Eagle County
Most money spent in the child welfare system comes after kids are in foster care. What if that’s backwards?
A multi-county, privately funded project aims to flip the system to prevent kids from needing services in the first place.
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Plan to buy remote Sweetwater Lake and transfer it to Forest Service gets boost from Eagle County communities
By Jason Blevins Outdoors Primary category in which blog post is published
Prosecutors drop official misconduct charge against Eagle County’s sheriff, saying they can’t prove the case
By Jesse Paul Crime and Courts Primary category in which blog post is published
Aurora, Colorado Springs own water near Leadville. They may need to redraw a wilderness area to access it.
By Jason Blevins Environment Primary category in which blog post is published
Colorado communities do what state lawmakers wouldn’t: Raise taxes on cigarettes, vaping products
By Jennifer Brown Health Primary category in which blog post is published
The Eagle County sheriff has been indicted for official misconduct. He says the district attorney misinterpreted the law.
James van Beek is accused of one count of official misconduct relating to his office’s spending
First-ever Techstars Startup Week on the Western Slope pushes innovation, investment off the Front Range
Startup incubator sees connecting rural investors with startup founders in their own backyard as one of Colorado's "secret weapons"
The man who developed Colorado’s mountains sees a bright future ahead for places that are “a retreat from the crazy changing world”
Harry Frampton, who leads East West Partners, has some controversial ideas for solving the high country’s housing crisis
As mountain suicides soar, Vail Health is committing $60 million to mental care in Eagle County
Surveys of students in Eagle County schools are numbing: nearly one in four seventh-graders and eighth-graders considered suicide in 2017 and 16 percent of those students had formed a suicide plan
Cordillera resort to reopen as tony drug-treatment facility for “seriously underserved population” — the wealthy
After five lawsuits and lots of controversy, the upscale rehab center is first of its kind in Colorado, but there are thousands in California leading state to draft a raft of regulations
Affordable housing crisis threatens vitality of Colorado’s high-country economies
First-ever Mountain Housing Summit looks for ways to move developers toward “missing middle” projects, and that may mean focusing on wealth creation rather than wealth extraction
A roadside hotel in Eagle is being transformed into affordable homes — and other housing-strapped resort communities are watching
“This is what development should look like. This is the way to do it," says Kelly Herzog, the Eagle Valley developer behind the AmericInn project
