At its best, what’s commonly known as ‘public relations’ can add something to what people are reading, seeing, and hearing about…
Category: News/Politics
LETTER: The PLPOA ‘Annual Meeting’ Was Not an Annual Meeting
Okay so far, because the Board and administration had made an arrangement for participation via Zoom. Well, guess what? The Zoom connection failed… but the meeting proceeded anyway…
LETTER: Capitalism is Just the Best
Want to know the ‘purest’ forms of capitalism? Well, it’s the narco & human trafficking industries… Billions of dollars in sales, and lots and lots of jobs!
LETTER: The Unproven Nature of COVID Testing
As “testing” increases, controlled media spreads alarming daily reports of skyrocketing “confirmed cases and confirmed deaths” which are anything but…
Counties with Variances from COVID-19 Guidelines Could Lose Privileges
This article by reporter Faith Miller first appeared on Colorado Newsline, on July 22, 2020. You can read the original article here. Colorado counties with READ MORE
HMPRESENTLY: First, the Short-Term Rental Company; Then, the Government…
The company is suggesting that guests, who have given Airbnb hosts high ratings, consider sending such hosts a kindness card, perhaps “with a generous donation” included…
OPINION: Housing Groups Condemn Trump’s Effort to Gut Fair Housing
Fair housing advocates denounce effort to eliminate a critical tool to desegregate communities and call on the President to instead concentrate on ensuring housing equity during a pandemic…
READY, FIRE, AIM: I’m Your Captain, I’m Your Captain
“All you really need to know about Tony Fauci,” says Jack Rowe, a former president and chief executive of Mount Sinai NYU Health, “is that, at five-foot, seven-inches, he was the captain of his high school basketball team…”
OPINION: The (Act Like You) INVEST in America Act
We built all the infrastructure already, and then some. We just didn’t bother to make it pay any kind of financial return…
HMPRESENTLY: Doing What You Say You’re Going to Do
“Your word is your bond,” I remember my dad saying when I was a kid. There were handshake agreements, in those days. Yeah, that may seem quaint, by today’s ‘standards’…
EDITORIAL: The Corrupt Streets of Pagosa Springs, Part Six
“There are crooks out there. I believe with this Council and this community the scrutiny will be very high, and need for transparency will be huge. As I said earlier, this is just the beginning of long process and partnership…”
OPINION: The Power to Withhold COVID-19 Information
Does anyone really trust that the administration will present information and findings to the public in a way that is unadulterated, unvarnished, thorough and complete?
VIDEO: Colorado Governor Polis Makes Masks Mandatory Indoors
“It’s super important. Look, we have a choice in Colorado. Either more mask wearing and more attention to social distancing, or more damage to our economy and loss of life…”
EDITORIAL: The Corrupt Streets of Pagosa Springs, Part Five
On June 18, the Town Council holds a public hearing on The River Rock Estates subdivision plan. Planning Director James Dickhoff explains to the Town Council that the subdivision actually has no streets at all….
OPINION: Let’s Stop the Impending Wild Horse Slaughter
Instead of manufacturing a new crisis, BLM should implement humane fertility control as a way to maintain safe and sustainable population levels on our public lands…
LETTER: The Disease in the White House
This administration is now requiring all reports of cases, hospitalizations and deaths be reported to the Trump administration — not the CDC…
EDITORIAL: The Corrupt Streets of Pagosa Springs, Part Four
“I think… um… Well, I think… um… there are certainly some instances, and there’s going to be a number of instances… I think we have… I’ll have to research that a little more… “
HMPRESENTLY: Yeah, That Summer of 2012
While some Volker Rule restrictions on financial firms have been described as ‘onerous,’ the Volker Rule was “meant to curb excessive risk-taking at the nation’s largest banks…”
EDITORIAL: The Corrupt Streets of Pagosa Springs, Part Three
If we can assume a shared motivation behind the overwhelmingly positive vote, we might surmise that the residents of Pagosa Springs were basically unhappy with the Town Council…