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Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Broadband Funds Flowing to Archuleta County, Part Two
“So we will have much better coverage going all the way up to the Hinsdale County line, as a result of both of those projects…”
OPINION: Five Unsettling Numbers to Explain the Housing Crisis
Underbuilding, delay, red tape. This combination of factors, on top of a nationwide surge in home prices…
OPINION: Coach Nick Saban’s Greatest Victory Didn’t Happen On The Football Field
Saban had a lot of great wins in his collegiate coaching career. I hope this is counted as one that is the most memorable…
EDITORIAL: Broadband Funds Flowing to Archuleta County, Part One
The expert at the BOCC work table at yesterday’s meeting was Eric Hittle… Technical Manager for Archuleta County Broadband Services…
OPINION: Satyagraha… A Word for 2024
M.K. Gandhi coined this word in 1906, when he was leading a nonviolent campaign of civil resistance against a discriminatory law…
EDITORIAL: Hot Springs Water, Vacant Land, Government Transparency
The mention of an ‘executive session’ got me thinking about government transparency…
EDITORIAL: PAWSD Looking at an Expensive Water Future
Obviously, the 2024 PAWSD budget has carried district finances into uncharted territory, with expenditures three time higher than in 2023…
OPINION: Somerville, Another Illegal American City
Such places, today, are mostly cities under glass, frozen in time. We have almost entirely stopped building more of them or expanding on those that exist…
EDITORIAL: A Few Things Happened in 2023, Part Six
When the Short-Term Rental industry got started in Colorado, county assessors believed that STRs were residential homes…
EDITORIAL: A Few Things Happened in 2023, Part Five
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…
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…