Although it didn’t make the national news, the Pagosa Springs Town Council also flubbed their hand-off on Tuesday evening, August 3…
Category: Opinion/Letters
HMPRESENTLY: Playing the Trump Card
‘Humdinger,’ is a word you’re probably not hearing much these days…
OPINION: What If… a United World is Possible?
How does Planet Earth connect with itself? How do we create a human community that isn’t separated from itself by its own borders? Is it possible?
EDITORIAL: Inclusionary Questions, Part Three
Next, we have the problem that inclusionary zoning sometimes functions to reduce the number of affordable housing units, while driving up the cost of housing for middle income families…
EDITORIAL: Mirror, Mirror, on the Health Care Wall
“No two nations are alike when it comes to health care. Over time, each country has settled on a unique mix of policies, service delivery systems, and financing models…”
EDITORIAL: Inclusionary Questions, Part Two
Housing incentives are a type of Carrot. Perhaps not the same kind of carrot as implied by artist Boardman Robinson in 1916…
HMPRESENTLY: A Little Self-Praise Goes a Long Ways
Well, anyway, a few days ago, I happened to read in Business Insider that “Republicans have been hammering Democrats with ‘socialism’ smears for years…”
OPINION: Federal Infrastructure Proposal is a Fraud
What we’re watching is an unraveling, the last gasps of a social and economic order that came of age in the post-war boom…
EDITORIAL: Inclusionary Questions, Part One
So there we were, with the Town Council in one corner, the Town Planning Commission in another corner, and the Pagosa Area Tourism Board in yet another corner…
EDITORIAL: Strange Facts from Around the World, Part Three
“Families who fell behind on rent don’t have time to wait…”
HMPRESENTLY: Wondering About What’s Going On
But when folks with different opinions about that, got the ear of politicians, all hell broke loose, over some ten years of time…
LETTER: The Uphill Battle with the Pharmaceutical Industry
Americans got the vaccine for free initially because the government not only paid for development, but paid for the vaccine…
EDITORIAL: Strange Facts from Around the World, Part Two
But what about this whole “Lowest Point in Recorded History” question, at the Great Salt Lake? That sounds pretty serious…
OPINION: Democracy, the Enemy of the Powerful
Are we a democracy? I’d have to say both yes and no. That’s because democracy is a paradox…
EDITORIAL: Strange Facts from Around the World, Part One
“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension — a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind….”
EDITORIAL: Too Many Tourists, Part Eight
“I don’t want to hear ‘The Blame Game’. I want to hear some solutions. What can we do to get this resolved? …”
EDITORIAL: Too Many Tourists, Part Seven
We celebrate this cabin, and the family that had the grit and the fortitude to live this way during the early days of Pagosa’s history…
OPINION: One Billion Bollards
Construction workers doing maintenance on a roadway rightly demand concrete barriers between them and the traffic flowing next to them…
OPINION: Mental Health Colorado’s Legislative Report
In 2020, millions of us were forced into isolation, and anxiety was at an all-time high due to the economic and health impacts of COVID-19…
