During this pandemic, insurance companies are still asking whether the treatment you’re receiving is medically necessary?
Category: Opinion/Letters
OPINION: The End of War
If human beings behaved rationally, they would certainly recognize their common enemy and back this proposal…
EDITORIAL: You’re Not Supposed to Believe the Predictions, Part Three
The New York Times article was thoughtfully illustrated with the picture shown above, taken by photographer Bob Miller…
LETTER: A Response to Myself
It must be illegal… the governors who have discovered that they are emperors, sitting in their offices and issuing decrees of who is essential and who is not…
OPINION: ACLU Lawsuit Filed Over COVID-19 Outbreak in Weld County
“Reducing the numbers of those arrested or incarcerated is vital to our efforts to limit and prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities…”
EDITORIAL: You’re Not Supposed to Believe the Predictions, Part Two
Colorado Governor Jared Polis and other state officials have been relying on a model built by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus…
EDITORIAL: You’re Not Supposed to Believe the Predictions, Part One
Several days earlier, Michael Levitt, a Nobel laureate and Stanford biophysicist, released the results of an analysis of global COVID cases…
EDITORIAL: Blunt Tools, Part Seven
According to the Riff Raff Brewing website, a new program known as ‘Takeout Tuesday’ will kick off today, right here in small town Pagosa Springs…
DEVIL MOUNTAIN CHRONICLES: What, Me Worry?
His goofy rhetoric and dysfunctional leadership style comes directly from the pages of Mad Magazine…
LETTER: The Distressing View from Our Back Window
Please view the attached video clip to see why our neighborhood homes and properties have become dangerous…
OPINION: Criminal Justice Leaders Call for Moratorium on Fines, Fees
“Suspending these punitive fees will give the most vulnerable Coloradans a better chance to stabilize and recover….”
EDITORIAL: Blunt Tools, Part Six
Six days later, on March 17, her symptoms had worsened and she checked into the Emergency Room at Pagosa Springs Medical Center…
OPINION: ‘Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself…’
Today we live in an increasingly fear-based world. I’m not a psychologist; I don’t pretend to know why….
EDITORIAL: Blunt Tools, Part Five
The Council then contributed $50,000 to Pagosa Outreach Connection, an existing relief organization that makes small grants to needy individuals and families…
LETTER: A Future with More Social Cohesion
The worldwide impact of COVID-19, apart from health issues, finds us at a crossroads…
EDITORIAL: Blunt Tools, Part Four
“That’s the benefit of taking the blunt route, and just… you skip over all those [bureaucratic] hurdles that slow you down…”
EDITORIAL: Blunt Tools, Part Three
“As far as for individuals, I’d like to look into the idea of giving every town resident $200. What would be the implications of something like that?”
EDITORIAL: Decomposing Fractions
Children need to learn that some numbers are meaningless. Or downright dangerous…
LETTER: Failed Leadership
The length of time the nation remains in ‘quarantine’ seems to be the critical economic unknown…