Relocating wild horses from areas where they are in conflict with livestock interests via humane methods… is both economically and ecologically appropriate…
‘American Rescue Plan’ Will Support Veterans
The coronavirus economic relief package for Americans allocates $17 billion in support of the VA’s nationwide response…
New Suicide Dialing Code
On July 16, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved 988 as the three-digit abbreviated dialing code to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline starting READ MORE
New Area Code Dialing Requirement Will Facilitate Suicide Dialing Code
In order for 988 to work, customers in many area codes across the country, including 719 and 970 in Colorado, must be transitioned to 10-digit local dialing…
Blood Drive Tomorrow, April 6
Our next Vitalant Blood Drive will be held at Centerpoint Church, 2750 Cornerstone Drive, from 10am to 3pm…
Free Annual Training This Month for Chimney Rock Volunteers
After training, new volunteers will receive extended training with a veteran volunteer at the site until they are comfortable in their new positions…
EDITORIAL: Digging Into the Ditches, and Such, Part Two
Here is a slight close-up of Ms. Purcell’s map, showing the area surrounding downtown Pagosa Springs, with some identifying words added. Hatcher Lake. Walmart. Downtown. Wolf Creek Pass…
REVIEW: Busy McCarroll is Making Good Trouble
“I’m not so naive to think that a song can fix all of this,” says Busy. “These are systemic problems we’ve had in this country for a long time…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: I Totally Missed April Fools Day
It got so bad that the First Day of Spring was being celebrated on April 1. That’s when Pope Gregory XIII decided he’d had quite enough of this nonsense…
HMPRESENTLY: In The Same Boat?
And then I’m thinking… Heaven help us! We may be going down similar paths. Or the same collision course with an iceberg, the doomed ship…
Colorado Aims at Expansion of Public Lands
“It sounds nice as a slogan, and that’s helpful, but if you look at all the science and the data that’s out there, you can understand the need behind it…”
Durango’s COVID ‘Cowboy’ Rounds Up Spring Break Scofflaws, Lines ’Em Up for Shots
“You can’t throw a stone around here without hitting a Texan,” explained Scott Perez, the man in the marshal get-up…
EDITORIAL: Digging Into the Ditches, and Such, Part One
But it takes basically the same number of employees, working the same number of hours, to treat and deliver 1,000 acre-feet of water as it takes to treat and deliver 2,000 acre-feet of water…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Romance of All-Day Protection
I’m thinking about protection this morning, because some forms of protection have a time limit…
Colorado Parks & Wildlife Partners with Colorado Youth Corps Association
“As we monitor how human use and natural disasters impact our outdoor spaces, we have an obligation to work together to protect our trails so that they can be enjoyed for generations to come…”
LETTER: Considering Pagosa Wages
Last year I was working for a local businessman and when my check was handed to me, he said that the governing body that we work under stated that a certain wage was required…
OPINION: ‘American Jobs Plan’ to Include Civilian Conservation Corps Funding
“This plan will jumpstart our economy, by putting millions of Americans back to work addressing our nation’s infrastructure needs, and making needed changes to our energy grid…”
Feds Allow Reduced Testing in Colorado Schools
“The last thing students need is to have the brakes slammed on learning, to accommodate several weeks of standardized testing….”
EDITORIAL: Pennies from Heaven, Part Eight
In James Cameron’s film version of the Titanic disaster, the steersman spun the ship’s wheel “hard to starboard”, as far as the wheel would turn. It almost worked. But not quite…