The mention of an ‘executive session’ got me thinking about government transparency…
Category: Opinion/Letters
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…
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…