“During the 40 years I’ve lived here, we’ve seen Pagosa get strung out from Highway 84 all the way out Highway 160, and we just missed doing something downtown…”
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: A Secret Meeting… Revealed, Part Two
“What is in the best interests of the town, long term, for traffic circulation? So if you want to do a Lease Purchase…”
EDITORIAL: A Secret Meeting… Revealed, Part One
“The third option is to consider, basically, what is called a Lease Purchase. And this is essentially the same mechanism that the Town used to finance Lewis Street…”
EDITORIAL: The Creation of a Colorado Charter School, Part Nine
When we no longer have the ability to earn a paycheck, how will we pay the rent? Will the robot, who has taken over our job, pay it for us?
EDITORIAL: The Creation of a Colorado Charter School, Part Eight
But the food… that the children are eating… is it really healthful?
EDITORIAL: The Creation of a Colorado Charter School, Part Seven
This 300-page application explains how the academic model will be facilitated, how the school will be staffed, how teachers will be recruited and trained and evaluated, how Special Education students will be accommodated…
EDITORIAL: The Creation of a Colorado Charter School, Part Six
There’s probably nothing like trying to start a charter school, to give the average citizen a real education about the government’s regulation of childhood in America….
EDITORIAL: The Creation of a Colorado Charter School, Part Five
The Colorado legislature thought, back in 1993, that charter schools might be part of the answer to improving education for the state’s children. Obviously, it hasn’t been the whole answer…
EDITORIAL: The Creation of a Colorado Charter School, Part Four
“We were fortunate to get a $5 million grant, back in the days of the first George Bush administration, as part of an initiative to create ‘break the mold’ American schools…”
EDITORIAL: The Creation of a Colorado Charter School, Part Three
Read Part One If you are thinking about starting a charter school in Colorado, you should probably consider the comment we heard while visiting the READ MORE
EDITORIAL: The Creation of a Colorado Charter School, Part Two
After 18 months of research, the volunteer board of the Pagosa Peak Open School has settled upon the idea that they want children to leave their school — and to enter adulthood — with a strong sense of purpose…
EDITORIAL: The Creation of a Colorado Charter School, Part One
We’ve created choices, but we’ve also created competition — publicly funded competition — and that makes us uncomfortable….
EDITORIAL: The Price of Gravel, Part Four
“His ruling was that the plaintiffs’ request for an injunction was denied, based upon specific findings of fact that he articulated, on the record….”
EDITORIAL: The Price of Gravel, Part Three
“I think for anybody who really looks at this, the economics are staggering, as far as the benefits to Archuleta County…”
EDITORIAL: The Price of Gravel, Part Two
“We had signs on our fence — the one fence that we had — and those signs said, ‘Fishermen welcome, respect your privilege…”
EDITORIAL: The Price of Gravel, Part One
“The roads being considered have had significant degradation since the county began allowing truck traffic along Cascade Avenue, a steep and winding gravel road as well as Buttress Avenue, Meadows Blvd., and South Pagosa Blvd…”
EDITORIAL: Voters Can Make Colorado History in PAWSD Election
“The first benefit of TABOR protection is obvious: general property tax revenue is placed under commonsense controls…”
EDITORIAL: Facts and Fantasies About the Bridge to Nowhere, Part Five
I have a fantasy, for example, about honest local government, making legal decisions in open meetings and valuing the opinions of the citizens who fund them and for whom these governments were created…
EDITORIAL: Facts and Fantasies About the Bridge to Nowhere, Part Four
“So, could you address those? If those are questions that have been asserted before, and we have them tonight, can you answer those questions?”