Basalt residents will decide whether to increase a sales tax by 0.5% to fund a new building for its public works and police departments. Basalt Town Council voted to put it on the November ballot at its Aug. 25 meeting.
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Reporter Kaya Williams has closely followed the development of complex plans to redo the Lift One corridor. She spoke with Aspen Public Radio’s Sage Smiley about a new sequencing agreement that maps out a construction plan over the next three years.
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The Lift One corridor at the end of South Aspen Street is poised to become a destination for luxury lodging and public amenities, with a nod to skiing’s past. But it’ll likely be at least three winters before a lift is spinning there again.
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The former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and Interior Secretary visited Aspen on Friday. He touted his new memoir’s themes of diversity and better understanding as a way to break through federal policy’s “state of paralysis.”
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There are 73 short-term rentals in unincorporated Pitkin County, compared to over 2,300 in the City of Aspen and Snowmass Village, or about 4,200 in Breckenridge, according to a recent study.
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On today's podcast: Roaring Fork Valley community members are rallying in support of an Aspen resident who is in ICE custody. Communities across the Valley will vote on various local tax increases this November. And Colorado's unemployment rate is holding steady.
Regional News
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The Trump administration is revising the Travel Management Rule, a U.S. Forest Service policy that dictates when motorized use is allowed.
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Colorado River plan orders cuts in the Lower Basin, while relying on voluntary conservation upstreamColorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming are not subject to mandatory reductions; instead, those states are setting up programs to voluntarily conserve water.
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Jimmy Romo, an Indigenous Affairs reporter for KNPR, has been covering what's at stake for tribes along the Colorado River. Our Living Lands Producer Daniel Spaulding spoke to him about his reporting.
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The federal government finalized new rules Friday to operate the Colorado River’s biggest reservoirs in the next two years. The Bureau of Reclamation’s plan calls for California, Arizona and Nevada to take significant cuts to their water supply from the river, at least in the short term.
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Since taking over in March, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has pivoted from the confrontational style of immigration enforcement of his predecessor, Kristi Noem. The latest data is reflective of a strategy that is working
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Pilgrims came to Iraq from all over the world in August. Many Iraqi and Iranian pilgrims walked hundreds of miles in extreme heat to mark the event. Outside the shrines, the atmosphere is almost festive.
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Indiana is the latest state to experiment with limiting what hospitals can charge, to try to get a handle on high health costs.
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A federal judge in Boston canceled a nationwide ruling that blocked U.S. Postal Service work on President Trump's order to limit mail-in voting for the midterm election. But a new block may come soon.
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Curry will be most remembered for his role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the tyrannical gender-bending alien scientist in both stage and screen versions of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He was 80.
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The proposal comes weeks before the midterm elections, when food prices and the cost of living are expected to be major issues on voters' minds.
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Parton, who died at 80 on Tuesday, had charm, depth, beauty, wit and radiant goodness. She was also a songwriter whose work told the story not just of country music but of the country itself.
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The social media giant also agreed to make sweeping changes to Instagram and Facebook.
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Like much of Rachel Cusk's work, Life of M is driven by her concern with conditions that impede self-definition -- for writers, artists, and women in particular.
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The disaster is linked to climate change, with experts noting the region's vulnerability to extreme weather.
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