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Glenwood Springs City Council votes to sue ICE facility’s landlord for allowing detentions to continue without a permit 

ICE and its landlord did not respond to violation notices or appeal the city’s April decision to revoke its special use permit

A short-term ICE detention facility in west Glenwood Springs could be one step closer to shutting down after the City Council on Thursday voted 6-1 to sue the ICE facility’s Florida-based landlord in state court for allegedly violating municipal code by allowing immigration detentions in a commercial zone without a city permit. ICE and…

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When oil and gas trump other uses

Sportsmen, conservation groups cry foul as drilling leases are proposed once again on the Roan Plateau

Colorado’s Roan Plateau, a favorite backcountry zone for hunters, anglers and hikers because of its high-quality wildlife habitat, is once being proposed for oil and gas development. The Bureau of Land Management, in accordance with direction from the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act to hold lease sales in Colorado every quarter, has…

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Aspen mayor and defendant 

While all in on silver to win, one-term Mayor B. Clark Wheeler collars pet grizzlies, chases Little Annie silver vein through Famous Tunnel, loses his second wife and infant son, erupts his temper in the streets and buffaloes bankers.
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Local Public Data

Short-term rental market continues to shrink in Aspen and Pitkin County

Pitkin County elected officials to discuss potential changes STR program after city passed its own set of changes last year

Stricter short-term rental rules passed four years ago by Aspen and Pitkin County are achieving their stated aims of limiting the vacation-rental marketplace, while also raising questions about the programs’ fitness, adaptability and unintended consequences.

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THE BILLIONAIRES OF ASPEN

Wealth and Property

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Property records analysis shows where the Forbes billionaires list and local owners overlap

There have never been more billionaires in the world—3,028, by Forbes’ count, crossing the 3,000 threshold for the first time in 2025. It stands to reason that there also have never been more billionaires in Aspen, their collective influence shaping the community’s social fabric.

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Curtis Wackerle is the Editor and Executive Director of Aspen Journalism, where he guides the nonprofit’s mission to deliver in-depth, independent reporting on environmental and community issues in Colorado’s mountain regions. He has extensive experience in journalism and editorial leadership, including 14 years at Aspen Daily News, where he covered city hall and, from 2016 until joining Aspen Journalism in 2020, served as editor in chief. Under his direction, Aspen Journalism has grown as a trusted source for nuanced coverage of water, land use, public policy and socioeconomic issues in the West. He grew up in Portland, has a journalism degree from the University of Montana, and lives in Woody Creek. More by Curtis Wackerle

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Laurine Lassalle is Aspen Journalism’s data desk editor, where she works to catalog and analyze local public data. She has a master’s degree in data and investigative journalism from UC Berkeley with an emphasis on environmental reporting. More by Laurine Lassalle

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