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Category: Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: Touting His Tax Cuts, There’s One Tax POTUS Keeps Increasing

Posted on September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 by Harvey Radin

In the Cambridge Dictionary, syntax is defined as “the grammatical arrangement of words in a sentence.” The grammatical arrangement…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Amendment B Makes the Headlines

EDITORIAL: Amendment B Makes the Headlines

Posted on September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 by Bill Hudson

“If the Gallagher Amendment is not repealed, owners of high-end homes in Denver’s wealthiest neighborhoods would get a tax cut next year, while small businesses and farmers would pay a larger share of property taxes…”

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

LETTER: Suckers and Losers

Posted on September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 by Post Contributor

“Well, I (Griffin) circled back with my source this morning and he firmly said this was not a one-off…”

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: Your Thoughts About Water? Part Six

Posted on September 11, 2020December 12, 2025 by Bill Hudson

“Nearing or at the end of their service life.” That’s an interesting comment, considering that many of the water pipelines in Archuleta County date back to the 1970s… almost fifty years ago…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: Was POTUS Feeling a Little Chummy?

Posted on September 11, 2020September 11, 2020 by Harvey Radin

I’ve been interviewed by journalists. Sometimes, I suppose, you might start thinking there’s good chemistry going on. You’re feeling good rapport…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Health, and Safety, in Pagosa Springs... Part Three

EDITORIAL: Health, and Safety, in Pagosa Springs… Part Three

Posted on September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 by Bill Hudson

I stopped by the Pagosa Peak Open School on Tuesday morning, to snap a few pictures of the “First Day of School During a Pandemic”. Most people were wearing masks, and they waited, socially distanced, to check in…

Posted in Education/Health, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: Your Thoughts About Water? Part Five

Posted on September 10, 2020December 12, 2025 by Bill Hudson

We currently have one massive reservoir in Archuleta County — Navajo Lake, the fifth largest reservoir in the Colorado River Basin system, built in 1962. But the lake sits on the far southwestern corner of the county…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: What’s It Called? A Rock and a Hard Place?

Posted on September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 by Harvey Radin

Seeing this Boston Herald headline — “Biopharma CEOs sign pledge committing to safety and science in hunt for COVID-19 vaccine” – I realized that fear may still be working…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: Your Thoughts About Water? Part Four

Posted on September 9, 2020February 26, 2022 by Bill Hudson

Lately, some folks have been pointing to the University of Nebraska “Drought Monitor” maps, and reminding us that ‘climate change’ is very real and the American West is destined to become drier…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

OPINION: A Return to Decency

Posted on September 9, 2020September 9, 2020 by Post Contributor

Many of us think there is much wrong with our government. Things need to change. But the change has to be more than shaking up and tearing down…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: Your Thoughts About Water? Part Three

Posted on September 8, 2020December 12, 2025 by Bill Hudson

“…A group of farmers sat around a patio shaking their heads, frowning, frustration etched on their faces — down by 150,000 acre-feet of water below their aquifer-pumping target…”

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

LETTER: Lauren Boebert vs The Constitution

Posted on September 8, 2020September 9, 2020 by Post Contributor

Never one to shy away from publicity, our GOP District 3 Sarah Palin wanna-be candidate for Congress has been busy. She wants us to believe that dark forces of the “deep state” are at work to destroy America…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Your Thoughts About Water? Part Two

EDITORIAL: Your Thoughts About Water? Part Two

Posted on September 7, 2020December 12, 2025 by Bill Hudson

To get back to the Strategic Plan, I will note that this particular 40-page draft was written primarily by the six Board members who were serving during the past two years…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Health, and Safety, in Pagosa Springs... Part Two

EDITORIAL: Health, and Safety, in Pagosa Springs… Part Two

Posted on September 7, 2020September 10, 2020 by Bill Hudson

The report provided to the Town Council on Tuesday noted the issue of ‘visual clutter’. This challenge — the avoidance of ‘visual clutter’ — has more than one problematic aspect…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Health, and Safety, in Pagosa Springs... Part One

EDITORIAL: Health, and Safety, in Pagosa Springs… Part One

Posted on September 4, 2020September 7, 2020 by Bill Hudson

Apparently, parents no longer feel safe allowing younger children to walk home from school. Even grandparents feel insecure making the trip on foot, it would seem…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: Your Thoughts About Water? Part One

Posted on September 4, 2020December 12, 2025 by Bill Hudson

Water reservoirs are not cheap, and when they are located at some distance from where people are living, the infrastructure needed to deliver the water from the reservoir is also expensive to build, and maintain…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: Troubling, Breaking News, and Two Veterans’ Meaningful Words

Posted on September 4, 2020September 4, 2020 by Harvey Radin

My unit was not called up to serve in Vietnam or the Middle East. After basic training and advanced individual training, that lasted six months, I spent the remainder of my six-year commitment in the US…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

OPINION: The Radiation Scandal Revealed

Posted on September 4, 2020September 4, 2020 by Post Contributor

An activist anti-nuclear population views all radiation as problematic, whether that view is rational, irrational or actually harmful to people’s health and welfare…

Posted in Environment/Recreation, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Springs’ Remarkable Economy, Part Eight

EDITORIAL: Pagosa Springs’ Remarkable Economy, Part Eight

Posted on September 3, 2020March 15, 2022 by Bill Hudson

We have no fewer than seven retailers, within our modest downtown commercial area, who are selling recycled goods…

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