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Category: Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: Bad Test Scores, Part Four

Posted on October 26, 2023October 27, 2023 by Bill Hudson

Sadly, the statistics to which our schools get reduced, and on which they are ranked, are based on just two basic academic skills…

Posted in Opinion/Letters

OPINION: Rep. Boebert Seeking to Leave Taxpayers with Oil & Gas Cleanup

Posted on October 26, 2023October 26, 2023 by Aaron Weiss

The House Natural Resources Committee held a subcommittee hearing yesterday on a draft bill sponsored by Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert…

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EDITORIAL: Serious Questions About Colorado Housing Programs

EDITORIAL: Serious Questions About Colorado Housing Programs

Posted on October 25, 2023October 3, 2024 by Bill Hudson

Here are the most important things this chart is trying to tell us, based on responses from 447 working households in Archuleta County…

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EDITORIAL: Bad Test Scores, Part Three

Posted on October 25, 2023October 27, 2023 by Bill Hudson

“It’s a great time in education, when almost everyone… sees the need for kids to apply their knowledge to a field that they might pursue, that doesn’t necessarily involve going to college…”

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EDITORIAL: Bad Test Scores, Part Two

Posted on October 24, 2023October 25, 2023 by Bill Hudson

At some point, we have to wake up from our dream…

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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: You Can’t Get Paid for Being Offended

Posted on October 24, 2023October 24, 2023 by Gary Beatty

So how did some in the media spin the Supreme Court’s ruling? Here are a few examples…

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INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: Choosing the Right Speaker of the House

Posted on October 24, 2023October 24, 2023 by Post Contributor

Republicans may find that putting the grownups back in charge is the best strategy for retaining the House…

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EDITORIAL: Bad Test Scores, Part One

Posted on October 23, 2023October 24, 2023 by Bill Hudson

I’m curious how many of our Daily Post readers — in particular, perhaps, those with college degrees — could confidently answer this question?…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: My Pagosa Crystal Ball is Dark & Cloudy... Part Four

EDITORIAL: My Pagosa Crystal Ball is Dark & Cloudy… Part Four

Posted on October 20, 2023November 1, 2023 by Bill Hudson

I stopped by, to get a photo of a small construction crew working on a Habitat for Humanity home on Ranger Park Drive, in the Trails subdivision…

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OPINION: Denver Water Required to Do New NEPA Analysis for Gross Dam Expansion Scheme

Posted on October 20, 2023October 20, 2023 by Gary Wockner

If Denver Water could not properly estimate how much rock material they needed to build a massive new dam, what else have they estimated incorrectly?

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EDITORIAL: My Pagosa Crystal Ball is Dark & Cloudy... Part Three

EDITORIAL: My Pagosa Crystal Ball is Dark & Cloudy… Part Three

Posted on October 19, 2023January 26, 2024 by Bill Hudson

The Colorado Demographer’s Office has consistently overestimated population growth in Archuleta County… by a sizable margin of error…

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EDITORIAL: My Pagosa Crystal Ball is Dark & Cloudy... Part Two

EDITORIAL: My Pagosa Crystal Ball is Dark & Cloudy… Part Two

Posted on October 18, 2023January 26, 2024 by Bill Hudson

Will workers want a low-paying tourist industry job in Pagosa Springs, if they are required to commute from New Mexico?

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ESSAY: Issues Hover Around a Proposed Terry Robinson Road Helipad, Part Two

ESSAY: Issues Hover Around a Proposed Terry Robinson Road Helipad, Part Two

Posted on October 17, 2023October 23, 2023 by Kim Elzinga

“The Planning Commission has ample information to absolutely put a full stop on this application. …”

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EDITORIAL: My Pagosa Crystal Ball is Dark & Cloudy... Part One

EDITORIAL: My Pagosa Crystal Ball is Dark & Cloudy… Part One

Posted on October 17, 2023January 26, 2024 by Bill Hudson

I attended a meeting of the Pagosa Springs Community Development Corporation last week and heard about some ambitious plans…

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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: How’s Your Lifestyle?

Posted on October 17, 2023October 17, 2023 by Gary Beatty

I felt like asking, “What about those of us who have a life — not a lifestyle?”

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ESSAY: Issues Hover Around Proposed Terry Robinson Road Helipad, Part One

Posted on October 16, 2023October 23, 2023 by Kim Elzinga

I’m a sucker for a good cause and a great story. This issue seemed to have both. I was beginning to recognize why I might care…

Posted in Essays/Poetry, Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: Flip-Flops at the BOCC, and other Controversies, Part Four

Posted on October 16, 2023October 16, 2023 by Bill Hudson

As part of the 2008 sale of the Running Iron Ranch, the family had negotiated full use of the ranch property for cattle grazing and gravel mining for 15 years

Posted in Opinion/Letters
OPINION: Public Schools Must Teach the Contention of Democracy, Not Censor It

OPINION: Public Schools Must Teach the Contention of Democracy, Not Censor It

Posted on October 16, 2023October 16, 2023 by Post Contributor

Attacks on public education that seek to defund and muzzle it divert our attention away from the civic ideas on which the United States was founded…

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EDITORIAL: Flip-Flops at the BOCC, and Other Controversies, Part Three

Posted on October 13, 2023October 16, 2023 by Bill Hudson

On Chili Beach in Queensland, Australia, 4,696 flip-flops had washed ashore and were collected during a five-day clean up effort…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
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