“Was it, like, $5 million?”… “No, I think it was more like $10 million.” … “So I’m hearing anywhere between $10 and $12 million…”
EDITORIAL: Just the Facts, Ma’m… About the Jail… Again
Here in our own little community, less than half of our current offenders are locked up; the rest are managed with alternative methods…
EDITORIAL: CDOT Looks at Our Failing Highways, Part Two
But there might be a big problem with these particular medians. We’re listening to one of the consultants explain what might happen in, say, ten years…
EDITORIAL: CDOT Looks at Our Failing Highways, Part One
“The department faces a $25 billion revenue shortfall over that period, including a nearly $9 billion shortage over the next 10 years….”
EDITORIAL: Garbage Trucks, and Garbage Roads, Part Two
We heard that the Metro District cannot afford to maintain the pavement on Bristlecone if the entire community is going to continue using that road…
EDITORIAL: Garbage Trucks, and Garbage Roads, Part One
“Bristlecone is a shorter route. If you’re actually looking at the impacts on roads, Bristlecone is a much shorter route, than it is to go all the way around…”
EDITORIAL: Time to Outlaw Poverty? Part Nine
“This is selective enforcement. They’ve decided who they’re going to enforce the laws on. That’s as illegal as hell…”
EDITORIAL: Time to Outlaw Poverty? Part Eight
Historically, Pagosa Springs and Archuleta County has been home to people living simply, and without a lot of money…
OHV Regulations Rejected by Archuleta County
“It seems we are trying to solve a problem that doesn’t really exist, which is access. There is no access problem, to the National Forest….”
EDITORIAL: Time to Outlaw Poverty? Part Seven
“In the 1950s, we lived on a ranch on the lower Blanco without running water. We used an old fashion outdoor toilet for about 10 years…”
EDITORIAL: Time to Outlaw Poverty? Part Six
“There’s a Zombie apocalypse going on up here. I’ve had drug lords from Mexico here. Tweakers. I mean, this has been the headquarters…”
EDITORIAL: Time to Outlaw Poverty? Part Five
“I’m anxiously awaiting your opinions regarding the buckets of human feces placed neighboring properties, the toilet paper festooning the trees downwind…”
EDITORIAL: Time to Outlaw Poverty? Part Four
Archuleta County made it illegal to live year-round in a travel trailer, in 2010. The new regulations did not, however, provide any housing alternatives for families…
EDITORIAL: Time to Outlaw Poverty? Part Three
I’ve had a few brief conversations with Warren Goodman over the years, and I’ve come to understand he has evidence that the Aspen Springs area was once home to Hopi Indians…
EDITORIAL: Time to Outlaw Poverty? Part Two
“So what my investigations have brought to my attention is that we’re in dire need of a transfer station, and that primarily, it’s a problem of trash collection in living out there…
EDITORIAL: Time to Outlaw Poverty? Part One
It appeared, from the comments offered by the neighbors at the August 14 work session, that Mr. Goodman was allowing friends to ‘camp’ on his private property…
EDITORIAL: Many Mistakes at the BOCC Meeting, Part Four
“I caution you. Tell the truth to your voters. The last time we had a bond measure passed in Archuleta County was Measure 1A…”
EDITORIAL: Many Mistakes at the BOCC Meeting, Part Three
“So we’re recalling Resolution 2018-36 for further modification. Does anyone have the language?”