"A wrongful death lawsuit was filed in Denver Wednesday by relatives of a Denver family killed on Thanksgiving Day in 2008 by leaking carbon monoxide in their Aspen vacation home."
"I watched the Republican charade on the Kagan nomination with somewhat bemused interest," writes Post blogger Hugh McCormack in comment #1.
"An independent audit of operations at the Aspen Police Department has found an 'unusually high' number of errors in their cataloging, collection and preservation of evidence," reports Andrew Travers. "Out of 172 Aspen criminal cases randomly selected by inspectors from Professional Police Consulting, 130 had pieces of evidence incorrectly labeled or missing."
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I spent some time at the Assessors office trying to understand the best approach to what we can do about the huge property tax increase.
There seem to be two issues of concern in the tax increase.
Part One - We all received high assessments on our homes because the sale prices were very high. Even the sales in 2007 and the second half of 2006 are "assumed" to be high since the sale prices in 2008 were very high. The earlier sales were reevaluated up to match the overall increase in sale prices. It is hard to argue this. You have the right to file an appeal. It must be done by June 1st. It doesn't look like any of us will be successful with that because it is all based on the actual sales and is done according to Colorado law.
Continue Reading May 15th, 2009
When I heard that Rick Warren was chosen by President-Elect Obama to give the inaugural prayer, I was disappointed. Not only had gay couples just suffered an round-house right to the jaw in California. It seemed as though Mr. Obama was taking his "post-partisan" divide crusade into tone-deaf territory.
I thought it ill timed at best, and that the PE was giving a spotlight to a man who is on the "wrong side of history." I was relieved to learn later on, that Pastor Rick was only one of several ministers who would pray for our new president, and that his place in the que was not singular, or even first.
In the end, I missed Rick. I was empaneled as a juror, but we were given an unprecedented 2 hour 15 minute break to watch the historic inauguration, alas, Rick's moment had come and gone when I arrived in the State Supreme Court Building at 60 Center Street with it's massive rotunda, and watched with about 150 other citizens the (first-take) swearing in.
Continue Reading February 11th, 2009
Aspen Post has recently experienced outside pressure to remove certain bloggers’ voices from its webpages. The editor of Aspen Post has thus far been able to fend off the aggressive tactics of those who would censor this site, and steadfastly defended the First Amendment rights of AP bloggers. Following is an excerpt from the website of Electronic Frontier Foundation concerning bloggers’ rights. If you’re a blogger or blog editor who is uncertain of your legal rights or concerned about protecting free speech, you may find the information and resources useful. Check out the link of extensive FAQs at the end of the piece.
Continue Reading January 12th, 2009
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