Greater Roaring Fork fates intertwined 10-part “In search of community” series concludes, equating housing with social justice Recently at Aspen Journalism, we concluded our 10-part “In search of community” series from Paul Andersen with a look at how a growing movement is treating the scarcity of affordable housing as a social justice issue and moral […]
Author Archives: Curtis Wackerle
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.
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The Roundup | Land, water and fish management
A note from Elizabeth Stewart-Severy, reporter for two-part series on North Star Nature Preserve North Star nature preserve The North Star Nature Preserve of my youth is long gone. Back then, we called it Stillwater, and I, like so many others at the time, first floated that stretch of flat river with the very specific […]
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The Roundup | Dissecting the pressures we’re feeling
When did things change in Aspen anyway? Change, of course, is constant, as emphasized by Clark Anderson, who runs the Glenwood Springs-based nonprofit Community Builders, which has a mission of helping build more livable communities and was featured in our eighth installment of Paul Andersen’s In Search of Community series. Failing to recognize and respond […]
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The Roundup | Crystal River, community and coexistence
Happy Friday and welcome back to The Roundup. To the charge of having gone too long since last sending this newsletter, we must plead guilty, begging for leniency given the mitigating factor that it has been a busy couple of weeks with many in depth stories — including the latest on the Crystal River Wild […]
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The Roundup | Bauhaus, Bayer and the recycling symbol
In the last week as Aspen Journalism, we had the privilege of publishing work from Tim Cooney and Andrew Travers, telling stories relevant to Aspen History. Cooney, whose local history coverage for AJ spans volumes and who last summer authored a three-part series on the experience of the Northern Utes when white settlers arrived, now […]
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The Roundup | Hero’s boundary closure a sign of the times
The “unique nature” of the border between resort and adjacent land around the skier’s right and lower portion of the new Hero’s terrain on Aspen Mountain is among the justifications offered by Aspen Skiing Co. as to why a decades-old open boundary policy does not apply there, as reported by Elizabeth Stewart-Severy in a detailed […]
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The Roundup | The difference journalism can make
Proposed energy budget for new Pitkin County homes; limiting nonfunctional turf planting in Colorado; rights to Thompson Creek reservoir voluntarily canceled
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The Roundup | Historic losses of community echo today
When considering today’s hand-wringing over the vanquished spirit of Aspen, it is important to note that throughout Aspen’s history, laments of loss are nothing new. In a continuation of our new series, “In search of community” by Paul Andersen, we began to look at the history of Aspen’s sense of community, divided up into five […]
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The Roundup | In search of community, wrapping up our urban landscapes series, and a warmer, thirstier future
Happy new year, and welcome back to the Roundup, Aspen Journalism’s newsletter sharing our most recent stories and insight from the newsroom. Thank you for bearing with us through our end-of-year campaign and helping us to raise donations to fund much of our 2024 reporting. Thanks to readers and funders who believe in this work […]
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The Roundup | From the headwaters to local housing to the lower basin
Happy Monday and welcome back to the Roundup. Usually we take this time to write about the news of the hour, but today, we need your support to ensure this work continues and expands in 2024 and beyond. Our community has access to investigative, independent journalism thanks to this newsroom, and the readers and funders […]