TV Aspen Channel 19 News Director Jim Laurence reports on the latest turn in the socialist plot by the government to take over your life, also known as the Census.
Jim Laurence is reporting that a baby bear cub found on Aspen Mountain is in real peril -- but wildlife officials are hoping the animal, still in hibernation, can survive.
AspenSpin takes a look-see at Pinions Restaurant in Aspen, considered far-and-wide one of the best places in town.
Posts filed under 'Pitkin County'
By January people where asking the obvious question, the question they've asked before under different circumstances: where in the world is Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis?
One source in local law enforcement said he was in Europe. Another said he'd been gone since Thanksgiving. But as per usual in the Sheriff's tenure, no one seemed exactly sure, and no one in the press seemed willing to ask.
Now we know and the news is not good. The Sheriff was indeed in Europe with his girlfriend, but upon his return he was hospitalized, in serious-enough condition to be put in intensive care in a Denver hospital.
Continue Reading January 25th, 2010
I decided over five years ago I was going to leave Andrew Kole alone, mainly because I thought he was harmless, small-minded, and insignificant. Unfortunately, though small-minded and insignificant, he is not harmless: the time has come to say that virtually everyone in Aspen agrees that Andrew Kole is an annoyance, a pest, and (much worse) a back-stabber. The number of people who can’t stand him could him an Aspen election twice over.
Totally by coincidence, twice in the past week two people came up to me in Parallel 15 and started to rant about him, with both whistling the same old tune: he acts nice to your face and then he stabs you in the back and then he acts like he can’t understand why you don’t like him.
Continue Reading January 8th, 2010
This just in from Aspen activist Jeffrey Evans on the entrance to Aspen.....
Continue Reading December 19th, 2009
There was talk about lowering the $920 payout to employees as the health and wellness benefit (that money used for items like ski passes or gym memberships) down to $700, but several commissioners including Jack Hatfield urged that carrot stay in place as an incentive to someone working and living in a ski town.
Pitkin County’s budget for next year will be reviewed each quarter by the BOCC---and if necessary will be adjusted depending on what happens with the economy.
Continue Reading October 14th, 2009
Qittle Tweetup
In Aspen on the 27th, plan on attending. We’ll have some food and drinks as well. Be sure to confirm over on Facebook, click here
* when: October 27th 2009, 9am – Noon
* Where: Wheeler Opera House, Aspen, CO
* What: Qittle New Media Conference
* Cost: FREE
* RSVP: Text TWEETUP to 32075
Please invite, Retweet or Facebook this event. We want to make it a lot of fun for everyone. Thanks, Casey
September 21st, 2009
It was in 1970 that an Aspen city council first asked the State of Colorado to hold off on the expansion of Highway 82 to four lanes so that they could study mass transit as an alternative to highway construction. Forty years later there will still be a traffic jam at the entrance to town - despite tens of millions of dollars in annual transit spending.
In 1984 a group called the “Traffic Committee”, organized by the City of Aspen, recommended a new four lane entrance to town which was later approved by Aspen voters in 1990. The Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the project was nearing completion, and Scott McInnis had secured a special appropriation from the state to begin construction.
What happened next, the history of why the new entrance was not completed either then or over the next 19 years up to today, is a microcosmic example of just about everything that currently doesn’t work in the governing process of the United States.
Understanding this one example of the total breakdown of our system serves as a primer for why so much cynicism exists regarding the point or purpose of participation, and provides a crystal clear example of why our country is bankrupt.
Beginning with their refusal to honor the clear outcome of that perfectly reasonable 1990 electoral decision, and continuing through the corruption of federal oversight processes designed to protect the public from waste and mismanagement, transportation planning throughout the Roaring Fork Valley is totally compromised by the original sin of the Aspen city council in 1991.
Anyone interested in the failure to reach a solution for the Entrance to Aspen, the current condition of state transportation planning - or why the United States is bankrupt - may not be surprised to learn that these subjects are closely related.
The letter below was recently sent to members of the Colorado Transportation Legislation Review Committee (TLRC). The TLRC is made up of members of the Colorado legislature, and they have the responsibility to provide, “guidance and direction” over all phases of the operation and planning of state transportation projects.
The report mentioned in the letter is available online at: http://www.entrancesolution.com/History.htm
Dear [TLRB Member],
The enclosed report is directed to your attention as a member of the Transportation Legislation Review Committee.
Though the context of the report is an analysis of the planning and funding process for one section of a Colorado state highway, the findings are significant for transportation projects throughout the state.
As you know, most major state highway and transit projects rely on federal funding, and as a consequence are subject to federal oversight and review. That oversight and review is intended to provide protections to taxpayers in all jurisdictions from waste, fraud, and mismanagement in the application of public funds.
Based on the example of the various federal processes which have failed to protect the public in the Roaring Fork Valley, and the near certainty that these failings are far more widespread, the State of Colorado needs to take action.
It is not sufficient to say that federal oversight of transportation spending has been lacking; federal oversight has collapsed to the degree that there is none.
The recommendations for your committee contained in the report are modest in relation to the magnitude of the problem. However, any increase in the awareness of the void left by federal malfeasance, and the need to fill that void with greater local and state diligence, will provide immediate benefits to the citizens of Colorado.
The TLRC can be contacted through:
Kurtis T. Morrison
Colorado Legislative Council Staff
Room 029, State Capitol
Denver, CO 80203
(303) 866-3140
kurt.morrison@state.co.us
September 14th, 2009
It was in 1970 that an Aspen city council first asked the State of Colorado to hold off on the expansion of Highway 82 to four lanes so that they could study mass transit as an alternative to highway construction. Forty years later there will still be a traffic jam at the entrance to town - despite tens of millions of dollars in annual transit spending...
Continue Reading September 13th, 2009
Today, Labor Day, 2009, while 16-million to 17-million American workers are out of work or underemployed because of the Great Recession, the disgraceful, perfidious U.S. government is kicking those fallen workers by continuing to import 1.5 million foreign workers a year, that's 125,000 unwanted aliens every month. One hundred and fifty thousand new (net) jobs a month need to be added to the economy just to keep up with this mass-immigration driven foreign-workers deluge.
If I were one of the 16-million to 17-million victims of the U.S. government's cynical, aggressive frontal assault on America's working people, there would be a kind of hell to pay from which the politicians and bureaucrats would never, ever fully recover!
"There comes a time in the life of us all," wrote Edward Abby (Monkey Wrench Gang)," when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face, once and for all and at last."
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September 7th, 2009
Monday August 31, 2009
With recovery from the recession expected to take at least two or three years, belt tightening will continue in Pitkin County.
Pitkin County department heads may not see any additional monies for 2010—emergency and essential services will be maintained…but some capital improvement projects will remain in the planning stages---unless a huge spike is seen in tax revenues next year.
Continue Reading August 31st, 2009
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