Marilyn Marks in comment # 2 takes a look at the affordable housing situation in Aspen. Marks comments,"I can’t speak for all the critics of the present problems, but I look at this as a serious business problem.
And yes, it is in economic terms. Without a very solid and efficient housing program, our resort economy becomes even more fragile.Affordable housing programs (note the plural) are crucial to making Aspen work. Given that we cannot ever expect to meet the unlimited demand, we must make our affordable housing dollars stretch to house the most people."
Judging by the length of Aspen Post blogger Reckless G’s latest comment, she’s just getting warmed up. “When the myths are stripped away and the true history of Israel/Palestine is laid bare by indisputable facts, the agenda of Israel becomes perfectly clear; to take all of Palestine for themselves and never allow a Palestinian state to be created. Unfortunately for the Palestinian people and for those like me trying to get the truth out, those myths remain stubbornly entrenched in the American, especially Jewish American, psyche.”
"It didn't take the parade at Basalt River Days Saturday for me to finally come to the conclusion that Basalt is flat-out better than Aspen," writes Post blogger Michael Conniff. "Nor was it the infamous piece in The New York Times about our little town, nor any of the local coverage (including my own) about Willits and/or the nature of the ongoing boom. I had come to my conclusion months ago, around about the time that I had lost my stomach for what was going down in Aspen. Every time I would glean the fear of the future and the bile for visitors and second-homers, I would remember my promise never ever to live in a resort town again."
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)—Some might consider it stranger than fiction, but a new idea has actually emerged in the campaign for Mayor of Aspen.
Tim Semrau—the former City Councilor, entrepreneur, and local store owner—is proposing to take a chunk of the city’s Affordable Housing fund and use it to increase the appreciation of the 755 units in the program to 5 percent from the more typical 3 percent. The candidate would also double the amount of money people could put into improving their deed-restricted units with the possibility of getting it back when the unit sells.
“The paradise we call Aspen has been created by all the people living here,” Semrau said, “and those living in deed-restricted housing should be able to share in the benefits of the American home ownership dream.”
I want to warn the television viewing public of a recent mistake I made in the hopes that I might prevent someone from experiencing the same misfortune. My mistake? I subscribed to DirecTV. The problem? DirecTV sucks.
I don't care if you are Red or Blue. I don't give a flying flip if you are Republican or Democrat. I could care less if you are a Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, etc, etc. Why can't we just all agree that we have a very real opportunity here to tap into the scientific options on the table. Via science, we have the opportunity to turn the tide on incurable diseases.
Perhaps it is time for people to rise up and say, "this is my country, that is my government, that party of republicans is not mine... and that party of democrats is not mine, and those choices our President is making are not my choices!"
we could have created a "World Terrorism Eradication Force," a global force that would have indeed spent the last 4-5 years rooting this virus out, in every crawl space and cubby hole and cave throughout the world...
I love it when city officials listen to what I have to say. I love it even more when they act on my advice and do so expeditiously.
As suggested in my July 25 blog “Cities Gone Wireless” Aspen is now considering the installation of a wireless network throughout the city. The Aspen Daily News and Aspen Times both reported on July 31, 2006, that city officials are exploring multiple Wi-Fi options, both free and fee based service, and will likely move forward in the near future.
While I have the City’s ear, there are a few other proposals I would like to bring to the table.
The one and only time I ever met the famous Aspen architect Harry Teague he had smudges of blood on his face, his head was wrapped in a bandage, and his eyes were popping out of his head.
