“Unfortunately, due to limited local availability of testing, and in addition to previously reported laboratory capacity and supply constraints around the state, San Juan Basin Public Health (SJBPH) and MRMC will need to temporarily prioritize use of this free public resource….”
Category: Opinion/Letters
LETTER: The Unproven Nature of COVID Testing
As “testing” increases, controlled media spreads alarming daily reports of skyrocketing “confirmed cases and confirmed deaths” which are anything but…
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Kids Going Back to School? Part Five
“Minimize disruptions to education by facilitating timely responses to COVID-19 through cohorting students and staff when possible, screening for symptomatic individuals, and coordinating closely with local and state public health agencies…”
HMPRESENTLY: First, the Short-Term Rental Company; Then, the Government…
The company is suggesting that guests, who have given Airbnb hosts high ratings, consider sending such hosts a kindness card, perhaps “with a generous donation” included…
OPINION: Housing Groups Condemn Trump’s Effort to Gut Fair Housing
Fair housing advocates denounce effort to eliminate a critical tool to desegregate communities and call on the President to instead concentrate on ensuring housing equity during a pandemic…
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Kids Going Back to School? Part Four
“First and foremost, we must do all we can to ensure students, teachers and support staff are safe at school and are not unknowingly transmitting or contracting the virus…”
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Kids Going Back to School? Part Three
“Our group members all agree we need to have accurate data and analytics for Archuleta County to base the decisions on, about how to proceed for the school year. After doing some research, one group member found that accurate numbers for our area are unavailable….”
OPINION: World Population Nearing 8 Billion
The number of people on the planet – all drawing down the resources of the planet – impacts most everything. More people means the need for more food, water, housing, energy, roads and other infrastructure – more resources of every kind…
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Kids Going Back to School? Part Two
“And there’s problems when you don’t go to school, too. And there’s going to be a funding problem, because we’re not going to fund — when they don’t open their schools, we’re not going to fund them…”
OPINION: The (Act Like You) INVEST in America Act
We built all the infrastructure already, and then some. We just didn’t bother to make it pay any kind of financial return…
HMPRESENTLY: Doing What You Say You’re Going to Do
“Your word is your bond,” I remember my dad saying when I was a kid. There were handshake agreements, in those days. Yeah, that may seem quaint, by today’s ‘standards’…
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Kids Going Back to School? Part One
This morning, I am reviewing the draft Archuleta School District 50 JT Opening Plan for the 2010-2021 school year…
EDITORIAL: The Corrupt Streets of Pagosa Springs, Part Six
“There are crooks out there. I believe with this Council and this community the scrutiny will be very high, and need for transparency will be huge. As I said earlier, this is just the beginning of long process and partnership…”
OPINION: The Power to Withhold COVID-19 Information
Does anyone really trust that the administration will present information and findings to the public in a way that is unadulterated, unvarnished, thorough and complete?
EDITORIAL: The Corrupt Streets of Pagosa Springs, Part Five
On June 18, the Town Council holds a public hearing on The River Rock Estates subdivision plan. Planning Director James Dickhoff explains to the Town Council that the subdivision actually has no streets at all….
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Supreme Court and Indian Country
They held that since Congress made a Treaty setting the boundaries of “Indian Country” the US government is bound by it…
LETTER: The Disease in the White House
This administration is now requiring all reports of cases, hospitalizations and deaths be reported to the Trump administration — not the CDC…
EDITORIAL: The Corrupt Streets of Pagosa Springs, Part Four
“I think… um… Well, I think… um… there are certainly some instances, and there’s going to be a number of instances… I think we have… I’ll have to research that a little more… “
OPINION: Addressing Racism is a Mental Health Imperative
For far too long, we have ignored the mental health effects of violence and systemic racism on members of our society…