Author Archives: Curtis Wackerle

Hello, and welcome back to The Roundup. In our last edition, we looked at local issues affected by federal decisions; in this edition, Aspen Journalism’s reporting looks at what has become “normal” and what is being done to improve the baseline. Stories have been flying off the Social Justice Desk as Eleanor Bennett and Kaya […]

Happy Tuesday and welcome back to the Roundup, sharing the latest original, in-depth reporting from the Roaring Fork Valley’s only nonprofit online investigative news outlet, with stories of impact stretching far beyond Aspen. Our journalists have been taking a hard look at drought, wildfire and infrastructure concerns that are coming to the fore as we […]

County seeks land swap to ease pressure at North Star put-in Pitkin County is moving forward with an official proposal for a land exchange that would see it acquire 23 acres of U.S. Forest Service land around Wildwood Lane including a busy river access point for floaters heading to the North Star Nature Preserve. The […]

This week in The Roundup, Heather Sackett and Eleanor Bennett help us understand emerging environmental and social factors shaping our community, while Laurine Lassalle continues to improve our new-this-winter Roaring Fork basin snowpack monitoring feature, which now includes an interactive map visualizing real-time readings from SNOTEL sites ringing the watershed. Read on below to get […]

Ten stories that have published by Aspen Journalism including a four-part series by Paul Andersen about an effort to recenter the moral humanism of Albert Schweitzer as a pillar of the Aspen community.

Hunting for phantom dams Recently at Aspen Journalism, Water Desk Editor Heather Sackett published a new investigative project. Like most great pieces of journalism it started with a question, which in this case rose to the top about a year ago, when Sackett was writing about a company with ties to oil and gas development […]

Recently at Aspen Journalism, we dig deep into critical water issues on the Western Slope and across the wider Colorado River basin, working conditions at a key Aspen lodging and convention site, and what the fate of a small, historic former gallery in the Castle Creek Valley has to say about our community’s history and […]

Three new stories showing the breadth of our newsroom covering energy, water and reproductive rights.