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…
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…
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,…
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…
Freelancers forgotten in battle against vulture-capitalist owners like Alden Global
It’s been a brutal decade for freelance journalists. From a high-water mark of 2007, when I actually made a living wage, through the great recession that led to the death…
All of us must take action to stop national epidemic of school shootings
Next week will mark the one-month anniversary of the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 14, and Congress…
#MeToo #TimesUp Oscars dredge up bad memories for Vail Valley with Kobe win
The Vail Valley got a much-needed blast of winter snow during the Oscars Sunday night, but the awards themselves provided a somewhat painful blast from the past when former Los Angeles…
Funding mental health services won’t end all gun violence, but it will save lives
Andrew Romanoff, who as the president and CEO of Mental Health Colorado wholeheartedly supports Eagle County Ballot Issue 1A, wanted to make sure during a recent interview that I was…
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