Archuleta County currently charges $400 per year for a vacation rental license, regardless of the income being generated by the rental…
Category: Opinion/Letters
HMPRESENTLY: Come Again?
I’d have to ask someone like Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, for example. He’s been talking about ‘cancel culture’ quite a bit….
OPINION: Vulnerability
I’m a Midwesterner. I’ve dealt with snow all my life. OK, so there’s two feet of it out there in my yard — that’s no problem, right?
EDITORIAL: Dragons, Unicorns, and Colorado’s Water Crisis, Part Two
Finding a new location for a proposed 24,000 acre-foot reservoir is not the easiest task…
EDITORIAL: Dragons, Unicorns, and Colorado’s Water Crisis, Part One
Part of the process of building a reservoir — or pretty much any new water infrastructure — involves holding on to your water rights until you actually finish the project…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition
In real trials, jurors are instructed they can not base their verdict on whether they are angry at anyone…
EDITORIAL: Town Government as Housing Provider, Part Eight
According to the Town’s 2021 budget, they expect to spend about $3.6 million on tourism, recreation, and recreation facility maintenance, this year…
OPINION: Currency Devaluation Amidst COVID-19
Each paper note supposedly represented an amount of gold or silver as specified on the face of each paper note…
Supplements for the Treatment of Mild COVID-19
Although supplements are generally thought of as benign because of their over-the-counter availability, they are not necessarily free from adverse effects…
OPINION: What Some May Believe
The great Sufic poet Rumi said: “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there…”
EDITORIAL: Town Government as Housing Provider, Part Seven
We can easily understand why a municipal planning organization would want to prohibit affordable housing in as many places as practical…
HMPRESENTLY: Snaky?
In dictionaries, ‘snaky’ reflects “the supposed nature of a snake in showing coldness and venom…”
LETTER: Call Someplace Paradise…
I have been enjoying Mr. Hudson editorials regarding the Town as a housing provider…
EDITORIAL: Town Government as Housing Provider, Part Six
There are several reasons why this ‘affordable housing’ project turned out to be so expensive to build…
OPINION: What Unemployment Insurance Fraud Means for Coloradans
Colorado, along with the rest of the nation, has recently been subjected to a wave of fraudulent Unemployment Insurance (UI) Claims…
EDITORIAL: Town Government as Housing Provider, Part Five
“So for instance, if this is truly a workforce housing project, we want people who are working in Archuleta County to be living there…”
EDITORIAL: Town Government as Housing Provider, Part Four
“Yeah, I think the answer — I can see on everyone’s faces — you asked a really big question that I don’t think any of us have an answer to….”
OPINION: Wasting Time, Wasting Money
“Plans to put the property to use have been underway in some form or another since the city voted to begin working to create a formal downtown area in 2009….”
OPINION: Colorado Should Act Boldly on Climate
Yes, the state has taken some positive steps in the right direction by setting benchmarks for reducing pollution and investing in renewable energy…