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Why Colorado’s ski industry wants you to buy lift tickets like you do airplane tickets, but who’s being left out?

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:32:17 GMT

Vail Resorts recently announced prices for next ski season’s Epic Pass and Epic Pass Local, which are now on sale for $909 and $676, respectively. That’s an 8% increase compared to the season prior for unlimited access to some or all of Vail’s skiing destinations. But for folks who plan to ski five days or more at Colorado’s biggest resorts, that’s about as cheap as it gets.According to the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA), daily lift tickets in the Rocky Mountain region have increased from an average price of $97 in 2013 to $197 in 2022. That figure aggregates prices from Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana.In other words, skiers who don’t buy passes in advance pay significantly more than those who do, especially if they buy them on busy days. That’s because more resorts have embraced the idea of dynamic pricing on daily tickets, meaning the cost at the box office window fluctuates depending on consumer demand and other factors. While the practi...

Colorado Symphony will mix standard fare with new sounds — and few celebrity appearances

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:32:17 GMT

The Colorado Symphony will celebrate its 100th year next season and, in some ways, it is starting over. There is a new principal conductor, Peter Oundjian, on the podium for major performances and a new CEO, Mark Cantrell, in the main office directing operations.The two leaders, along with Tony Pierce, who programs music from the background, will lead an organization that seems to be in a constant state of mission redux. That is not unique; every serious orchestra in the country constantly shifts and wiggles trying to figure out how to make the music resonate and the money jingle in an era when tastes change continuously.There is some stability in the organization. The musicians are, by and large, veterans who are tuned in to their work well by long-time concertmaster Yumi Hwang-Williams. The orchestra’s second public face, Christopher Dragon (who goes by the title resident conductor), has been around long enough that audiences know his skills, and he understands what makes them hap...

Campground closure at Rocky Mountain National Park could have ripple effect across Colorado forests

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:32:17 GMT

With Rocky Mountain National Park’s largest campground shutting down this summer for a modernization project, reducing available campsites on the eastern side of the park by more than half, ripple effects are apt to be felt at campgrounds across the Front Range.The closure of the Moraine Park Campground means 244 fewer sites for 2023, and it figures to put more pressure on nearby campgrounds in the adjacent Arapaho & Roosevelt National Forests, which spreads out along the Continental Divide from Clear Creek County to the Wyoming border, and it ranks as the third-busiest in the U.S.“Our reservable campgrounds are in high demand,” said Reid Armstrong, Arapaho & Roosevelt spokesperson. “There’s seven and a half million people visiting our forests every year, and a lot of them want to camp. Planners need to be on it, planning their trips now.”To help, the forest service met with the national park few weeks ago, Armstrong said. “We are going to...

What can Denver’s next mayor do about homelessness? Here’s what 5 other cities are doing.

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:32:17 GMT

For years, candidates for mayor in Denver and in other large cities have vowed to end scenes of tents and tarps lining sidewalks and parks, but Mayor Michael Hancock warns that voters should be wary of anyone who claims they can fix the problem in a set amount of time.Hancock, who has dealt with persistent criticism over his handling of homelessness, said he wishes he had understood the issue’s complexity when he was first elected as mayor in 2011.“We have not been sitting around for 10, 11 years twiddling our thumbs and playing politics with the lives of human beings on our streets. These are human beings,” Hancock said. “And we have been working diligently to try to find the secret sauce for each individual so we can not only house them but stabilize them.”The number of people experiencing homelessness in the city has grown to at least 4,794, more than 44% compared to five years earlier, according to the metro Denver Point-In-Time count in 2022. The Denver metro ranks among ...

Here’s what every Denver mayor candidate says about homelessness

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:32:17 GMT

Go to: Denver Post Voter Guide • Candidate Q&A home pageThe Denver Post sent a questionnaire to candidates in the April 4 Denver municipal election. Answers are lightly edited and ordered alphabetically by candidate’s last name. Following are mayoral candidates’ answers to the question:Should the city’s policy of sweeping homeless encampments continue unchanged? Why or why not?Renate BehrensNever sweep and take away private belongings never, ever, (constitutional rights) from the most vulnerable population. They are just like you and me — after a catastrophic life’s experience. They have to get a chance to recover. They are not mentally ill.The working homeless have to get housing by their employers.Kelly BroughNo. It is a tremendous waste of resources to move people down the block or around the corner. We need real solutions to ending homeless encampments. I will expand and evolve our shelter capacity and build more housing. While doing that, I’ll ...

Sober seating bill for Colorado sports, concert venues would set national precedent

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:32:17 GMT

State legislators plan to vote on a bill this week that would require “substance-free seating” for Colorado sporting events and concerts at venues with more than 7,000 seats, including stadiums, arenas and amphitheaters.Senate Bill 23-171, introduced Feb. 27 by Colorado Sen. Kevin Priola and Rep. Chris deGruy Kennedy, would require venues such as Ball Arena, Coors Field, Red Rocks Amphitheatre and Empower Field at Mile High to offer 4 percent of their audience capacity as “substance free seating,” where alcohol, tobacco and other substances would be banned.The bill addresses the need for families and people in addiction recovery to have substance-free spaces, Priola said Friday, and is part of a growing national movement toward such spaces.The bill would set a national precedent as the first of its type in the country, although some sports stadiums — including Coors Field — already offer small, alcohol-free sections for families.“There̵...

5 places to camp instead of Rocky Mountain National Park’s closed Moraine campground

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:32:17 GMT

Rocky Mountain National Park’s largest campground will be closed this summer for a major “modernization” project that will relocate some campsites away from wetlands, replace failing water and sewer lines that date back to the 1960s, bury three miles of power lines that currently are above ground and make the campground more accessible for people in wheelchairs.Related ArticlesOutdoors | Moraine Park, Rocky Mountain National Park’s largest campground, will close next summer for major rehab project Park officials have said they hope that changes to the 244-site Moraine Park campground will be completed by summer 2024. Until then, campgrounds on the park’s eastern side include Aspenglen (52 sites), Glacier Basin (150), and Longs Peak (26). The Timber Creek campground on the park’s west side has 98 sites.Since the loss of Moraine Park reduces the number of available campsites on the eastern side of the park by more than half, many cam...

Dmitry Klenov sells his stake in Russia’s top children's goods retailer Detsky Mir

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:32:17 GMT

Dmitry Klenov has sold his whole investment in the company to an anonymous third party who is not tied to any other existing big stakeholders. Mr Klenov had reached a binding agreement with a third party to sell his 10% interest in October 2022. The purchase was finalized on March 10, 2023, after receiving all relevant clearances. As a consequence of the deal, Mr Klenov no longer has any direct or indirect stake in Detsky Mir, which corresponds with his previously stated objective to wind down assets in Russian enterprises.Detsky Mir is one of the top Russia’s digital retailers and the leader in children’s goods. The company owns over thousand stores in Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus.

Woman killed, another injured in Pico Rivera hit-and-run

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:32:17 GMT

Authorities in Pico Rivera are looking for a driver who allegedly fled the scene of a fatal crash late Sunday.The crash occurred around 11:20 p.m. near the intersection of Rooks and Rose Hills roads, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.Two women were walking south on the curb of Rooks Road when they were struck by a vehicle traveling in the same direction.The driver fled the scene, continuing south and out of view, officials said.Los Angeles County firefighters responded to the scene and began providing life-saving measures, but one of the victims was pronounced dead at the scene.The other victim was taken to a hospital with serious injuries.No further details about the incident, including information about the suspect vehicle, have been released.Anyone with information about the crash is asked to call the Pico Rivera sheriff’s station at 562-949-2421.

U.S., U.K. try to halt fallout from Silicon Valley Bank collapse

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:32:17 GMT

Governments in the UK and U.S. took extraordinary steps to stop a potential banking crisis after the historic failure of Silicon Valley Bank, even as another major bank was shut down.The UK Treasury and the Bank of England announced early Monday that they had facilitated the sale of Silicon Valley Bank UK to HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, ensuring the security of 6.7 billion pounds ($8.1 billion) of deposits.British officials worked throughout the weekend to find a buyer for the UK subsidiary of the California-based bank. Its collapse was the second-largest bank failure in history.U.S. regulators also worked all weekend to try to find a buyer. Those efforts appeared to have failed Sunday, but U.S. officials assured all depositors that they could access all their money quickly. Silicon Valley Bank depositors will have access to all funds starting Monday: Fed agencies The announcement came amid fears that the factors that caused the Santa Clara, California-based bank to fail could spr...