Category: Opinion/Letters

“We’re very proud to serve Medicare patients, but it’s getting more and more difficult…”

“One of the things that Medicare has recently done, to try and help rural hospitals, is they’ve established a designation called ‘Rural Emergency Hospital’…”

Citizens were compensated, with paper currency – at the government-determined rate of $22 per ounce of gold…

In May 2007, John Hickenlooper was reelected Mayor of Denver with 88% of the vote. He was elected Governor of Colorado in 2010, and re-elected in 2014…

“So I see that, potentially, that’s why some people… their valuation will differ so much from yours…”

Damn.  It’s too bad those 2,340 property owners weren’t sitting here and listening to Ms. Tully-Elliot’s explanations…

“You got mentioned in the newspaper,” he smiled…

The diversion that fills Lake Hatcher — sparkling water from snowmelt in the San Juan Mountains — is on Fourmile Creek…

There is no longer any legal basis to deny them the right to be included in consideration of water rights as they have been in the past…

“Caught up in the fable, I watched the tower grow. Five year plans and new deals, wrapped in golden chains…”

“I was an advocate [for a Dry Gulch Reservoir] when it first started. I was ‘pro’ for it then, and we’d have been way ahead of the game if we’d have put it in, then…”

I’m not sure if County Commissioner Warren Brown understands the complexity of the problems — legal, financial, social, and geological…

With the increased property valuations, Archuleta County taxpayers will probably foot about 63% of the school funding next year. That’s a 26% increase…