Category: Opinion/Letters

Here in Archuleta County, where most of our water still flows like… well, like water… agricultural users don’t have to pay for water at all…

Agriculture uses 94 percent of Archuleta County’s water. And our farmers and ranchers have to keep using it — even if they are losing money — if they want to hold on to their water rights…

USGS calculates that non-agricultural water consumption — residential, commercial, industrial — at about 2.44 million gallons per day…

As noted at the beginning of this article, in 1987 electricity customers finished paying off the principal and interest for the Hoover Dam, completed in 1936…

One of the most obvious tools of misinformation is the sharing an opinion, or a prediction, or an estimate, as if it were a “fact”…

Essentially, the developers are proposing to create a $180 million expansion of the Springs Resort… and arrange it so that the expansion pays zero taxes for 25 years… no taxes of any kind…

This pattern of government expansion is not unique to Colorado, of course. Yes, we’re the only state with a “Taxpayers Bill of Rights”…

“Colorado has the No. 1 economy in the country… and TABOR is a big part of that…”

According to ‘Yes on Prop CC,’ the measure would allow Colorado to “attract and keep quality teachers” and “repair unsafe bridges and crumbling roads….”

Proposition DD is predicted to raise $29 million in annual taxes, via a 10% tax on casino profits — meaning that the newly legalized casino profits would be in the $300 million range, every year?

Common sense might tell us, for example, that awarding millions of dollars in tax incentives to a couple of private developers is totally unfair to the rest of the business community…

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Pagosa Springs Town Manager Andrea Phillips yesterday, and learned that she had recently attended a symposium in Montrose, CO…