Category: Opinion/Letters

“With all this going on, I haven’t heard anything about the commitment that the Town would make, or the County, to improve the downtown. I look up and down the [main commercial block] and what do I see?…”

The Town entered into an ‘economic incentive’ package with Colorado-based Hometown Markets, with a promise of tax subsidies and fee waivers valued at about $500,000…

Based on what I remember seeing that evening, I walked out onto the vacant 27-acre parcel that attorney Benedetti was promoting as the site for a possible ‘Urban Renewal Authority’ treatment, and snapped a photo…

“I’m actually representing a private client here. David Dronet is interested in using ‘Urban Renewal’ as a device for financing infrastructure for his proposed expansion…”

“The general assembly finds and declares that there exist in municipalities of this state slum and blighted areas which constitute a serious and growing menace, injurious to the public health, safety, morals, and welfare…”

During the late 1950s, the spiraling nuclear arms race, poverty in economically underdeveloped nations, and underfunded public services in the United States inspired considerable thought among socially-conscious Americans…

Will the Town really miss impact fees of $50,000 per year, considering its overall budget has increased by $5.7 million since 2005?

The birthrate for women in their 20s has tended to drop year after year… According to the report, the birthrate among women in their early 20s has dropped an average of 4 percent each year since 2007…

The way I understood home ownership, the way I was taught — by my parents’ actions and conversations — was that a house was meant to be a home, and you maintained it and cared for it…

“Successful breeding depends largely upon the doe’s health during the rut. The ovulation rate is strongly affected by the doe’s level of nutrition…”

In Trump’s mind, the North Korea “threat” has been deterred; let South Korea deal with it. US interests in the Middle East are far more important anyway…

When I’m allowed to water my lawn for purely aesthetic purposes, for the past 17 years, I have a hard time believing that we had an honest-to-goodness “drought situation” in Archuleta County…

By contrast, 77 percent said the government spent “too little” on education, 71 percent said it spent “too little” on assistance to the poor, and 70 percent said it spent “too little” on improving and protecting the nation’s health…