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The Runoff | Confronting scarcity with adaptation
Welcome back to The Runoff, Aspen Journalism’s Water Desk newsletter providing insider news and water-related updates you won’t read anywhere else. We are covering stories related to one of the hottest, driest years on record and how it’s impacting local communities and how water managers are scrambling to adapt. Find updates under The Briefing and catch up on the most […]
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The Roundup | Award-winning journalism, the water desk goes live
Six Aspen Journalism reporters awarded in Top of the Rockies content, live water desk panel and a roundup of original stories.
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The Runoff | Two of the biggest stories in Colorado River news
A historically bad snowpack and record high temps, and the post-2026 management of the river – and how they are intersecting.
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The Roundup | How to prop up Powell, a Cloud Nine gondola and ICE oversight
Stories that showcase the challenges facing our community including questions of local governance, development and accountability.
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The Roundup | Shaping the landscapes we depend on
A high-stakes stalemate, ICE access, Harvest housing, fracking with nukes, Schweitzer’s legacy.
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The Roundup | The needs of the locality
Recently at Aspen Journalism, we published a story about the last Mass at St. Benedict’s Monastery that captured the moment in all of its context and complexity. This day has been a long time coming — preordained, if you will, back in 2022, when the Trappist order responsible for the monastery voted that it would […]
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The Runoff | The biggest water stories of 2025
Welcome to The Runoff, where Aspen Journalism’s Water Desk provides insider news and water-related updates you won’t read anywhere else under The Briefing and additional context and updates on the most recent reporting from our water desk under The Recap. In 2025, the Water Desk brought readers authoritative reporting on water quality issues in the […]
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St. Benedict’s Monastery sale a pivot point for land stewardship and cultural heritage
This week, the sale of St. Benedict’s Monastery — where for nearly 70 years Trappist monks had been living lives of work and prayer, caring for their 3,700 acres of the Capitol Creek Valley while welcoming the community for religious services and spiritual renewal — made national news. Kaya Williams, an Aspen Journalism freelancer who […]
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The Roundup | Deciding what the future will look like
This newsroom often publishes stories that reflect crossroads — not only for our communities, but for the future of the Western Slope, our mountains, rivers and towns. Paul Andersen’s reporting on public‑land transfers in “Cutting up the Commons” reminds us that history continues to shape the future. By uncovering decades of land giveaways and mining […]