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Category: Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: How About Them Home Prices? Part One

EDITORIAL: How About Them Home Prices? Part One

Posted on December 5, 2024December 8, 2024 by Bill Hudson

“During this public event, PSCDC will draw up to 8 qualified homebuyers from the pool of pre-approved applicants who can select one of our newly built affordable homes…”

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BIG PIVOTS: Is Colorado the Beacon on the Hill? Part Four

BIG PIVOTS: Is Colorado the Beacon on the Hill? Part Four

Posted on December 5, 2024December 5, 2024 by Allen Best

“Is it perfect? No. Are we perfect? No, but they are a leader. They’re showing how you just do it…”

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EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part Seven

EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part Seven

Posted on December 4, 2024December 4, 2024 by Bill Hudson

“Accurate measurement of diversions is critical to protect Colorado’s entitlement to water, including under the Colorado River Compact…”

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BIG PIVOTS: Is Colorado the Beacon on the Hill?  Part Three

BIG PIVOTS: Is Colorado the Beacon on the Hill? Part Three

Posted on December 4, 2024December 5, 2024 by Allen Best

“There’s still a lot of discovery, imagination and innovation that needs to happen….”

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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Bankruptcy Experience, Part Three

A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Bankruptcy Experience, Part Three

Posted on December 4, 2024December 4, 2024 by Gary Beatty

If you decide to buy gold, I’ll pass on the advice of every ‘gold bug’ I’ve ever listened to…

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LETTER: Preserving History and Culture, or Not

Posted on December 4, 2024December 4, 2024 by Post Contributor

Over 120 memorial books have been published, each focusing on one or more of the 400 towns and villages that were affected…

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EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part Six

EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part Six

Posted on December 3, 2024December 4, 2024 by Bill Hudson

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way…”

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BIG PIVOTS: Is Colorado the Beacon on the Hill?  Part Two

BIG PIVOTS: Is Colorado the Beacon on the Hill? Part Two

Posted on December 3, 2024December 4, 2024 by Allen Best

Will Toor, director of the Colorado Energy Office, made the case that Colorado has been providing a model that can be used by other states…

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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Bankruptcy Experience, Part Two

A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Bankruptcy Experience, Part Two

Posted on December 3, 2024December 4, 2024 by Gary Beatty

Dominance of the U.S. dollar in international finance has been in decline since at least 1971…

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INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: ‘Giving Tuesday’ and College Education

Posted on December 3, 2024December 3, 2024 by John Tures

I am sure every reader of this column will attest to the need to be a hard worker to succeed in your profession…

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EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part Five

EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part Five

Posted on December 2, 2024December 3, 2024 by Bill Hudson

“We also need to know we can trust our local officials — elected or appointed — with making sound, informed decisions on something so important…”

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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Bankruptcy Experience, Part One

A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Bankruptcy Experience, Part One

Posted on December 2, 2024December 3, 2024 by Gary Beatty

Historically, under Anglo-Saxon common law, bankruptcy was often treated in society as a moral rather than business issue…

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BIG PIVOTS: Is Colorado the Beacon on the Hill?  Part One

BIG PIVOTS: Is Colorado the Beacon on the Hill? Part One

Posted on December 2, 2024December 3, 2024 by Allen Best

Will Colorado’s big pivot in energy provide a model for other states? Or are we just full of ourselves?

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EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part Four

EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part Four

Posted on November 29, 2024December 2, 2024 by Bill Hudson

It wasn’t until after Fred W. Schmidt disappeared that I learned he had been involved in numerous lawsuits for alleged real estate fraud…

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EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part Three

EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part Three

Posted on November 27, 2024November 29, 2024 by Bill Hudson

Do PAWSD customers want to pay for a reservoir they don’t need?  Maybe not?

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LETTER: The Impending Benefits of Cultivated-Meat Research

Posted on November 27, 2024November 27, 2024 by Post Contributor

The new protein has been approved by the USDA and the FDA, but is currently too expensive to mass produce…

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EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part Two

EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part Two

Posted on November 26, 2024November 27, 2024 by Bill Hudson

“I’m sorry.  You’ve gone too far now.  You’re asking for people to make things up, and that’s what got us into this problem in the beginning…”

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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: A Shooting Range in Aspen Springs

A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: A Shooting Range in Aspen Springs

Posted on November 26, 2024November 26, 2024 by Gary Beatty

From what I’ve been able to gather, the proposed range is within two miles of our Aspen Springs property…

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EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part One

EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part One

Posted on November 25, 2024November 26, 2024 by Bill Hudson

Too often, citizen board members, lacking information, are shooting from the hip, while simultaneously defending their political “turf”…

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