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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]