When I’m allowed to water my lawn for purely aesthetic purposes, for the past 17 years, I have a hard time believing that we had an honest-to-goodness “drought situation” in Archuleta County…

By contrast, 77 percent said the government spent “too little” on education, 71 percent said it spent “too little” on assistance to the poor, and 70 percent said it spent “too little” on improving and protecting the nation’s health…

To generate that number of phone calls, every man, woman and child in Archuleta County would need to call the Dispatch Center more than ten times every year…

“The Dispatch Center takes all 911 calls within the County and dispatches the appropriate agencies. They receive over 8,000 911 calls per year…”

In order to accomplish this goal of devitalizing the downtown, the BOCC needs the Town Council to approve the re-zoning of a 5-acre parcel in the core of the Harman Park commercial area…

Meanwhile, on the other side of town, the Planning Commission was looking at changing the zoning for a parcel in Harman Park, to accommodate a new $14 million jail…

“While American companies lead in making essential 5G technologies, there are no longer any U.S. manufacturers of core telecommunications network equipment….”

The reason American manufacturing jobs have disappeared, and the reason American agricultural jobs have disappeared, has very little to do with “globalization” or “immigration”…

But the thousands of documents leaked by Mr. Snowdon revealed something perhaps even more important than the fact that the US government was spying on its own citizens…

As we see, the Participation Rate of adults in the job market hit a high point of 67.3 in March 2000, and then began to decline, falling to a low point of 62.5 in October 2015…

Millennials — the young people born between 1981 and 2000 — are now the largest generation of Americans, but their numbers are generally declining in rural America…