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Category: Aspen Ideas Fest

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GOP governors cheer states, sneer at D.C.

by Brent Gardner-Smith July 30, 2014February 19, 2021

“The hardest part of our job is Washington, D.C. … ,” said Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina.

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Geithner, Pritzker talk economy in Aspen

by Brent Gardner-Smith July 4, 2014February 19, 2021

The former treasury secretary, and current commerce secretary, sat for interviews in Aspen on a day marked by a stock market record and the lowest unemployment rate since Sept. 2008.

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Aspen Ideas Festival panel reviews recent Supreme Court decisions

by Brent Gardner-Smith July 3, 2014February 19, 2021

“I don’t know where the line can be drawn,” Ted Olson said. “This is just a minefield for lawyers. What in the world is a ‘closely-held’ corporation? How many shareholders? How small a number is it?”

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Hickenlooper gives Couric the dope on legal marijuana

by Brent Gardner-Smith July 2, 2014February 19, 2021

“You ingest this, and it can sometimes take a couple of hours before you begin to experience the, you know, the relaxation, the so-called ‘high,’” Hickenlooper explained to Couric and a crowd at the Greenwald Pavilion on the Aspen Institute’s campus. “And so people take more.”

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Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair and David Petraeus offer up views at Ideas Fest

by Brent Gardner-Smith July 1, 2014February 19, 2021

All three blamed the current chaos in Iraq on Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

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Airbnb CEO finds room in Aspen through own website

by Brent Gardner-Smith June 30, 2014February 19, 2021

Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky stays in one of 450 homes in Aspen signed up with Airbnb, which has become a huge virtual lodging company.

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Sebelius: Rollout rocky, but Obamacare a success

by Brent Gardner-Smith June 28, 2014February 19, 2021

A “rocky, flawed eight-week period,” but “costs in health care are rising at the lowest level in 50 years,” Sebelius said.

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Ideas Fest notebook: Stephen Breyer, Lester Crown and the planetarium

by Brent Gardner-Smith July 3, 2013February 19, 2021

The U.S. Supreme Court isn’t nearly as divided as you might think, Justice Stephen Breyer told an Aspen Ideas Festival crowd

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Ideas Fest notebook: A new draft? Legal pot?

by Brent Gardner-Smith July 2, 2013February 19, 2021

Return of a draft Should the U.S. military bring back the draft? Three American novelists who’ve written books about war weighed in on the question during a wide-ranging conversation about literature and the military Sunday night at Belly Up as part of the Aspen Ideas Festival.

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United CEO: the market dictates Aspen prices, service

by Brent Gardner-Smith July 2, 2013February 19, 2021

In the last year, United has dropped local’s discounts between Aspen and Denver, and its prices have increased.

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