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EDITORIAL: Facts and Fantasies About the Bridge to Nowhere, Part Five
I have a fantasy, for example, about honest local government, making legal decisions in open meetings and valuing the opinions of the citizens who fund them and for whom these governments were created…
EDITORIAL: Facts and Fantasies About the Bridge to Nowhere, Part Four
“So, could you address those? If those are questions that have been asserted before, and we have them tonight, can you answer those questions?”
EDITORIAL: Facts and Fantasies About the Bridge to Nowhere, Part Three
Some others — including many who attended the March 17 meeting at the Ross Aragon Community Center — seem to view Pagosa’s municipal government as a slightly insane father…
EDITORIAL: Facts and Fantasies About the Bridge to Nowhere, Part One
Mayor Volger began by explaining, as best he could, why the Town Council had chosen to discuss the 5th Street Bridge proposal in closed-door meetings for the past six months, releasing no information to the public