Or maybe it was juntas, in other parts of the world, where folks, saying things that authoritarian rulers didn’t like, were left out in the cold — were banished — so to speak….
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: The Public Health District Question, Part Five
“I think you are all surprised at the number of services that are available through SJBPH — but they’re not visible… And we are not communicating well enough…”
EDITORIAL: The Public Health District Question, Part Four
“We’ve reached out to you, to try and understand your services, your structure. I think we’ve spent quite a bit of time on our own, and you’ve provided us with some documents…”
HMPRESENTLY: When PR Becomes HA-HA
“We’re raising awareness of the company’s products and services,” we’d say. And when the term ‘brand image’ became popular, we’d talk about raising awareness of that, too…
EDITORIAL: The Ongoing Mysteries of COVID Data
Why would the hospitalization rate in one of the most successfully-vaccinated places in the U.S — northwestern New Mexico — be three-and-a-half times the hospitalization rate in the country’s southern states?
EDITORIAL: The Public Health District Question, Part Three
We don’t want to neglect that particular remark, because “environmental health” and “performing inspections” might actually be at the center of this controversy…
OPINION: American History, in a Ziploc Bag
“I am a garbage collector,” he explains. “Racist garbage. For three decades I have collected items that defame and belittle Africans and their American descendants…”
EDITORIAL: The Public Health District Question, Part Two
Archuleta County has a significant number of residents living without centralized drinking water, and without community wastewater services. La Plata County, not so much…
HMPRESENTLY: Fleeing to a Better Place
Fleeing from an authoritarian regime, so many decades ago, that dear gentleman and his siblings knew all too well about that, perhaps…
EDITORIAL: The Public Health District Question, Part One
Over the past summer, the Archuleta Board of County Commissioners established a ‘Health District Investigative Committee’ to research the County’s relationship with San Juan Basin Public Health…
HMPRESENTLY: Bandying About… or Brass Tacks?
If you stormed the nation’s Capitol building last January 6th, you’re being described as a “patriot,” by a number of people in politics…
EDITORIAL: A Lengthy Tax Discussion That Left Us Hanging, Part Four
Pagosa Housing Partners, in line with recommendations approved unanimously by the Town Planning Commission, has recommended an annual tax (or fee) of $2,000 per bedroom…
EDITORIAL: A Lengthy Tax Discussion That Left Us Hanging, Part Three
If you are a Millennial, and you are reading this in China, there’s a very good chance that you already own your home…
EDITORIAL: A Lengthy Tax Discussion That Left Us Hanging, Part Two
“Well, as I stated before, even in the Tourism Board meeting, you know… housing, workforce housing, isn’t your government’s problem…”
LETTER: Our Children, as a Lab Rat Pool
“But we’re never going to learn about how safe this vaccine is unless we start giving it. That’s just the way it goes…”
OPINION: A World That Worships Mammon
What’s needed is more than just divestment. What’s needed is a cultural — a spiritual — breakthrough in our sense of who we are, in our relationship to the planet…
EDITORIAL: A Lengthy Tax Discussion That Left Us Hanging, Part One
So I’m not complaining, and I’m not blaming the Council either. They are trying to do the best they can, with limited information, and with a sense of loyalty to their own bureaucracy…
LETTER: The Necessities of Life
The Climate Vulnerable Forum is a partnership of countries from places like Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean that are highly threatened by climate impacts…