The photo shows the $40 million Snowball water treatment plant under construction, a project that was estimated at $25 million just a few years ago…
Category: Opinion/Letters
OPINION: Proposed Colorado Law Threatens Vacation Rental Industry
How would the state acquire their property tax goal, if a large percentage of properties stop renting?
LETTER: Creepy Situations at City Market
I don’t appreciate being treated like that, especially after spending a couple of hundred bucks there…
EDITORIAL: A Few Things Happened in 2023, Part Four
I took the photo above about a year ago, at the beginning of 2023. I wanted to document some unsightly mechanical equipment that sits atop the County Courthouse…
EDITORIAL: A Few Things Happened in 2023, Part Three
The final version of the San Juan Basin Public Health COVID dashboard was posted on December 8…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Time, Time, Time, See What’s Become of Me
But I also realize that for a society (and economy) to function, the majority of people have to work simultaneously the majority of the time…
EDITORIAL: A Few Things Happened in 2023, Part One
I spent some time online, yesterday, watching a Zoom webinar from two years ago, recorded during the peak of the COVID crisis…
OPINION: Self-Executing Criminality, and the Trump Decision
Here, in America, we do not have self-executing criminality. That kind of theory belongs in Russia, China, or North Korea…
OPINION: Mistaken Dissent at the Colorado Supreme Court
The framers of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment gave us the tools to deal with insurrectionists, but some authorities seem unwilling to use them…
EDITORIAL: Yes, Virginia, There is a Town Planning Commission
“Planning Commission meeting 12/26/23 is cancelled. The next Planning Commission meeting is scheduled for Tuesday January 16, 2024…”
BIG PIVOTS: A New Name for Kit Carson Peak?
It’s called Kit Carson, but a state advisory board in January will review alternatives more acceptable to the Diné and others…
OPINION: Dear Colorado Legislators… Turn Down the Noise in 2024
My tenure as a legislative aide in the Colorado Senate got rolling in the chaotic days and months after the election in 2020…
OPINION: ‘American Values’ Super PAC Aims to Put RFK Jr. on Ballot in 7 States
“A clear Trump polling lead became a jumbled mess with no clear favorite to win in the Electoral College thanks to Kennedy…”
EDITORIAL: The Smell of Hot Springs Water, Part Two
“The thing that has bothered me about that [geothermal] asset, is that we’ve just been going along, and not thinking about it very strategically…”
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: Anti-Semitism Pushed by Politicians
Let us not forget how some of these smug political figures behaved before the Gaza attacks, either with their words or deeds…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Scientific Delirium Madness
If you lived in the United States through the pandemic, you were apparently twice as likely to die from getting the COVID-19 vaccine than you were from COVID itself…
EDITORIAL: The Smell of Hot Springs Water, Part One
“So, I think we have a valuable commodity here, and we’re not serving our utility well if we don’t increase the rates like we did for everyone else….”
EDITORIAL: Higher PAWSD Fees Coming Down the Pike?
The proposed fee increases on the wastewater side are much more severe…
EDITORIAL: First Unofficial Meeting of the Archuleta County Board of Health, Part Two
In another part of the budget, it appeared that ACPHD would be spending $684,000 more than they had coming in, in revenue…