Good afternoon and welcome to Valley Roundup, a review of the week’s top news stories in Aspen and beyond.
The Aspen Times’ Andy Stone and Aspen Daily News’ Carolyn Sackariason join us this week to discuss:
The death of a friend; Stewart Oksenhorn chose this week to take his own life.
The snow that keeps on coming; the wet heavy kind.
Aspen goes after homeowners who rent out their place and don’t pay any lodging tax.
The TSA goes fast-track at Aspen Airport.
Casa Tua is off the hook for its big-pour to a local drunk.
And on the Download with Rob St. Mary – Tracking the local Sochi connection. Also, robots writing poetry; the horror, the horror.
Its all on this week’s Valley Roundup.
Topics and links on this week’s program 2-7-2014:
Stewart Oksenhorn Suicide
From Aspen Times:
http://www.aspentimes.com/news/10081267-113/stewart-aspen-stewy-music
From Aspen Daily News:
http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/161114
From Aspen Public Radio:
http://aspenpublicradio.org/post/seek-helpplease
Big Snow Still Coming.
From Aspen Daily News:
http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/161129
From Aspen Public Radio:
http://aspenpublicradio.org/post/basalt-snow-birds
http://aspenpublicradio.org/post/lasers-help-scientists-get-detailed-picture-wests-snowpack
http://aspenpublicradio.org/post/good-news-farmers-mega-storm-boosts-snowpack
Collecting Taxes from Vacation Rentals.
From Aspen Daily News:
http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/161115
Faster Security Checks at Aspen’s Airport.
From Aspen Public Radio:
http://aspenpublicradio.org/post/faster-security-checks
From Aspen Daily News:
http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/161148
Casa Tua Sued By a Local Drunk.
From Aspen Daily News:
http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/161144
The Download with Rob St. Mary
It’s Olympics… Olympics… Olympics!
http://aspenpublicradio.org/post/how-watch-aspens-four-athletes-during-winter-olympics
http://aspenpublicradio.org/programs/road-sochi
http://aspenpublicradio.org/term/ruthie-brown
http://aspenpublicradio.org/post/former-aspenite-bart-garton-sochi
Counterfeiting in Rifle and the tech of the new $100:
http://www.postindependent.com/news/10067644-113/rifle-counterfeiting-dyer-arrested
http://www.esquire.com/features/benjamin-hundred-dollar-bill-0913
Facebook at 10 and the “Facebook Movie”:
A map of the digital world:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/146155950381227976/
RoboCop? Sure. RoboPoet? Maybe not:
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/robots-are-coming-for-our-poems
