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Category: Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: Town Council Considers $850,000 Property Purchase, Part Three

EDITORIAL: Town Council Considers $850,000 Property Purchase, Part Three

Posted on April 22, 2024April 23, 2024 by Bill Hudson

“Do you have a list of which building you want to retain up there, or do we have an option on that?”

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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Reasonable Person

A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Reasonable Person

Posted on April 22, 2024April 22, 2024 by Gary Beatty

There is an entire body of law explaining which searches and seizures are, and are not, “reasonable”…

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EDITORIAL: Town Council Considers $850,000 Property Purchase, Part Two

EDITORIAL: Town Council Considers $850,000 Property Purchase, Part Two

Posted on April 19, 2024April 22, 2024 by Bill Hudson

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…

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Landmark Federal Public Lands Rule Elevates Conservation

Posted on April 19, 2024April 19, 2024 by Post Contributor

“We applaud the Biden-Harris administration for seizing this opportunity to modernize public lands management for conservation…

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EDITORIAL: Town Council Considers $850,000 Property Purchase, Part One

EDITORIAL: Town Council Considers $850,000 Property Purchase, Part One

Posted on April 18, 2024April 19, 2024 by Bill Hudson

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…

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INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: The Irrelevance of Our Happiness Ranking

INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: The Irrelevance of Our Happiness Ranking

Posted on April 18, 2024April 18, 2024 by John Tures

“Psychologist Martin Seligman says meaning comes from belonging to and serving something beyond yourself and from developing the best within you…”

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EDITORIAL:  CDOT Rejects Bid for Downtown Highway Reconstruction

EDITORIAL: CDOT Rejects Bid for Downtown Highway Reconstruction

Posted on April 17, 2024April 18, 2024 by Bill Hudson

“We’re excited about this news, because it’s a big opportunity to answer a bunch of the unanswered questions…”

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EDITORIAL: Fear and Loathing, and the Proposed Highway 160 Reconstruction, Part Four

EDITORIAL: Fear and Loathing, and the Proposed Highway 160 Reconstruction, Part Four

Posted on April 17, 2024April 17, 2024 by Bill Hudson

“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..”

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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Squatters, Just Breaking the Law

Posted on April 17, 2024April 17, 2024 by Gary Beatty

That was the question Sen Fetterman asked when he queried, “How can you even pretend anything other than you’re just breaking the law…?”

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EDITORIAL: Fear and Loathing, and the Proposed Highway 160 Reconstruction, Part Three

EDITORIAL: Fear and Loathing, and the Proposed Highway 160 Reconstruction, Part Three

Posted on April 16, 2024April 17, 2024 by Bill Hudson

“I understand livelihoods are going to be affected. I understand businesses are going to be affected. I really do…”

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BIG PIVOTS: A Long-Ago Motorcycle Ride, and the Shift to EVs

BIG PIVOTS: A Long-Ago Motorcycle Ride, and the Shift to EVs

Posted on April 16, 2024April 16, 2024 by Allen Best

In 1915, travel from Colorado to San Francisco had lots of dust and bumps. But 15 years later much had changed…

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OPINION: Election Subversion Efforts in 2020 were Bad. Now They’re Worse.

Posted on April 16, 2024April 16, 2024 by Post Contributor

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…

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EDITORIAL: Fear and Loathing, and the Proposed Highway 160 Reconstruction, Part Two

EDITORIAL: Fear and Loathing, and the Proposed Highway 160 Reconstruction, Part Two

Posted on April 15, 2024April 16, 2024 by Bill Hudson

“We’re talking hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of dollars for the downtown businesses who will lose a significant amount of revenue…”

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OPINION: Unwarranted Ouster of Journalist Sandra Fish at Republican State Assembly

Posted on April 15, 2024April 15, 2024 by Post Contributor

“Journalism serves as the cornerstone of a vibrant and functioning democracy, providing citizens with the information necessary to make informed decisions…”

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LETTER: Why Vote Against Your Own Self-Interest?

Posted on April 15, 2024April 15, 2024 by Post Contributor

I am a 71 year-old rural Coloradan politically registered as Unaffiliated. I’d like to ask my fellow seniors a simple question…

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EDITORIAL: Fear and Loathing, and the Proposed Highway 160 Reconstruction, Part One

EDITORIAL: Fear and Loathing, and the Proposed Highway 160 Reconstruction, Part One

Posted on April 12, 2024April 15, 2024 by Bill Hudson

“I understand that puts us at the beginning of the summer tourist season, but mostly likely, they are not going to just come in and rip up half the highway, and disturb everything right away…”

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EDITORIAL: How to Recycle a County Road, Part Three

EDITORIAL: How to Recycle a County Road, Part Three

Posted on April 11, 2024April 11, 2024 by Bill Hudson

To learn more about Dustrol, I watched a 30-minute video shared by the National Center for Pavement Preservation, established by Michigan State University in 2003…

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INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: March Madness Is Big Trouble

Posted on April 11, 2024April 11, 2024 by John Tures

Like Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express,” there aren’t merely a lot of suspects. There are also plenty of perpetrators in the imminent demise of the Big Dance…

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EDITORIAL: How to Recycle a County Road, Part Two

EDITORIAL: How to Recycle a County Road, Part Two

Posted on April 10, 2024April 11, 2024 by Bill Hudson

“The cost saving on that is huge. We’re looking at doing 8.2 miles total in the county this year, using the vendor that does this in this area…”

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