Article by Sue Conroe
Growth – May 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
In response to a growing sense of alarm at the consequences of rampant growth in Colorado, Governor Romer has initiated a series of growth summits. And as the Director of the Heart of the Rockies Chamber of Commerce, I attended one of those conferences on March 22 along with several other representatives from Chaffee County.
Review by Brenda Wiard
14ers – May 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Guides to Colorado’s Fourteeners: A comparative review
Sidebar by Ed Quillen
Slaughterhouse commune – May 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Slaughterhouse Creek wasn’t the only commune in Saguache County 25 years ago, and long-time county rancher Virginia Sutherland says she has no special recollections of Slaughterhouse Creek.
Article by Marty Rush
Part 3 of a 3-part series
Local History – May 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
The Slaughterhouse Creek commune flourished during the first half of the 1970s.
Essay by Ed Quillen
Affordable housing – May 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
For a few days in late March, we must have endured the busiest telephones in town. Alas, the constant ringing was not caused by people asking for advertising or subscriptions. We were popular because we had a house to rent: two bedrooms, fenced yard, and we don’t care whether our tenants smoke tobacco, raise children, or keep pets.
Sidebar by Ed Quillen
14ers – May 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
What’s a Fourteener? In Colorado parlance, it’s a summit more than 14,000 feet above sea level. That sounds straightforward, but it’s a little more complicated.
Article by Brenda Wiard
14ers – May 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
We all love our mountains and therein lies a problem: they are becoming over-used, especially the popular fourteeners.
Sidebar by Ed Quillen
14ers – May 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Few things in this life give an overweight chain-smoker as much of a feeling of accomplishment as somehow scrambling to the summit of one of the 50-odd Fourteeners in Colorado. There you stand, light-headed and giddy, aching and exhausted, with a vast panorama beneath you — in fact, the whole world seems beneath you, and one seldom gets to feel so superior to other mortals.
Brief by Central Staff
Forest Service – May 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
BUENA VISTA — This could be the site for a new regional ranger station in the wake of consolidations in the U.S. Forest Service. Or it could be in Leadville, Salida, or Poncha Springs.
Brief by Central Staff
Rural Life – May 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
CARBON COUNTY, Utah — We hear a lot about unfunded mandates these days. In essence, an unfunded mandate occurs when the federal government requires the states to do something, like “motor voter registration,” and then doesn’t provide the money — financing is left to the states. This way, one set of politicians gets to take credit for a program, while another set gets to suffer the political heat for raising taxes to pay for the programs.
Brief by Central Staff
Climate – May 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
It’s nearly time to quit drooling over the seed catalogs and get out there with shovel, hoe, rake, and spud bar. But when is it safe to plant?
Brief by Central Staff
Local politics – May 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
SALIDA — Spring cleaning is a worthwhile annual tradition, and it extends beyond households to towns and even river corridors.
Brief by Central Staff
Transportation – May 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
PARK COUNTY — Cottonwood Pass between Buena Vista and Taylor Park isn’t the only crossing whose proposed paving generates controversy.
Brief by Central Staff
Communications – May 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
GUNNISON — Parts of Central Colorado got a new area code as of April 2 as the phone companies adjust to increasing demand for phone lines.
Article by Allen Best
Mountains – May 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
My quarrel with peak-bagging, particularly of the 14er variety, is that it is so undiscriminating, and at this point, so clichéd. I don’t like sounding haughty about this, but the fact remains that Mt. Princeton is much easier than Ice Mountain, yet Princeton gets assaulted daily and Ice doesn’t, just because Princeton is over 14,000 feet.