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Open Forum letters to the editor for Monday, August 28, 2023.
The outdoorsy lifestyle of Colorado mountain towns has become a magnet for the new remote-worker class, upending life for those rooted there.
Boulder’s leaders need to turn down the temperature on irresponsible rhetoric equating normal and legitimate ordinance-making with the risk of coups d’etat.
Inequality has always been rampant within the orbit of popular destinations. But the financial knock-on effects of those ritzy spheres have expanded as the pandemic-induced surge in remote work has supercharged divides.
In the recreation-fueled, amenity-rich economy of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain region, there are two peak seasons: summer, with its rafting, hiking, fishing and biking, and the cold months filled with skiing and other winter activities. And then there is “mud season” — a liminal moment in spring when the alpine environment, slowly then suddenly, begins to thaw and only a trickle of tourists linger. It’s a period that workers in other places might bemoan. But for much of the financially stretched wo