El condado de Pitkin continúa implementando la fase 1B de vacunas, es decir, para aquellos en un segundo nivel de receptores de primera prioridad, incluidos los bomberos y la policía, así como para aquellos que tienen al menos 70 años (que pronto tendrán 65 años o más, el gobernador Jared Po…

Pitkin County continues rolling out the 1B phase of vaccinations — that is, to those in a second tier of first priority recipients, including firefighters and police, as well as those at least 70 years old (soon to be 65 and older, Gov. Jared Polis announced Tuesday). As more of our communit…

Eagle County Board of County Commissioners

Our nation’s founders were students of history and were all too familiar with threats to nations that come from without, and they designed institutions to withstand those perennial threats...

Lorrie B. Winnerman

I have been thinking seriously about solutions instead of lockdowns. Like many of you, I have spent a few decades of winters in Aspen working and playing. Every single winter we got the Aspen Crud...

Brian Roche

Good things are much harder to create than they are to destroy. It’s wrong to joke around about a second revolution in this country, let alone advocate for one...

JM Jesse

Will Trump’s supporters follow him to Guyana now? ...

Annette Roberts-Gray

Trump lost the election by more than 7 million votes and by 232 to 306 in the Electoral College. He has lost 60 challenges to the...

Tom Mooney

Wow! The environmental superstars His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg will be discussing...

Randy Fricke

The violence on Capitol Hill on Wednesday should be condemned. It is very clear that there can be...

Debra Hanson

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), vaccine doses of the COVID-19 vaccine purchased with U.S. taxpayer...

Dennis Golas

As the country and eyes of the world all watched in disbelief the attack on the Capitol Wednesday, which was incited by President Trump...

Soleil Gaylord

In November, the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) ruled that several coal and gas plants...

Ward Hauenstein

It has been an honor to represent the citizens of Aspen on the city council for the past three-and-a-half years. I have given...

Brenda Stockdale

I know firsthand the significant difference caring adults can make in children’s lives. Having grown up in Aspen in the 1970s, my...

Gary Carter

After watching the wonderful documentary (“Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President”) it is a sobering reminder how special...

Philip Verleger

Aspen Daily News columnist Paul Mentor wrote a critical and accurate commentary on the comments of outgoing Pitkin County commissioner George Newman. Reading it, I could not help...

Michael Horst

As an old coal miner, I want to ask the people in this valley, when you get home tonight, to look at their multi thousand dollar bike, then go look around your house...

Steve Hunter

Water is one of the most precious resources we have in this valley and it is essential to sustain life. That is why it’s important to us at the City Water Department to invite everyone...

Tom Mooney

The letter by Bryan Hannigan, CEO of Holy Cross Energy (Aspen Daily News 12/30/20) was great to read. He illuminated the simple fact that “today’s new wind and solar energy resources...

Patrick Hunter

Insanity, said Einstein, is doing the same thing but expecting a different result. Unfortunately, the Einstein diagnosis means that Carbondale, and this valley, are far around the bend...

Michael Levengood

I have to chuckle when a reporter writes that there is an “organization/group” named Earth First...

Bruno Kirchenwitz

Taxing the rich is a Democrat fairy tale, believed only by naive idealists. Let me count the ways...

Carl Ted Stude

The recent attack on Aspen’s supply of natural gas was obviously intended as a statement by political extremists. But were...

Gail Mason

Standing in line on Tuesday (double masked myself), I looked around and saw many maskless faces, talking and yelling to...

Bill Lipsey

Major, major kudos to Black Hills Energy for “getting it done.” Their massive army of fleet-footed technicians worked...

Ward Hauenstein

I write to condemn with prejudice the actions of Earth First who is the party apparently responsible for the sabotage of Black Hills Energy's natural gas infrastructure...

Bryan Hannegan

Holy Cross Energy recently announced our intent to supply all HCE members with 100% carbon-free electricity supply by the year 2030. After making this announcement...

JM Jesse

Let’s hope that signing on to Trump’s treasonous coup attempt is the low point of CD3’s Congresswoman-elect Lauren Boebert’s nascent political career...

Joe DiSalvo

I was happy to see the Aspen Times acknowledge all the “Faces of the Pandemic” article. I would like to acknowledge some other faces. All the public safety agencies...

Tom Mooney

We went all in after the attack on Pearl Harbor (1941, World War II). The iconic Rosie the Riveter represented the plurality of women who were needed on war equipment production lines. There she was...

Carole Gunther Cottrell

In the card game of life, democracy pulled the trump card and we, the people, won!!! Good night moon, Good bye Trump… Grateful to be an American again...

Lynne Popkowski

So, it looks like Lauren Boebert, Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District Representative-elect is...

Jim Newton

President Trump’s reluctance to concede defeat after the Nov. 3 election reminded me of a picture my dad...

John Jacobs

We’re hopeful that the Pitkin Board of County Commissioners will show solidarity with the community and donate their...

Fred Stewart

In the New York Times, Brett Stevens’ column on “The Wisdom of George Schultz” quotes Schultz saying...

Yin Zhang

I am from China, and I support President Trump. ...

Sheldon Fingerman

I just got the message that Pitkin County has gone from level orange to

red. What did you expect? You can only add so many "pluses" to level

orange...

W.M. Burger

Hats off (or should I say mask off) to Aspen for not conceding to the state’s rules for turning the Covid dial to red. It is brilliant to put into action a new orange plus plus level to the Covid dial...

Bill Stirling

Kathryn Koch was born and grew up in Palo Alto, California, before it became the computer and internet center of the world. At the age of 23 in 1969 she moved to Aspen...

Allyn Harvey

The excellent article in the Aspen Daily News Sunday about the higher rates of COVID-19 transmission and illness among Latinos had one very disturbing section...

Tom Mooney

Had an interesting conversation at City Market. At the checkout I said, “The good news is that billions of dollars are flowing into a new energy economy. The response was, “We are all going to pay for it”, meaning...

Lily Markalunas

The idea of the “American Dream” differs greatly from person to person. Some people  believe that it is a wide-spread idea of freedom while others think more personally about family  or future dreams...

Emzy Veazy III

I call on all American-born of many generations in Pitkin County, Garfield County and Eagle County to think and behave...

John Norman

Is it possible that the Mayan scribe recording their predicted doomsday calendar was dyslexic...

Jim Wingers

The Earl of Sandwich, aka Lorenzo Semple, had a great piece on the end pieces in his Saturday, Dec. 12 column. ...

Philip Verleger

My friend Lo Semple either did not look at the data or flunked statistics when he wrote his Saturday column “Aspen’s got the pandemic pole position"...

David Johnson

Now that the Mask Gestapo has fully infiltrated our lives, everyone make sure to submit your affidavit with the Pitkin County Politburo...

Mary Harris

We were asked to weigh in on the latest articles in the papers about the sale of the Woody Creek Tavern. We...

Fred Stewart

Eugene Robinson, Saturday’s Washington Post columnist (“A presidency to lower our blood pressure), is a sweet fella. He...

John Hoffmann

I am curious why we have not yet seen the pandemic as World War III. Is it because 73 million Americans perceive...

Illene Pevec

The coronavirus dealing death and illness around the world requires caution on the part of every single person. There...

Corey Bryndal

We’ve been following developments in Aspen — specifically around Wagner Park. The MotherLode began in 1973 as...