A few years ago, Colorado was triumphantly easing out of coal generation in orderly fashion…
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Listening at the School District’s Listening Session, Part Two
During 2024, the Archuleta School District staff hosted several community presentations, purportedly to ‘take the community’s temperature’…
OPINION: This Colorado City Showing the Exit Route from MAGA Dystopia
On Monday, the new Council members were sworn in, and the body immediately began to “undo harm caused by the previous council…”
EDITORIAL: Listening at the School District’s Listening Session, Part One
The SUN editor added a clarifying note, assuring readers that a “new high school” is not currently being discussed…
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: How an Education Department Decision Could Spike Health Care Bills
We face a terrible nursing shortage nationwide already, even before these crippling caps on borrowing take effect…
OPINION: Why We Need a Borderlands Truth & Reconciliation Commission
Families from Pagosa Springs to the Pueblos and throughout the U.S. have already shown what love and resilience look like…
OPINION: Steps We Must Take to Save Our Democracy
Trump has chosen the path of disastrous authoritarianism…
EDITORIAL: The Price of Eggs… and Electricity
When I did a bit of research into “rising electricity rates”, I came across basically three explanations for price increases that generally exceed inflation rates…
EDITORIAL: Sewer Fees, as a Potential Slap in the Face, Part Three
Very few of the elected leaders who sit on our local governing boards have experience in governing multi-million-dollar organizations…
LETTER: We’re All Paying for Trump’s Corruption
Even under the lower tariff, you and I pay more for auto parts and steel while Trump lines his pockets…
BIG PIVOTS: Refusing to Follow Illegal Orders
At Sand Creek, on November 29, 1864, Captain Silas Soule and Lieutenant Joseph Cramer refused to allow their men to participate in the massacre of women and children…
EDITORIAL: Sewer Fees, as a Potential Slap in the Face, Part Two
“At a very minimum, we should hold the fees flat, and look seriously at never increasing them again…”
OPINION: Unite & Rise 8.5
We will engage and mobilize 8.5 million voters to protect and preserve our democracy…
OPINION: Gov. Polis’ Silence on Tina Peters Request Has Been Damaging
The request is corrupt and deserves no consideration. The governor seems to have a different idea…
EDITORIAL: Sewer Fees, as a Potential Slap in the Face, Part One
In this case, only the voters living within the municipal limits saw the 1% sales tax measure on their ballots…
EDITORIAL: Addressing the Housing Crisis, Part Four
Of particular concern are single-parent households, which amounts to about 20% of households with children here in Archuleta County, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis…
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: A ‘Safe’ Gun Policy, to Save Lives?
Undergraduate Christiana Walker and I looked into states which provide tax incentives to purchase equipment that would keep guns safe, including gun safes…
EDITORIAL: Addressing the Housing Crisis, Part Three
“And Ms. Kermode said, over and over again, that nobody is building for 80% AMI. Nobody can build for 80% of AMI. Well, we can. And we do…”
OPINION: Loneliness, Trauma, and the Limits of ‘Self Care’
Why we need a community infrastructure that honors real life…