At some point, we have to wake up from our dream…
Category: Opinion/Letters
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: You Can’t Get Paid for Being Offended
So how did some in the media spin the Supreme Court’s ruling? Here are a few examples…
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: Choosing the Right Speaker of the House
Republicans may find that putting the grownups back in charge is the best strategy for retaining the House…
EDITORIAL: Bad Test Scores, Part One
I’m curious how many of our Daily Post readers — in particular, perhaps, those with college degrees — could confidently answer this question?…
EDITORIAL: My Pagosa Crystal Ball is Dark & Cloudy… Part Four
I stopped by, to get a photo of a small construction crew working on a Habitat for Humanity home on Ranger Park Drive, in the Trails subdivision…
OPINION: Denver Water Required to Do New NEPA Analysis for Gross Dam Expansion Scheme
If Denver Water could not properly estimate how much rock material they needed to build a massive new dam, what else have they estimated incorrectly?
EDITORIAL: My Pagosa Crystal Ball is Dark & Cloudy… Part Three
The Colorado Demographer’s Office has consistently overestimated population growth in Archuleta County… by a sizable margin of error…
EDITORIAL: My Pagosa Crystal Ball is Dark & Cloudy… Part Two
Will workers want a low-paying tourist industry job in Pagosa Springs, if they are required to commute from New Mexico?
ESSAY: Issues Hover Around a Proposed Terry Robinson Road Helipad, Part Two
“The Planning Commission has ample information to absolutely put a full stop on this application. …”
EDITORIAL: My Pagosa Crystal Ball is Dark & Cloudy… Part One
I attended a meeting of the Pagosa Springs Community Development Corporation last week and heard about some ambitious plans…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: How’s Your Lifestyle?
I felt like asking, “What about those of us who have a life — not a lifestyle?”
ESSAY: Issues Hover Around Proposed Terry Robinson Road Helipad, Part One
I’m a sucker for a good cause and a great story. This issue seemed to have both. I was beginning to recognize why I might care…
EDITORIAL: Flip-Flops at the BOCC, and other Controversies, Part Four
As part of the 2008 sale of the Running Iron Ranch, the family had negotiated full use of the ranch property for cattle grazing and gravel mining for 15 years
OPINION: Public Schools Must Teach the Contention of Democracy, Not Censor It
Attacks on public education that seek to defund and muzzle it divert our attention away from the civic ideas on which the United States was founded…
EDITORIAL: Flip-Flops at the BOCC, and Other Controversies, Part Three
On Chili Beach in Queensland, Australia, 4,696 flip-flops had washed ashore and were collected during a five-day clean up effort…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Every Refuge Has Its Price
Changes in female pheromone receptors resulting from use of oral contraceptives interfere with detection of MHC genes…
EDITORIAL: Flip-Flops at the BOCC, and other Controversies, Part Two
The discussion was not simply about flip-flops. It was also about control, and freedom of choice…
EDITORIAL: Flip-Flops at the BOCC, and other Controversies, Part One
“This [Handbook] is the foundation, for the County, to let our employees know what we’re doing for them, and what our expectations are, of them…”