Authority and responsibility go hand-in-hand. A person given the authority to make decisions must be held accountable and responsible for the decisions they make…
Category: Opinion/Letters
HMPRESENTLY: No Guts, No Glory
Ramping up the supply of guts — unclogging the supply chain — shouldn’t be such a big deal…
EDITORIAL: Considering the Town’s Short-Term Rental Fee Study, Part Two
If we want to cut to the chase, and skip quickly over the first 24 pages of the report…
EDITORIAL: Considering the Town’s Short-Term Rental Fee Study, Part One
The 31-page report from Root Policy Research begins with a discussion about population changes in Pagosa Springs…
HMPRESENTLY: Uplifting, Encouraging, and Pretty Cool
This vote wasn’t just close. This tally was dead even, with both candidates receiving exactly the same number of votes…
OPINION: Imperialist Wars
Ultimately, it took World War II to shatter the old colonial system. In its aftermath, the imperial powers gradually abandoned their colonial rule…
EDITORIAL: 22 Ways to Care About Water, Part Five
Not only would these “event centers” impact the (already substandard) rural roads in the affected neighborhoods, they would likely generate noise and human activity…
EDITORIAL: 22 Ways to Care About Water, Part Four
Last July, the prediction for Lake Mead’s water level for July 2024 was 1,014 feet above sea level…
EDITORIAL: 22 Ways to Care About Water, Part Three
We’ve noted that “Public supply” — municipal water systems — accounts for about 1% [“one percent”] of water use in the Upper Colorado River Basin…
OPINION: CDOT Leads the Way in Not Building Highways
Departments of transportation have notoriously turned toward expanding highways to solve traffic congestion…
EDITORIAL: 22 Ways to Care About Water, Part Two
While the region’s growth has decreased somewhat over the decades, it was still over 20 percent from 2000 to 2010…
HMPRESENTLY: Editing The Lord’s Prayer
It’s the word ‘power,’ I suppose, that seems strange. Is it really necessary? And appropriate?
EDITORIAL: 22 Ways to Care About Water, Part One
But this claim, that you can “save” 15-30 gallons per laundry load has almost no relationship on the actual problem…
HMPRESENTLY: Don’t Break out the Bubbly, Quite Yet
There’s been a lot of news, lately, about the sudden spate of layoffs at high-tech companies…
BIG PIVOTS: Is Tri-State Changing Fast Enough to Survive?
Tri-State delivers power to 42 electrical cooperatives in four states, including 17 in Colorado…
EDITORIAL: The Once and Future Public Health Department, Part Four
When the SJBPH district was formed in 1947, the population of Archuleta County consisted of about 3,000 rural residents…
OPINION: The Likely Outcome from COP27
But all signs now point toward a scenario in which the world will overshoot the 1.5 C limit, likely by a large amount…
EDITORIAL: The Once and Future Public Health Department, Part Three
“We can have some very serious debates and disagreements about public health issues, but we can’t as the La Plata Board of County Commissioners let this go on much longer…”