{"id":2450732,"date":"2019-11-04T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T05:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/enough-stalin-around-aspen-council\/"},"modified":"2019-11-05T07:12:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T14:12:57","slug":"enough-stalin-around-aspen-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/enough-stalin-around-aspen-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough Stalin around, Aspen council"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Because Aspen\u2019s Communist City Council (redundant) resents folks who can buy it, they banned valet parking at Ajax (Communists ban what they resent instead of working harder to afford it themselves). The Commies have the right idea, but they don\u2019t go far enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Valet parking at Ajax should be available, but only to \u201clocals\u201d who 1. work full-time (1,500 annual hours) in Pitkin County, 2. live in Pitkin County at least nine months a year, and 3. have no other valet parking privilege in the \u201cvalet parking exclusion zone.\u201d Individuals with income under $36,200 and assets under $138,000 may valet park a motor scooter. Those with incomes of $173,500 and assets of $925,000 may valet park a Range Rover HSE. Intermediate categories should be established for Priuses, Wranglers and Subarus, based on income and assets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Come on, Commie Council. Don\u2019t do a half-fast job when you can realize your authoritarian dreams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Maurice Emmer<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/enough-stalin-around-aspen-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Aspen\u2019s Communist City Council (redundant) resents folks who can buy it, they banned valet parking at Ajax (Communists ban what they resent instead of working harder to afford it themselves). The Commies have the right idea, but they don\u2019t go far enough. Valet parking at Ajax should be available, but only to \u201clocals\u201d who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 09:22:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450746,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450732\/revisions\/2450746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}