I’d have to ask someone like Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, for example. He’s been talking about ‘cancel culture’ quite a bit….
Category: Opinion/Letters
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…
EDITORIAL: Town Government as Housing Provider, Part Three
If we look at this image of the Zoom meeting on January 28, and we think about the people currently serving on the Town Council…