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…
Category: Opinion/Letters
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….
EDITORIAL: The Joys of Owning a Vacation Rental in Pagosa Springs, Part One
Archuleta County currently charges $400 per year for a vacation rental license, regardless of the income being generated by the rental…
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…