Guest commentary
My name is Kimbo Brown‐Schirato and I am running for City Council. I grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, studied business and economics at the University of Cape Town, came to Aspen-Snowmass for a post‐university ski season in 2004-05 and effectively never left. A 16‐year resident of the Roaring Fork Valley, I have lived in Snowmass Village, owned a home at the height of the housing crisis in Carbondale, and a week before my daughter was born, moved to Aspen after winning the APCHA lottery.
I met my husband on “Day 1, Job 1, Season 1” and we’ve been together since. After a few years of J‐1 and H2B visas in the hospitality industry, I received my green card by marriage and got my first job at an Aspen nonprofit, Aspen Youth Experience. In 2009, I started working at Obermeyer Wood Investment Counsel, where I manage client service and help our clients navigate their complex financial lives. In addition to my full‐time job, I help my husband run our
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Lack of Spanish resources causes real harm within Roaring Fork Valley.
Beatriz Soto, Defiende Nuestra Tierra Director at non-profit Wilderness Workshop, said she is frequently asked to clarify if videos or clips are legitimate news sources by members of the community.
“I think we have to acknowledge that for whatever reason, fake information and fake news is getting quicker to our communities than real information…I think once people start losing that faith in their governmental agencies I think it just makes them victims,” Soto said.
Officials within the Roaring Fork Valley seemingly struggle to find volunteers or space within a budget to translate important information to Spanish, Soto said. The lack of a reliable, translated information source makes it easier for Spanish-speakers or other individuals who don’t speak English to fall prey to well-produced conspiracy theories or clean cut presentations of fake news.
• Jan 21, 2021 Maeve Conran/KGNU
Colorado’s Northern Front Range has been out of compliance with federal ozone standards since 2012. The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to downgrade the region’s ozone status from “serious” to “severe.” Better air monitoring in some cities shows that emissions from the oil industry is contributing to bad air quality. One researcher has been shining a light on it. It s made him a target of the industry.
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Writers on the Range
Thirteen-year-olds can AirDrop “Simpsons” memes from across the room, and artificial intelligence made chess masters like Garry Kasparov obsolete. But for all our technological advances, at home, we’re still cavemen.
Auden Schendler, a Writers on the Range contributor.
Just as early man cooked raw meat over campfire coals, modern humans heat with flame, too, using natural gas drilled from the ground, even occasionally searing a poblano pepper on the range. “Og like gas. Gas keep Og warm.”
We can do better, in the same way that we’re moving away from generating electricity by burning flammable rocks. Instead, we’re making power with thin-film, solar photovoltaics, wind turbines made from fiberglass and advanced composites, and solar thermal molten-salt storage arrays in the desert.