Category: News/Politics

The fact that other cities and towns may have abused the Urban Renewal Law doesn’t mean that the Town of Pagosa Springs ought to do the same thing…

“With all this going on, I haven’t heard anything about the commitment that the Town would make, or the County, to improve the downtown. I look up and down the [main commercial block] and what do I see?…”

The Town entered into an ‘economic incentive’ package with Colorado-based Hometown Markets, with a promise of tax subsidies and fee waivers valued at about $500,000…

Based on what I remember seeing that evening, I walked out onto the vacant 27-acre parcel that attorney Benedetti was promoting as the site for a possible ‘Urban Renewal Authority’ treatment, and snapped a photo…

“The general assembly finds and declares that there exist in municipalities of this state slum and blighted areas which constitute a serious and growing menace, injurious to the public health, safety, morals, and welfare…”

During the late 1950s, the spiraling nuclear arms race, poverty in economically underdeveloped nations, and underfunded public services in the United States inspired considerable thought among socially-conscious Americans…

Will the Town really miss impact fees of $50,000 per year, considering its overall budget has increased by $5.7 million since 2005?

The birthrate for women in their 20s has tended to drop year after year… According to the report, the birthrate among women in their early 20s has dropped an average of 4 percent each year since 2007…

The way I understood home ownership, the way I was taught — by my parents’ actions and conversations — was that a house was meant to be a home, and you maintained it and cared for it…

“Successful breeding depends largely upon the doe’s health during the rut. The ovulation rate is strongly affected by the doe’s level of nutrition…”

When I’m allowed to water my lawn for purely aesthetic purposes, for the past 17 years, I have a hard time believing that we had an honest-to-goodness “drought situation” in Archuleta County…

By contrast, 77 percent said the government spent “too little” on education, 71 percent said it spent “too little” on assistance to the poor, and 70 percent said it spent “too little” on improving and protecting the nation’s health…

To generate that number of phone calls, every man, woman and child in Archuleta County would need to call the Dispatch Center more than ten times every year…

“The Dispatch Center takes all 911 calls within the County and dispatches the appropriate agencies. They receive over 8,000 911 calls per year…”

In order to accomplish this goal of devitalizing the downtown, the BOCC needs the Town Council to approve the re-zoning of a 5-acre parcel in the core of the Harman Park commercial area…

Meanwhile, on the other side of town, the Planning Commission was looking at changing the zoning for a parcel in Harman Park, to accommodate a new $14 million jail…

“While American companies lead in making essential 5G technologies, there are no longer any U.S. manufacturers of core telecommunications network equipment….”