Category: Opinion/Letters

This past year, CDOT attempted to maintain, repair and plow over 23,000 total lane miles of highway across the state of Colorado, with an annual budget of about $900 million…

The lawsuit approved at the conclusion of the June 18 BOCC meeting concerns a different road. Bristlecone Drive, now sporting a “Private Road – No Trespassing” sign…

“The only part in controversy right now is the 1,400 feet. And that’s what the intent of the motion was to address… because the rest of Bristlecone… has been dedicated to the public…”

Referring to themselves as ‘Resilient Archuleta’, they’ve organized a couple of public meetings to discuss ways in which Archuleta County could be better prepared for natural and economic disasters…

It appears there will be plenty of mud to clean up along the River Walk, once the water drops. (And it will drop, eventually.) And in the meantime, the boaters will have a great time…

We will never know who was pushing this “Emergency Ordinance” because all of the Council debate took place behind closed doors, in executive sessions…

Decibel meters measure sound pressure levels. A decibel meter doesn’t care of the sound pressure is coming from a lawnmower, or an electric guitar, or a coffee grinder, or a crying baby…

Pagosa rock bands have entertained people in Town Park, at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts, on Lewis Street under a tent, at the County Fair, on the putting green at the Pagosa Golf Club, and on the football field at Pagosa Springs High School…

We can certainly understand the good intentions behind the Noise Control Act of 1972. Recent advancements in transportation technology had come with a high price, when measured in ‘decibels…’

The fact that other cities and towns may have abused the Urban Renewal Law doesn’t mean that the Town of Pagosa Springs ought to do the same thing…

“With all this going on, I haven’t heard anything about the commitment that the Town would make, or the County, to improve the downtown. I look up and down the [main commercial block] and what do I see?…”

The Town entered into an ‘economic incentive’ package with Colorado-based Hometown Markets, with a promise of tax subsidies and fee waivers valued at about $500,000…

Based on what I remember seeing that evening, I walked out onto the vacant 27-acre parcel that attorney Benedetti was promoting as the site for a possible ‘Urban Renewal Authority’ treatment, and snapped a photo…

“The general assembly finds and declares that there exist in municipalities of this state slum and blighted areas which constitute a serious and growing menace, injurious to the public health, safety, morals, and welfare…”

During the late 1950s, the spiraling nuclear arms race, poverty in economically underdeveloped nations, and underfunded public services in the United States inspired considerable thought among socially-conscious Americans…