With the hope afforded us by the COVID-19 vaccines that are becoming available, perhaps a quote ascribed to Winston S. Churchill is appropriate…
ON EDGE: Colorado’s Shadow Epidemic, Part One
Betty Torres, 38, of Denver, walks at Garfield Lake Park in Denver in November. Torres was diagnosed and hospitalized with COVID-19 back in March, and has mostly recovered, but lost her grandfather to the virus…
EDITORIAL: One Hell of a Year, Part One
What has happened in Pagosa Springs over the past 30 years is hardly comparable to what folks might be witnessing in Denver. What’s happening in Pagosa Springs is more comparable to what happened in Aspen, Vail, and Telluride…
Delays on Wolf Creek Pass This Morning
CDOT will perform winter maintenance operations on US 160 Wolf Creek Pass this morning, Tuesday December 29, beginning at 6am…
Five Questions Facing Miguel Cardona, Biden’s Pick for Education Secretary
“I know just how challenging this year has been for students, for educators, and for parents,” Miguel Cardona said Wednesday in his first public comments…
EDITORIAL: Our Local COVID Situation, in 1,000 Words or Less
It is expected that the initial supply of COVID-19 vaccine(s) will be very limited for several months…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Best Non-Jokes of 2020
It seemed like life simply couldn’t get any funnier…
HMPRESENTLY: Big, Powerful Muscle Stuff…
“Some Asian Americans and immigrants wore masks readily. In a brutal election year, it made them heroes, targets, profits….”
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: A Woman’s Right to Abortion, Considered
Last week, a California court ruled that a murder prosecution can proceed against a 19-year-old Kings County woman, Chelsea Becker, who had a still birth after using meth during her eighth month of pregnancy…
EDITORIAL: Happy Holiday, Happy Holiday…
One of the more uplifting movies of that period featured Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds and Virginia Dale, dancing and singing…
ESSAY: The Doors of Perception, Part Three
Things had been going downhill, for many of the working families in Pagosa Springs, well before the coronavirus arrived on the scene…
OPINION: Restoring the Soul of America
The last time I heard a Democratic politician at the top of his party truly, vulnerably stand for restoring the nation’s soul was in 1972…
Colorado Lawmakers Promise ‘Lower Enrollment’ Won’t Hurt School Funding
Republicans introduced a similar measure during the recent special session. Democrats rejected it as outside the narrow purview of the special session…
EDITORIAL: Strange Diversions in a Strange Land, Part Nine
Well, now, we have a couple of questions that pop right up… one being, where does the money (“the funding”) come from?
ESSAY: The Doors of Perception, Part Two
If a person struggles with mathematics, does that mean they have trouble using the left side of their brain? Once again, a logical conclusion…
Colorado Biologists Concerned About Mysterious Trout Decline
‘This September, we surveyed four reaches of the creek and the results were troubling. They suggested up to an 80 percent decline in the adult population….”
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: When Words Have Two Meanings
The Fifth Amendment to the United State Constitution mandates that citizens charged with crimes be afforded “due process of law”…
EDITORIAL: Strange Diversions in a Strange Land, Part Eight
The seven states that divert water out of the Colorado River Basin collaborated on a a drought mitigation plan back in 2007 — in hopes of preventing the federal government from taking control of the Colorado River…
ESSAY: The Doors of Perception, Part One
The first ‘thing’ a child typically learns to draw — the first recognizable shape that appears, usually accidentally, on their sheet of paper, or on the bedroom wall — is a circle….