According to the American Film Institute, there are five lines of dialogue from ‘Casablanca’ in the Top 100 movie quotes of all time….
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: The Cost of a County Airport, Part One
The central focus of Commissioner Brown’s comments seemed to be on the problems at Stevens Field…
HMPRESENTLY: Regardless of Principles
There’s plenty of opportunism all around, and the resulting fallout probably are evident in the wealth gap…
LETTER: Be Sure to See ‘Godspell’ at PSCA
The high energy characters will have you laughing, clapping, singing, crying; along with the chance for on-stage interactions with the cast…
EDITORIAL: A Perfectly Good Little Town, Part Seven
Yesterday in Part Six, I shared the comment that the Pagosa Springs Apartments wanted to convert 98 motel rooms into tiny apartment units…
OPINION: My Pillow Moving Company, in Pagosa?
This morning, I was researching how inexpensive it would be to purchase a 2007 or 2008 Freightliner Dock Truck…
EDITORIAL: A Perfectly Good Little Town, Part Six
I awoke this morning, early, from a dream about Julie McCluskie. Actually, not about Julie McCluskie, the person, but about her name. “Julie McCluskie”…
EDITORIAL: A Perfectly Good Little Town, Part Five
“Tiny Home Villages may be served by a public sanitation district, by a centralized On-site Wastewater Treatment System (OWTS), or by individual OWTSs…”
OPINION: Prioritize Public Good on Public Lands
The Biden administration has heard what residents want on Bureau of Land Management lands: conservation…
LETTER: Disaffiliating Methodists
To date, over 6,000 US congregations have chosen to disaffiliate from the UMC, which constitutes 20% of the denomination in the U.S….
OPINION: ‘Wolf of Airbnb’ Pleads Guilty
Konrad Bicher has agreed to forfeit $1,740,407 and must also make restitution to victims in the amount of $1,985,251…
EDITORIAL: A Perfectly Good Little Town, Part Four
Apparently, things have gotten bad enough to make even the BOCC reconsider its beliefs…
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: United Methodists, Better Together
In another meeting among congregants, it sounded more like those angry over losses in the 2020 election… were looking for revenge…
OPINION: The Dangers of ‘Lifestyle Creep’
It was that last example of Lifestyle Creep, that really caught my attention…
HMPRESENTLY: Delving Inside My Own Brain
That blood in my brain might get re-absorbed in the fluid surrounding my brain, which would be way cool, since a brain bleed can self-heal.…
EDITORIAL: July 15 is Deadline for Property Valuation Appeals
As I understand the appeals process, the Assessor or her staff will have a chance to review your appeal before it is sent to the CBOE…
EDITORIAL: A Perfectly Good Little Town, Part Three
So we have a curious situation. Workers, who were in their 20s in 1948, were already ‘mid-career’ when American wages began to stagnate…
OPINION: ‘303 Creative’ was a Fabricated Case with Real Consequences
In the annals of terrible Supreme Court decisions, the ‘303 Creative’ case validating discrimination against LGBTQ Americans will be listed as one of the worst…