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Category: Opinion/Letters
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…
EDITORIAL: The Town Deals with a Big Stink, Part Five
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…
EDITORIAL: The Town Deals with a Big Stink, Part Four
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…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Tides of Change
As a glass-half-full guy, I’ve taken a positive view of parts of Florida reverting to seabed…
EDITORIAL: The Town Deals with a Big Stink, Part Three
So roughly $1 million, over the next 20 years? I’m not sure if the “20-year cost” quoted here allows for inflation…
EDITORIAL: The Town Deals with a Big Stink, Part Two
In January 2012, the Town Council — acting the PSSGID board of directors — approved the sewer pipeline IGA during a contentious meeting at Town Hall…
EDITORIAL: The Town Deals with a Big Stink, Part One
The smell of rotten eggs blends poorly with rural suburban living and beautiful mountain vista, I am told…
EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Fourteen
“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…”
EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Thirteen
Clearly, socialism is not cheap, when governments feel justified about putting citizens deeply in debt without their approval…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Of Tourism
Tourism has been an integral part of Florida’s economy, for good and ill, since… well, since Ponce De Leon came ashore in 1513…
OPINION: How Long, Oh Lord?
How much more time do we need? How much more time do we have?
EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Twelve
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…
EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Eleven
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…