Looking at that picture, what do you think? If he was trying to sell you something… like a border wall?
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: One Hell of a Year, Part Two
“Attract and retain a balance of tourism and non-tourism-dependent industries and businesses to increase economic resiliency and minimize the seasonality endemic in the local tourism economy….”
LETTER: Teaching the Stigma Around Mental Health Struggles
May I supply a missing word: “in a state where teaching a stigma around mental health struggles runs high”…
LETTER: This is Not the End
With the hope afforded us by the COVID-19 vaccines that are becoming available, perhaps a quote ascribed to Winston S. Churchill is appropriate…
EDITORIAL: One Hell of a Year, Part One
What has happened in Pagosa Springs over the past 30 years is hardly comparable to what folks might be witnessing in Denver. What’s happening in Pagosa Springs is more comparable to what happened in Aspen, Vail, and Telluride…
EDITORIAL: Our Local COVID Situation, in 1,000 Words or Less
It is expected that the initial supply of COVID-19 vaccine(s) will be very limited for several months…
HMPRESENTLY: Big, Powerful Muscle Stuff…
“Some Asian Americans and immigrants wore masks readily. In a brutal election year, it made them heroes, targets, profits….”
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: A Woman’s Right to Abortion, Considered
Last week, a California court ruled that a murder prosecution can proceed against a 19-year-old Kings County woman, Chelsea Becker, who had a still birth after using meth during her eighth month of pregnancy…
EDITORIAL: Happy Holiday, Happy Holiday…
One of the more uplifting movies of that period featured Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds and Virginia Dale, dancing and singing…
OPINION: Restoring the Soul of America
The last time I heard a Democratic politician at the top of his party truly, vulnerably stand for restoring the nation’s soul was in 1972…
EDITORIAL: Strange Diversions in a Strange Land, Part Nine
Well, now, we have a couple of questions that pop right up… one being, where does the money (“the funding”) come from?
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: When Words Have Two Meanings
The Fifth Amendment to the United State Constitution mandates that citizens charged with crimes be afforded “due process of law”…
EDITORIAL: Strange Diversions in a Strange Land, Part Eight
The seven states that divert water out of the Colorado River Basin collaborated on a a drought mitigation plan back in 2007 — in hopes of preventing the federal government from taking control of the Colorado River…
EDITORIAL: Strange Diversions in a Strange Land, Part Seven
Americans each ate about 28 pounds of chicken meat annually back in in 1960, but this year each of us will likely consume, on average, about 94 pounds…
Colorado Senator Bennet Addresses Ongoing Cyber Attacks
The hackers appear to have breached The Department of State; The Department of Commerce; The Department of Energy; The Department of Treasury; The National Nuclear Security Agency; and The Department of Homeland Security…
HMPRESENTLY: Squeezing Democracy Back in the Toothpaste Tube
I rode my bike the other day, exercising my body — and exercising caution, because of COVID…
EDITORIAL: Strange Diversions in a Strange Land, Part Six
“I hope there will be enough water supply for the future!”
LETTER: I Fear for My Husband’s Life
With five deaths to date and positive cases increasing by the day inside Sterling Correctional Facility, I fear my kids and I won’t ever see Joshua alive again…
OPINION: Support for Biden’s Interior Secretary
“Representative Haaland’s background and experience make her a supremely qualified nominee for Interior Secretary. The Senate should waste no time in confirming Haaland…”