A panel of local residents, connected to various water uses, fielded audience questions at the “This is Your Watershed” film event at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts…
Category: Opinion/Letters
OPINION: Archuleta County Ready to Approve a Disastrous Shooting Range?
The applicant has so much property over there they could build 10 shooting ranges and still be a mile away from the nearest neighbor…
EDITORIAL: Trust Issues… Part Six
“Maybe we can find someone who wants to buy the Ranch, and also work with the community to build a reasonable reservoir project in the middle of it…”
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: What Actually Cost the Democrats the 2024 Election
You’ll find no shortage of articles critical of Harris, saying she was too conservative, or too liberal…
EDITORIAL: Trust Issues… Part Five
One type of survey is intentionally designed to discover new and useful information, which is needed to make the best possible decisions, moving forward…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: A Bright Future for Comedy in American Politics
How can we not find the actions of these governors amusing?
EDITORIAL: Trust Issues… Part Four
Superintendent Holt and Chief Executive of Operations Sanchez seemed to be suggesting that our local school buildings were reaching — or had already reached — the end of their useful lives…
DEVIL MOUNTAIN CHRONICLES: There’s a Bad Moon on the Rise
And with any pending dangerous storm, we can only hope for the best, and expect the worst…
OPINION: The Free State of Colorado
The centerpiece of Trump’s campaign was his promise to undertake mass deportations of millions of immigrants…
EDITORIAL: Trust Issues… Part Three
Archuleta School District (ASD) had been growing its student enrollment by leaps and bounds through the 1990s and on into 2008…
EDITORIAL: Trust Issues… Part Two
“I don’t think this has a chance of passing. Period. And I’ll just state that, and give you the reasons why I believe that…”
LETTER: Killing Children in Gaza
Rubio claims that the terror group is building military infrastructure under hospitals…
EDITORIAL: Trust Issues… Part One
The BOCC will be holding a couple of meetings today: a work session at 8:30am, and a special meeting at 1:30pm…
OPINION: One More River to Cross
That hateful struggle has warped our country. It’s ruined lives and communities…
EDITORIAL: The SJWCD Empire Strikes Back, Part Three
Since 2012, when PAWSD removed itself as a potential partner on the project, SJWCD has been searching in vain for a partner to help them build the Dry Gulch Reservoir…
EDITORIAL: The SJWCD Empire Strikes Back, Part Two
The San Juan Water Conservancy District [SJWCD] convened a “public meeting” yesterday, November 7, to discuss the possible sale of the Running Iron Ranch…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Random Observations About the Election
Within 24 hours of merely becoming President-elect, Donald Trump improved the economy…
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: What I Learned From Polling Voters in 2024
My Election Day was spent conducting surveys of voters in a mid-sized town in a swing state…