She was a highly respected cultural leader and a multi-talented artist who contributed to the revival and perpetuation of Chilkat and Ravenstail ceremonial blanket weaving…
EDITORIAL: Fidel Castro’s Health Care Legacy
Dr. Blumenthal’s essay grew out of his visit to Cuba earlier this month. In it, he examines Cuba’s investments in primary care and public health and their impact on the health of the population…
New Charter School Gets School Board Approval
The conditions stipulated by the ASD School Board include a requirement that the yet-to-be-formed Pagosa Peak Open School board of directors raise an additional $175,000 in grants and donations during their first year in operation…
ELECTION UPDATE: Maez, Wadley Win BOCC Seats; Minimum Wage Increased
Here in peaceful Archuleta County, the local election of 2016 was reasonably low key and mellow, without any big-ticket tax increases on the ballot…
Another Roadblock to Proposed ‘Justice Center’?
“In any case, it seems entirely premature to discuss lifting the restriction at a time when the issue is clearly undecided within the County on numerous fronts…”
EDITORIAL: Attorney Fees, Explained
“So, for what it’s worth, litigation — if you involve yourself in litigation, and if you are conscientious — you devote a lot of hours to it. You really do…”
EDITORIAL: A Secret Meeting… Revealed, Part Eight
“It’s our intent, Tracy, to be as involved in this as possible…”
EDITORIAL: A Secret Meeting… Revealed, Part Seven
“Between the two of you, right now, with the plans that you’re looking at — the hotels, the water parks, whatever — do you guys have the ability right now… to go ahead and launch this?”
EDITORIAL: A Secret Meeting… Revealed, Part Six
“We’re going to make sure this happens. That’s our contention. One way or another. We don’t have $150 million between us, so we need to bring other partners into this. And we will….”
EDITORIAL: A Secret Meeting… Revealed, Part Five
“And the town is in need of another hotel, a new hotel. We haven’t had a new hotel since the one Whittington did with the 32 rooms, but that’s all ‘upper end’…”
EDITORIAL: A Secret Meeting… Revealed, Part Four
This plan seemed acceptable to everyone… until the Whittington family walked away from the purchase of the vacant 27 acres. That was probably a sensible move on their part…
EDITORIAL: A Secret Meeting… Revealed, Part Three
“During the 40 years I’ve lived here, we’ve seen Pagosa get strung out from Highway 84 all the way out Highway 160, and we just missed doing something downtown…”
EDITORIAL: A Secret Meeting… Revealed, Part Two
“What is in the best interests of the town, long term, for traffic circulation? So if you want to do a Lease Purchase…”
EDITORIAL: A Secret Meeting… Revealed, Part One
“The third option is to consider, basically, what is called a Lease Purchase. And this is essentially the same mechanism that the Town used to finance Lewis Street…”
ESSAY: Corn, Corn Oil… and Scientific Reality, Part Two
Mr. Sternberg did his Ph.D. work along side Jennifer Doudna, the University of California researcher who developed the CRISPR/Cas9 system of gene editing…
ESSAY: Corn, Corn Oil… and Scientific Reality, Part One
A scientist was explaining that the DNA coding that uniquely defines each individual human — or each individual dog, or cat, or earthworm — is made up of only four different amino acids strung together in a certain sequence…
HUMOR: The Big Independence Day Mistake
Imagine how different America would have been, if Congress — instead of forever severing our political ties with Great Britain — had simply gone around to the corner tavern and knocked down a few beers?
‘ColoradoCare Coffee’ with Senator Irene Aguilar Tomorrow at 8am
In November 2010, Dr. Aguilar made a decision to seek public office to advance the cause of universal health care…