In his latest post, “Burgeoning Colorado/American Cities of Poverty” Frosty Wooldridge talks about destitution in Colorado, “Poor folks swarm into soup kitchens. Food banks empty faster than a box of Cracker Jacks at a movie! Thousands of homeless stand on street corners everywhere in Denver.” Lamenting the lack of reporting on the underlying cause for poverty in Colorado, Frosty writes, “…with over 30,000 illegal aliens attending classes bought and paid for by Denver, Colorado citizens, why didn’t the journalists address that nasty little reality? With over 85 languages from 105 countries being spoken in Denver Public Schools, how can we serve our kids when we must take twice as much time and money to serve children from other countries—thousands of them here illegally?”
A founding partner of a Denver investment bank and his wife and their two children were found dead Friday in a home with high levels of carbon monoxide just east of Aspen.
New Post blogger Jim Laurence, anchorman for both TV Aspen and Your Radio (KUUR-FM) makes his debut on Aspen Post with the highlights from his broadcasts.
Aspen Mayor Mick Ireland was yelling at me as he was walking out of the KNFO studio after his live appearance with City Manager Steve Barwick on "Con Games" Wednesday morning and I was yelling back.
It would have been better all around if Mayor Ireland had been so kind as to scream at me on air, just as it would have been better if he had blown his top at the City Council meeting after, instead of before, they turned the cameras on. But such overt displays of pique would not be in keeping with the kinder, gentler politician promised during the election campaign just past.
Not that Mayor Ireland did not have good cause to be angry as he climbed on his bike and left the station for adventures unknown.
Every week, I carry my recycling to the curb in Westminster, Colorado. At the same time, I look out over the city bristling with light rail, RTD, bicycles and everyone pretending to move with ‘green’ actions. Denver’s good citizens recycle and care about our environment just like me! Wrong! Only 30 percent of Coloradans recycle. Peter Coors made sure of that by his successful efforts to kill our bottle, can and plastic recycling laws, not once, but twice!
Summer has finally arrived in Aspen. In addition to great outdoor activities, sunshine and music, it is the time of year again for Tuesday with Michael. As most of you remember Tuesdays with Michael is an event held here at the Aspen Club and Spa to benefit local non-profits. The events start at 5pm on the Aspen Club outdoor deck and goes till 8pm. There is live music, great food and lots of entertainment for the whole family. We offer free shuttle service as well, call 925.8900 to schedule a ride.
Some of my best friends are neocons. Like the swallows of Capistrano, the upper crust that has segued to Aspen for the summer season have among their number a choice selection of neoconservatives. Given the nature of my friendships with said neocons—more degrees than a thermometer—you would have thunk that I might have a less infrequent reading on the dominant foreign policy philosophy of our time. But neocons are funny that way: if you’re not on their side they’d just as soon do without you. Neocons don’t play well with others.
Up until recently, my computer was still in it's box since my move out of Colorado in February. I had been using a computer in my bank's lobby, but recently managed to get more steady work out of the temp agency I have been using, meaning that I was working during the hours that my bank was open. My computer choices were then down to an Internet Cafe for $5.00 per hour mainly on Saturdays OR get my machine online in the cheap motel room where I am still staying.
Big Russ is known for saying "What a country"...here in Aspen it is "What a lifestyle"! Last night I met a friend at Brunelleschis in Aspen. I haven't been to the place since winter and this summer Brunelleschis has open aired the place by getting rid of the windows and offering patio seating. The place was packed last night with locals and tourists alike. It was a fun crowd and the staff was quite entertaining. After explaining to our waiter that I could not take a second glass of merlot as we had three concerts to attend last night he came back with an espresso martini and stated "If you don't like it I will drink it"...well for a non-martini drinker it was wonderful!! It tasted like chocolate milk and kept me awake till 2 a.m.
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)—In a contentious electronic mail exchange between members of the Citizens Budget Task Force (CBTF) and the Mayor of Aspen and the City Council, Mayor Mick Ireland is charging unnamed parties with violating Colorado campaign laws in a move he likened to the “Swift Boating” of Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004.
“This country has suffered greatly under Karl Rove and Dick Cheney,” the Mayor wrote in an email, “and I am not going to stand still for that same wedge politics, Swift Boat method being used here. If people want to raise money and run for office, let them do so under the Campaign Finance Act. I don’t like 527 attack groups and I am not going to wait until the attacks are launched before speaking out on what is happening. This is constant politics, don’t let the council do anything but respond to attacks and claims and spin and requests for tons of documents.”
Aspen, CO, June 12, 2008 –– The 2008 Aspen Institute McCloskey Speaker Series opens with a lecture by American historian Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Knopf). Sherwin will discuss “Hiroshima’s Shadow: The First Nuclear World and Ours.”
The Con Man decries the "Nucons"--the nuclear conservatives--then welcomes Aspen Music Festival and School CEO Alan Fletcher for a wide-ranging discussion of the meaning of music, his own composing, and "storytelling" to come in the summer 2008 season.
