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…
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Your Thoughts About Water? Part One
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…
HMPRESENTLY: Troubling, Breaking News, and Two Veterans’ Meaningful Words
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…
OPINION: The Radiation Scandal Revealed
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…
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Springs’ Remarkable Economy, Part Eight
We have no fewer than seven retailers, within our modest downtown commercial area, who are selling recycled goods…
HMPRESENTLY: Inspiring Hope, Defeating Despair Isn’t Cheap!
The US Department of Health and Human Services will be paying $250 million for a PR campaign to “defeat despair and inspire hope about the coronavirus…”
LETTER: Q Who?
“Everything I’ve heard of Q — I hope this is real, because it only means America is getting stronger and better, and people are returning to conservative values, and that’s what I am for…”
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Springs’ Remarkable Economy, Part Seven
“As of this writing, the Task Force feels that our community is still in a state of economic recovery and has not yet moved onto a stage of economic growth….”
HMPRESENTLY: The People Who Kept the Babies Safe
I don’t want to sound all saccharine, all syrupy. But… caring about people and caring about principles – I’ve been thinking – is what strong, heroic people tend to do…
LETTER: Support for Voting by Mail
The two institutions that can definitely be trusted are the County Board of Elections and the United States Postal Service…
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Springs’ Remarkable Economy, Part Six
McDonald’s has closed down their indoor eating area, at least temporarily, and currently serves customers only through the drive-up windows. We could easily explain that closure as COVID-related…
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Springs’ Remarkable Economy, Part Five
“Liberty Theatre, the 4th oldest theatre in Colorado and the only movie theatre in Pagosa Springs, is available. It is located in the historic district of downtown Pagosa Springs…”
HMPRESENTLY: Humor, Love and… That Flaming Burr Under My Saddle!
I’m not sure why, but in my mind, early Saturday morning, I’m hearing a 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis song, and I’m recalling the lyric… “You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain…”
OPINION: Life Sentences for Non-Violent Crimes?
We might note that the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where Bryant is serving out his life sentence, was once the site of a slave plantation….
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Springs’ Remarkable Economy, Part Four
The volunteer Care-A-Vanners didn’t come to Archuleta County this summer. That’s a change from last summer, when about 50 of them came through town to help build a Habitat for Humanity-sponsored home for the Tusa family…
HMPRESENTLY: The Screen Flickered, One Last Time
Yes…my old PC had served me well, putting up with all kinds of words I’ve been writing on it, for how long? For 10, maybe 12 years, or more?
OPINION: Hurricane Laura Slams US Oil Heartland
Hurricane Laura is the seventh system to hit the US, a record for this time of year, with three more months of hurricane season to go….
LETTER: Healthcare in America Depends Upon the Post Office
This is a call to action for our community, state and country. I’m asking that all of us come together and work toward the benefit of all and to protect our most vulnerable citizens…
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Springs’ Remarkable Economy, Part Three
The question currently begging for an answer seems to be, “Do we restart our ‘paused’ tourism marketing in the fall? Or when?”