Category: Opinion/Letters

For five years it’s been nonstop: fires, floods, COVID, housing crises, and now this. Many of us are tired, but we know that resilience is a shared muscle…

“Mister!” he said with a sawdusty sneeze. “I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees… I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues…”

“It takes hundreds of years for our native pines to grow to full maturity and only days to destroy the natural beauty we know and love here in Pagosa…”

“I come from a rural community as well, where people don’t necessarily rely on government to do things for us.  Which is a good thing.  But it’s also a bad thing…”

The goal at this stage is to encourage correction through the political and administrative process, avoiding unnecessary litigation by ensuring the Town complies fully with its own Code…

“So we’ve collected that data, and we have, I think, 34 homes that have been affected…”

“What do boys and teenagers ask for when they want to read something?” I asked…

“Now we’re just working with everybody and trying to get feedback from residents and find out what exactly they need from us, and where we can help…”

“I absolutely support what Build Pagosa and our CTE program are.  I think it has the potential to be an economic life line, honestly, in Pagosa…”

“Archuleta School District has the vision of providing this space and augmenting its CTE capacity. You have demonstrated good faith by investing in CTE classes…”

“So what money do we have for this?  We have raised over $4 million now for this, which has been an extraordinary effort from many different people…”

“College is not for everyone, but a career with a liveable wage should be…”

The preamble of the state constitution mostly mirrors the U.S. Constitution’s opening words, including its commitment to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity…”