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Category: Opinion/Letters

OPINION: A Voice for the World’s People

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

A Global Week of Action for a World Parliament will occur from October 16 to 25. I urge you to register your support for this idea to spread democracy to the global level…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: County Commissioners Budgeting Zero Property Tax Dollars for Roads, Part Three

EDITORIAL: County Commissioners Budgeting Zero Property Tax Dollars for Roads, Part Three

Posted on October 13, 2020April 1, 2026 by Bill Hudson

The photo I used to illustrate this editorial dates from 2018. The presenter was Finance Director Larry Walton, and the outlook wasn’t entirely sunny…

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EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Seventeen

Posted on October 13, 2020October 13, 2020 by Bill Hudson

“How do you strike that balance? Where individuals use or benefit from this resource, but because it’s a resource ‘of the people’ and is necessary to all life, it’s important to make sure it’s available to everyone…”

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

LETTER: Trump and the Military

Posted on October 13, 2020October 13, 2020 by Post Contributor

“Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers,” he said about our fallen soldiers…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: County Commissioners Budgeting Zero Property Tax Dollars for Roads, Part Two

EDITORIAL: County Commissioners Budgeting Zero Property Tax Dollars for Roads, Part Two

Posted on October 12, 2020October 13, 2020 by Bill Hudson

“So, we’ve got enough money right now to start and finish a one-courtroom courthouse, but we will continue to seek grants until we get to a three-courtroom courthouse…”

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EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Sixteen

Posted on October 12, 2020October 13, 2020 by Bill Hudson

“So, we’ve talked about property rights. We’ve talked about flexibility, and a program that allows for uses. We’ve talked about conditional water rights. One of the things that [the term] ‘speculation’ brings to mind for me, is “price” and ‘use’…”

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: Weekend Follies

Posted on October 12, 2020October 12, 2020 by Harvey Radin

But, all of a sudden on Saturday, there they were, on giant big rigs, in one of those military parades… in North Korea…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

LETTER: Are We Better Off?

Posted on October 12, 2020October 12, 2020 by Post Contributor

The rich get richer… but we can vote them out…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: County Commissioners Budgeting Zero Property Tax Dollars for Roads, Part One

EDITORIAL: County Commissioners Budgeting Zero Property Tax Dollars for Roads, Part One

Posted on October 9, 2020April 1, 2026 by Bill Hudson

But as Commissioner Maez makes very clear, the BOCC had warned us. If we didn’t approve the sales tax increase, the BOCC was going to build the justice center anyway, using Certificates of Participation…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Fifteen

EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Fifteen

Posted on October 9, 2020October 12, 2020 by Bill Hudson

“You know, we do see a lot — within the South Platte Basin — of entities buying up water rights with the intention of drying them up in the future… definitely something we’re working on, to come up with different options…”

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: Disconnects

Posted on October 9, 2020October 9, 2020 by Harvey Radin

But, the most troubling disconnect of all, would seem to be the growing disconnect between so-called ‘law and order’ and what has been described, through the ages, as “man’s inhumanity to man”…

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EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Fourteen

Posted on October 8, 2020October 9, 2020 by Bill Hudson

For more than 125 years, our Colorado courts have been granting water rights holders the privilege of making a profit selling the “right to use” publicly-owned water…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Considering the Magna Carta

A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Considering the Magna Carta

Posted on October 8, 2020September 6, 2023 by Gary Beatty

In 2020, our economic liberty is being threatened by government mandated shutdowns. We are being subjected to regulation of private property, business, and commerce…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

OPINION: Support for Amendment B

Posted on October 8, 2020October 8, 2020 by Post Contributor

As the head of the National Federation of Business has said, without Amendment B, a real number of small businesses around Colorado will be pushed over the edge to insolvency…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Thirteen

EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Thirteen

Posted on October 7, 2020October 8, 2020 by Bill Hudson

The new Anti-Speculation Law Work Grooup will hold its first official meeting today, Wednesday October 7, at 12 noon MDT, via ZOOM. This public meeting is scheduled to last from noon until 2pm…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

HMPRESENTLY: The Artistry of Journalists

Posted on October 7, 2020October 7, 2020 by Harvey Radin

What a kick that was, with your adrenaline going like crazy! There could be monsoons or volcanic eruptions, just outside, but you’re laser-focusing on the journalist’s questions…

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EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Twelve

EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Twelve

Posted on October 6, 2020February 14, 2022 by Bill Hudson

In its draft budget, SJWCD plans to contribute about $2,500 to the San Juan Headwaters Forest Health Partnership…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

OPINION: Building More Roads Won’t Help Repair Our Economy

Posted on October 6, 2020October 6, 2020 by Charles Marohn

Bottom-up investments have less risk and higher financial returns than the federally guided projects of the past…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

LETTER: To Restore a Sense of Decency

Posted on October 6, 2020October 6, 2020 by Post Contributor

President Trump had almost four years to lead the United States and has failed us, by his own choosing…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
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