Category: Opinion/Letters

How will Mr. Fricke and his company, Zipper Valley Ranch LLC, make a profit from the proposal?

Solar, he said, has become the lowest cost resource and the fastest dispatching. But it does have a vulnerability, as does wind: variability….

Zipper Valley is proposing a reservoir sized at about 3,000 acre feet rather than 11,000 acre feet. This size might have multiple benefits for the project…

Not much to like in the big, beautiful bill. But then, it’s only half-time. How hard will key Republicans in Senate push back?

But what exactly did they agree upon? That has become a sticking point in 2025 as states have squared off about rules governing the river…

“Frankly, it appears clear that large-scale reclamation projects primarily for irrigated agriculture appear to be a glory of the past, not the future…”

Zipper Valley made an initial offer to purchase the Ranch and partner on the reservoir back in October 2024…

“I mean, the last thing we want is to build this, and then Pagosa West builds their apartments… but then, nobody can afford the rent…”

“Critically, the Government will undertake a series of measures to help double the rate of home building while creating an entirely new housing industry…”

“I’ve been paying attention to a lot of the things going on at the state level, and I’m very concerned about how the energy code and the WUI code… are going to be forced down on us…”