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Category: Opinion/Letters
OPINION: Bold Solutions Needed, to Roll Back Taxes
Colorado taxpayers will quickly understand that this last-minute measure will not come close to providing the relief from soaring property taxes…
EDITORIAL: Town Council Considers $850,000 Property Purchase, Part Four
About half an hour into the meeting, the Council began discussing the ‘second reading’ of Ordinance 1004…
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: The Clothes They Wore When They Were Assaulted
There’s an Auburn sweatshirt, a Pokemon t-shirt, a Captain America t-shirt, a local high school t-shirt. One shirt said “Dream On…”
EDITORIAL: Town Council Considers $850,000 Property Purchase, Part Three
“Do you have a list of which building you want to retain up there, or do we have an option on that?”
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Reasonable Person
There is an entire body of law explaining which searches and seizures are, and are not, “reasonable”…
EDITORIAL: Town Council Considers $850,000 Property Purchase, Part Two
The Town Council was told, at their previous meetings, that Bob Goodman wished to have his property purchased by our municipal government and put to some type of public use…
Landmark Federal Public Lands Rule Elevates Conservation
“We applaud the Biden-Harris administration for seizing this opportunity to modernize public lands management for conservation…
EDITORIAL: Town Council Considers $850,000 Property Purchase, Part One
The ordinance would allocate $850,000 of taxpayer revenue from the Town’s General Fund to the purchase of about 12 acres of mostly (but not entirely) vacant property…
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: The Irrelevance of Our Happiness Ranking
“Psychologist Martin Seligman says meaning comes from belonging to and serving something beyond yourself and from developing the best within you…”
EDITORIAL: CDOT Rejects Bid for Downtown Highway Reconstruction
“We’re excited about this news, because it’s a big opportunity to answer a bunch of the unanswered questions…”
EDITORIAL: Fear and Loathing, and the Proposed Highway 160 Reconstruction, Part Four
“Anyone who has ordered any kind of construction here in Pagosa, you can get your bid now, and I can guarantee you won’t see the work done until next spring..”
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Squatters, Just Breaking the Law
That was the question Sen Fetterman asked when he queried, “How can you even pretend anything other than you’re just breaking the law…?”
EDITORIAL: Fear and Loathing, and the Proposed Highway 160 Reconstruction, Part Three
“I understand livelihoods are going to be affected. I understand businesses are going to be affected. I really do…”
BIG PIVOTS: A Long-Ago Motorcycle Ride, and the Shift to EVs
In 1915, travel from Colorado to San Francisco had lots of dust and bumps. But 15 years later much had changed…
OPINION: Election Subversion Efforts in 2020 were Bad. Now They’re Worse.
Democracy’s enemies might be organizing and planning, but its defenders can organize, too… Every person who wants to preserve democracy has a role to play in protecting it…
EDITORIAL: Fear and Loathing, and the Proposed Highway 160 Reconstruction, Part Two
“We’re talking hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of dollars for the downtown businesses who will lose a significant amount of revenue…”
OPINION: Unwarranted Ouster of Journalist Sandra Fish at Republican State Assembly
“Journalism serves as the cornerstone of a vibrant and functioning democracy, providing citizens with the information necessary to make informed decisions…”
LETTER: Why Vote Against Your Own Self-Interest?
I am a 71 year-old rural Coloradan politically registered as Unaffiliated. I’d like to ask my fellow seniors a simple question…