Articles for Saturday, May 10, 2008
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Troy Hooper, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Saturday, May 10, 2008
A search-and-rescue team recovered the body of Carbondale engineer Barry Maggert on Friday afternoon, after he crashed his plane in Black Hawk en route to his son’s graduation.
The Maggert family issued a brief statement to the media “to thank everyone for their love, support, prayers and condolences” and said a celebration of Barry Maggert’s life is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, May 15, at a location and time to be announced in the coming days.
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Curtis Wackerle, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Saturday, May 10, 2008
A proposed new bike race aims to answer a question of great local importance: Which is the tougher bike town — Aspen or Vail?
The Aspen-Vail Challenge is a new bike race awaiting approval from the city of Aspen that would pit about 250 road bikers in a race from Aspen to Vail and back over two days. The event is being planned for June 28-29.
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Catherine Lutz, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Saturday, May 10, 2008
A bear has been breaking into homes in the Mountain View and Knollwood neighborhoods east of Aspen, and residents are being warned to lock their doors and take other precautions.
The bear broke into the same home two nights in a row, said Kevin Wright of the Colorado Division of Wildlife. After the first break-in, the door it used was locked, but another door was left unlocked.
Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Saturday, May 10, 2008
The Colorado Department of Transportation hopes to reopen Independence Pass for the season on May 30.
Those wanting to travel the pass should be advised that this date could change, said CDOT spokeswoman Stacey Stegman. “If weather improves and avalanche control work is successful, the pass could open earlier. Weather could set the date back further, as well,” Stegman said.
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Troy Hooper, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Saturday, May 10, 2008
A two-vehicle collision late Thursday night seriously injured three people and temporarily shut down the western leg of Two Rivers Road in Basalt.
When police arrived, they found a Latino man lying on the ground and a white man and woman trapped inside a mangled black Jeep Cherokee, which the Latino man allegedly hit head-on in a Chevy Blazer.
Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Aspen’s retail industry fared much better in March than local real estate, at least compared with the same month last year.
Despite predictions earlier this year for a gloomy March, sales tax collections were up 6.7 percent over the same month last year, according to a memo from city of Aspen finance director Don Taylor. Lodging tax collections were up 13.2 percent for March.
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David Frey, Aspen Daily News Correspondent
Saturday, May 10, 2008
CARBONDALE — The governor’s energy czarina knew her audience. Speaking in front of Roaring Fork Valley high school students, Heidi VanGenderen, Gov. Bill Ritter’s senior advisor on climate change and energy policy, said youths aren’t only the future when it comes to energy issues — they’re the present, too.
“Each of us has in our own lives the ability to make a difference,” VanGenderen said. Sometimes, she said, it’s a matter of “how much you’re bugging your folks at home. … You are the agitators that bring about change.”
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by Beth Brandon
Saturday, May 10, 2008
“Omigosh! That’s so awesome!” “I went on vacation to the Florida Keys and it was awesome.” “That panini sandwich is awesome.” “The view from the top of the Ute is awesome.” When did everything become so awesome?
The word ‘awesome’ is an adjective born around 1598, and now ’80s hair band rocker Bret Michaels gets to tell 25 hand-picked color-treated honeys that they too are “awesome.” Yes, I’m aware that having any part of the reality show “Rock of Love” has, in fact, made me dumber. Yet, I’ve been quite aware of the overuse of this word as of late. Is it just me or is anyone else sick of “awesome?”
by Ellen Goodman
Saturday, May 10, 2008
From time to time during this primary, I’ve wondered about Obama’s mama. In a race that was so much about biography, about beliefs rooted in her son’s “DNA,” she’s made only cameo appearances.
She was the “mother from Kansas” balanced alliteratively with the “father from Kenya.” Or she was the white parent whose genes combined with the black parent. Or she was the woman dying of cancer “more worried about paying her medical bills than getting well.” And on Tuesday night when her son all but sewed up the nomination, she appeared again as the “single parent who had to go on food stamps at one point.”
by Ted Rall
Saturday, May 10, 2008
I argue with my friends. Some of them thought invading Iraq was a good idea. Almost all believed that Afghanistan was “the good war,” the one from which Iraq distracted us. (They’re starting to come around.) A few are even bigots. We disagree about these issues, often vehemently. But we’re still friends. I would never diss a friend in public (or, in politicalese, “distance myself”). Even a former friend deserves respect.
Crisis reveals character. In politics, it reveals judgment.
by Tom Alpern
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Editor’s note: This letter was addressed to the Aspen School Board and the Aspen City Council.
Editor:by Bennett A. Bramson
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Editor:
After my recent letter to the editor, several kind individuals communicated personally, and in the papers, to share information regarding a community Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Commemoration Day) ceremony.
