There’s so much that’s so serious, would poking fun, a little, relieve stress?
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Working Competently on Workforce Housing, Part Two
The Town staff was directed to consider the Aspen Village parcels, but also to research other, similar properties with existing streets and infrastructure…
EDITORIAL: Working Competently on Workforce Housing, Part One
If South Pagosa Park was off the table, and if the Town needs to provide Servitas with enough free, municipally-owned land to allow the construction of 64 units…
OPINION: Archuleta Democrats Raise Concerns about Leaving San Juan Basin Public Health
If the County goes it alone on public health, can it meet those mandates effectively and without requiring a tax increase?
OPINION: Parents Weigh In on Content in Public Schools
Last month the Department of Education received more than 17,000 emails from concerned citizens…
EDITORIAL: Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?… I mean, COVID… Part Seven
“Experience indicates that Traditional Chinese Medicine effectively treats SARS and has been used for treating patients with COVID-19 in China…”
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: All Rise!
It’s first words “We, the people of the State of Colorado” declare in whom authority over all aspects of the state government ultimately resides…
EDITORIAL: Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?… I mean, COVID… Part Six
The simple political fact is, many citizens in both counties have, during the COVID crisis, rejected the “basic things that public health puts forth” such as vaccines…
OPINION: Living Under the Tyranny of Lawyers and Courts
Complicit media outlets use fake science and dire predictions to persuade people that only government intervention will protect and save them…
HMPRESENTLY: The Magic Words, ‘Full Access’
Folks residing along the roads would have to find parking on other streets. And the work would be getting underway in just a couple of days…
EDITORIAL: Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?… I mean, COVID… Part Five
Who’s foolish, in our current COVID story? Who’s greedy and hungry? And who’s wise?
OPINION: Severability Imminent from SJBPH
For example, a public health agency has no compelling reason for prior restraint and preventing people from speaking out about a health concern…
EDITORIAL: Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?… I mean, COVID… Part Four
“I think it’s a corollary to the military industrial complex. You need an enemy….”
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Springs Town Council Looking at Housing Question Tonight
The first item — presumably, a rather cursory overview of a draft 200-page document — concerns the Town’s Land Use and Development Code (LUDC)…
EDITORIAL: Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?… I mean, COVID… Part Three
“We are all obligated, as Americans, to challenge whatever is unlawful, or whatever is in violation of constitutional rights that are God-given rights…”
BIG PIVOTS: Fossil-Free Technology that Heats Homes in Frigid Fraser
Colorado needs many more air-source heat pumps — and fewer carbon emissions from buildings — to meet its mid-century decarbonization target goals of 90%…
EDITORIAL: Making Room for Marijuana Gardens
I suggested that some of the proposed regulations appeared to conflict with an amendment made to the Colorado Constitution by the voters, ten years ago…
HMPRESENTLY: Merger of Equals
“There are some awfully headstrong leaders on Earth,” cautioned one of the analysts. “Not only in national governments, but in those giant businesses, as well….”