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Category: Opinion/Letters

OPINION: Loving the Second Amendment to Death

Posted on March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 by Post Contributor

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…

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EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Five

EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Five

Posted on March 26, 2021March 29, 2021 by Bill Hudson

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…

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OPINION: Ranchers Are Not the Enemy

Posted on March 26, 2021March 26, 2021 by Post Contributor

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…

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LETTER: Time to Move Beyond ‘Natural Law’

Posted on March 26, 2021March 26, 2021 by Post Contributor

And now with issues so pressing, so urgent, so grave and divisive the world can barely discuss them, let alone address and resolve them…

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EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Four

EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Four

Posted on March 25, 2021March 17, 2025 by Bill Hudson

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’…

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OPINION: A Tragedy in Boulder

Posted on March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 by Post Contributor

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…

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OPINION: War Comes to Your Local Supermarket

Posted on March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 by Robert Koehler

“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…”

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EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Three

EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Three

Posted on March 24, 2021March 25, 2021 by Bill Hudson

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…”

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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Natural Law

Posted on March 24, 2021March 24, 2021 by Gary Beatty

Under natural law, we each have the right to life, and to defend ourselves accordingly…

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EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Two

Posted on March 23, 2021March 16, 2025 by Bill Hudson

That package includes about $128 billion for K-12 education… along with other provisions that will also affect school spending…

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EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part One

EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part One

Posted on March 22, 2021March 16, 2025 by Bill Hudson

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…

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HMPRESENTLY: Selling a Bill of Goods?

Posted on March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 by Harvey Radin

Let’s see if we understand Don Jr’s jabs at the current President of the United States…

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EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Ten

Posted on March 19, 2021August 5, 2024 by Bill Hudson

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…

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EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Nine

Posted on March 18, 2021March 16, 2022 by Bill Hudson

Our government planning documents, written over the past couple of decades, tend to define “character and atmosphere” in terms of overall architectural design…

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EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Eight

Posted on March 17, 2021February 19, 2026 by Bill Hudson

Between 2008 and 2018, our construction industry produced 838 new single-family homes outside of the Town limits…

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OPINION: The US Government, and the General Welfare

Posted on March 17, 2021March 17, 2021 by Post Contributor

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…”

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EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Seven

Posted on March 16, 2021March 16, 2022 by Bill Hudson

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…

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EDITORIAL: A Conceptual Map of Pagosa Springs, March 2021… Part Six

Posted on March 15, 2021February 19, 2026 by Bill Hudson

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…

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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Human Misconduct is Ubiquitous

Posted on March 15, 2021March 15, 2021 by Gary Beatty

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…

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