Category: Opinion/Letters

Let’s be point-blank and loud and clear — the status quo is a disaster, the river is collapsing, and it’s all a high-stakes leadership failure…

Hegseth’s gathering put the choice squarely before them. And the generals did not have to wrestle with it in isolation. They looked each other in the eye…

“Instead, it is a culmination of sophisticated, organized campaigns of targeted intimidation, radicalization, threats, and violence designed to silence opposing speech…”

“The Colorado Health Foundation is deeply concerned about a new federal memo directing government agencies to investigate and disrupt networks, organizations and funders…”

“A Mineral Fee is also proposed under Scenario 2. Instead of charging the hot springs resorts directly, the cost is shifted to the hot springs customers as a “turnstile” fee…”

I mentioned, previously, my opinion that the Springs Resort has had its operations generously subsidized by the town taxpayers since the mid-1990s…

The geothermal heat exchanger is housed in a metal building currently receiving colorful murals on all four sides…

Back in the early 1980s, in the midst of an oil crisis, the U.S. Department of Energy provided a sizable grant to the Town of Pagosa Springs…

“We started having damage and we started having human waste issues. Everything that we told them would happen started happening…”

“Are you living on the same amount of money that you were living on 30 years ago? I’m not. None of us are, because we can’t…”

“That’s way too much money to take out of an economy as small as ours. It will hurt us. And I think the biggest hurt will be Road & Bridge…”

“What were we doing? How did we do it? And how could we know if we were having the effect we wanted?…”

“I’ve already written to you folks about what I think of this administration building, and I am going to hold my ground on that today…”