The ditch improvements and repairs suggested by the WEP survey appear to total nearly $5.5 million…
Category: Opinion/Letters
Open Letter to Secretary Haaland Regarding Wild Horse Policies
Relocating wild horses from areas where they are in conflict with livestock interests via humane methods… is both economically and ecologically appropriate…
EDITORIAL: Digging Into the Ditches, and Such, Part Two
Here is a slight close-up of Ms. Purcell’s map, showing the area surrounding downtown Pagosa Springs, with some identifying words added. Hatcher Lake. Walmart. Downtown. Wolf Creek Pass…
EDITORIAL: Digging Into the Ditches, and Such, Part One
But it takes basically the same number of employees, working the same number of hours, to treat and deliver 1,000 acre-feet of water as it takes to treat and deliver 2,000 acre-feet of water…
LETTER: Considering Pagosa Wages
Last year I was working for a local businessman and when my check was handed to me, he said that the governing body that we work under stated that a certain wage was required…
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Eight
In James Cameron’s film version of the Titanic disaster, the steersman spun the ship’s wheel “hard to starboard”, as far as the wheel would turn. It almost worked. But not quite…
OPINION: Environmental Groups Address Colorado’s Air Pollution Control
The joint comment applauds the APCD for its work in creating the 2021 Draft Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory, while highlighting several critical opportunities…
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Seven
“My biggest comment is, I would love to simplify the LUDC. I feel like maybe it’s made some unintended consequences…”
OPINION: The Plastics Crisis
In the age of information, many people know that plastic is bad for our water sources, air, soil, wildlife, and overall human health…
LETTER: LPEA Election Coming Up
We need to diversify — and we need experienced leadership to ensure we diversify in smart, secure, and affordable ways…
LETTER: Natural Law vs Positive Law
There is a simple example of natural law that every child learns: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”…
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Six
I know very little about real estate, and even less about multi-family housing developments. But I do have a pocket calculator…
OPINION: Loving the Second Amendment to Death
Addressing gun violence is no doubt a multifaceted issue, but to suggest gun access isn’t part of the problem is to stick one’s head in the sand…
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Five
Here’s a photo of the proposed site, viewed from the rear of the Walmart store. The development would apparently try to preserve some of the mature pine trees…
OPINION: Ranchers Are Not the Enemy
As America’s oldest agriculture advocacy organization, Grange members across the state and nation are heartbroken to see themselves and people they’ve never met in the industry, vilified…
LETTER: Time to Move Beyond ‘Natural Law’
And now with issues so pressing, so urgent, so grave and divisive the world can barely discuss them, let alone address and resolve them…
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Four
This was not going to be a mobile home park. Not exactly. Although it would indeed be a ‘park’… and all the homes would be ‘mobile’…
OPINION: A Tragedy in Boulder
The tragic shooting that occurred yesterday afternoon inside the King Soopers grocery store at Table Mesa Shopping Center in Boulder took the lives of 10 Coloradans…
OPINION: War Comes to Your Local Supermarket
“This cannot be our new normal. We should be able to feel safe in our grocery stores. We should be able to feel safe in our schools, in our movie theaters and in our communities…”