Last year, Colorado colleges and universities received nearly 44,500 admissions applications on Colorado Free Application Day. Thanks to your support, we hope to go even higher this year…
LETTER: Trump and the Military
“Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers,” he said about our fallen soldiers…
VIDEO: Jim Fox Demonstrates an Immune System Treatment During the COVID Pandemic
“A strong first response will repel the initial COVID attack before the disease progresses deeper into the lungs, affecting other organs…”
EDITORIAL: County Commissioners Budgeting Zero Property Tax Dollars for Roads, Part Two
“So, we’ve got enough money right now to start and finish a one-courtroom courthouse, but we will continue to seek grants until we get to a three-courtroom courthouse…”
‘Pagosa Coders’ at Pagosa Peak Open School
Pagosa Innovation Center hopes that events like these “ignite a spark in students that the possibilities are seemingly endless working with technology…”
CLIMATE INACTION: How Colorado’s ‘Clean Energy’ Push Fell Short, Part Four
I find myself with a sense of urgency that wants to push us to go faster,” agreed commissioner Elise Jones. “My understanding is that the gap we’re trying to make up is pretty significant….”
EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Sixteen
“So, we’ve talked about property rights. We’ve talked about flexibility, and a program that allows for uses. We’ve talked about conditional water rights. One of the things that [the term] ‘speculation’ brings to mind for me, is “price” and ‘use’…”
HMPRESENTLY: Weekend Follies
But, all of a sudden on Saturday, there they were, on giant big rigs, in one of those military parades… in North Korea…
Pagosa Arts Initiative ‘Pumpkin Fundraiser’ Open to All Ages
First, harvest or purchase a pumpkin and decorate to your heart’s content. Submit two photographs to info@pagosaartsinitiative.org…
Habitat for Humanity Chooses ‘Legislators of the Year’
“As our country and state look at advancing racial equity, we need more policy makers like Representative Bird and Senator Coram to prioritize affordable homeownership to help decrease the wealth gap…”
LETTER: Are We Better Off?
The rich get richer… but we can vote them out…
VIDEO: Fort Lewis College Embraces Navajo ‘Kinship’ Principle to Combat COVID
“I’m very passionate about making sure that no one else loses their life to this virus,” said Ally Gee, 21, a public health major…
EDITORIAL: County Commissioners Budgeting Zero Property Tax Dollars for Roads, Part One
But as Commissioner Maez makes very clear, the BOCC had warned us. If we didn’t approve the sales tax increase, the BOCC was going to build the justice center anyway, using Certificates of Participation…
CLIMATE INACTION: How Colorado’s ‘Clean Energy’ Push Fell Short, Part Three
Now they feared that the governor would choose to implement the new law slowly, in small pieces or not at all. And over the next year and a half, they would largely be proven right…
EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Fifteen
“You know, we do see a lot — within the South Platte Basin — of entities buying up water rights with the intention of drying them up in the future… definitely something we’re working on, to come up with different options…”
HMPRESENTLY: Disconnects
But, the most troubling disconnect of all, would seem to be the growing disconnect between so-called ‘law and order’ and what has been described, through the ages, as “man’s inhumanity to man”…
Science Shows Wolverines in the Contiguous US Are Healthy
“In the time since our original proposal, the science on wolverine has been greatly advanced thanks to the work of state wildlife agencies and researchers in the US and around the world…”
CLIMATE INACTION: How Colorado’s ‘Clean Energy’ Push Fell Short, Part Two
There are communities that have already been bearing the burden of pollution, in addition to income inequality, racism, all of these things,” Gonzalez said…
EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Fourteen
For more than 125 years, our Colorado courts have been granting water rights holders the privilege of making a profit selling the “right to use” publicly-owned water…