CPW should first act with due haste to end mountain lion and bobcat hounding and baited trapping…
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: How to Grow a Small Town… Or Not… Part Four
The Pagosa Springs Area Tourism Board and its staff had applied for — and had been awarded — a grant from the Colorado Tourism Office…
OPINION: Why Trump Won the Election
Unfortunately for the media, they can’t stop the American People from using their brains…
OPINION: Democratic Leaders Comment on Passage of Prop. KK
“As federal dollars dwindle, Coloradans made the right choice this evening to step up and help fill the funding gaps…”
EDITORIAL: How to Grow a Small Town… Or Not… Part Three
During the 30 years I’ve lived in Pagosa Springs, our local leaders have generally acted as if our population was going to multiply steadily and abundantly…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Too Big to Fail, Redux?
On the south central plain of Oklahoma is the small town of Lindsay, population (as of the 2020 census) under 3,000…
EDITORIAL: How to Grow a Small Town… Or Not… Part Two
The development of a new subdivision in 2024 has become incredibly expensive, compared to the cost 50 years ago…
EDITORIAL: The Accomplishments of President Donald Trump, Considered
Our federal government was specifically designed to make it hard to royally screw everything up…
LETTER: A Veterinarian’s View of Prop 127
A Yes on 127 vote will also protect Colorado’s magnificent deer and elk herds from the ongoing and accelerating decimation by Chronic Wasting Disease…
EDITORIAL: How to Grow a Small Town… Or Not… Part One
Downtown is a preferred site for trick-or-treating because Pagosa Springs was designed, from the very beginning, to be a walkable town…
DEVIL MOUNTAIN CHRONICLES: November 5th Can’t Come Soon Enough
“Let’s turn the page, and together we will chart a new and joyful way forward…”
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: Anti-Puerto Rican “Joke” Loved By Republicans
One wonders why Vance chose not to defend Puerto Ricans with the same vehemence the way he defended MAGA supporters…
OPINION: Voters, Know Your Rights
The primary role of an American citizen is exercising sovereign authority over affairs of the state…
EDITORIAL: Misinformation About Pagosa Water Resources, Part Four
The controversy between SJWCD and PAWSD, regarding the Running Iron Ranch, is complicated by personalities…
EDITORIAL: Misinformation About Pagosa Water Resources, Part Three
3,000 acre-feet is more than double the amount of drinking water used by PAWSD customers last year…
LETTER: Ode to the Mountain Lion Hunter
There you are in your 4-wheel drive vehicle, drinking coffee, waiting to hear that dogs with GPS collars have treed a mountain lion…
EDITORIAL: Misinformation About Pagosa Water Resources, Part Two
“There does not appear to be an overarching water plan for our community with various water authorities and the state…”
EDITORIAL: Misinformation About Pagosa Water Resources, Part One
The size of the reservoir grew from its original design of 4,000 acre-feet — about three times the size of Lake Hatcher — to 12,500 acre-feet… and then to 32,000 acre-feet…
OPINION: In Colorado GOP Leadership Battle, It’s ‘Civil War’
Last week, the party’s executive body ordered the creation of an investigative committee, with members to be appointed by Williams…