Articles for Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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Troy Hooper, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Some called it “a momentum party.” Others said it was “a unity party.” Blanca O’Leary, the lady of the house, called it an opportunity “to take the time to wallow in our happiness.”
Most of the standing-room-only audience in the O’Leary family’s stately Silver King Drive home would probably agree last Friday’s gathering was all of the above. The leaders of the local Democratic Party rolled out the welcome mat for Hillary Clinton supporters and Republicans who now support Barack Obama’s bid for the nation’s presidency.
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Andrew Travers, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
“Aspen” and “cocaine” are nearly as synonymous as “Philadelphia” and “cheese steak.” But when a 30-year-old local man was accused of selling and using heroin in Aspen last month, people were shocked.
Most American heroin addicts, it turns out, are a lot like Ryan Welgos, the Aspen native who was arrested at the end of a months-long federal undercover operation. They are male, they are white, and they do not live in large cities.
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David Frey, Aspen Daily News Correspondent
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
CARBONDALE — As the beetle infestation that has swept across Colorado and much of the West descends on the Roaring Fork Valley, Carbondale town trustees are opting to forego pesticides and instead try synthetic pheromones to discourage the insects from settling on town pines.
They made the final decision Tuesday night to let the town staff give them a try.
Aspen Daily News Staff Report
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Charles Allen “Cap” Capper
April 15, 1930 - July 4, 2008
by Cita Stelzer
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
For music lovers, our bible is Gramophone magazine, published monthly in the U.K. Regular readers learn more about classical music in all its varieties from it than from any other source. Gramophone arrives each month with its own CD, which includes interviews; portions of newly recorded music, with critical commentary; reviews of new CDs, DVDs and books; vintage performances; stories of rising stars; and advice on new listening technology. The articles are beautifully written to the highest standards. Recently “Grammy” (as it is known to its fans) started a new column on how to install classical music on iPods so that it is accessible (not as easy as it sounds).
Why does this important magazine matter to us who regularly feast on live music in the Music Tent and Harris Hall? Many of you may have seen or received in the mail, “Music in the Mountains” a booklet by Gramophone, all about our Aspen Music Festival and School, its history and successes over the last 59 years. Your faithful correspondent has been attending concerts here for 30 years, and nevertheless finds stories that are new to her.
Aspen Daily News Staff Report
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Independence ghost town on TV
The ghost town of Independence will be the featured site on “Colorado and Company,” a Colorado-themed program on Denver’s Channel 9 airing Friday from 10-11 a.m.
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Curtis Wackerle, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Aspen Club and Spa co-owner Michael Fox paints the proposal to build 20 timeshare condos and 12 affordable housing units on the club's 5-acre site as an innovative business plan that will bring sustainable building and holistic tourism to the east end of Ute Avenue.
A large and vocal contingent of club supporters say the plan is the only way to save the 30-year-old Aspen institution, and its good works in the community, from the bulldozers and a conversion to riverside trophy homes.
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Damien Williamson, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
With wildfires scorching lands and burning down homes from California to Carbondale in recent years, homeowners - and insurance companies - are finally taking matters into their own hands.
And with cutbacks in federal agencies such as the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management leaving fewer dollars for costly fire battles on private land, the time seems ripe for private enterprise to pick up the slack left behind by the public sector - at least for those willing to pay.
by William Small, Mountain Business Journal Guest Writer
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Aspen's downtown retail rental rates are some of the highest in the country.
Well-located spaces smaller than 1,000 square feet on key intersections such as Galena Street and Cooper Avenue are reaching rents of more than $250 per square foot net of expenses. Larger spaces are going for almost $200 per square foot. So what level of retail rents could we expect to see in downtown Aspen in 10 years, and what impact will higher rental rates have on the tenant mix in downtown Aspen?
Aspen Daily News Staff Report
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Shae Singer
Partner in Aspen Electric Cars
Aspen Daily News Staff Report
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
by Rachel Beck, Mountain Business Journal Columnist
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
NEW YORK — We knew it could happen, even though they said it wouldn't. The government is using our money again to haul private companies' hindquarters out of the fire - this time it's troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
It's a plan with holes in it.
Columnist
by Lynn Burton
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
It looks as if Aspen City Council doesn’t care about searching for the truth behind the Burlingame subsidy numbers, because it decided Monday night not to investigate the matter further.
If City Council did investigate, it might learn about the Goburlingame.com Web site. Here are some statements (which I’ll explain later) from the now-defunct site:
by Nat Hentoff
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
During my more than 60 years of covering national politics, I have never seen a candidate’s principles and character so effectively tarnished — after so extraordinarily inspiring a start — as Barack Obama’s. He has come to resemble another mellifluous orator I came to know in Boston during my first time reporting on a campaign — James Michael Curley, the skillful prestidigitator whom Spencer Tracy masterfully played in the movie “The Last Hurrah.”
Obama’s deflation has not been due to ruthless opposition research by John McCain’s team but by the “change” candidate himself. Like millions of Americans, I, for a time, was buoyed by not only the real-time prospect of our first black president but much more by the likelihood that Obama would pierce the dense hypocrisy and insatiable power-grabbing of current American politics.
by Jerry Epstein
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Editor:
Jon Esty accuses Dan Blankenship of exaggerating the cost of a rail system for our valley and then he completely misrepresents the cost in the other direction.
by Lisa Tasker
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Editor’s note: This letter was
originally addressed to Tom Zordel.
Editor:
by Ron Lowe
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Editor:
There ain’t no goodwill left in the GOP! People are losing their jobs, houses, health insurance and having trouble filling up the gas tank. Yet Republican and former Texas senator Phil Gramm says get over it, it’s all in your head.
by Richard C. Goodwin
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Editor:
Neither McCain nor Obama are going to make any military decisions without the Defense Department and the generals’ input.
by Jomas Gibson
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Editor:
This is not addressed to any particular newspaper either in the state or the country. It is directed toward the media as a whole, who have apparently failed to report another of many worthwhile stories that follow a certain movement, a movement of true patriotism and anti-Bush campaigns aimed at restoring decency to our government.
