Aspen Mayor Mick Ireland was yelling at me as he was walking out of the KNFO studio after his live appearance with City Manager Steve Barwick on “Con Games” Wednesday morning and I was yelling back. It would have been better all around if Mayor Ireland had been so kind as to scream at me... Read more →
Burlingate Is Mick’s $100 Million Baby
When Mick Ireland and his Merry Pranksters assumed office in Aspen after the last election, I of course assumed there would be some glaring glitches and growing pains. Not in my wildest imagination did I believe that the current regime would all but run Aspen into the ground financially in just a few... Read more →
CON GAMES: All’s FAIR In Dearth Of Reporting
I have known the idea of independent investigative reporting powered by a non-profit in Aspen has been percolating for at least six months, and I’ve known about it from the start. Even so, I’m more than a little bit floored that Factual Aspen Investigative Reporting (heretofore FAIR) has been formed... Read more →
Mick The ‘Human Oxymoron’
“Mick is an interesting human oxymoron.” writes Post blogger Jerry Bovino in comment #1. “He was elected on a platform of limited growth. We all want that, so consider his slow growth concepts a big plus. However, our Mayor quickly evolved into an advocate of almost no growth at all.... Read more →
CON GAMES: Rich Man, Poor Man
Imagine my surprise when I heard from my brother in Grand Junction that the local paper there was quoting Aspen Mayor Mick Ireland as being apoplectic about “talk-radio stereotyping.” As the sole proprietor of “Con Games” on KNFO 106.1 FM, the one and only local talk show heard... Read more →
If I Were A Rich Man
The Con Man is at it again with Aspen Mayor Mick Ireland, his favorite “communist” pinata. “Americans for American Energy has got Aspen’s Mayor Mick all wrong and rightly so,” he blogs. “Anyone living beyond the roundabout can be excused for thinking the Mayor of Aspen... Read more →
CON GAMES: Worker’s Paradise 81611
The Con Man used to joke (ha-ha) about the People’s Republic of Aspen becoming nothing less than a classic Communist state under Mayor Mick Ireland. Now people are telling him the same thing. “Workers of the world should know the new jobs for Aspen are gonzo,” he blogs. “Instead... Read more →
Park This, Comrade Mick
Post blogger Alpha 6 is mad as hell about what’s going down in Aspen and he’s not going to take it any more. “The goal of Comrade Mick is to return Aspen to the former mining town of old, and it is well on its way to getting there….a ghost town,” he blogs in comment #1.... Read more →
King Of Aspen
The Con Man casts the deciding vote to break the “best of” competition deadlock between Mayor Mick Ireland and the Silver Queen Gondola. “I have had my doubts,” he blogs, “about the democratic street cred of a Mayor who would suppress debate, push through an ‘emergency’... Read more →
Con Man Casts Deciding Vote In Favor Of Mick
Imagine my dismay when I learned Aspen Mayor Mick Ireland failed to win the “best recent change in Aspen” competition outright. The Mayor, in fact, ended the vote in a dead heat with the spanky Silver Queen Gondola now servicing Aspen Mountain like a slavish bellhop at an Aspen 5-star hotel.... Read more →