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SNOWMASS VILLAGE — As discussed in my last column and as witnessed and reported by many in our community, some of our elected Town Council representatives have recently exhibited significant signs of dysfunctional behavior that if not corrected...

We completed the first leg of our winter sojourn in Snowmass last week and now are settled back in sunny, but chilly, Santa Monica readying ourselves for our return to the Village for leg two in a few short weeks.

SNOWMASS VILLAGE — Somebody around here has to stand up for skiing. Even though they didn't do it by a conscious effort or intent, I want to thank our Town Council members for doing it nonetheless. In a great move that inadvertently defended...

I complain about lousy skiing. That doesn't tell you much about me until I tell you what I think lousy skiing is. I pretty much inherited my judgment about ski conditions from my father, who by my conservative estimation skied about 5,000 days in...

I just can't resist adding a bit more enlightenment to the growing number of columns and letters to the editor concerning Basalt's bumbled handling of its police department's internal staff power struggle which recently ended with the resignation of its...

I don't like surveillance cameras in general. I hate them in nature. This is not because they might immortalize my image poaching a closed Droste or Rim trail someday, either.

SNOWMASS VILLAGE — The weather is conducive to creating memories. I golfed in Aspen on Sunday afternoon. It might have been one of the better days all summer, certainly the best of December. The winds were calm and the temperature pleasant. Best of...

While writing this week's column I'm sitting in the lush Spanish-styled courtyard of the Hotel Santa Isabel in Havana, Cuba. I am slowly sipping a lime mojito but fortunately or unfortunately, as the case may be, without the traditional Cuban...