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Five newsrooms unpack five water myths Recently at Aspen Journalism, we published a story explaining one of Colorado’s most famous water law doctrines: use it or lose it. This concept looms large not only in the minds of water users, but also the general public. It’s probably one of the best-known water adages, shorthand for […]

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This week from Aspen Journalism, two stories that strike a chord, for different reasons. Elizabeth Stewart-Severy brings us a piece that resonates with the salience of recreation access as a binding community issue, especially when such access has a particular impact on youth. Another issue that affects almost everyone, central to the story, is the […]

Test results show high iron and aluminum when Lincoln Creek and the Roaring Fork ran orange In September 2022, Aspen Journalism reported on a local, state and federal agency investigation into what was fouling the waters of Lincoln Creek. By November 2023, findings pointed to elevated heavy metals concentrations that were naturally occurring, and in […]

Aspen Journalism water and environment desks ponder critical questions this summer.

In January 2023, Aspen Journalism published a two–part investigative analysis of the 1,650 or so units making up the ownership inventory of the Aspen Pitkin County Housing Authority, from AJ data editor Laurine Lassalle and longtime freelance collaborator Catherine Lutz. The idea behind the project was to take stock of the component parts of what […]

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 […]

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 […]