Category: Opinion/Letters

“There’s a Zombie apocalypse going on up here. I’ve had drug lords from Mexico here. Tweakers. I mean, this has been the headquarters…”

“I’m anxiously awaiting your opinions regarding the buckets of human feces placed neighboring properties, the toilet paper festooning the trees downwind…”

Archuleta County made it illegal to live year-round in a travel trailer, in 2010. The new regulations did not, however, provide any housing alternatives for families…

I’ve had a few brief conversations with Warren Goodman over the years, and I’ve come to understand he has evidence that the Aspen Springs area was once home to Hopi Indians…

“So what my investigations have brought to my attention is that we’re in dire need of a transfer station, and that primarily, it’s a problem of trash collection in living out there…

It appeared, from the comments offered by the neighbors at the August 14 work session, that Mr. Goodman was allowing friends to ‘camp’ on his private property…

“I caution you. Tell the truth to your voters. The last time we had a bond measure passed in Archuleta County was Measure 1A…”

“So we’re recalling Resolution 2018-36 for further modification. Does anyone have the language?”

Commissioner Steve Wadley quickly responded that he didn’t want any mention of the Courthouse renovation to appear in Resolution 2018-37…

Maybe voters don’t actually read these kinds of ballot questions. Maybe they vote based on the rumors they hear, from friends, or from the weekly newspaper…

Like, where exactly has the glass been going, when we sorted it into a separate bin? Where does the cardboard and paper go, exactly? The aluminum?

“There’s also an Unassigned Fund Balance. That’s about $3 million. That’s the only, you might say, ‘discretionary funds’ that exist…”

But on August 21, Mr. Weiler brought along an interesting document that he’d obtained from Undersheriff Tonya Hamilton…

“And Sally and I did not know what to do. Should we tell her about it? Now, what SHOULD we do?…”

As we can see from the analysis above, this little program to fix our transportation systems under Initiative 153 will be extremely lucrative…

“We have a habit in Colorado of sticking stuff in the Constitution that doesn’t belong there,” Miller said in a Reporter-Herald interview…

But you might have made it through the first sentence, enough to know that the measure would increase Colorado taxes by $1.6 billion per year.