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 ...

Do you hear them? They’re beating softly in the distance, easily mistaken for patriotism or a call for domestic unity. But ever so slowly, they’re growing louder, just as they have always done ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...