According to the Town’s 2021 budget, they expect to spend about $3.6 million on tourism, recreation, and recreation facility maintenance, this year…
Colorado Aiming for ‘Resiliency’
Local governments have the ability to build in resiliency into a number of local plans, including master or comprehensive plans…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Am I Blue? … I Mean, Level Blue?
Billie Holiday may have said it best, in 1947…
OPINION: Currency Devaluation Amidst COVID-19
Each paper note supposedly represented an amount of gold or silver as specified on the face of each paper note…
Trump Voters Forming ‘Patriot Party’ in Colorado?
“The Patriot Party is a repudiation of the GOP for the central fact that they weren’t very supportive of the president…”
Supplements for the Treatment of Mild COVID-19
Although supplements are generally thought of as benign because of their over-the-counter availability, they are not necessarily free from adverse effects…
OPINION: What Some May Believe
The great Sufic poet Rumi said: “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there…”
EDITORIAL: Town Government as Housing Provider, Part Seven
We can easily understand why a municipal planning organization would want to prohibit affordable housing in as many places as practical…
A Shared Health Project at Pagosa Peak Open School
Two kindergartners from Ms. Emily’s class, Amalie and Zeke, made informational videos about COVID and other germs…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Cupid and the Pandemic of Love
How could a cute little guy with white wings, a round, pink bum, and curly blond hair be even the slightest bit naughty?
La Plata County Drops Quickly from ‘Blue’ to ‘Yellow’
“After weeks of lower metrics, La Plata County is seeing a rise in cases and test positivity rates which can be attributed in part to indoor social gatherings…”
HMPRESENTLY: Snaky?
In dictionaries, ‘snaky’ reflects “the supposed nature of a snake in showing coldness and venom…”
LETTER: Call Someplace Paradise…
I have been enjoying Mr. Hudson editorials regarding the Town as a housing provider…
EDITORIAL: Town Government as Housing Provider, Part Six
There are several reasons why this ‘affordable housing’ project turned out to be so expensive to build…
Town Invites Public to Comment on New Land Use Code, Feb . 24
The Town of Pagosa Springs has kicked off the Land Use and Development Code (LUDC) update “Pagosa Springs Plans Forward”…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Some Non-Medical Advice for Those of You Wearing ‘Double Masks’
A person could get dizzy, listening to and reading about all the controversies around mask-wearing these days…
OPINION: Unleash the Swarm, to Address the Housing Crisis
The Boston triple-decker is a beloved housing type in New England because of its early (small-d) democratic appeal…
COLORADO WATER PLAN: Is It Working?
According to the CWCB’s data, 76 percent of the plan’s actions have been initiated or completed, but how this translates to progress on the plan’s eight measurable objectives isn’t clear yet…
OPINION: What Unemployment Insurance Fraud Means for Coloradans
Colorado, along with the rest of the nation, has recently been subjected to a wave of fraudulent Unemployment Insurance (UI) Claims…