When I’m allowed to water my lawn for purely aesthetic purposes, for the past 17 years, I have a hard time believing that we had an honest-to-goodness “drought situation” in Archuleta County…
Category: Opinion/Letters
OPINION: Most Americans Reject ‘America First’ Policy
By contrast, 77 percent said the government spent “too little” on education, 71 percent said it spent “too little” on assistance to the poor, and 70 percent said it spent “too little” on improving and protecting the nation’s health…
EDITORIAL: What Can Be Done with the Dispatch Center? Part Three
To generate that number of phone calls, every man, woman and child in Archuleta County would need to call the Dispatch Center more than ten times every year…
EDITORIAL: What Can Be Done with the Dispatch Center? Part One
“The Dispatch Center takes all 911 calls within the County and dispatches the appropriate agencies. They receive over 8,000 911 calls per year…”
EDITORIAL: Coffee With Council… and a Zoning Question, Part Four
In order to accomplish this goal of devitalizing the downtown, the BOCC needs the Town Council to approve the re-zoning of a 5-acre parcel in the core of the Harman Park commercial area…
EDITORIAL: Coffee With Council… and a Zoning Question, Part Three
“With a city entirely zoned, they [realtors] could assure purchasers of residential property that their neighborhoods would never be encroached upon by business…”
EDITORIAL: Coffee With Council… and a Zoning Question, Part Two
Meanwhile, on the other side of town, the Planning Commission was looking at changing the zoning for a parcel in Harman Park, to accommodate a new $14 million jail…
EDITORIAL: Coffee With Council… and a Zoning Question, Part One
The Town Planning Commission might make a recommendation this evening, about re-zoning the County-owned parcel. Or perhaps they will agree to study the issue more carefully before deciding….
EDITORIAL: The Big Picture, Part Six
“While American companies lead in making essential 5G technologies, there are no longer any U.S. manufacturers of core telecommunications network equipment….”
EDITORIAL: The Big Picture, Part Five
The reason American manufacturing jobs have disappeared, and the reason American agricultural jobs have disappeared, has very little to do with “globalization” or “immigration”…
EDITORIAL: The Legend of Tear-Down Brown
“Parking, congestion, there’s gotta be a lot of things that we need to think about and address before we start throwing money into this pit…”
EDITORIAL: The Big Picture, Part Four
But the thousands of documents leaked by Mr. Snowdon revealed something perhaps even more important than the fact that the US government was spying on its own citizens…
EDITORIAL: The Big Picture, Part Three
As we see, the Participation Rate of adults in the job market hit a high point of 67.3 in March 2000, and then began to decline, falling to a low point of 62.5 in October 2015…
EDITORIAL: The Big Picture, Part Two
Millennials — the young people born between 1981 and 2000 — are now the largest generation of Americans, but their numbers are generally declining in rural America…
EDITORIAL: The Big Picture, Part One
“We have sold our store and want to let you know how much we sincerely appreciate all our great loyal customers, your smiles, and your friendship. Thank you for the last 4 years….”
EDITORIAL: Red Flags, in a Red County, Part Two
“Should the search and seizure be ordered by the judge, a second hearing then occurs where the gun owner is tasked with proving that they deserve to have their Second Amendment right reinstated……”
EDITORIAL: Red Flags, in a Red County, Part One
“A RESOLUTION BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF ARCHULETA COUNTY, COLORADO, DECLARING ARCHULETA COUNTY TO BE A SECOND AMENDMENT PRESERVATION COUNTY…”
EDITORIAL: Town Council Looks at Repeal of Impact Fees, Part Two
The Town of Pagosa Springs put impact fees in place back in 2006, based on the claim that new commercial and residential development was going to put added stress on municipal infrastructure and facilities…
EDITORIAL: Whiskey is for Drinking, Water is for Fighting; Part Nine
How much water does drip irrigation save? Estimates suggest that farmers can save at least 40 percent of their irrigation water on a per-acre basis. But it gets better….