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As data shows more people detained over 12 hours, Glenwood officials recommend upholding ICE facility’s permit

Planning commission to hold special use permit hearing April 28

Glenwood Springs officials are recommending that the city’s planning and zoning commission uphold a special use permit approved in 2003 for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s short-term holding facility and administrative office near the Glenwood Meadows shopping area, despite data that shows ICE detained people for over 12 hours at the site, in violation of…

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HISTORY: B. CLARK WHEELER. THree Part series

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B. Clark Wheeler, a nimble man in his time

In 1880, B. Clark Wheeler, bearing grief, snowshoes into Ute City in the dead of winter, claim-jumps the town, renames it Aspen, horse-trades silver mines and seeds his indomitable legacy.

The yarn is often spun of Wheeler’s Herculean mid-February 17-day roundtrip snowshoe odyssey from Leadville to Ute City over Independence Pass to inspect mining prospects and lay out a town.

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Aspen mayor and defendant 

While all in on silver to win, one-term Mayor B. Clark Wheeler collars pet grizzlies, chases Little Annie silver vein through Famous Tunnel, loses his second wife and infant son, erupts his temper in the streets and buffaloes bankers.
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THE BILLIONAIRES OF ASPEN

Wealth and Property

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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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