“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?…”
Category: Opinion/Letters
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…
BIG PIVOTS: Geothermal Seeds, Sprinkled Across Colorado, Part Two
One modeled scenario sees geothermal achieving 2% of total electrical production by 2034 and growing to 10% by 2040…
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: Should Countries Recognize Palestine?
But is there a better solution to rescue these well-meaning countries who may be making an error by encouraging Hamas…
EDITORIAL: Graywater, Forever… Part Three
Nowhere in the the 254-page Colorado Water Plan do the state’s foremost water experts discuss the alfalfa problem…
EDITORIAL: Graywater, Forever… Part Two
4.7 million acre feet, diverted and used for agriculture. None of this water can be recycled as graywater…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: To Tell the Truth, Part Two
It now seems politics is substituting for religion as an article of faith among too many in our society…
OPINION: The Transition to Community Stakeholder Corporations
Imperial Shareholder Corporations trace their history back to the tradition and structure of the English East India Company…
EDITORIAL: Graywater, Forever… Part One
Farmers in Colorado typically develop an abiding interest in water, and Rep. Catlin committed nearly 20 years at the Uncompahgre Water Users Association…