Articles for Thursday, March 20, 2008
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Troy Hooper, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Memo to current and would-be politicians: Vacationing in Aspen? Don’t screw the taxpayers.
Yet another high-ranking politico is in hot water after taking a chartered jet out of la-la land in the Rockies.
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Catherine Lutz, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Thursday, March 20, 2008
It’s spring-break week in the Roaring Fork Valley, which means local kennels are filled with pets of vacationing residents. Unfortunately, that almost spelled doom for one local dog, and highlighted the issues facing animals and animal lovers in what’s known as a very dog-friendly area.
Boo, a 5-year-old pit bull mix, was turned into the Alpine Animal Hospital recently by its owner, who said the dog was not getting along with other dogs and wanted Boo put down.
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Andrew Travers, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Thursday, March 20, 2008
A civil lawsuit has been filed against local real estate agent and developer Joshua Saslove and his wife, Nina, for poaching water from a ditch that runs through the backyard of their Red Mountain home.
Saslove has made local and national headlines in recent years for high-profile land deals (he put Prince Bandar bin Sultan’s Starwood estate on the market for $135 million last year) and commercial developments (he and his partners are suing the city of Aspen for rejecting their plan to remodel the Cooper Street Pier restaurant and bar).
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Brent Gardner-Smith, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Thursday, March 20, 2008
BASALT — Three of the five candidates running for open seats on Basalt Town Council said they were in favor of slower growth and maintaining a firm urban growth boundary around town.
The candidates made their remarks Wednesday night while participating in a staid and sparsely attended election forum sponsored by the Basalt Chamber of Commerce.
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Catherine Lutz, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Thursday, March 20, 2008
SNOWMASS VILLAGE — Claiming it needs more time to weigh its options, Snowmass Village Town Council on Monday decided to delay a decision on whether to join a local energy mitigation program.
The town of Snowmass Village is a member of the nonprofit Community Office for Resource Efficiency (CORE), which administers the energy program and doles out environmentally oriented grants. Unlike Aspen and Pitkin County, however, it has not joined the Renewable Energy Mitigation Program (REMP), essentially CORE’s funding mechanism, which charges a fee to large homes and/or those who use fossil fuel-burning energy for amenities such as swimming pools or heated driveways.
Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Two Aspen skiers earned top spots at the recent Subaru Jackson Hole Freeskiing Open.
Emily Teague and Mark Welgos of Aspen both skied well enough on the challenging Jackson Hole terrain to win their respective divisions in the contest, which was held last weekend.
Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Nurishah (Holly) Al-Raschid died peacefully in her sleep on March 17, 2008, at Heritage Park Care Center in Carbondale.
Nurishah was born in New Jersey, and spent most of her life in New York
City and Miami Beach, Florida. She moved to the Roaring Fork Valley a
few years ago to be close to her beloved daughter and son-in-law,
Bedrishah and Douglas Wilson. Nurishah, who was known as the Princess,
will always be remembered for her great beauty, her warmth, her glamor,
her fabulous sense of fashion and style and her terrific sense of
humor. Over her long life and right to the end, people continued to ask
if she was a movie star.
Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Thursday, March 20, 2008
The Easter Bunny, apparently, is not a snowshoe hare.
This season’s abundant snowfall has turned up an unexpected issue — it’s forcing the Aspen Historical Society to cancel its traditional Easter egg hunt on Sunday because there’s too much snow in the park where the event is usually held.
Columnist
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Jeremy Madden, Aspen Daily News Columnist
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Yesterday marked the fifth anniversary of our invasion of Iraq.
A lot of people made speeches. A lot of people protested. A lot of people hardly noticed the day’s passing. I spent much of it thinking about what has happened these last five years. Foremost on my mind were the troops and their families. With nearly 4,000 dead and almost 30,000 wounded, so many have sacrificed so much. And with troop levels expected to remain above 100,000 for the foreseeable future, many more will keep sacrificing.
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Nat Hentoff, Aspen Daily News Columnist
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Immediately after 9/11, Colin Powell said the terrorists were clearly engaged in a war on civilization itself. Soon after, as secretary of State, he prophetically warned the president — and the lawyers drafting and justifying “torture memos” in the Justice Department — that this country’s rejecting the Geneva Conventions and our own laws on the treatment of terrorism-related prisoners would “undermine public support among critical allies, making military cooperation more difficult to sustain.”
Increasingly, as Powell predicted, while the president strongly insists that the CIA be allowed to continue practicing what Bush calls “its specialized interrogations” in its secret prisons, and “renditions” (kidnapping Europeans to be tortured elsewhere), we have lost the trust and respect of many our allies’ citizens.
Letter to the Editor
Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Columnist
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Editor:
I’m writing in support of Pam Zentmyer for Carbondale Town Council.
Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Columnist
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Editor:
As part of The Buddy Program’s mission to pair youth with an adult mentor in the Roaring Fork Valley, the safety of our children is our number one concern. To ensure that our volunteers are thoroughly screened, we have been fortunate to be included in a federal pilot program called “SafetyNET,” in which volunteers are screened through the FBI fingerprint system.
by Shellie Roy
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Editor:
Remember the great “honk in” in 1994 to protest paid parking? That City Council cared what citizens thought and they actually empowered us to write a plan and then allowed people to vote on it. Then, council thought government’s purpose is to enhance the lives of its citizens.