Good afternoon and welcome to Valley Roundup, a review of the week’s top news stories in Aspen and beyond.
Carolyn Sackariason, from the Aspen Daily News and Andy Stone from the Aspen Times, join us today.
This week, the evolving story about relocating residents of the Pan and Fork trailer park in Basalt. Eight families remain and their communications with the town are deteriorating.
In Aspen, a proposed Habitat For Humanity project moves forward.
And following a bus crash last year, attorneys start digging into the safety record of the Roaring Fork Transit Authority.
Also today, we talk today with a senior political reporter at Politico about a meeting next week in Colorado of high-end Republican party donors. Organized by a supporter of gay marriage, these GOP donors want to reshape the direction of the party.
And, on the download with Rob St. Mary – How the web makes it easy to financially support public radio.
It's all on this week’s Valley Roundup.
Topics and links on this week’s program 2-21-2014:
Politico’s Alexander Burns Interview: Colorado GOP Donor Meeting
From Politico:
More from Alexander Burns:
http://www.politico.com/reporters/AlexanderBurns.html
Media Roundtable with Carolyn Sackariason and Andy Stone
Pan and Fork Relocation
From Aspen Daily News:
http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/161288
From Aspen Public Radio:
http://aspenpublicradio.org/post/first-families-be-moved-basalts-pan-and-fork-mobile-home-park
Aspen Wants Habitat for Humanity Home
From Aspen Daily News:
http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/161249
RFTA Safety Record
From Aspen Daily News:
http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/161286
Thompson Divide Coalition v. Garco – Press Release Smackdown
From Aspen Public Radio:
http://aspenpublicradio.org/post/coalition-heralds-garfield-county-garco-denies-position
From Aspen Daily News:
http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/161299
More Details about Downtown Aspen Penthouse Owners
From Aspen Daily News:
http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/161308
God, er, Cory Gates is My Co-pilot
From Aspen Daily News:
http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/161300
The Download with Rob St. Mary
The Scale of the Universe interactive:
http://www.policymic.com/articles/81873/experience-just-how-big-the-universe-is-in-one-mind-blowing-interactive?utm_source=upworthy
Facebook knows when the “in a relationship” change is coming:
Facebook changes the math to encourage “high-quality” news content: