“People come to Pagosa from these bigger cities, and they assume they can work from anywhere. Then they realize that the internet here is very ‘subpar’ across the area…”
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: ‘News Matters’ Documentary; Watch It Free Through May 28
“When a business is dying, those that really understand it, don’t want to be there to conduct the funeral. Somebody is going to have to turn out the lights on all of these newspapers…”
OPINION: ‘Black Swan’ Drought Proving Glen Canyon Dam Critics Right
In fact, today’s predicted inflow is so low that the figure used by the federal government’s Record of Decision for Glen Canyon Dam doesn’t even include numbers that low on their chart…
OPINION: ‘Strong Towns’ Files a Lawsuit Against the Minnesota Board of Engineering Licensure
Following the hearing, the Board of Licensure issued what would be a final order on March 17, 2021. The order’s findings omit key facts in a way that is prejudicial to Marohn…
EDITORIAL: Living and Working in a Remote World, Part One
“There was a migration coming into rural areas; a lot of people hoping to hide out in rural areas. Decentralization was going on in some of the cities and tech hubs…”
EDITORIAL: Log Cabins vs Cargo Containers, Part Four
Spanning 3,000 square feet, this shipping container home in Denver, Colorado, has an industrial aesthetic with rustic elements…
HMPRESENTLY: Old Buddies
Maybe they’re like old friends meeting up at a tavern — Messaging and Propaganda — at times, distanced from one another, but back in the fold again, at the end of the day…
EDITORIAL: Log Cabins vs Cargo Containers, Part Three
“The construction should go pretty quickly. Footings, piers, and then drop the can. It’s getting spray foam insulation, so I will need to shoot the bottoms before I stack them…”
EDITORIAL: Log Cabins vs Cargo Containers, Part Two
Can we wrap our heads around this idea? 1.8 million acres of large-diameter Engelmann spruce, standing in our Colorado forests, slowly decaying?
OPINION: Medicare For All Act of 2021, Liberal Benefits with Conservative Spending
As with our existing Medicare and Medicaid systems, patients would receive health care from their choice of physicians, clinics, hospitals and allied health care professionals…
OPINION: New Federal Policies Land America’s Wild Horses & Burros in the Slaughterhouse
The BLM’s attitude toward wild horses should be judged not by the agency’s soothing words on its websites, but by the photographs and videos taken during the roundups…
EDITORIAL: Log Cabins vs Cargo Containers, Part One
The Town Planning Department had, however, failed to provide sufficient notice for the April 27 public hearing, so the approval hearing has been re-scheduled for the May 25 Planning Commission meeting…
EDITORIAL: Economic Development in Pagosa, Briefly Summarized, Part Three
Some folks prefer to live among trees that have been carefully sculpted into unnatural shapes. I can understand the attraction….
EDITORIAL: Economic Development in Pagosa, Briefly Summarized, Part Two
According to some measures, Archuleta County is a relatively affluent community. We will likely know more about that when the federal government releases the 2020 Census data…
EDITORIAL: Pagosa’s ‘Urban Renewal Authority’ Seeking a Fresh Direction?
Tonight, we may hear suggestions from Durango-based SEH on how they can help the Town government and the Urban Renewal Authority can repair its earlier missteps…
EDITORIAL: Economic Development in Pagosa, Briefly Summarized, Part One
During the two-hour meeting — following the election of new Board members and officers — we heard a summary of the organization’s accomplishments…
EDITORIAL: All the News That’s Fit to Share, Part Two
Of the 7,071 daily or weekly newspapers regularly published in the US, nearly all of them — 6,851 — have circulations of less than 50,000…
EDITORIAL: All the News That’s Fit to Share, Part One
But the world has changed, even while newspapers — to outward appearances — have stayed the same…
OPINION: ‘Misty of Meeker’ Shows Need for Wild Horse Protection Laws
It is our hope that this community-based effort might be replicated across the West. But we do want to set some “facts” straight…