When responding to a genuine public health threat, a local government proposing mandates and penalties needs credibility and a reputation for plain speaking and fair dealing…
Category: Opinion/Letters
LETTER: Saddened by Town Council Treatment of a Volunteer
Truly, we find it very disturbing that Mr. Hudson was personally and publicly attacked during a Council meeting in such a despicable and vile manner…
LETTER: Officials Who Ignore the Facts
I would welcome a Planning Commissioner, or a Town Council member, or the Mayor to actually change their mind occasionally, based on investigation of facts…
EDITORIAL: More School Testing Needed? Better Ways to Spend Limited Funds?
“There’s no need to spend our precious, very limited resources to go to private corporations for testing. We need to trust our educators to do what they do best…”
HMPRESENTLY: Huh? Removed Without Cause?
So I looked them up. I’ve heard the term, remove without cause, used, occasionally, over the years, but realized I wasn’t that familiar with the meaning of the term…
EDITORIAL: How to Get Fired From a Volunteer Job, Part Twelve
“…Bill Hudson has had a large part in circulating a petition that would require a Town vote for any URA project that involves over $1 million in [Tax Increment Financing] money…”
EDITORIAL: The Fragile Health of a Rural Hospital District, During COVID…Part Two
“We provide excellent care, but we’re not used to keeping critical patients here, past the Emergency Room visit. We send the critically ill patients somewhere else…”
EDITORIAL: The Fragile Health of a Rural Hospital District, During COVID…Part One
According to the audit report, the district’s ‘Net position’ increased from $9.7 million in 2018 to $10.9 million in 2019. Net patient service revenue increased by almost $1.4 million year over year “due primarily to expansion of services and charge capture…”
EDITORIAL: How to Get Fired From a Volunteer Job, Part Eleven
I do not expect to be beheaded at the meeting. Shamed, perhaps? Painted as “unethical” and “continuously seeking to sway opinions”?
OPINION: Let’s Go On With The Show…Trial
Mr. Hudson’s real crime, though, is his opposition to the $80 million in corporate welfare Mr. Searle and his partner David Dronet are seeking for an expansion of The Springs Resort…
DEVIL MOUNTAIN CHRONICLES: The Price of Doing Business?
As I approached the entrance, two foul-mouthed gentlemen were expressing their displeasure at the audacity of being made to don surgical masks or bandannas and clean their hands…
LETTER: Let Us Live
Please stop the insanity and let us live! It was an obtuse discussion full of compassion for the younger aged during the present pandemic situation READ MORE
EDITORIAL: How to Get Fired From a Volunteer Job, Part Ten
I assume the five Council members who voted to appoint me already knew who I was. I assume they already knew, from my 16 years of editorials in the Daily Post, that I was not afraid to ask questions…
LETTER: Stop the Insanity
Do you know what hurts the immune system? Fear, isolation, hopelessness, depression, dousing ourselves and kids in disinfectant, making healthy people wear masks, social distancing, no hugs, no smiles…
OPINION: Where Education Goes From Here
Our state has often led the country in some of the most challenging moments, in part because very few of our lives line up neatly along any set of oversimplified ideological lines…
EDITORIAL: How to Get Fired From a Volunteer Job, Part Nine
Political power is addictive, and it can sometimes lead to disrespectful behavior. It can sometimes lead to corruption. We all know this…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: ‘Playing Favorites’ with the Land Use Code
One ostensible purpose of land use regulations is to establish objective, legally binding standards thus — theoretically — precluding corruption. Instead they encourage it….
LETTER: Vote for June E. Marquez
When June considered running for Archuleta County Commissioner I told her “do it!” Although she has never run for public office before I have no doubt she will do an outstanding job…
EDITORIAL: How to Get Fired From a Volunteer Job, Part Eight
During 16 years of writing about Pagosa governments, I have developed great respect for certain departments at Town Hall. The police department for one. The Town Clerk’s department….