“So we’re seeing three or four people climbing into trailers, into one-bedroom apartments, just to find a place to live….”
Category: Opinion/Letters
LETTER: Vacation Rentals Being Unfairly Targeted
Citizens of Pagosa, don’t let the occasional letter to the editor paint an inaccurate picture of the short-term rental market…
EDITORIAL: The Joys of Owning a Vacation Rental in Pagosa Springs, Part Four
“We found a beautiful house with great bones but was somewhat neglected and in need of love and attention…”
EDITORIAL: Dragons, Unicorns, and Colorado’s Water Crisis, Part Six
We’re now a half century past the Bureau of Reclamation’s heyday during the 1960s, when we were making the American West great again…
EDITORIAL: Dragons, Unicorns, and Colorado’s Water Crisis, Part Five
When the people paying the taxes have no idea how their taxes are being used, or how they might be used in the future, it poses a problem…
EDITORIAL: The Joys of Owning a Vacation Rental in Pagosa Springs, Part Three
“Quite a few people (257) did not answer this question, the highest refusal rate of any question in the survey….”
EDITORIAL: The Joys of Owning a Vacation Rental in Pagosa Springs, Part Two
“The rental property must be the owner’s principal residence; principal residence is defined as the dwelling unit in which a person resides for more than one half of the year….”
EDITORIAL: Dragons, Unicorns, and Colorado’s Water Crisis, Part Four
2019 had been something of a banner year, in terms of abundant water supplies in Colorado… unlike some of the more ‘drought-prone’ years we’ve experienced since 2001…
EDITORIAL: Dragons, Unicorns, and Colorado’s Water Crisis, Part Three
It seems, the older I get, the more I’m questioning aspects of our society’s generally accepted reality….
EDITORIAL: The Joys of Owning a Vacation Rental in Pagosa Springs, Part One
Archuleta County currently charges $400 per year for a vacation rental license, regardless of the income being generated by the rental…
HMPRESENTLY: Come Again?
I’d have to ask someone like Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, for example. He’s been talking about ‘cancel culture’ quite a bit….
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…”