Developing policies that promote peaceful resolution of conflict? Can we imagine this at the core of the American government?…
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: A Safe Place for Young Men with Developmental Disabilities, Part Two
Once the facility is completed and the young men with disabilities move in, A Safe Place in Pagosa will need a consistent funding stream…
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: 25% of Americans Now Reporting Zero Income?
“Businesses still aren’t hiring, and, as a result, there is no job growth. Job growth, at best, is flat, and, I suspect, is even down after revision…”
OPINION: The Global Epidemic of Violence in an Age of Impunity
Political violence emerges not merely from divergent interests but from the deliberate choice to pursue objectives through coercion…
EDITORIAL: A Safe Place for Young Men with Developmental Disabilities, Part One
“Five years ago… state leaders tackled a problem that for years had troubled those who care for the most vulnerable among us…”
OPINION: Why the Communist Idea Still Matters
The real problem is not that we have rejected communism, but that we have accepted a world in which no alternative to capitalism seems conceivable…
EDITORIAL: A Report on Recent Wildfire Discussions, Part Four
Following the presentation by Sheriff Le Roux, Jerry Sutherlin, LPEA’s vice president of distribution operations, took the stage, so to speak…
EDITORIAL: A Report on Recent Wildfire Discussions, Part Three
According to County Sheriff Mike Le Roux, the CWRC is a step in the right direction…
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: Mothers Day, and America’s Increasing Maternal Death Rate
Reportedly, a majority of those in their 50s report the death of Bambi’s mother as one of their most memorable cinematic scenes…
OPINION: Chaos on the Colorado River
The dam builders build on, and plan for even more depletions across the states of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico…
EDITORIAL: A Report on Recent Wildfire Discussions, Part Two
“So that’s an option. Doesn’t sound like a very good one to me…”
EDITORIAL: A Report on Recent Wildfire Discussions, Part One
During a work session on Tuesday, April 21, a representative for Wildfire Adapted Partnership, local resident Bill Trimarco, spoke to the Archuleta Board of County Commissioners…
OPINION: Early Childhood Education an Essential Service in Pagosa Springs
Wings serves about 90% of all the children in Archuleta County receiving CCCAP funding (federal childcare funding)… a reimbursement rate far below the cost of care…
OPINION: Colorado Municipal League Calls to Dialogue Regarding Transportation Funding
The Coalition has succeeded in forcing an admission by Gov. Polis and the legislature that transportation taxes are being redirected toward other purposes…
EDITORIAL: A Government Obsessed with Recreation? Part Ten
At that same 2014 election where the rec center was overwhelmingly defeated, former police chief Don Volger was elected mayor…
EDITORIAL: A Government Obsessed with Recreation? Part Nine
Does it really matter who owns the flammable forests that surround us here in southwest Colorado? Maybe they’re destined to burn eventually, no matter who owns them…
EDITORIAL: A Government Obsessed with Recreation? Part Eight
For the past five years, the McDonald’s drive-in has been using its outdoor reader board, not to promote its menu, but to advertise for employees…
OPINION: Congress Advancing $70 Million ‘Slush Fund’ for ICE, While Cutting Support to Familes
“You can’t say you want to make America healthy again while reducing access to the very foods that help children grow and thrive…”
EDITORIAL: A Government Obsessed with Recreation? Part Seven
“I would argue that this opportunity is so valuable that it justifies a trade-off of foregoing other identified and unidentified initiatives, to secure the funding to ensure we acquire Reservoir Hill…”