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Law firm sends cease-and-desist letter to Garfield County sheriff over alleged unlawful immigration enforcement

Claims agency is collaborating with federal authorities in violation of state law

Towards Justice Executive Director David Seligman, an attorney who is running for state attorney general this year, confirmed that the formal, nonbinding letter could be the first step in a lawsuit against the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office.

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The Western Slope’s nuclear fracking legacy 

Peaceful repurposing plans for U.S. stockpile of nuclear bombs didn’t pan out

Observers remain concerned that modern horizontal drilling and fracking technologies have increased the risk that the entombed radioactive material may be disturbed, and skepticism persists that the flaring of contaminated natural gas after the Rulison test had harmful effects.

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THE BILLIONAIRES OF ASPEN

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Property records analysis shows where the Forbes billionaires list and local owners overlap

There have never been more billionaires in the world—3,028, by Forbes’ count, crossing the 3,000 threshold for the first time in 2025. It stands to reason that there also have never been more billionaires in Aspen, their collective influence shaping the community’s social fabric.

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