F.A.I.R: In The Red For Affordable Housing, City Owes Wheeler Fund Millions

In this first effort underwritten by the nonprofit Factual Aspen Investigative Reporting (F.A.I.R.), Post Time News investigates how the City of Aspen is trying to fund affordable housing. "After spending more money than the City had in the bank to bank land for its 32-year-old affordable housing program," Post Time News reports, "the City of Aspen was compelled to borrow $8 million from the Wheeler Opera House fund to help finance more than $35 million in land purchases. The City may be forced to borrow millions more from the City-owned Wheeler to pay off the outstanding balance, according to Aspen Finance Director Don Taylor."

Hunter Was No Traitor

"It’s sort of a herd mentality," the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Jr. says of the press, "a lemming-like mentality. If you don’t go with the flow you’re anti-American and therefore a suspect. And we’ve seen this before, these patriotic frenzies. It’s very convenient having an undeclared war that you can call a war and impose military tribunals and wartime security and we have these generals telling us that this war’s going to go on for a long, long time.... To be against them is to be patriotic, then hell, call me a traitor."

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In comment #9, Post Editor Michael Conniff goes backwoods cracker on Mitch Mulhall, "You want a piece of me, Itch? I think the Publican Party deserves all the respect in the world, as does John Cain, their Presidential candidate. I think you are absolutely righ to suggest that language makes no diffidence... Bring 'Em On!" Mulhall fires back in comment #10, "What amuses me most about your comment, Michael, is that when you clicked Submit, you thought you were out-deliverancing James Dickey..."