“The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing…”
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: The Future of Our Public Schools, Part One
Typically, projects on the BEST ‘waitlist’ have a good chance of getting funded if they reapply in future years…
OPINION: Clarifying the Climate Predictions
According to a recent report by an international panel of climate scientists, the worst-case climate scenario has been revised downward…
OPINION: History Will Not Yield to Power
At this critical juncture, the moral imperative is as compelling as the strategic one…
EDITORIAL: The Cost of Wildfire Preparations, Part Four
Is that the best place to spend $750,000 taxpayer dollars? We do not currently have a well-documented plan that supports such an assumption…
BORDERLANDS HEALTH: The Body Keeps the Fallout, Part Two
Depending on exposure category and illness, qualifying individuals and some surviving family members may receive one-time compensation payments of up to $100,000…
OPINION: Post-9/11 Wars Have Cost Lives But Accomplished Nothing
“Trillions of tax dollars spent, thousands of U.S. military service members dead, and tens of thousands wounded. The toll on the rest of the world is even more staggering…”
OPINION: Candidate Scott Bottoms Challenging Colorado’s Entrenched Power Structure
A sitting lawmaker in a deep-blue state openly accusing the Supreme Court and Attorney General of self-protection and corruption…
EDITORIAL: The Cost of Wildfire Preparations, Part Three
“The Oak Fire, broadly speaking, was about $2 million in suppression. And that lasted three days. $660,000 was spent on the first Sunday afternoon…”
BORDERLANDS HEALTH: The Body Keeps the Fallout, Part One
There was a point when we almost lost my mother. Stage 4 colon cancer. Pain that kept escalating…
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: Preventing Veteran Suicides on Memorial Day
Ramchand and Montoya add that “Among veterans receiving VHA care, those who had limited economic resources consistently had elevated suicide rates…”
EDITORIAL: The Cost of Wildfire Preparations, Part Two
“Based on the highest figures we’re looking at, and that’s in cooperation with the Forest Service… it puts it at about a $750,000 project…”
OPINION: After the Servers Go Dark
Across the United States, communities are evaluating whether to host a new generation of infrastructure: hyperscale data centers…
EDITORIAL: The Cost of Wildfire Preparations, Part One
“We did have an assessment done, and there’s about $720 million worth of property in that area. And that’s only about 1/3 of the PLPOA area…”
EDITORIAL: PAWSD Looks Ahead… to a Potential Budget Crunch, Part Two
“The PAWSD 2026 budget was already thin, leaving little room for any budget shortfalls. The impact of the CIF revenue miss directly erodes our DSCR…”
OPINION: Governor Polis Helping to Hand Out ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards
After Tina Peters’ conviction, President Trump regularly used the presidential bully pulpit to pressure Governor Polis to pardon Peters…
EDITORIAL: PAWSD Looks Ahead… to a Potential Budget Crunch, Part One
Mr. Dossett suggests that this “revenue miss” is not merely a seasonal fluctuation. Perhaps, it reflects a structural change in the Pagosa Springs economy…
EDITORIAL: A Safe Place for Young Men with Developmental Disabilities, Part Four
The organization has raised about 75% of the funding needed to build the house, but another $644,000 remains to be raised…
OPINION: Open Letter to My Pagosa Lakes Property Owners Association Neighbors
We should, at a minimum, add an appeal process to our ECC Board decisions to state our case in front of the Board of Directors…