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Category: Opinion/Letters

OPINION: Supreme Court Decision May Allow Mass Firing of Federal Workers

OPINION: Supreme Court Decision May Allow Mass Firing of Federal Workers

Posted on July 10, 2025July 10, 2025 by Post Contributor

The decision could result in job losses for tens of thousands of employees across the federal government, including drastic cuts at the U.S. Forest Service…

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OPINION: Big Retailers Bend the Knee to Trump

OPINION: Big Retailers Bend the Knee to Trump

Posted on July 10, 2025July 10, 2025 by Colorado Newsline

What makes it worse is that in many marginalized and rural communities, big box stores are often the only place to shop…

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EDITORIAL: Tourism, Taxes, and Turbulence, Part Three

EDITORIAL: Tourism, Taxes, and Turbulence, Part Three

Posted on July 9, 2025August 8, 2025 by Bill Hudson

The Springs Resort recently opened the doors to its new 78-room motel, spa and restaurant, and more than a dozen new geothermal soaking pools…

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BIG PIVOTS: Reflections on Our Current Immigration Debate

Posted on July 9, 2025July 9, 2025 by Allen Best

Looking back, it’s so easy to see the wrongness of Amache… the “prison on the plains” for Japanese-Americans during World War II…

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EDITORIAL: Tourism, Taxes, and Turbulence, Part Two

EDITORIAL: Tourism, Taxes, and Turbulence, Part Two

Posted on July 8, 2025July 9, 2025 by Bill Hudson

The County staff had arranged numerous chairs for what was expected to be a good size audience, but as can be seen in the photo, the public turnout was rather meager…

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EDITORIAL: Tourism, Taxes, and Turbulence, Part One

EDITORIAL: Tourism, Taxes, and Turbulence, Part One

Posted on July 7, 2025July 9, 2025 by Bill Hudson

“Our purpose is to pretty much advocate for the effective use of Lodgers Tax for visitor marketing and advertising for Archuleta County and Pagosa Springs…”

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INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: For God’s Sake, Don’t Shut Down the Weather Satellites

Posted on July 7, 2025July 7, 2025 by John Tures

As I write this, there’s a desperate search for dozens of girls, missing from a flood where the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet in 45 minutes. …

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OPINION: I’m a Vocal Proponent of Cultivated Meat

Posted on July 7, 2025July 7, 2025 by Post Contributor

A number of states, most recently Texas, have preemptively banned the sale of cultivated meat…

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EDITORIAL: Dead Pool, Part Three

EDITORIAL: Dead Pool, Part Three

Posted on July 4, 2025July 4, 2025 by Bill Hudson

It’s not too late. To cut back on water use, I mean…

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OPINION: Amid Threats to Liberty, July 4th Inspires Coloradans

OPINION: Amid Threats to Liberty, July 4th Inspires Coloradans

Posted on July 4, 2025July 4, 2025 by Colorado Newsline

“The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth,” Thomas Paine wrote in 1776…

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EDITORIAL: Dead Pool, Part Two

EDITORIAL: Dead Pool, Part Two

Posted on July 3, 2025July 4, 2025 by Bill Hudson

When discussing water reservoirs, a ‘dead pool’ generally refers to a reservoir where the water level has fallen so low, it can no longer deliver water to its customers…

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OPINION: The Disastrous Impact of Trump’s Immigration Policy

Posted on July 3, 2025July 3, 2025 by Alon Ben-Meir

Our predecessors have sacrificed so much to make a more perfect union with immigrants of every race, religion, creed, and national origin…

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EDITORIAL: Dead Pool, Part One

EDITORIAL: Dead Pool, Part One

Posted on July 2, 2025July 3, 2025 by Bill Hudson

On the one hand, we humans like things to remain comfortably and predictably the same, day after day, and year after year…

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EDITORIAL: The Fires of Summer, Part Three

EDITORIAL: The Fires of Summer, Part Three

Posted on July 1, 2025July 1, 2025 by Bill Hudson

Home builders have six months to get their homes built before the new (and more expensive?) rules go into effect…

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LETTER: Pagosa West is a Proposed Eye Sore the Community Doesn't Need

LETTER: Pagosa West is a Proposed Eye Sore the Community Doesn’t Need

Posted on July 1, 2025August 28, 2025 by Post Contributor

The only positive element of this proposed development is construction of workforce housing.

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INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: Problems With The Big Beautiful Bill

Posted on July 1, 2025July 1, 2025 by John Tures

The more Americans learn about the bill, the less they seem to like it….

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EDITORIAL: The Fires of Summer, Part Two

EDITORIAL: The Fires of Summer, Part Two

Posted on June 30, 2025July 1, 2025 by Bill Hudson

“It sounds like Option A, at this point, has changed. Option A, from the elected officials, would be Wyndham…”

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OPINION: Support Colorado River Environmental Flow Rights at State Board Meeting

Posted on June 30, 2025June 30, 2025 by Gary Wockner

The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) is considering a request by large Front Range water providers…

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OPINION: Gov. Polis Joins Team MAGA

Posted on June 30, 2025June 30, 2025 by Colorado Newsline

Jared Polis has made his office an extension of Trump’s lawless immigration enforcement program…

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