{"id":2455022,"date":"2020-02-25T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/glenwood-knows-what-glenwood-needs\/"},"modified":"2020-02-27T08:18:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T15:18:51","slug":"glenwood-knows-what-glenwood-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/glenwood-knows-what-glenwood-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenwood knows what Glenwood needs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Having grown up in a small town that was once a mining town and became one of the premiere tourist towns (Aspen) in the nation, it is interesting to note I have never seen a tourist town become a mining town. Which is why the citizens of Glenwood are concerned about Rocky Mountain Industrials (RMI) expanding mining operations into a tourist town.<\/p>\n

Thus, in response to RMI\u2019s CEO Gregory Dangler\u2019s \u201ceditorial\u201d (Aspen Daily News, Feb. 18), I was offended that Mr. Dangler would accuse me and the other members of Glenwood\u2019s council of being controlled by Glenwood\u2019s \u201cwealthy elite.\u201d Mr. Dangler\u2019s baseless accusations are slanderous and offensive.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Mr. Dangler is wrong on the facts and wrong on what the city of Glenwood Springs wants or needs. First, we have an approximate 2% unemployment rate here and we don\u2019t need his 10, 50 or 100 new mining jobs if they result in the destruction of our quality of life. Secondly, the hot springs pool, Sunlight Ski Area, the hotels and our Adventure Park are the amenities that drive our economy, not a limestone mine. Without them, our tax base would evaporate. These businesses are Glenwood and when RMI threatens our aquifer(s), the beauty of our area and attempts to place hundreds of big trucks on our older roads, you don\u2019t just threaten these amenities and businesses, you threaten the people of Glenwood Springs.<\/p>\n

As the people\u2019s representative, I will never allow that and will continue to fight RMI until they inevitably give up their attempt to expand. \u201cWhen in Rome,\u201d Mr. Dangler, although if RMI went to Rome I imagine they would demolish the Coliseum, strip mine the Vatican and demand the Romans thank them for the jobs they might temporarily create.<\/p>\n

Tony Hershey<\/p>\n

Glenwood Springs City Council<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having grown up in a small town that was once a mining town and became one of the premiere tourist towns (Aspen) in the nation, it is interesting to note I have never seen a tourist town become a mining town. Which is why the citizens of Glenwood are concerned about Rocky Mountain Industrials (RMI) […]<\/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-2455022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 13:35:46","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'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\/2455022","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=2455022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455097,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455022\/revisions\/2455097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}