My wife and I both voted for the five-year moratorium on fracking in Fort Collins, Colorado, which was subsequently, disappointingly, overturned by the Colorado court system. We have watched as this issue has evolved, and we come down on the side of Jared Polis, a Democrat whose district includes Fort Collins (“Fracking politicians,” HCN, 4/18/14). The old-fashioned […]
John Thomas
Posted inJuly 22, 2013: Red Rock Resolution?
The death of the working class
The most unfortunate legacy of the development over the last 50-plus years of “paradise resorts” for the wealthy like Aspen, Vail, Telluride and Jackson is primarily that the middle-class and working-class folks who perform the day-to-day work that keeps those resorts running have been shut out of affordable housing by the wealthy and by conservationists […]
Posted inDecember 20, 2010: California Dreamin'
An uncomfortable truth
Jen Jackson’s report describes a society that wants service industry workers and others to provide us with services we wouldn’t dream of living without (HCN, 11/22/10). But when those workers’ low-wage jobs don’t allow them to purchase or rent “acceptable” or “conventional” housing, we shun them as neighbors. We don’t want to be confronted with […]