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If Jim Howell, a fourth-generation rancher in Western Colorado, has a guru, he’s Allan Savory, the champion of intensive cattle grazing even o…
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Life is too comfortable for me, my friends are complaining. I am getting boring, they vow.
There are two types of people in Aspen: those who think they’re crazy and those who don’t. Generally speaking, the ones who think they’re craz…
We know access to a high-quality education is vital to every student in the Roaring Fork School District.
Beware the words coming from the mouths of spin-meisters at the Aspen Music Festival and School, Jazz Aspen Snowmass, Theatre Aspen, Aspen Art…
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I leave Saturday to spend a few weeks traveling, most of which will be in Malta. In preparation I got a book about a particularly important pa…
Back in the day — before its first renovation of the 21st century that took place between its closure in the spring of 2007 and its eventual r…
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I never knew how lucky I was to grow up in Aspen until I was able to raise my family here in the little hidden gem we all call home. Aspen’s f…
Don’t like my dog? Chances are that I won’t like you.
What did we learn this summer and fall? We learned that people who’d been cooped up, thanks to COVID-19, flocked to our national parks and forests.
There are, of course, many unrelenting threats to democracy, wannabe revolutionaries, autocrats and ideologues who would replace the imperfect…
I have been a broker for many years, and the No. 1 lesson I have learned is to never assume. In real estate — especially in today’s competitiv…
Dave Danforth is on assignment this week. This column originally appeared March 18, 2001.
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Bless you Aspen. Bless you arts. Bless you Wheeler Opera House and Aspen District Theater.