telluride

Appeals court rules developer may bring ballot initiative to rezone Telluride neighborhood

Jul 5, 2024

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Michael Karlik

Colorado’s second-highest court on Wednesday clarified that a developer may bring a ballot initiative in Telluride to rezone part of a planned-unit development for affordable housing despite other lot owners’ objections. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals stressed that the question of whether the zoning change infringes on the rights of homeowners in…
Mountain kayaks, cardboard races, pond splashes: Spring around Colorado ski resorts

Mar 16, 2023

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Seth Boster

It’s only fitting the powder-packed ski season that was 2022-’23 goes out with a bang. Or, more specifically, a splash. Pond-skimming is but one tradition of closing festivities across ski country in the spring. Here’s a look at other happenings: Arapahoe Basin: A nod to the parking lot that takes on a summery scene, the…
Local officials throw support behind Democrat Phil Weiser’s attorney general bid

Feb 7, 2018

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Ernest Luning

Touting his commitment to issues important to rural Colorado, five current and former county commissioners and the mayor of Telluride on Wednesday endorsed Democratic attorney general candidate Phil Weiser, his campaign said. “Phil Weiser is a nationwide leader on broadband and worked under President Obama on a successful bipartisan initiative to encourage wireless broadband and…
How Colorado’s congressional delegation voted this week

Dec 3, 2017

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Tom Ramstack

H.R. 3017: Brownfields Enhancement, Economic Redevelopment, and Reauthorization Act of 2017 This was a vote to pass H.R. 3017 in the House. H.R. 3017 represented an effort to reauthorize the funding and authorizations for the expiring law that paid for redevelopment of brownfield sites. The original Brownfields Revitalization Act was signed into law by President…
Help wanted: Telluride job seekers hold the cards in a tight labor market

Jul 26, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

If you’re a bit of a flake on the job, then the place for you is Telluride. Go west, young man, and take your mountain bike with you. The excellent Justin Criado lays it all out in the latest Telluride Daily Planet. Unemployment in San Miguel County is among the lowest in the state, 2.1…
Congress to consider naming southwest Colorado peaks after legendary local climbers Fowler and Boskoff

May 26, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Congress is considering naming two peaks in southwest Colorado after two famous local climbers killed in an avalanche in Tibet in 2006, Charlie Fowler and Christine Boskoff. Colorado Sens. Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner with U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton of Cortez have introduced a bill to designate two unnamed 13,000-foot peaks about 10 miles southwest of…
Telluride Daily Planet reports that pot’s still here to stay

Feb 27, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Remember that song “Smuggler’s Blues” by Glenn Frey? “They move it through Miami, sell it in L.A. They hide it up in Telluride. I mean it’s here to stay.” When you’re immortalized in pop culture, even from the ’80s, it means something. When you think of Miami, vice pops in your head pretty fast. So Justin Criado, senior…
Denver Democrats stoke enthusiasm, lay groundwork for ‘the resistance’

Feb 22, 2017

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Ernest Luning

It’s a quote attributed to Pericles, and it resonated in the halls at Denver’s South High School on the afternoon of Saturday, Feb. 11: “Just because you don’t take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” Three months after Democrats were stunned by the results of the presidential election…
State Democratic Party chair candidates make case at Denver meeting

Feb 17, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Three of the four candidates for chair of the Colorado Democratic Party sounded the alarm and raised the roof campaigning for the post at Denver County’s reorganization meeting on Saturday. Former Senate President Morgan Carroll, Colorado Democratic Party 2nd vice chair Barbara Jones and Clear Creek County Commissioner Tim Mauck made their pitches to the…
Telluride wants more regular folks to live near Oprah and Tom

Jan 9, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

My favorite Colorado newspaper, the Telluride Daily Planet, had some good news Friday: The home of Butch Cassidy’s first bank job is doing what it can to see that folks don’t have to be named Oprah to live there. Affordable housing is the town’s top priority in 2017, despite the progress it’s already made, reports…