yes, some local friends urged me to write something positive BUT they forgot the first rule of journalism ---if it bleeds it leads. So please, forget those uncrowded ski slopes and beautiful views and let the boo birds out.
In today's paper the Aspen Aspen Music Festival and School announced that they were cutting the philharmonic program and number of students (and teachers etc) due to the housing crisis. Story below.
What is next? Theater Aspen? The physics institute? God forbid what if the wait staff for your curated AspenX experience can't find housing. What then?
One of our more conservative local pundits also wrote in her weekly column that maybe the new affording housing development shouldn't have parking spaces (or mud rooms or storage spaces). Cause you know the Aspen X workers can take the bus down valley to the grocery store and hospital and stay out of sight of our 0.001%ers who are going to spend their time not listening to music, physics lectures or seeing a show cause there is no housing. What does a town look like that has only subsidized housing for workers and vacation homes for people worth more than $100M? Given the current trend check out Aspen in 2 years to find out.
FYI the music school started in the late 40s.
Have we jumped the shark? Who knows but Aspen is getting uglier by the minute.
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