We don’t have a large homeless population in Pagosa Springs, but do we have a large population that are “severely cost burdened” by housing costs…
Category: Opinion/Letters
Colorado Lawmakers Spotlight State-Driven Solutions to Affordability Issues
“We are living in a time where corporate profits go unchecked while hardworking people struggle to live paycheck to paycheck…”
EDITORIAL: Dream of a Tiny Home Village, Part Five
The Professor mentions two topics that we’ve tried to address here in the Daily Post on a regular basis…
EDITORIAL: Dream of a Tiny Home Village, Part Four
“We’d like to pitch this as ‘Bring Your Own Tiny Home’. That’s what Escalante Village did in Durango…”
OPINION: Colorado is Ready to Protect Voting Rights
Let’s keep Colorado a leader in accessible and fair elections. Let’s protect our democracy and ensure that every vote counts…
EDITORIAL: Dream of a Tiny Home Village, Part Three
Almost exactly four years ago — in March 2021 — the Daily Post ran an op-ed about a “tiny home village” proposed by Dallas-based developers Legacy Alliance…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Measles
Nearly all us boomer kids also got mumps, and chicken pox. At some point one of us would get a childhood illness, and within a week all the neighborhood kids were infected…
OPINION: Climate Feedback
Furthermore, about half of the CO2 humans emit stays in the atmosphere for a century or more…
OPINION: The Value of National Monuments
National monuments are good for economic development and help drive the West’s rapidly growing recreation economy…
EDITORIAL: Dream of a Tiny Home Village, Part Two
“So I started researching, and Durango has a tiny home village, and another one out by Bayfield. And I thought, ‘This could actually work!’…”
BIG PIVOTS: Bumps Ahead in Colorado’s Road to Decarbonization?
“Although these proposed tariffs and policy changes have yet to have full effect, vendors have preemptively included the anticipated increase in their pricing models…”
OPINION: Tools for Winning the Climate Debate, Part Three
“Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel…”
OPINION: Commissioner Medina Should Resign Immediately to Restore Trust to the BOCC
For nearly a year, Medina has misled the public about her employment status, falsely claiming she is self-employed…
OPINION: We Risk Losing the Institutions That Keep Our Society Open
Compounding today’s uncertainty is the President’s lack of tolerance for dissent…
EDITORIAL: Dream of a Tiny Home Village, Part One
“So three years ago, we were living in Dallas, Texas. You know, deep in suburbia. We both had full-time jobs and three little kids…”
OPINION: Tools for Winning the Climate Debate, Part Two
Saul Alinsky must be rolling over in his grave that concerned citizens from the right of the political spectrum are using his rules to defeat the left…
EDITORIAL: The Politics of Charter Schools, Part Three
“So many of us fall into the trap of, ‘I just want to be an educator. This politics stuff is not for me. I don’t want to do that’…”
OPINION: Tools for Winning the Climate Debate, Part One
Boy, did they ever take Saul Alinsky’s rules seriously. In many ways, it became the “progressive” Bible…
LETTER: Concerning an Epitaph for the U.S.
The United States was the only country to vote against a United Nations resolution declaring an “International Day of Hope…”
