In Terry v Ohio, the Court recognized the police practice of Stop and Frisk, and pronounced it constitutional…
Category: Opinion/Letters
LETTER: Welcoming Sarah and Jessie, and Their Snowboards
Sarah Sanna and Alex Bricca founded the Wolf Creek snowboarding team in 2005 as high school freshmen…
EDITORIAL: Interesting Situations in Archuleta County, Part Two
The story, as related in the complaint, is rather interesting. We do not know if this story is accurate. Mr. Prescott has requested a jury trial, so a future jury may have the responsibility to determine its truthfulness.
HMPRESENTLY: Klaxons and Concerns… but Happy New Year, Anyway!
With those gifts in mind, and needing to preserve them… watch out when people, sounding off from their bully pulpit, want us to believe they support liberty…
LETTER: The Point of Conception
Abortion today is used primarily as a birth control of convenience because people are too self-centered to take precautions…
EDITORIAL: Interesting Situations in Archuleta County, Part One
“I have a question. The amount of the salary, is the question that I have. You know, $124,000. With a three year contract. And the severance package, too…”
EDITORIAL: Health Investigation Committee Delivers a Report to the BOCC
“I think what we came up with is: there are more questions. I kind of envision a whole new committee to do the next step, because what we dug up, dug up more questions…”
EDITORIAL: Attorney Todd Starr at the December 7 BOCC Meeting, Part Two
For any Daily Post readers who might be unfamiliar with an Airbnb advertisement, here’s a sample…
OPINION: Coloradans Deserve a Transformation of Our Behavioral Health System
For far too long, Coloradans have struggled to get the care they desperately need…
EDITORIAL: Attorney Todd Starr at the December 7 BOCC Meeting, Part One
“There is absolutely no evidence in the record, whatsoever, that this unit has ever been rented. What there is, and what you saw, is a screenshot of an advertisement to rent…”
OPINION: An Unhealthy Consolidation of Political Power in Archuleta County
This political monopoly is how the Sheriff’s Office is allowed to go $302,000 over budget (and counting) on renovations to a house now used for an office…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Common Sense and Criminal Justice
The op-ed by Quentin Young that appeared in the Daily Post on December 20 is an example of political rhetoric posing as scholarship…
EDITORIAL: Misleading COVID Information Regarding Colorado Hospitals?
“We have a very big disconnect between the accuracy of what’s reported and the decisions that are being made…”
HMPRESENTLY: Conniving… or Coldly Scheming?
A little conniving in politics, out in Washington DC, and in state and municipal governments… we’ve come to know that occurs, and maybe we’ve gotten accustomed to some conniving…
EDITORIAL: Is Pagosa Going to Pot? Part Seven
Preliminary data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment indicated that an average of 4.2 Coloradans fatally overdosed each day during the first eight months of 2020…
LETTER: Infrastructure Bill a ‘Bipartisan Achievement’
Although $47 billion for adaptation has been called transformational, it’s a fraction of the sum needed…
EDITORIAL: Is Pagosa Going to Pot? Part Six
Based on the tax revenue being generated by this industry, one might suggest the voters made a fine decision back in 2012…
OPINION: Shrug? Sue? Lie? Maybe Listen? What Will the Urban Renewal Commission Do Tonight?
Nothing is more effective at preventing gross giveaways to developers like a requirement of voter approval…
LETTER: The Drug Landscape is Changing
The drug landscape is changing and everyone should acknowledge why…