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Vail Mountain will open Friday with COVID-19 procedures
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Vail Mountain will open for the season this Friday with over 200 acres of land to give skiers and riders the space they need to social distance. Although the mountain is officially opening on Friday at 9 a.m., initial reservations are exclusively open to season pass holders only through Dec. 7. In an attempt to…
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Forest Service OKs Vail Mountain expansion project
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Federal officials have approved an expansion to Vail Mountain. The Vail Daily reports the U.S. Forest Service authorized the expansion last week, as the Golden Peak Improvements Project final environmental impact statement, along with a draft record of decision, was published by the White River National Forest. Forest Supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams wrote that the project…
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Vice President Mike Pence visiting Aspen area for holiday vacation
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Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, are spending the week in the Aspen area on vacation, The Aspen Times reported, bringing heavy security and some traffic delays to some of Colorado’s ritziest mountain communities. A motorcade bearing the Pences made the journey from Eagle County and its airport near Vail to a residence…
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ICYMI: More on the ‘Hamilton Electors,’ Mines to expand, ‘right to disagree’ bill dies and more
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• Remember those so-called “Hamilton Electors?” Of course you do. They were four of the nine Colorado Democratic electors who joined a national movement to try to thwart Donald Trump’s election through the Electoral College process. The plan was to get enough electors nationwide to band together and vote for an alternate candidate, keeping Trump…
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Avalanche blocks key route to Vail ski area in Colorado
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An avalanche swept across a Colorado highway that is a key route to the popular Vail ski resort, blocking access for some skiers heading to the mountain and trapping three commercial trucks, authorities said Tuesday. No one was injured when the avalanche dumped up to 15 feet of snow onto Interstate 70 at Vail Pass…
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High country residents debate Trump’s Mexico stance
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Colorado Democrats say Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump can soften his anti-Mexico stance all he wants, but the economic damage has already been done in key tourism markets like Vail that rely heavily on year-round Latin American visitors. Representatives of Trump for Colorado counter that Democrats are engaged in fear-mongering in order to get Hillary…
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Hickenlooper: ‘Colorado’s stuck with me for another couple of years’
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The challenge of balancing energy extraction with other uses on Colorado’s federal lands is one factor that will likely keep Gov. John Hickenlooper in Colorado instead of taking a cabinet job if Hillary Clinton wins the White House, the Democrat told The Colorado Statesman on Tuesday. In an interview at a bill-signing ceremony for the…
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Q&A: Donovan on serving a diverse district by building alliances
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Sen. Kerry Donovan, D-Vail, represents SD-5, one of the state’s most competitive districts. It’s a rural mountain part of the state, home to sometimes hard-pressed mining and drilling towns, but also to global vacation destinations such as Aspen and Vail. It’s a narrowly divided Republican-Democratic district in terms of voter registration, and she won her…
