“We reached this determination based on our documentation of an overarching government policy…”
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: A Positive Use for Short-Term Rentals, Part Two
If Ms. Bair had been making this same appeal to the BOCC eight years ago, I doubt she would have met with much success…
OPINION: Gun Laws That Protect Domestic Violence Victims are Constitutional
“Today’s opinion from the court makes it clear that laws keeping domestic violence abusers from having guns are constitutional…”
EDITORIAL: A Positive Use for Short-Term Rentals, Part One
Pagosa doesn’t have a housing shortage. We have an “available and affordable housing” shortage…
EDITORIAL: The Stories We Tell, Part Four
What gun won the West? The first answer that popped into my head was, “The Colt 45″…
EDITORIAL: The Stories We Tell, Part Three
The stories we tell don’t need to be accurate, or true. But they must be believable…
BIG PIVOTS: The Winds of (Climate) Change
Wind whooshed, whipped and wailed through Boulder County for much of April’s first weekend…
EDITORIAL: The Stories We Tell, Part Two
“When I was a kid, I asked these really big questions about life… I mean, what are we doing here? What is this all about?…”
EDITORIAL: The Stories We Tell, Part One
“This year we celebrate ‘La cultura cura!’… a transformative health and healing philosophy that recognizes the importance of cultural values…”
EDITORIAL: The Great Western Water Grab, Part Three
“Saudi Arabia’s culture of water consumption is unsustainable due to practices like excessive water use, negligent wastewater management, unrestrained increase of population…”
EDITORIAL: The Great Western Water Grab, Part Two
“I think Arizonans are going to be outraged about this. It just exacerbates an already terrible situation…”
EDITORIAL: 28 Ways to Be a Better Tourist, Part Four
I wrote yesterday’s editorial while sitting in row 23, seat F on Alaska Airlines Flight 654 from Seattle to Albuquerque, the second leg of my flight back to Pagosa…
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: Lessons from the Judean Revolt
Roman legionnaires from Syria were ordered in to quash the revolt. But a united Judean people set an ambush for them and crushed their army at the Battle of Beth Horon…
OPINION: The PRESS Act Would Ensure a Free and Fair Media
The PRESS Act is necessary to ensure journalists will not have to worry “that under a future repressive administration federal law enforcement agencies…”
EDITORIAL: 28 Ways to Be a Better Tourist, Part Three
Learn a few phrases of the local language, and make yourself familiar with local customs and manners…
OPINION: The Sanctity of War, Alive and Well
The only lesson I can draw is that we’re not going to succeed at abolishing war unless we first succeed at transcending our exploitative interests…
EDITORIAL: 28 Ways to Be a Better Tourist, Part Two
Maybe we’re looking for a “shared experience”?
BIG PIVOTS: The Electricity Problem in the San Luis Valley
In the wired world of the 21st century, Colorado’s San Luis Valley has an Achilles’s heel…
EDITORIAL: 28 Ways to Be a Better Tourist, Part One
Along with dance performances, Celebration features associated events, including a Juried Art Show and Competition, a Juried Youth Art Exhibit, a Native Art Market, Native food contests…