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Category: Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: The Town Deals with a Big Stink, Part Five

EDITORIAL: The Town Deals with a Big Stink, Part Five

Posted on January 14, 2020January 14, 2020 by Bill Hudson

Jim Isgar, Colorado’s State Director of USDA Rural Development — and former State Senator for District 6 — stood on fresh fill dirt near the Town’s southern border…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: The Town Deals with a Big Stink, Part Four

EDITORIAL: The Town Deals with a Big Stink, Part Four

Posted on January 13, 2020August 31, 2022 by Bill Hudson

John Bozek stood up and asked why the Intergovernmental Agreement clutched in the hands of various Town Council members and PAWSD board members had never been made public…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Tides of Change

Posted on January 13, 2020June 9, 2023 by Gary Beatty

As a glass-half-full guy, I’ve taken a positive view of parts of Florida reverting to seabed…

Posted in Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: The Town Deals with a Big Stink, Part Three

Posted on January 10, 2020January 14, 2020 by Bill Hudson

So roughly $1 million, over the next 20 years? I’m not sure if the “20-year cost” quoted here allows for inflation…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: The Town Deals with a Big Stink, Part Two

Posted on January 9, 2020March 5, 2022 by Bill Hudson

In January 2012, the Town Council — acting the PSSGID board of directors — approved the sewer pipeline IGA during a contentious meeting at Town Hall…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: The Town Deals with a Big Stink, Part One

Posted on January 8, 2020March 5, 2022 by Bill Hudson

The smell of rotten eggs blends poorly with rural suburban living and beautiful mountain vista, I am told…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Fourteen

EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Fourteen

Posted on January 7, 2020June 8, 2020 by Bill Hudson

“For a community, rapid growth is easy. Bolstered by state and federal funding… municipal bond debt financing… tax incentives and deferrals… towns that want to induce new development have many means of doing so…”

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Thirteen

EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Thirteen

Posted on January 6, 2020January 7, 2020 by Bill Hudson

Clearly, socialism is not cheap, when governments feel justified about putting citizens deeply in debt without their approval…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Of Tourism

Posted on January 6, 2020June 13, 2023 by Gary Beatty

Tourism has been an integral part of Florida’s economy, for good and ill, since… well, since Ponce De Leon came ashore in 1513…

Posted in Opinion/Letters

OPINION: How Long, Oh Lord?

Posted on January 6, 2020January 6, 2020 by Winslow Myers

How much more time do we need? How much more time do we have?

Posted in Essays/Poetry, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Twelve

Posted on January 3, 2020January 6, 2020 by Bill Hudson

Without spectacular growth, local governments cannot afford to maintain the streets and parks and buildings they’ve built to serve the public’s needs and wants…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Eleven

Posted on January 2, 2020January 3, 2020 by Bill Hudson

Main Street USA was inspired by Walt Disney’s hometown of Marceline, Missouri and it’s designed to resemble an idealized turn-of-the-20th-century (c. 1910) American town…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Ten

Posted on December 31, 2019January 2, 2020 by Bill Hudson

The place I was most excited to visit, as an eight-year-old, was Tomorrowland…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

LETTER: The Shadow War

Posted on December 31, 2019December 31, 2019 by Post Contributor

Both Russia and China are aggressively jointly practicing a “high-low” strategy of hostility…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Nine

Posted on December 30, 2019December 31, 2019 by Bill Hudson

Of the fourteen ideas listed, more than half — eight of them, to be exact — reference “walking” or “recreation.” Our current Council seems wonderfully interested in increased pedestrian activity…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Eight

EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Eight

Posted on December 27, 2019December 30, 2019 by Bill Hudson

Mr. Simpson made a preliminary presentation to the Town Planning Commission on November 26, showing rough sketches of the proposed low-income town homes. The plan was praised by the Town Planning department…

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

OPINION: A 21st Century Solution for American Morality

Posted on December 26, 2019December 26, 2019 by Post Contributor

The United States can restore the trust that allows civil society to flourish by emphasizing the values that have long bound us together, and by adopting the newer values of shared power and racial equity…

Posted in Education/Health, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Seven

Posted on December 26, 2019December 27, 2019 by Bill Hudson

“I realized that if the economic conversations taking place in parliaments, in boardrooms and in the media worldwide are going to change, then the fundamental economic ideas taught in schools and universities have to be transformed, too….”

Posted in News/Politics, Opinion/Letters

OPINION: Health Care in 2019, the Year in Review

Posted on December 26, 2019December 26, 2019 by Post Contributor

While the ACA remains the law of the land, the current administration continues to take executive actions that erode coverage and other gains…

Posted in Education/Health, Opinion/Letters
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