Tag: Aspen
Passing the bud in the high country: Vail council bans pot...
Vail police last week successfully lobbied the town council to temporarily ban medical marijuana dispensaries, essentially passing the bud to the next council to...
Aspen-area school superintendent still on hot seat for banning Obama speech
It’s been more than two weeks since President Obama’s shockingly innocuous speech to schoolchildren urging them to, gasp, stay in school and work hard,...
Colorado River official says politics of climate-change debate impeding work
Despite a flood of recent evidence that drought is endangering the Colorado River and all of the communities from Colorado to California that depend...
Clean-energy improvement districts cropping up on Nov. ski county ballots
Voters in both Pitkin and Eagle counties – homes to Aspen and Vail ski areas, respectively – will be asked to approve special clean-energy...
Aspen digs deep for green marketing; local bears largely unimpressed
Vail may be battling bugs with biomass, but ski-town rival Aspen wants to dig deep in order to heat up its enviro-friendly image …...
High country sees spike in medical marijuana dispenseries
John Denver would have been proud. His adopted hometown of Aspen is getting a medical marijuana dispensary –- this time right downtown.
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CLEAN GOVERNMENT MUDDLE: Amendment 54, the so-called clean government amendment passed as a ballot initiative in the fall and enjoined by...
Aspen cycling politics: On the budding Armstrong-Ritter ‘bromance’
Only in Aspen, where liberal political bickering has been elevated to an art form, could a proposed day to honor cancer survivor and seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong devolve into name calling and too-cool-for-school disinterest.
Susan Orlean, the Aspen bear and the Twitter
New Yorker writer and celebrated author of the Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean, tweeted that her house in Aspen was invaded by a bear. The...
Vail development moves on despite Madoff ripple effect
Most of the Colorado focus of stories detailing the fallout of Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme have dealt with Aspen’s Jewish community, which is reeling from the real estate ripple effects.
But one of the most high-profile – and at one point controversial – development projects that might be impacted by Madoff’s epic 20-year pattern of investment fraud is in Vail, where a massive $250 million development in the heart of the faux-Bavarian village is currently under construction.