Dave Reed is LIFT-UP’s development director. Our valley is a land of stark contrasts, with great wealth coexisting with near-poverty. While many among us enjoy unprecedented luxury, thousands of families and individuals from Parachute to Aspen struggle from paycheck to paycheck. Recent federal policy changes will make life even harder for the people who keep […]
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Peace starts here
On the day marking one year since the Hamas terrorist attack on the Nova Music Festival in southern Israel, a reporter, two persons of the Jewish diaspora and one member from Ceasefire Now RFV (Roaring Fork Valley) sat down at the Third Street Center for a conversation. The Oct. 7, 2023 attack killed more than […]
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Carbondale launches Home Energy Score pilot program
Dave Reed is communications director at CLEER. Garfield Clean Energy is teaming up with local electric utilities to launch an energy-efficiency campaign to help residents save money by saving energy in their homes. As part of the Get Your Home Ready for Winter campaign, Garfield County customers of Xcel Energy, Holy Cross Energy and Glenwood […]
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Carbondale takes bold steps on climate
“Slow and steady wins the race,” goes the saying. But when it comes to climate change, we’re in a race against time. Recent reports by the United Nations and others show how far behind we already are. We need to be moving fast and steady. Consensus is emerging that human society needs to be “carbon […]
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Letters – Nov. 3, 2022
Re: SkiCo trails In response to Allyn Harvey’s letter to the editor on Oct. 28, I totally agree that more ski trails should be named after women who have made an impact on Aspen. I need to mention that there is another trail you may have been unaware of, probably because it does not appear […]
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Garfield, neighboring counties prepare for solar surge
Representatives of five counties gathered June 24 for an all-day conference in Rifle to compare notes and discuss strategies for preparing for an expected surge in utility-scale solar development. The roster of other participants at “Harnessing Solar Benefits for Western Colorado” — including staffers from nearly a dozen solar developers, several nonprofits, the Bureau of […]