LWCF, for those who may not know, is the most successful conservation program in the United States, enacted by Congress in 1965…
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Pagosa’s Long Uphill Climb to Sustainability, Part Five
Some of us are expecting a total of about 14,000 full-time residents in Archuleta County when the 2020 Census numbers are released…
EDITORIAL: Pagosa’s Long Uphill Climb to Sustainability, Part Four
I agree that the Town government ought to be helping us decide what “the right things” are — in terms of health and safety. We don’t want our buildings to be dangerous…
EDITORIAL: Pagosa’s Long Uphill Climb to Sustainability, Part Three
This Power Point slide doesn’t mention the additional $1 million the Town and County plan to spend, in 2021, exclusively on tourism marketing and tourism-related events…
EDITORIAL: Pagosa’s Long Uphill Climb to Sustainability, Part Two
Due to a fairly steep slope, the winding half-mile-long trail will cover less than a quarter mile as the crow flies. The estimated cost is about $1.5 million…
EDITORIAL: Pagosa’s Long Uphill Climb to Sustainability, Part One
The idea of “sustainability” dates back to at least the 1600s, when Europeans looked around and noticed that their forests were quickly disappearing…
EDITORIAL: The Joys of Owning a Vacation Rental in Pagosa Springs, Part Six
“There’s certainly a need for balance when it comes to tax laws…”
EDITORIAL: Dragons, Unicorns, and Colorado’s Water Crisis, Part Eight
The taxpaying public — the folks who ultimately paid for the Wilson Water Group report — deserves to hear all sides of a public policy issue…
OPINION: What We Can Learn from the Skinniest Home in London
Building places with many hands from the bottom-up is messy and fraught with challenges, but it also gives us the capacity to evolve and adapt…
EDITORIAL: Dragons, Unicorns, and Colorado’s Water Crisis, Part Seven
Does that mean we will agree with unanimity on solutions? Probably not, but I believe we can come to consensus…
EDITORIAL: The Joys of Owning a Vacation Rental in Pagosa Springs, Part Five
“So we’re seeing three or four people climbing into trailers, into one-bedroom apartments, just to find a place to live….”
LETTER: Vacation Rentals Being Unfairly Targeted
Citizens of Pagosa, don’t let the occasional letter to the editor paint an inaccurate picture of the short-term rental market…
EDITORIAL: The Joys of Owning a Vacation Rental in Pagosa Springs, Part Four
“We found a beautiful house with great bones but was somewhat neglected and in need of love and attention…”
EDITORIAL: Dragons, Unicorns, and Colorado’s Water Crisis, Part Six
We’re now a half century past the Bureau of Reclamation’s heyday during the 1960s, when we were making the American West great again…
EDITORIAL: Dragons, Unicorns, and Colorado’s Water Crisis, Part Five
When the people paying the taxes have no idea how their taxes are being used, or how they might be used in the future, it poses a problem…
EDITORIAL: The Joys of Owning a Vacation Rental in Pagosa Springs, Part Three
“Quite a few people (257) did not answer this question, the highest refusal rate of any question in the survey….”
EDITORIAL: The Joys of Owning a Vacation Rental in Pagosa Springs, Part Two
“The rental property must be the owner’s principal residence; principal residence is defined as the dwelling unit in which a person resides for more than one half of the year….”
EDITORIAL: Dragons, Unicorns, and Colorado’s Water Crisis, Part Four
2019 had been something of a banner year, in terms of abundant water supplies in Colorado… unlike some of the more ‘drought-prone’ years we’ve experienced since 2001…
EDITORIAL: Dragons, Unicorns, and Colorado’s Water Crisis, Part Three
It seems, the older I get, the more I’m questioning aspects of our society’s generally accepted reality….