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4 days ago · Curtis Wackerle. Curtis Wackerle is the editor and executive director of Aspen Journalism and the editor and reporter on the Connie Harvey Environment Desk. Curtis has also served as editor, managing editor, and reporter at the Aspen Daily News, where he covered Aspen’s city hall. He has a journalism degree from the University of Montana.
The Roundup | What lies ahead for St. Benedict’s Monastery?
7 hours ago · By Kaya Williams. November 10, 2024. A 3,700-acre property owned by St. Benedict’s Monastery is now on the market for $150 million as the religious institution faces a dwindling population of monks. Past efforts to preserve the land never came to fruition — but some local groups hope a collaboration might help.
In a ‘sacred valley,’ community partners seek to preserve the …
3 days ago · A 3,700-acre property owned by St. Benedict’s Monastery is now on the market for $150 million as the religious institution faces a dwindling population of monks. Past efforts to preserve the land never came to fruition — but some local groups hope a collaboration might help.
The Runoff | Upper Basin MOU lays groundwork for saved-water …
4 days ago · The Upper Basin continues to take baby steps toward a formal conserved consumptive program. On Oct. 28, the Upper Colorado River Commission signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation establishing a provisional accounting for water saved through approved Upper Basin conservation projects.
The Roundup | The building block of democracy - Aspen Journalism
6 days ago · No matter how you feel about the election results, we can all agree on the importance of fact-based civil discourse and an informed public. “Well informed citizens make better decisions” has been our motto since Aspen Journalism’s founding in the wake of the Great Recession. In our almost 14 years in business, we’ve published more […]
2023 Aspen Journalism Annual Report
This enabled us to unlock $33,000 from NewsMatch and $5,071 from the Colorado Media Project — revenue that came in spring of 2024, based on our performance during the 2023 end-of-year campaign. Aspen Journalism also received grants from the city of Aspen ($21,500) and Pitkin County ($20,000) in 2023.
Mission and annual reports - Aspen Journalism
Aspen Journalism is a nonprofit journalism organization based in Aspen, Colorado. Our mission is to produce investigative and in-depth journalism for those with a stake in the Aspen region, by virtue of their living, voting, owning, working, recreating, or visiting here. Our area of geographic concern radiates outward from Aspen to include Pitkin, Eagle and […]
The Roundup | The difference journalism can make
Feb 6, 2024 · Reservoir along Thompson Creek voluntarily canceled. A company that was seeking to extend its nearly 60-year-old conditional water right for a reservoir tied to oil-and-gas drilling that would be sited along Thompson Creek near Carbondale backed away from its application in water court, after Water Desk Editor Heather Sackett broke the news last month that the application was proceeding.
The battle for the Aspen Idea: Community or commodity?
Feb 11, 2024 · Aspen scribe Peggy Clifford felt Paepcke’s pain for the demeaning of something precious, unique and intangible: “Aspen is more than the sum of its parts,” Clifford wrote in “To Aspen and Back” (1980), her memoir about Aspen in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. “Aspen is an idea.”. Today, many who find themselves in the grips of ...
Regionalism evolves as a uniting force from Aspen to Parachute
Apr 18, 2024 · The community I am searching for extends more than 80 miles, from Aspen to Parachute. This contiguous, linear city clusters along Highway 82 and Interstate 70, and has a population of about 90,000 – roughly the size of Longmont — and that’s before counting the second homeowners and tourists.