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Sticky bud, green energy get nod from Colorado ski-country voters

By | 11.04.09 | 9:38 am

Things just got a whole lot greener in Colorado’s high country.

Voters in Breckenridge overwhelmingly backed the decriminalization of small amounts of marijuana and paraphernalia Tuesday, while in the counties surrounding Vail and Aspen, voters approved special-improvement districts for

Clean-energy improvement districts cropping up on Nov. ski county ballots

By | 09.22.09 | 11:08 am

Voters in both Pitkin and Eagle counties – homes to Aspen and Vail ski areas, respectively – will be asked to approve special clean-energy improvement districts Nov. 3, nudging the two increasingly progressive ski towns ever closer to total Boulder-ization.…

Hidden Gems, or locked away too tightly? Wilderness plan stirs debate

By | 09.11.09 | 2:18 pm

A coalition of environmental groups looking to drum up local support for a huge new wilderness bill that could protect up to 450,000 acres of national forest land in Colorado from oil and gas production, timber sales and mining have…

Trouble in paradise: foreclosures rise to new Rocky Mountain highs

By | 08.17.09 | 3:40 pm

It took a little longer, but the bursting of the real estate bubble across the country over the last two years is now ravaging once bullet-proof mountain markets.

Garfield County, according to the Aspen Times, has had 208 foreclosure…

Aspen officials blast Hatch for elitist, enviro comments

By | 09.02.08 | 2:27 pm

The Pitkin County (Aspen) commissioners have joined Rep. John Salazar (D-Colo.) in a border war of words with Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, who on several occasions recently has disparaged Aspen as a nest of anti-oil elitists snuggling up…