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Letter to the Editor Thursday, September 2, 2010 Editor:
Recently Rob Ritchie, a paid advocate for Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) wrote a letter to your paper stating that Barack Obama and John McCain support Instant Runoff Voting. Full Story »
Letter to the Editor Thursday, September 2, 2010 Editor:
This is in response to your article regarding Amendment 60, 61 and proposition 101. Sam Mamet is correct in stating the dangers of these items that will appear on the November ballot. These are draconian measures that will severely limit the financial flexibility of municipalities and the state government. Full Story »
Letter to the Editor Thursday, September 2, 2010 Editor:
On a recent trip we had the opportunity to visit the Aspen Art Museum. We were thrilled by the work of Sergej Jensen and even found a delightful book about sewing in the book store. Full Story »
Letter to the Editor Thursday, September 2, 2010 Editor:
IRV must go. Rob Ritchie and his ilk of paid Instant Runoff Voting cheerleaders can fool some of the people some of the time. But when one takes a cold, hard look at the data generated from the May 2009 election one clearly sees that IRV was a train wreck for our community. Full Story »
Letter to the Editor Thursday, September 2, 2010
Editor:
First of all, I would like to thank Skico for bringing in food and vendors from all over the nation and thank you for paying them to be here. As a local service-industry employee I definenately noticed a decline in buisness. In this struggling economy I would think you would want to support your local buissinesses and your local taxpayers. Beyond that, the vendors themselves where friendly and informative!
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Columnists
by Jeremy Madden, Aspen Daily News Columnist Thursday, September 2, 2010 If you’re planning on hitting the road this off-season and heading East with a big stash of medical marijuana you might want to think twice about going through Kansas. Not only is your medical marijuana card not valid outside of Colorado, but when it comes to fighting the war on drugs, they’re clever in Kansas.
If you’ve ever driven through Kansas on I-70 and read the signs, you can’t help but wonder who lives in Kansas. At first glance, you’d think they were a bunch of Jesus loving porn freaks with a hankering for history. And maybe you’d be right. I’m not sure. However, there is one thing I do know: They’re clever in Kansas. ... Full Story »
by Amy Goodman, Aspen Daily News Columnist Thursday, September 2, 2010 Bald, brave, and beautiful: Those words can’t begin to capture the remarkable Eve Ensler. She sat down with me last week, in the midst of her battle with uterine cancer, to talk about New Orleans and the Congo. Eve, the author of the hit play “The Vagina Monologues” and the creator of V-Day, a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls, told me how “cancer has been a huge gift.”
Eve’s moving essay “Congo Cancer” begins, “Some people may think that being diagnosed with uterine cancer, followed by extensive surgery that led to a month of debilitating infections, rounded off by months of chemotherapy, might get a girl down. But, in truth, this has not been my poison.” The poison, she went on, was the epidemic of rape, torture and violence against women and girls in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). ... Full Story »
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