Learning from tragedy in Colorado backcountry
On Tuesday, Dec. 27, my wife and I and two of our three sons took an all-day avy prep course with Apex Mountain School in EagleVail. It was a morning of…
Colorado reservoir proposal fans flames of climate change, trans-mountain diversion debate
Where were you in ’52? That’s the year the Colorado Front Range cities of Aurora and Colorado Springs first started gobbling up water rights in the remote, somewhat lush mountain…
Opinion: Revived rail line through Colorado ski country could bolster rivers, battle climate change
In doing some research for my appearance on Forrest Whitman’s On The Rail’s podcast on KHEN 106.9 FM radio in Salida, Colorado, I realized that I first started seriously writing about passenger…
Analysis: Local jurisdictions have some limited leverage as rail companies do battle
Where the hell is Sage, Colorado? And why would a railroad company be considering starting a commuter passenger rail service there and running trains along the long-dormant Tennessee Pass Line…
Warren Miller film SKI BUM explores family, fatherhood, loss and skiing away from pain
I sometimes feel like the Forrest Gump of the ski world, and it started with meeting legendary ski filmmaker Warren Miller when I first moved to Vail in the early…
Local regs loom large in dam battle as Colorado cities seek more Western Slope water
With Wednesday’s move by the Trump administration to weaken one of the nation’s bedrock conservation laws – the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) – all eyes will increasingly be on local opposition…
Colorado lawmakers must protect health coverage for local businesses
Colorado businesses and their workers are struggling from the destruction of COVID-19. For the last few months, small businesses have had to sacrifice and make extremely difficult decisions on everything…
Health insurance debacle looms during growing COVID-19 crisis
I’ve written extensively in the past about how absolutely unaffordable individual-market health insurance plans (the ones you must buy if you don’t get help through your employer) are in Eagle County,…
Small businesses need big tech
As a small business owner and marketing professional in the hospitality industry, I believe in the power of innovation to help launch new ideas, improve services and create dynamic products. There’s…
Ski racing, Olympics in China could be headed to NBA-style meltdown over Hong Kong, Xinjiang
A recent headline on an Associated Press story previewing the World Cup season that kicked off in Austria last month and continues in Finland on Saturday told us “[Mikaela] Shiffrin and…
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