Pagosa Springs Daily Digest Saturday, May 02, 2026
Ty's Take
The small business conference heading down to Ignacio next Wednesday might be the most practical thing on this week's agenda—eight opinion pieces about government overreach won't pay the light bill, but a roomful of local owners swapping what's actually working usually does. This county's always had a backbone of people who figure things out themselves, whether it's the ranchers who've managed water here for generations or the shop owners keeping Main Street alive while the second-home market does its thing. That kind of intelligence, the kind you get from sitting across a table from somebody who's running something real, tends to outlast whatever argument's raging in the editorial pages. Worth the drive to Ignacio.
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