Category: Opinion/Letters

That package includes about $128 billion for K-12 education… along with other provisions that will also affect school spending…

Let’s see if we understand Don Jr’s jabs at the current President of the United States…

Where childhood poverty is concerned — and childhood malnutrition — public schools have been instrumental, since the 1960s, in providing at least one daily meal for school-age children…

Our government planning documents, written over the past couple of decades, tend to define “character and atmosphere” in terms of overall architectural design…

Between 2008 and 2018, our construction industry produced 838 new single-family homes outside of the Town limits…

By contrast, the Constitution of the United States declares clearly, in its Preamble, that a key purpose of the U.S. government is to “promote the general welfare…”

Five years ago, a gentleman named Eddy Dunn — a recent transplant from Portland, OR — was beginning work on a cozy duplex on South 6th Street. Here’s that duplex, in a photo I took last weekend…

I cannot recall any past BOCC complaining about the existence of the 1.9-million-acre San Juan National Forest, or the 500,000-acre Weminuche Wilderness…

This is not to excuse what happened to American Indians after the arrival of white Europeans. It only illustrates similar things had been going on amongst the Indians themselves long before that arrival…

This puts voter suppression into the deep context of American racism. The wound is still wide open…

She discusses the curious situation where company or organization is heading for a massive failure, and everyone can see it coming, but management continues to act as if everything is hunky dory…

Should we have “debt” included in our conceptual map? Easier said than done. We can’t easily create a map of consumer debt, or even business debt, in Archuleta County in 2021…

When evaluating these and other proposals for healthcare reform, it is important to remember that there are not likely to be any “perfect” solutions…

Apparently, during the summer of 2016, US real estate agents were listing close to 1.5 million homes available for purchase…

Although COVID data is fairly easy to find in March 2021, several things related to public health have not been tracked. Maybe we’re too busy tracking COVID?

The Colorado meat industry’s alarm over the global observance of ‘Meatout’ on March 20, offers a splendid opportunity to discuss the merits of eating animals…

“I think that we’re trying several different avenues to try and remedy a situation that may be impossible to remedy, as far as housing availability and affordability…”