Often, we are doing our best to explain the ‘other side of the story’, when our local governments deliver their own ‘one-sided news’…
Category: Opinion/Letters
OPINION: Concerned About Christopher Maez Mistrial
Just look at the pattern, over just this past year. Is this the way you want our Sheriffs’ department to be run?
EDITORIAL: Extraordinary Changes, Part Ten
I honestly can’t recall our commissioners discuss a plan — a real plan — for dealing with our roads…
HMPRESENTLY: Biz Jargon Follies
More than 300 guest articles and columns I’ve written, on a variety of topics, have been published in a number of media…
EDITORIAL: Extraordinary Changes, Part Nine
I discussed Mr. Woodman’s failure to follow election law, with County Clerk Kristy Archuleta, wondering if the TABOR notice could be corrected before tomorrow…
HMPRESENTLY: Soul-Searching
As Plato, eons ago, believed about something so amorphous, as a person’s soul…
EDITORIAL: Extraordinary Changes, Part Eight
No doubt this situation put Mr. Woodman in an awkward position, since he is also, to some degree, responsible for trying to get Ballot Issue 1A approved by the voters…
EDITORIAL: Extraordinary Changes, Part Seven
This coming Friday, Archuleta County Clerk Kristy Archuleta will mail out a letter to “all registered voters” in Archuleta County…
EDITORIAL: Extraordinary Changes, Part Six
Our Daily Post readers might want to stash away some extra savings, in preparation for their 2024 tax bill…
OPINION: Proposition FF Would Mean Healthier Kids, Better Food Economy
Many large food corporations are able to provide cheap products only by cutting corners like underpaying their employees, often pushing workers and their families into food insecurity…
EDITORIAL: Extraordinary Changes, Part Five
Right now, some of the safest roads are in our local metro districts. But a County sales tax increased won’t help the metro districts that maintain their own roads…
HMPRESENTLY: Chlorophyll Deprivation
Hopefully, someday, the rain and chlorophyll will return, and enrich our lawns and foliage, once again…
BIG PIVOTS: A Hydrogen Economy?
The US Technology Hub is to develop green hydrogen and other innovations and technologies, with a focus on decarbonizing hard-to-abate industries…
EDITORIAL: Extraordinary Changes, Part Four
Professional campaign manager Beth Lamberson was sharing images, via Zoom, related to Ballot Measure 1A, which the BOCC has placed on this November’s ballot…
EDITORIAL: Extraordinary Changes, Part Three
But Archuleta County decided, decades ago, that they wanted to be a suburban paradise, with lots of roads and infrastructure needs — but without the municipal revenues that typically support this level of development…
OPINION: A World Beyond War… or Else!
Militarism is a paradigm that needs to go into the dustbin of history alongside slavery, child labor, and treating women as chattel…
EDITORIAL: Extraordinary Changes, Part Two
We might see some more changes in the coming months, regarding the vacation rental industry…
OPINION: Facebook Fascism? Part Two
A definition of Facism is “A way of organizing a society in which a government controls the lives of the people – and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government…”