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Aspen Public Radio's Dominic Anthony Walsh brings us a conversation with Jenny Stuber, author of "Aspen and the American Dream."

NOTEWORTHY Jenny Stuber University of California Press, 2021 Paradox and contradiction are at the heart of social life and, consequently, of keen interest to sociologists like me. The tensions and contradictions that run through Aspen can be illustrated with a simple question: How is it possible for a town to exist where the median household income is about $73,000, but the median home price is about $4 million? Conventional wisdom among financial advisors is that a household earning $73,000 per year can reasonably afford a home in the $225,000–$325,000 price range—not the $4 million pri...

All the city news you can use. By Jeff Wood - May 1st, 2021 07:38 pm //end headline wrapper ?> Laptop. (CC0 Public Domain) Every day at The Overhead Wire we sort through over 1,500 news items about cities and share the best ones with our email list. At the end of the week, we take some of the most popular stories and share them with Urban Milwaukee readers. They are national (or international) links, sometimes entertaining and sometimes absurd, but hopefully useful. Rethinking commuter rail service post-pandemic: It’s unknown whether commuters will return to ...

Commuter rail may need to escape the suburb-to-city, 9-5 paradigm. What happens to EV batteries when they die? A case study in fighting gentrification. Rethinking commuter rail service post-pandemic: It’s unknown whether commuters will return to offices at the same level as before the pandemic, but whether they do or don’t, it gives transit agencies the ability to rethink regional rail for trips that don’t involve a workday commute. Some commuter railways are already looking at opportunities to operate more like rapid transit. (Jake Blumgart | Governing) The afterlife of an EV battery: ...

Can Cities Be Saved From 'Supergentrification'? For other cities struggling with sky-high real estate prices, Colorado’s resort town offers some instructive lessons on what’s working — and what isn’t. April 28, 2021, 7am PDT | rkaufman Share The first time Jenny Stuber ever visited Aspen, it was on rock legend John Denver’s private jet, called the “Windstar.” She had been living with her mother, on welfare and eligible for free-and-reduced lunch at school. But when her father moved to Aspen in 1976, she began to visit him in the summers. Aspen introduced her to a new world ...