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…
Category: Opinion/Letters
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…”
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Three
As stated in the Planning Commission packet, “Riverwalk Townhomes will have a positive effect on the economy as it provides more housing opportunities to the Town…”
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Natural Law
Under natural law, we each have the right to life, and to defend ourselves accordingly…
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Two
That package includes about $128 billion for K-12 education… along with other provisions that will also affect school spending…
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part One
Instead of flying somewhere in a plane, for a vacation — wearing a face mask in a crowded airplane cabin, breathing recycled air — families and individuals were looking for exotic places they could drive to — in their own SUV…
HMPRESENTLY: Selling a Bill of Goods?
Let’s see if we understand Don Jr’s jabs at the current President of the United States…
EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Ten
Where childhood poverty is concerned — and childhood malnutrition — public schools have been instrumental, since the 1960s, in providing at least one daily meal for school-age children…
EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Nine
Our government planning documents, written over the past couple of decades, tend to define “character and atmosphere” in terms of overall architectural design…
EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Eight
Between 2008 and 2018, our construction industry produced 838 new single-family homes outside of the Town limits…
OPINION: The US Government, and the General Welfare
By contrast, the Constitution of the United States declares clearly, in its Preamble, that a key purpose of the U.S. government is to “promote the general welfare…”
EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Seven
Five years ago, a gentleman named Eddy Dunn — a recent transplant from Portland, OR — was beginning work on a cozy duplex on South 6th Street. Here’s that duplex, in a photo I took last weekend…
EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Six
I cannot recall any past BOCC complaining about the existence of the 1.9-million-acre San Juan National Forest, or the 500,000-acre Weminuche Wilderness…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Human Misconduct is Ubiquitous
This is not to excuse what happened to American Indians after the arrival of white Europeans. It only illustrates similar things had been going on amongst the Indians themselves long before that arrival…
