Category: Opinion/Letters

Here’s a photo of the Dry Gulch valley that would be completely flooded, if the reservoir were built to the size proposed by SJWCD…

A local government’s budget defines, in a very real sense, which problems will be addressed in 2025, and which will not…

Here in Archuleta County, about 43% of the property taxes collected each year goes into our local public schools…

“By stars and red checks, smiles and frowns, I teach kids to surrender their will to the chain of command. Individuality is a contradiction to class theory…”

Ms. Pullman is seemingly unable to admit that every form of education has an underlying political foundation…

“Classical educational teaches students HOW to learn. Traditional education teaches students WHAT to learn…”

I came across this discarded ‘Yard Sale’ sign on Monday, while walking the 4-acre parcel the Town government is proposing to purchase and convert into a riverfront park…

“What’s the deal with this property you’re trying to buy down by the Circle K? Why do you need to buy a piece of junk like that?”

“What was not mentioned in the application is that [Mr. Lucero] is fifth generation, and more importantly, on his mother’s side, is the namesake: Archuleta…”

“…tourism might look like the goose to lay the golden eggs. But like Blanche Dubois in dim light, the tourism economic panacea is a seductive illusion…”

The tourism industry is now tasked not just with “selling” our communities, but also preserving some vestiges of why locals choose to live here…

“And I know that we are the ones who make the decision, but I feel like it would be prudent of us to get a financial advisor, to show us what the cost would be…”