Back in November 2018, Aspen voters amended their municipal charter and moved the city’s general election from the first Tuesday after the first Monday of May in odd-numbered years, to the first ...

Patterns surround us. We create them in our daily lives. We observe them in collective human cultures, in the individual lives of others, in nature and in the heavens. But mostly we take them for ...

An epiphany means having something important revealed to you in its entirety. I support Aspen’s affordable housing program. I want it to succeed and benefit future generations of workers ...

If, a few years ago, you would have told me that in 2023, the Colorado state legislature would propose a bill that usurps local zoning authority across the state and places it in the hands of a ...

There has been little recent media conversation about Aspen starting work in earnest on replacing the aging Castle Creek Bridge until last week when a couple of interesting stories hit this paper.

The holidays in Aspen are a special time. Snow is flying and the town has that festive winter look. Aspen is always a celebration, but during the holiday season when celebration is on everyone’s ...

Between 1989 and 1997, early in my local government career, I worked as the finance director for the town of Steilacoom, Washington. Hard on the banks of South Puget Sound and the first ...

You’ve seen the painting. The urban diner at night. Elvis serves from behind the bar. At the corner sits James Dean, to his left Humphrey Bogart ignores a preening Marilyn Monroe. Painted in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...