Land, Under Starry Skies Above, Part Four

EDITORIAL: Give Me Land, Lots of Land, Under Starry Skies Above, Part Four

Posted on January 28, 2022January 31, 2022 by Bill Hudson

Sitting in the room directly behind Mr. Dronet and his team, were several members of the Pagosa Wetland Partners, an organization that formed about three years ago…

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OPINION: Comments on the Draft Upper Basin Drought Response Operations Plan

Posted on January 28, 2022January 28, 2022 by Gary Wockner

First, in the Plan and the appendices, nowhere does the Bureau mention the cause of the “drought”…

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HMPRESENTLY: Pulling Nails Out of Walls

Posted on January 28, 2022January 28, 2022 by Harvey Radin

To be fair to downtown LA, there’s also some interesting architecture out there nowadays, but this was years ago when the comedian was poking fun at LA’s downtown area…

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EDITORIAL: Give Me Land, Lots of Land, Under Starry Skies Above, Part Three

EDITORIAL: Give Me Land, Lots of Land, Under Starry Skies Above, Part Three

Posted on January 27, 2022January 28, 2022 by Bill Hudson

The water issues facing our community in connection with the Springs Resort’s proposed expansion are even more dramatic, because they relate directly to one of the only warm-water wetlands left in the State of Colorado….

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EDITORIAL: Give Me Land, Lots of Land, Under Starry Skies Above, Part Two

EDITORIAL: Give Me Land, Lots of Land, Under Starry Skies Above, Part Two

Posted on January 26, 2022January 27, 2022 by Bill Hudson

The Town government decided 15 years ago that “interesting” architecture would make Pagosa Springs more attractive and more economically sustainable…

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HMPRESENTLY: All Jargoned Out?

Posted on January 26, 2022January 26, 2022 by Harvey Radin

How many times, do you suppose, would you have to click down on a tally counter, to count the number of times someone is saying the word ‘disgraceful?’

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EDITORIAL: Give Me Land, Lots of Land, Under Starry Skies Above, Part One

EDITORIAL: Give Me Land, Lots of Land, Under Starry Skies Above, Part One

Posted on January 25, 2022January 26, 2022 by Bill Hudson

The Town of Pagosa Springs has received an application for “Sketch Major Design Review” for the construction of a new 84,000 square foot building containing roughly 80 hotel rooms, a spa, a restaurant and a series of new hot springs pools…

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EDITORIAL: Pagosa Springs... Santa Fe... Pagosa Springs

EDITORIAL: Pagosa Springs… Santa Fe… Pagosa Springs

Posted on January 24, 2022January 24, 2022 by Bill Hudson

During our weekend, the kids and I made two trips to the Railyard Park, an “award-winning” children’s playground at the west end of Santa Fe’s extensive commercial-cultural Railyard development.

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