People are talking about the new museum’s wooden basket-weave look, its big views of Aspen Mountain from the “public penthouse” on the third floor, and how the building fits in with the neighborhood.
Author Archives: Brent Gardner-Smith
Brent Gardner-Smith founded Aspen Journalism in 2011. He also served as AJ’s first executive director, from 2011 until 2021, and as its first editor, until 2020. He's also been the news director at Aspen Public Radio and a reporter at The Aspen Times and the Aspen Daily News. Brent also worked at ProPublica in 2010, as a communications intern, while earning his master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.
Posted inTransmountain Diversions, Water
Aurora trumps Western Slope in water rights case
Pitkin County, River District plan to appeal decision to Supreme Court
Posted inWater
River District opposed to Wild and Scenic designation for Crystal River
Chris Treese, the river district’s external affairs manager, had urged board members in a July 1 memo to “respectfully decline to support” Wild and Scenic designation on the Crystal.
Posted inAspen Ideas Fest
GOP governors cheer states, sneer at D.C.
“The hardest part of our job is Washington, D.C. … ,” said Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina.
Posted inAspen Desk, Local Public Data, Wealth and Property
The Aspen 50: billionaires of Pitkin County
There are now more than 1,600 billionaires in the world, and at least fifty of them have stakes in the Aspen area — primarily through their ownership of real estate in Pitkin County.
Posted inPitkin County
Pitkin County adds to its employee housing portfolio
After the purchase of the two new condos at the ABC and Hunter Creek, the county would have eight employee housing units. The county has about 230 employees.
Posted inLand Use, Pitkin County
County moves closer to paving two miles of Rio Grande Trail
The work, expected to begin by the end of July, will not close the popular trail that many visitors and locals use to ride between Aspen and Woody Creek.
Posted inLand Use, Pitkin County, Wealth and Property
County officials ‘not impressed’ with efforts to restore wedding meadow
On Friday July 11 about half of the 2-acre wedding site, which is right off a public road at about 10,700 feet, appeared to be dry, bare dirt.
Posted inLand Use, Pitkin County, Wealth and Property
Miller challenges county on party-tent moratorium
Little Annie’s landowner urges officials to “table” their moratorium on party tents in the rural and remote zone.
Posted inPitkin County
County supportive of potential tax increase for ambulance district
The tax revenues help make up the difference between the cost of providing quality ambulance service in a rural community and the revenue the service brings in.