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Connecting With the Ute Memory of Their Land | Up Bear Creek
May 25, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Art Goodtimes FORCED REMOVAL … It had been four days of conferencing, talking about oil and water, both the physical reality of those two fluids, but the larger metaphor of native and non-native, s...
Shelton: Remembering Civilized Healthcare | View to the West
by Peter Shelton
May 25, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Little Cloe was about 10. She got a lot of ear infections as a child, and she caught a doozey that August while we were in France . We had swapped houses for the month with a French family w...
Cagin: The Troubles of Main Street | Local Perspective
by Seth Cagin
May 25, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The Telluride Town Council deserves a lot of credit for forging ahead with a consideration of “horizontal zoning” even in the face of strong opposition from main street property owners and even sk...
Freer: Wilderness Medicine Not Something You Learn in School | Guest Commentary
by Luanne Freer, MD, FACEP
May 25, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
“ Wilderness settles peace on the soul because it needs no help; it is beyond human contrivance. Wilderness is a metaphor for unlimited opportunity.” – E.O. Wilson People ask me all the time – ...
What’s Wrong With This Picture? | Musings of a Mountain Man
May 25, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Jack Pera First, a warning: This is not your ordinary election evaluation. 1) Voting is an exercise in futility. So the Democrats won big. Thrilled? The gutless, worthless and hopeless political ...
Cagin: The Ice Dam Breaks | Local Perspective
by Seth Cagin
May 25, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Those of us who favored the 91 percent compromise solution for preserving the bulk of the Valley Floor as preferable to proceeding with what we saw as a risky path of condemnation were absolutely ...
Shelton: Balance Comes to Oil and Gas Commission | View to the West
May 25, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Peter Shelton It’s amazing what a difference a new administration makes. I wish I were talking about Washington. But no, this is Denver we’re discussing. And the changes being put in place by a De...
Shelton: Is It Junk, or Historic Preservation? | View To The West
by Peter Shelton
May 25, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Two weeks ago, the Watch reported on Ridgway’s latest attempt to clean up its act. Town council, noting the proliferation of vehicles with expired plates scattered around town, proposed a new, or r...
Hunt: Journalists Make Sacrifices, Too | Hunt(ing) in Colorado
by Jeff Hunt
May 25, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
I didn’t mind hearing my annoying alarm clock blaring at 2:30 Friday morning. Yes, I woke up the whole house, but they quickly went back to sleep while I prepped for my five-hour ride to Pueblo fo...
Welcome, Mountainfilmgoers, To a Town with a Valley Floor Your Festival Helped Preserve | Up Bear Creek
by Art Goodtimes
May 24, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
TOM SHADYAC  … While it took several thousand folks to make it happen, including Mayor John Pryor, town elders Phil and Linda Miller, Jane Hickcox’s fundraising crew, and second-homer Meg Whitman, ...
Mayor’s Valley Floor Cost Perspective | Guest Commentary
by John Pryor, Mayor, Town of Telluride
May 24, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
In the face of all of the advertising and letters stating that “voting yes on 2A will never raise your taxes,” as your Mayor, I simply have to be honest with you. Perhaps this perspective will be h...

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