Meyer’s words, “Get out of my house, you assholes!” weren’t as poetic as those Whittier attributed to Fritchie…
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: High Altitude Spending, Part Six
One question the PAWSD Board will, I suspect, be considering: Who should pay for this $40 million improvement?
HMPRESENTLY: Out of the Blue
A ‘missive’ came to me at just the right time, as I was reading in my phone’s newsfeed about Alaska’s shrinking Mendenhall glacier…
EDITORIAL: High Altitude Spending, Part Five
A mass evacuation has been taking place in Yellowknife, NWT, Canada over the past several days, with about 19,000 of the town’s 20,000 residents leaving by plane or vehicle…
OPINION: Governors, Farmers, Cities Put Glen Canyon Dam in Crosshairs of Colorado River EIS
An alternative examining bypassing water around or through Glen Canyon Dam must be developed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Doctor, Doctor, Mr. MD…
After hearing the evidence, he said something “off the record” that I still recall, exactly as he said it…
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: The Power of the Media, to Pick a President
Several GOP candidates will stand on the stage, and compete for the interest of the American people this week…
EDITORIAL: High Altitude Spending, Part Four
“The building is very specialized; the price per square foot is tremendous. It’s only about 420 square feet, but it’s very specialized…
EDITORIAL: High Altitude Spending, Part Three
The plan, still in a preliminary state, is to hire Wesley Properties LLC (or maybe Wesley Development LLC) to construct a 25,000 square-foot Administration Building…
GROWING PAINS: Where is the County STR Task Force?
A publicly available online mapping tool would provide the public with a means to inspect neighborhoods, and provide feedback…
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: Are College Students Losing Their Religion?
When actually focusing on the direct connection between religious beliefs and higher education, the connection is there…
EDITORIAL: High Altitude Spending, Part Two
This implies that — according to Ms. Green — we can expect to see fewer tourist in 2024 than we saw in 2019, before the COVID crisis…
HMPRESENTLY: Imagining Myself as an Influencer
Wondering about all-electric and hybrid vehicles, as an influencer, I could doing that, too…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Property Lines
As with all properties we buy, when we negotiated the purchase of our Aspen Springs land we required a survey at the seller’s expense as a condition of the contract…
EDITORIAL: High Altitude Spending, Part One
“My concern is that we have people submitting bids at such a low price, and then are going to come back to the County afterwards to ask for money to have utilities installed…”
EDITORIAL: Town Council Considers the Near Future, Part Four
Speaking of money, our governments and special districts are now in the beginning process of defining their budgets for the 2024 fiscal year…
HMPRESENTLY: Error-Prone Leadership
Everyone makes mistakes, every once in a while, but the former president seems to compound mistakes…
EDITORIAL: Town Council Considers the Near Future, Part Three
I’m thinking, this morning, about what essentials people need to survive in a rural town in the middle of a scenic ‘nowhere’…