The City of Aspen is pleased to announce the rating for bonds issued in 2005 for the Burlingame housing project have been upgraded to Aa3 from A1 by Moody’s Investors Services. The rating upgrade affects $7.7 million in outstanding rated debt. The bonds were secured by the City of Aspen which made... Read more →
Barwick Blows A Gasket
The Aspen City Manager has had enough from citizen Andy Modell, a frequent and vocal critic of Aspen Mayor Mick Ireland. ““Andy’s assertion that there was some ‘secret meeting’ … is just a blind repeat of another ridiculous newspaper ‘report,’” Barwick wrote in a... Read more →
Mayor Mick Architect Of Burlingame’s Resurrection
TV Aspen Channel 19 News Director Jim Laurence reports that Aspen Mayor Mick Ireland expressed his views on the local economy. Read More →
Marilyn As Rush
“Marilyn is a, self-entitled, female/Aspenite version of Rush Limbaugh in that she sabotages for the sake of sabotage without any credibility” writes Tuthyme in comment #1. “She has completely rendered herself useless.” Read More →
CON GAMES: All About Marilyn
I have done my best in the months since the Aspen Mayoral election won by Mick Ireland to completely ignore Marilyn Marks, the runner-up and citizen agitator who claims to have the best interests of a fractious city at heart. I have ignored her attempt to re-live the election through her repudiation... Read more →
Will Burlingame Take The Bribes?
TV Aspen Channel 19 News Director Jim Laurence is reporting upon the latest twist in the Burlingame saga–an expansion of nearly two dozen units that comes at a price. Read More →
Jim Laurence News Roundup
Wednesday October 7, 2009 Nearly two dozen additional housing units could be built at Burlingame Ranch—as homeowners at the worker housing project, the largest in Aspen’s history—-will hold a final vote on October 28th, that is expected to give the green light to construction of 22 new... Read more →
TV Aspen: Business Falling But Rents Don’t
TV Aspen News Director Jim Laurence is reporting on how things have changed–and not–when it comes to the price and availability of downtown Aspen commercial real estate space. Read More →
CON GAMES: Aspen’s Unfortunate Series Of Events
“Even if the City paid a fair price for the BMC lumber yard, they still grossly overpaid for everything else,” blogs the Con Man, “buying at the absolute worst time to make everything even worse. If they sold the BMC lumber yard today, according to a broker close to the situation, they... Read more →
CON GAMES: Aspen An Unfortunate Series Of Events
Aspen’s own Jack Nicholson had it right: you can’t handle the truth. You means you—and you know who you are. You are the citizenry of Aspen, self-annointed, and it is up to you to give a flying whatever about what happens to your town. Some of you even think that you know what’s going down. Some... Read more →