{"id":2454372,"date":"2020-02-10T17:44:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T00:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/time-to-scrutinize-aspen-pitkin-county-housing-authority\/"},"modified":"2020-02-11T07:23:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T14:23:12","slug":"time-to-scrutinize-aspen-pitkin-county-housing-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/time-to-scrutinize-aspen-pitkin-county-housing-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to scrutinize Aspen-Pitkin County Housing Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.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\">Since Maurice Emmer claims to have knowledge of past malfeasance on the part of high-level Aspen-Pitkin County Housing Authority players (<a id=\"N0x1314e80N0x12dc9b0:N0x1314e80N0x1399560\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/abuse-at-apcha-i-think-so\/\">\u201cAbuse at APCHA? I think so,\u201d<\/a> letters, Feb. 7, aspentimes.com), he should go public with what he knows \u2014 perhaps in a guest commentary slot in this paper?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He wouldn\u2019t have to name names, just specify the occasions and the circumstances of the alleged \u201cabuse\u201d \u2014 be it political patronage, secular simony, or just special favors among friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The press should be able to do the rest, if, as Emmer asserts, inquiring minds truly want to know, and if the fact that 95% of local reporters also live in APCHA-subsidized housing doesn\u2019t compromise their curiosity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">While so many Aspenites are busy venting their indignation at small-fry alleged abuser Lee Mulcahy, and at those officials who negotiated with him behind APCHA\u2019s back (whose justifications we really haven\u2019t heard), perhaps we should also fish for the big-fry. The whole program is an albatross around the city\u2019s neck, so let\u2019s \u201cget after it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Besides, if Maurice \u201cputs up\u201d in terms of what he knows, then his critics might stop telling him to shut up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Chad Klinger<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Snowmass Village<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/time-to-scrutinize-aspen-pitkin-county-housing-authority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Maurice Emmer claims to have knowledge of past malfeasance on the part of high-level Aspen-Pitkin County Housing Authority players (\u201cAbuse at APCHA? I think so,\u201d letters, Feb. 7, aspentimes.com), he should go public with what he knows \u2014 perhaps in a guest commentary slot in this paper? He wouldn\u2019t have to name names, just [&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-2454372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 16:25:49","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\/2454372","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=2454372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454397,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454372\/revisions\/2454397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}