“We should have a comprehensive list of potential partners… see if we can find somebody interested in partnering up with us, because — as far as PAWSD is concerned — we can’t afford to build a dam….”
Category: Opinion/Letters
LETTER: Senator Gardner Profits from Special Interest Lobbyists at Fundraiser
Coloradans are demanding protections for our public lands. We are struggling with the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs…
EDITORIAL: A Healthy Discussion About an Unhealthy Project? Part One
Some divorces are ugly, and the divorce between PAWSD and SJWCD could have been viewed that way, except that the two boards jointly own 666 acres of gazing land…
EDITORIAL: The Art of Seeing the Future, Part Nine
In my book, there is no shame in trying and failing. (I do that regularly myself.) There’s no shame in trying a second or third time, with a different approach…
EDITORIAL: The Art of Seeing the Future, Part Eight
This is, of course, a computer’s opinion about my place of residence. No human being connected with WalkScore.com has ever strolled through my neighborhood…
EDITORIAL: The Art of Seeing the Future, Part Seven
These are not new ideas. Pagosa’s leadership has been talking about creating a walkable town for 20 years, at least…
EDITORIAL: The Art of Seeing the Future, Part Six
So I don’t know what to think. Do we have a parking problem in Pagosa? I don’t believe we do… except maybe inside the pages of the LUDC…
LETTER: Impeachment Trial Exposing Hypocrisy
Speaking of voter fraud and hypocrisy, the Republican Party has gone to great lengths to make it harder for “the people” to vote…
EDITORIAL: The Art of Seeing the Future, Part Five
One might assume that the arrival of the world’s largest retailer in the midst of a mostly-vacant mixed-use subdivision would be “Catalytic…”
EDITORIAL: The Art of Seeing the Future, Part Four
“Pagosa’s prime downtown development site is available for purchase. The historic Adobe site fronts US Hwy 160 and Lewis Street, situated adjacent to the Town Bell Tower and across from the Courthouse…”
EDITORIAL: The Art of Seeing the Future, Part Three
Is there a close correlation between the 363 goals listed in the Comprehensive Plan and the 56 goals adopted by the Town Council last summer?
EDITORIAL: The Art of Seeing the Future, Part Two
The sight of a bird being fried to death is so common at the Ivanpah Solar Plant in California’s Mojave Desert, that workers have nicknamed the smouldering birds “streamers”…
OPINION: Celebrating Dr. King in an Age of White Lies
“Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. taught us to love one another, accept each other, celebrate our differences, and remember that which brings us together — we are all God’s children…”
EDITORIAL: The Art of Seeing the Future, Part One
In a sense, however, we are all amateur fortunetellers. When I set my alarm at bedtime, I am essentially predicting that I will wake up at 5:15am and head into the kitchen to make a cup of coffee…
OPINION: Bennet Criticizes President’s Defiance of Congress
“This week, we learned that the president may once again defy Congress by seeking to redirect $7.2 billion from the military to pay for his border wall…”
LETTER: Misinformation Campaign Regarding Health Insurance
Private insurance drowns us in confusing complexity causing excessive and costly paperwork…
EDITORIAL: The Town Deals with a Big Stink, Part Seven
“The friction between the water molecules and these large bubbles causes far more diffusion of DO into the water than any number of fine bubbles…”
EDITORIAL: The Town Deals with a Big Stink, Part Six
The generosity written into the 2012 IGA appeared, on the face of it, to be a one-way street benefiting the Town sewer customers…
LETTER: We Need Energy Innovation to Combat Climate Change
Over 3,500 economists, including 27 Nobel Prize-winners and top economic advisers to presidents of both parties, have endorsed a plan to fight climate change…