Maybe the answer does not lie in politics and the folks cleaning out the closets of local governments.
Maybe the key to salvation, relief and the hope for a better world and future lies in simply waiting until the problems become old enough to retire or term-limit themselves out of career politician roles.
Curtis Wackerle:
"John Worcester, Aspen’s city attorney for the past 19 years, announced Wednesday that he will retire next month.
Worcester set the date of Feb. 20, his 65th birthday and his last day on the job, as the target date for his retirement back in 2007, after he fell ill and was hospitalized, he said. He fully recovered, but the experience made him think about the next phase of his life, he said.
“I’m heading into the last part of my life and I want to do it close to my children and grandchildren,” Worcester said.
Jim True, special counsel for the city of Aspen since 2007, is expected to be named the new city attorney, possibly as soon as Monday’s City Council meeting.
The city attorney is one of two positions in Aspen’s municipal government directly hired and fired by City Council; the other is the city manager.
Worcester, whose annual salary is around $161,000, lives in deed-restricted housing on Cemetery Lane that is set aside for city employees. Although he owns the property, the deed requires him to sell the house back to the city within six months of the end of his employment. He will do that, and then move to Parker, Colo., south of Denver, where his daughter and grandchildren live.
“I can’t afford to live in this community,” he said, referencing the cost of buying a free-market property. He added that he has “mixed emotions” about leaving the town in which he has lived for the past 21 years...."
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