Saying the economy is intrinsically intertwined with the environment, U.S. Sen. Mark Udall rolled out a proposal Sunday to designate 236,000 acres of new wilderness in central Colorado and establish a 20,000-acre national monument along the Browns Canyon stretch of the Arkansas River.
The Pitkin County commissioners have rekindled the idea of taking a much tougher regulatory stance on natural gas drilling in the Thompson Divide area west of Carbondale, according to the Aspen Times.
VAIL — Last year saw a new record number of foreclosures in Vail, Beaver Creek and surrounding Eagle County, but it also saw a significant increase in home sales over 2009, which may wind up being the low mark in a mountain real estate crash unlike anything since the 1980s. Counties throughout the high country — from Pitkin (Aspen) to Routt (Steamboat) to San Miguel (Telluride) – all set new records for the number of foreclosures, according to the Denver Post, surpassing dubious marks all established in the 1980s.
Unaffiliated write-in and third-party candidates are trying to closely watch this year’s mid-term election, but strictly enforced six-foot poll watching rules are making that task more difficult. Independent state Rep. Kathleen Curry, hoping to spark a surge of unaffiliated candidates in future elections, is particularly troubled by what’s happening at the polls.
Innovative homeowner alternative energy financing mechanisms approved by voters last November in Pitkin, Eagle and Gunnison counties have been put on hold due to changes at the newly risk-adverse federal mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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The indictments of two building inspectors and the owner of plumbing and heating company for the deaths of a Denver family of four in Aspen in 2008 have quickly become a political issue, according to the online news site…
While not exactly a hotbed of natural gas drilling, according to the Aspen Times, Pitkin County – home to Aspen and the scenic Roaring Fork River Valley – does have some energy resources in the Thompson Creek Divide area…
Oil and gas officials on Colorado’s Western Slope this week were predictably critical of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposal to expand its controversial greenhouse-gas reporting regulations to include oil and gas production.
Aspenites, long vilified as second-home-owning, heated-driveway-loving, jet-setting energy hogs, use 10 times more water than the average American, reported the Denver Post on Monday, citing a new report from the Colorado Water Conservation Board.
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Two Republicans have entered the fray to take down a key state senate seat narrowly won by Democrat Gail Schwartz in 2006, as the GOP eagerly eyes any possible openings in the party’s bid to reclaim a majority in the…
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