The Town Planning Commission, this week, recommended that the Pagosa Springs Inn & Suites be permitted to convert all of its motel rooms into long-term rental units…
HMPRESENTLY: If We Could Just Tune In…
My inner voice was swearing like a sailor…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Big Bang… and Then, Pagosa Springs
This image, above, might illustrate the first moments of the Big Bang, when the ‘singularity’ woke up and decided to blossom into a full-blown universe…
Public Presentation Will Focus on Workforce Housing Solutions
The meeting starts at 9:00am at the Ross Aragon Community Center, South Conference Room. Coffee, tea and light refreshments will be served…
OPINION: I Quit Teaching at the University Over COVID-19
I’ve been chronically underpaid, overworked and short-resourced. I’ve faced harassment, discrimination and inflated egos…
Colorado Announces Plan for Opioid Settlement Money
Colorado could receive $400M or more from pharmaceutical companies and consultants…
Congressional Committee Issues Plea for Drought Assistance in the American West
“There is little to no livestock feed available in the West, farmers are considering selling their livestock or land, and many species of wildlife are suffering…”
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Four
Can we dig ourselves out of this hole? Or are we looking at a ‘black hole’ that’s going to suck in everything within its gravitational field?…
Chained Voices
After being convicted of a crime at age 17, he spent 25 years in state prison. He was recently released through a program for people who were convicted as juveniles.
ESSAY: Growing Old in a Newborn Universe
Suddenly I’m curious in a real way. I just turned… 75. There’s a significance to that number that isn’t abstract, and I’m having a hard time ignoring it…
CHAMBER NEWS: Public Presentation on Housing; ColorFest Opportunities Available
Have you tried to attend a ColorFest activity before, but it was already sold out? Now is your opportunity to become involved…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Three
According to national vacation rental management company Vacasa, the people most likely to convert single-family homes into vacation rentals are between the ages of 20 and 50…
Tribal Elder Helped Remove 157-Year-Old Proclamation Used to Incite Sand Creek Massacre
When Rick Williams started researching the history of his great-great grandfather in summer 2018, he stumbled upon a horrifying fact. Then he set out to change it…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Electric Everything
It all started back in the 1950s, I guess, with electric guitars…
HMPRESENTLY: Your Neighbor, the LLC
If you’re thinking this smacks of the short-term rental business model, or the timeshares business model, the startup’s founders would disagree…
VIDEO: Aerial Fish Stocking Operation Brings Trout to Colorado’s Mountain Lakes
Over 95,000 of the cutthroat trout were stocked into 73 lakes by wildlife pilots Denise Corcoran, Larry Gepfert and Steve Waters…
US Student Wins International Water Research Competition
Jha conducted research on how to remove contaminants from freshwater by replacing active carbon with biochar for use in efficient and less costly water filters…
Colorado Voters Split on Mask, Vaccine Mandates in Schools
Those who said schools are on the right track also thought educators had done the best they could in trying circumstances…
EDITORIAL: Attempts to Heal Our Neighborhoods, Part Two
As we see, the financial stress was not evenly distributed among the various income levels…