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5 days ago | 
aspenjournalism.org | Tim Cooney |Curtis Wackerle
In part two of the history of ski patrol unions (read part one here), a dramatic loss of benefits leads to the formation of the Aspen Professional Ski Patrol Association in 1986. As APSPA nears its 40th anniversary, the separate United Mountain Workers CWA local 7781 represents other ski patrols and mountain groups. To visitors and the community, the Aspen ski patrols could be the last stronghold of the inscrutable Aspen mystique.
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1 week ago | 
aspenjournalism.org | Tim Cooney |Curtis Wackerle
“When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion,” Ethiopian proverbIn the first of a two-part story, the history of ski patrol unions unfolds in Aspen between 1959-1986, leading to the Aspen Professional Ski Patrol Association. Next week’s second installment will follow APSPA’s perilous path through changing management groups to the present, their dramatic confrontations and the rise of the national United Mountain Workers CWA 7781 union.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
aspendailynews.com | Tim Cooney
Editor’s note: In the second of a two-part series that examines the potency of the Aspen Institute’s 2024 annual Aspen Ideas Festival, humor, reality and hope marble ongoing topical issues. Things got underway at the 20th anniversary Aspen Ideas Festival this past June, following the Aspen Ideas Health Festival, with guest festival curator Tina Brown’s interview of commentator/comic Bill Maher.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
aspenjournalism.org | Tim Cooney |Curtis Wackerle
Thank you! Your support made this work possible. As a supporter of Aspen Journalism, you already know the value of our local, in-depth, investigative coverage. Enjoy this all-access article you made possible. In the second of a two-part series that examines the potency of the Aspen Institute’s 2024 annual Aspen Ideas Festival, humor, reality and hope marble ongoing topical issues.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
aspendailynews.com | Tim Cooney
(Editor’s note: In this two-part story, The Aspen Institute’s annual capstone event renders reflections on the potency of the 2024 Aspen Ideas Health and Aspen Ideas Festival.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
aspenjournalism.org | Tim Cooney |Curtis Wackerle
Thank you! Your support made this work possible. As a supporter of Aspen Journalism, you already know the value of our local, in-depth, investigative coverage. Enjoy this all-access article you made possible. In this two-part story, The Aspen Institute’s annual capstone event renders reflections on the potency of the 2024 Aspen Ideas Health and Aspen Ideas Festival. Part one sets the scene and frames Ideas Health; part two takes readers through the Ideas Fest.
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Apr 13, 2024 | 
aspendailynews.com | Tim Cooney
Aspen has lost another anchor. The steely Finn, Erik Peltonen, aka, “Eeirki” or “The Pelt,” formerly of the Aspen Mountain Ski Patrol, recently passed away due to complications following a motorcycle accident last October. He made rounded ski turns through crusted windblown crud in flat light as comfortably as a fish can swim. He relished bad weather days and difficult conditions, often sandbagging good skiers to follow him.
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Apr 13, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Tim Cooney
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
aspendailynews.com | Tim Cooney
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series from Aspen Journalism — a nonprofit, investigative news organization — about Bauhaus designer Herbert Bayer. This installment covers his efforts to introduce architectural consistency and zoning in Aspen as he juggles other monumental projects.
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Mar 10, 2024 | 
aspendailynews.com | Tim Cooney
Editor’s note: Eggheads meet cowboys in this first of a two-part story from Aspen Journalism about Herbert Bayer’s journey from Austria to Aspen. Indelibly shaped by World War I and his studies at the German Bauhaus design school, circumstances chronicle Bayer’s hasty exit in 1938 to escape Adolf Hitler and settle in idyllic 1946 Aspen as Walter Paepcke’s go-to designer in the reinventing of the town. Taking in the volume of multimedia work by Herbert Bayer (April 5, 1900-Sept.
