Tonight, at 5:30pm, the Town Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on a proposal to develop yet another subdivision…
Category: Opinion/Letters
OPINION: Heat Pump Rebate Program Could Threaten Small Businesses in Colorado
A major blindspot is just coming into view, and it may change the service industry in Colorado forever…
OPINION: What I Heard from Voters in Pagosa Springs
One lesson from this tour is that rural communities are not asking for special treatment. They are simply asking to not be overlooked…
OPINION: The Unsettling Legacy of Alan Greenspan
“It is no exaggeration to say the global financial crisis of 2008 had an enormous and lasting impact on American life…”
EDITORIAL: Some Very Expensive Mistakes, Part Three
Last week, at the June 16 Town Council meeting, Town Manager David Harris asked the Council to approve additional expenditures to keep the pipeline functioning…
EDITORIAL: Some Very Expensive Mistakes, Part Two
“For the estimated amount of water needed based on the conceptual plan, we expect approximately 58,420 gallons per day…”
OPINION: Considering the Long Struggle for Educational Opportunity on Juneteenth
Many of the teachers had no formal training, and some of them were local Black people who were self-taught….
EDITORIAL: Some Very Expensive Mistakes, Part One
“The whole point is, it’s got to be synergistic with the residential, and with the commercial. It’s something that Pagosa has never seen…”
BIG PIVOTS: The Challenges Facing the Colorado and Republican Rivers
“We’re closer to the end (of the life of the aquifer) than the beginning…”
EDITORIAL: Archuleta School Board Wonders How You Would Vote, Part Four
We’ve seen evidence that the Archuleta County community supports our public schools, in particular through the creation of the Mill Levy Override in 2018…
OPINION: Telling the Real History of USA at 250
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, with its condemnation of top-down governance, inspired people in the colonies to join in the revolt…
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: The Generation Reagan Warned Us About?
“In the United States, the decline in freedom stemmed from a combination of long-term patterns and recent development…”
EDITORIAL: Archuleta School Board Wonders How You Would Vote, Part Three
The government debt for the proposed PreK-8 school facility on Vista Boulevard has been estimated at about $220 million… if it were financed by general obligation bonds…
OPINION: ‘Even God Cannot Change the Past’
In one instance, Andrew Taake, who has been pardoned by Trump, pleaded guilty to assaulting police with bear spray and a metal whip…
EDITORIAL: Archuleta School Board Wonders How You Would Vote, Part Two
At the regular meeting of the School Board on June 3, PPOS school director Emily Murphy explained her school’s need for upgrades…
OPINION: America is Repeating Brazil’s Amazon Disaster
The current management approach is not only ecologically misguided — it is fiscally corrupt in its priorities…
EDITORIAL: Archuleta School Board Wonders How You Would Vote, Part One
ASD could go to the voters this coming November, asking them to fund the entire $220 million bond issue, funded by a local property tax increase…
BORDERLANDS HEALTH: Beyond the Pride Banner
There are moments in small towns when change becomes visible not through policy reports or mission statements, but through ordinary human scenes…
OPINION: Federal Policies Put Public Lands Elk Habitat on the Chopping Block
“We don’t have a shortage of road access on public lands. We have a shortage of intact habitat…”