Hear, Hear!!
Nowhere in the USA are there better examples of 'why' people feel they need anonymity for protection than right here in the Roaring Fork Valley, the 5th, 9th, 10th and 21st Judicial Districts and both Garfield and Pitkin counties.
When they are met with nowhere to turn (and) complete and total quashing of their voices and lives; the people have no other recall than to do the best they can to stand on their own.
Another special thank you goes out to Maurice Emmer. Sometimes, it does pay off to get a lawyer thoroughly motivated. They do have a way with words, don't they?
Maurice Emmer:
"Editor:
A Feb. 24 article in the Aspen Daily News reported about the city’s spending on newspaper advertising relating to its proposed Castle Creek hydro project. The article reports that the city spent $5,255 in January and February on such ads. The article further indicates that the city did this to react to “misinformation.” As the Aspen Daily News recently seems to have been feeling its Cheerios as an investigative journal, it is surprising that the reporter did not press the city to specify even a single example of “misinformation” that has been disseminated against the project. Or perhaps there just didn’t happen to be any misinformation against which the city actually felt a need to react. Perhaps what the city was reacting to was a genuine and unexpected grass roots effort by residents to have their voices heard...."
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"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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