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Monday the 25th of September good as always to have you along everybody on the theory that it's possibly escaped your notice this is tax week in the American economy both congressional Republicans and the White House have promised they will be filling in the blanks on their proposals to overhaul the Internal Revenue Code Wednesday we are told not one being one to wait for formal announcements though president answered a couple of tax questions yesterday on his way back to Washington from his place in New Jersey the president said he hopes to cut the maximum individual tax rate to somewhere around 10 percent maximum rate that's what the president said that rate is 39 and a half percent now so as you can imagine that caught our attention we called the White House to double check if you will and they said the president was actually it turns out talking about the minimum. Tax bracket which is already at 10 percent you confused Welcome to the bracketology of tax reform We asked Marketplace's Tracey Samuelson to clear things up for us in a word lowering the top personal rate from about 40 percent to about 10 percent would be ridiculous Joe Rosenberg with the urban Brookings Tax Policy Center president was supposedly talking about the lowest tax bracket we know that now Rosenberg thinks he was also referencing an earlier proposal that would take the 7 existing tax brackets and co-ops them down to 3 with rates of 10 percent 25 percent and 35 percent he's crunched the numbers on that proposal we estimate it would reduce revenues by about 2 trillion dollars over 10 years that's just an estimate because we don't know yet what incomes those brackets will apply to and what else these reforms might change the president scheduled to give more details in a speech Wednesday taxpayers in the middle of the income distribution might see a tax cut of around $700.00 a year it was closer to $40000.00 for taxpayers in the top one percent just dropping the top tax by nearly 5 percentage points changing nothing else would cut federal tax revenues by about half a trillion dollars over 10 years according to Scott Greenberg with the Tax Foundation that's a pretty big number in the context of some of the tax changes that we're talking about the for reform for instance some Republican lawmakers have floated the idea of reducing tax revenue by $1.00 trillion dollars over the next 10 years in other words lowering the top tax bracket would be about a 3rd of those total proposed cuts even though the president said as recently as last week that the wealthy wouldn't gain at all from the reforms I'm Tracey Samuelson for Marketplace It is terrible in Puerto Rico right now and by all accounts it's going to be terrible for a very long time to come a week after Hurricane Maria left the island flooded and completely without power as of this morning W3W Americans on an island still don't have electricity and day . Damage to the broader Puerto Rican economy is becoming more clear an economy that as we have reported has been in deep trouble for a long time already the American pharmaceutical industry's been close attention more than a quarter of all the drugs we export are made in Puerto Rico so the companies that operate more than 50 plants and distribution centers on the island are trying to recover as Marketplace's reports Puerto Rico has been a pharma hot spot since the 1970 s. Thanks to tax breaks for the industry Nicolette Lou is saying runs health care ready and national nonprofit that works on health care disaster response she says the island plays a big role in the pharmaceutical supply chain and not just as a manufacturer but also as a central part of distribution for the rest of the Caribbean where she says people have been through a lot this hurricane season and can't afford disruptions in their prescription drug supply but Louis St says shortages may not be in the cards because drug makers plan for disasters like these hurricane season comes every year companies are very aware of the peculiar hazards that they have to contend with and they have business continuity plans to place they've stockpiled generator fuel developed emergency staffing plans and are quickly moving drugs that have already been made off the island to maintain quality but long term damage to Puerto Rico's pharmaceutical industry is a possibility analyst David Hitchcock at s. And p. Global ratings says the tax benefits that built the island's pharmaceutical industry were phased out in 2006 since the pharmaceutical plant have decreased the number from a single companies are not adding new plants and as plants get taken offline they have not been replaced and that's been part of Puerto Rico's economic problems Hitchcock's says this trend could continue in the aftermath of Maria as drugmakers assessed the damage some may take the opportunity to close down operations there altogether I'm Aaron Schrank from Marketplace I saw to quote this morning about the German election this past weekend that it meant the end of German economic exceptionalism that is probably. Overstatement but now 4th term Chancellor Angela Merkel does have her hands full as she starts trying to build a new governing coalition Merkel and her Christian Democrats got the most votes as you know but the centrist party's lost millions who defected to the anti Islamic anti immigration alternative for George Lund a call from the European Desk Marketplace's Stephen Beard considers the economic fallout of that vote the alternative for Deutschland party or a.f.d. Ran on issues of immigration Islam and German identity but a.f.p. Spokesperson Beatrix film stock makes clear the party has wider it has a strong and t.e.u. And he euro agenda we want to have a year of of nation states we want to keep us of r. And c. And when it comes to euro rescue policy everyone wants that repay for our neighbors that we don't want that from inside Parliament for the 1st time the f.t. Might galvanize German opposition to another Greek bailout it will certainly protest vociferous Lee against the closer economic integration that from says proposing to shore up the euro but protest is all the f.t. Will achieve claims one of anger Merkel's ministers Peter I can see no political party willing to cooperate with the far right in Germany so that would be pretty much isolated Nevertheless as Carsten Brzeski of i n g bank in Berlin the F.T.'s breakthrough has shaken investors' confidence in Europe safest pair of hands I think even though the international world still sees request the stability anchor she has become weaker stability anchor the election result has for now shattered the reassuringly dull and predictable nature of German politics populism is raised its head in Europe's most important economy I'm Stephen Beard for Marketplace what's there you say where's the health care news Kyra well the thing is there isn't really any health care news Senate Republicans are still looking for votes for Graham Cassidy offering this benefit or that to the no voters but look don't feel bad even the Congressional Budget Office can't came up the political score they're working on for that bill it's already had a date sweeteners are being added to the thing so fast. Today's ticker symbol of note is f b No guesses please too easy Facebook got clobbered down 4 and a half percent today took the Nasdaq down with it we'll have the details when we do the numbers. The Trump administration's out with a new travel ban as you might have heard last night is when it came out 8 countries in this one including Chad Venezuela Syria Libya and Yemen Up next immigration wise is a new cap on refugees announcement coming sometime in the next couple of days apparently one city that's going to be watching real closely Lincoln Nebraska Nebraska has per capita more refugees than any other state in the country many of them are from the Middle East and often include years Edis and all that familiar religious minority from Iraq for them Lincoln has become something of a 2nd home as Marketplace's Rima Crace reports. This story begins at a place that has very little to do with beginnings we've been told Other than 45 graves Confed their peso has brought me to the 1st National Cemetery for located just a few miles outside of Lincoln on a hilltop overlooking the city last year hey so another you pulled $150000.00 to build the cemetery the 20 acre plot is still mostly weeds and dirt with just a few grave sites but he says when they saw a lot of their some others getting demolished by call by I says Everybody who are desperate to establish a use of the cemetery or just see as he sees a tiny group fewer than a 1000000 around the world most of them from northern Iraq they've long face persecution for their faith which pulls out womens from different religions since 2014 ISIS has captured and murdered thousands of and what the United Nations has recognized as genocide by family was the 1st because he's having to work here 97 doesn't take him to Lincoln at least they were among the 1st a decade later at Lincoln started resettling Izzy's in large numbers many of them translators for the u.s. Army to date Nebraska's capital is home to the largest community in the us 3000 and growing many of those refugees were drawn to the city for its affordable rents and safe neighborhoods most of them including me see in the breast as there are in all their town that they're going to be odd for the rest of their life so who's $34.00 and yes a Cornhusker fan works as a Kurdish an Arabic interpreter he says many is easy when they 1st arrive have to take low wage jobs at places like McDonald's and Wal-Mart but as they settle into the community a lot of them I know it's not having their own businesses like barber shop selling and trading cars there is a bakery that I just went to agree. It's called Turkish sweets and its owner just turned 20 My name is one and my last name is Kyle. The bakery is off a main road part of a strip of immigrant owned businesses in Lincoln there are just a few tables but the cases are full of cookies and cakes I have like 7 different people and what's your favorite sweet I don't need to see what you don't eat sweets and you're in a bakery I just tested I don't like the crazy learn to bake all he was a refugee in Turkey but he spent his 1st 2 years in Lincoln doing factory work and washing dishes at a buffet restaurant before he had enough money to start his own business the worst part of those jobs he says dealing with a boss in the United States of America is like supervisor and didn't. Just want to replace only me president gets that 3 years ago he opened the Golden says or barbershop and Salon ready for this is a part. Says a part is really easy today he's giving a nervous kindergarten boy a haircut own hair is hidden under a Yankees cap as a teen he had his family were resettled to New York but he missed the friends he'd grown up with in refugee camps and in 2010 moved to Lincoln just coming over here and seen the core farms in Qana remind me a little bit of back home a lot of open space Lincoln's Big Easy to community feels like home and other ways to feel as a musician and between the buzz cuts and fades he practices traditional songs in the corner of his shop on the group so we do weddings we do like birthday parties it's a way to make extra money he says but also music is like my passion has been ever since. Modern play the card is long the guitar and he seems more dollars going into it once he's done with the kindergartner congratulate him for being such a good sport Good job growth by far the boy heads out the door heads to the other side of the shop and sits down at his keyboard. 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Is interested in cutting them as you know and so far we are not entirely clear how or actually whether congressional Republicans in the White House plan to pay for him so as to avoid blowing up the debt and deficit we've been told almost all deductions are on the table including the deduction that homeowners can take for the interest they pay on their mortgages which is as old as the tax code itself but in perhaps a sign of what's to come as Congress tries to rewrite the Internal Revenue code for the 1st time in a generation the mortgage deduction lobbyists are ready to go Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genzer has that when I finally put my key in the door at night I couldn't be happier to be home and I'm not the only one who's glad there are also legions of plumbers carpenters contractors and bankers who are happy that I'm in this house and each of them has something new loose if the mortgage interest deduction goes away so industry lobbyists are geared up to make sure it doesn't the National Association of Realtors the National Association of Homebuilders the Mortgage Bankers Association types at the Center for Responsive Politics she tracks disclosure reports from obvious that detail what they're spending and what they're spending on those at the top organizations lobbying this year and spending big come up says the National Association of Realtors was the 2nd biggest spender on Capitol Hill during the 1st half of this year right behind the Chamber of Commerce the realtors dropped a cool 20000000 not unusual for them our expenditures so far this year have been quite normal as Jamie Gregory the realtor's deputy chief lobbyist he says they're just getting started if Congress actually tries to kill or cap the mortgage deduction Gregory says they'll unleash more cash and money wouldn't be their only weapon they've got homeowners I think that once Congress years from homeowners. You know that the 7X3W7X5W homeowners out there I think things may change Gregory argues that the mortgage interest deduction is one of the biggest incentives to buy a home take it away end obviously sales volume will drop and if sales volume drops valuations will drop and Gregory says there would be a very detrimental effect on the economy in general Congress is plenty familiar with this argument it helped save the mortgage interest deduction the last time lawmakers tried to eliminate it in the ninety's no one saying history will repeat itself certainty is not a big commodity in Washington these days plus the deduction which amounts to around 68000000000 dollars a year has its detractors some economists like this guy personally I would favor of eventually getting rid of it though Gail is co-director of the urban Brookings Tax Policy Center he and other economists say the mortgage interest deduction is regressive favoring the richest taxpayers and it encourages people to buy more house than they need or can afford but says briefing papers are no match for cash there's a difference between saying their policy advocates arguing that the mortgage deduction is inefficient and inequitable an expensive. And lobbyists saying you know we donate a lot to your campaign and we want to keep the mortgage interest deduction lobbyist like to do the briefing paper thing to the National Association of Realtors says it ran the numbers and they showed that just over half of homeowners who claim the mortgage interest deduction in 2015 made less than $100000.00 don't worry about keeping track of all these arguments you'll be hearing them again and again and again as Congress debates tax reform in Washington I'm Nancy Marshall Genzer for Marketplace. Drug business can be tricky but of all the menus you could choose to offer you'd think donuts and fried chicken would be pretty basic especially when you're in your partner's already in the restaurant business alas not so for my column out of and Steven Cook restauranteurs who with some friends opened Federal Donuts in Philadelphia in 2011. I don't know it's it seems are harder than they look and running a donut shop is a whole different deal than running a more conventional restaurant the saga is told in their new book it's called Federal Donuts the partially true spectacular story Guys welcome the program thanks for having us I have to tell you based on the 1st couple chapters of this book it's kind of amazing the Federal Donuts got off the ground there was a comedy of errors going on here. I thought you were going to say it's amazing that you guys have a book. But you know yeah I mean we really just sort of backed into it we didn't have very high expectations for it. As we say in the book we sort of just wrote off the investment immediately really in our minds I mind anyway and I thought it was going basically into the wood burning oven at our restroom it was just finished Wow we should say here Mike that you are a you're a chef of some repute I mean you're a name guy. Yeah no I mean you are don't give me the oh yeah I mean you are there's like James Beard awards and all got to write ups and you know he's very modest but he you know usually is is the man Well Mike I'm not going to let you go on this one why don't I after after a literally an award winning career in regular restaurant I mean I think that like so here's the deal about chefs famous chefs right there's no oh no you know you have same enough. I'm just you know take a very long to warm up to that yeah I usually make people because they think you can go away and say that but here's the deal right we can sit and come up with formulas and talk and rationalize what works and what doesn't work with restaurants but the truth of the matter as it is very random Zaw worked we opened a couple other restaurants in 20082009 when you know the economy was in doing so well we didn't want to go back to a bank and go back to our groups of friends and family and people that were stupid enough to give us money to open up these businesses when we weren't so confident in what we were doing in the federal Then it came across very organically and as Steve said we just kind of like 3 through together money that we weren't that concerned about losing and it worked to be able to get back to why we got in this business in the 1st place to have fun and only be worried about making great Jonathan Fried Chicken and not being worried about the finances of it was was really liberating Steve are you guys worried at all about I mean donuts are hot right now right and they're very hip and they're casual and they're fun and all this jazz in their places here in l.a. That are sort of like Federal Donuts except the l.a. Version how much do you worry about the don't a bubble. That's a question it's one of the most common questions we got asked I mean I and I haven't looked at the numbers recently but when we 1st started out and people were comparing us to cupcakes I just looked and said you know there are $7000.00 Dokken donut Ok sions worldwide donut is is an icon it's not going anywhere. We've also got like our donuts are not too highbrow I mean we don't sort of fetishizing it we just try to make a really solid donut and I think people always want that Stephen it seems to me that the franchising possibilities here are and listen that we could see Federal Donuts in like l.a. In 18 months we think you've got a location Yeah the only big we could have we could find some really talk about all the time and we have to just open a federal gun it's in Miami so we are dipping our toes in those waters I think you know back 10 years ago nobody would answer our phone calls that was the biggest hurdle to us growing now the biggest hurdle was you know so many opportunities and how to be wise about expansion we're living in an age where the restaurant business there's so much money flowing in and the beauty of federal dots is that the financial success really came 2nd so we want to be very careful about our expansion and not lose whatever that magic is that we found 5 years ago but l.a. We love I mean we love Southern California it would be totally sick and we're you know when teachers as we speak and thinking about surfing you know I think that donuts and French again would be embraced obviously were has been embraced in Southern California so what are you or your chef or an entrepreneur. You know what I'm not sure Steve what do you he's like everyone thinks that Steve because he he was in finance before and is considerably smarter than me he's like the money guy but I'm like We bleed the same we suffer the same what do you Steve are you a chef I hope not. Steven Cook and Mike Solomon off partners with a couple 3 other people in Federal Donuts and some other places in Philadelphia p.a. You guys thanks a lot thanks very much you. We've got a bunch of recipes from the book donuts and fried chicken to boot up at Marketplace . 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I'm Claire Woodcock arts and culture reporter here at Aspen Public Radio It is Monday September 25th. Writer Huntress Thompson's history is rich to the Valley particularly in Woody Creek where he picked up residency at his home farm decades ago it's where his bid for sheriff came to fruition and also where he penned the novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas today's episode takes place at our farm. First we'll go into the war room where Thompson wrote Fear in loading along with many of his articles for publications like Rolling Stone among others. Next we'll head over to the properties guest cabin to learn more about the freak power movement which was the political party of hippies in Aspen revolving around Thompson's in 1970 Pitt Perpich King County sheriff. Look include Today show in the kitchen area of his home where former Sheriff Bob Braudis can textual ises Thompson's legacy on both a local and national scale. Thanks for tuning in and hang on because things are about to get freaky. After gonzo journalist Hunter s. Thompson died 12 years ago his widow couldn't bring herself to touch anything she's left his home office pretty much as is now she's turning me entire place into a museum an artist's retreat including the war room it's in the basement area of his home in Woody Creek near Aspen Colorado he would spend up to 16 hours a day in this room writing articles for Rolling Stone and cult classics like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Well this room is as full of history and it's not something I take lightly it's been a journey for Thompson's widow in need as sense or husband suicide more than a decade ago for a long time she let very few people in here the wall above his desk is covered with Polaroids press passes and letters she picks up a ruler and it says character is action on both sides and hundreds handwriting he understood from an early age that acting on your own your thoughts and all the things you want to do for the world and for yourself and to make the world a better place you need to act when the happy writing or protesting or resisting Hunter s. Thompson was known for Gonzo journalism writing without any pretense of objectivity with the reporter as part of the story and in his case a reputation for being difficult here's actor Johnny Depp playing Raoul Duke one of Thompson's drug addled personas and the 1908 film adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas where do the grass $75.00 a Muslim 5 sheets of high powered blogger as a hunter hired and we go about 2 decades ago to help with his archives they fell in love and got married and even after his death she's still uncovering new things about him it's been a pleasure to unearth some things that you know in the files and. Learned more about the love of my life through his history I needed Thompson kept everything the way the writer left it because it provided a sense of stability for her during a frightening time even the massive amount of ammunition Hunter had he liked guns and would let anybody dust I just felt like. Maybe if I left everything as it is somehow he would come back why even if I knew that wasn't true it didn't bring me comfort I need a laugh to finish her bachelor's degree in New York coming home once a month to check up on things while she was away she realized the significance of our farm as a literary landmark My lawyer asked me he said so you're saving all the manuscripts and letters and photos and. Beer cans and what do you save every gun wrapper and I said well I Why do I have to make any decisions about what to save and want to throw away I just simply don't throw anything away would you throw Mark Twain's gum wrapper away Johnny Depp by then a close friend did buy 800 boxes of Thompson's archives that cleared out space after renovations one side of the house will become a museum the other part will be a place where writers and musicians can stay and work on long term projects and I hope those who visit all farm it helps them find their own voice she hopes our farm ready for gas in about 2 years but she may not make that deadline which is Ok with Anita Thompson she says she wants it done right. You're listening to carry that on ask the public radio coming up former picking County Sheriff Bob brought us talks about the late writer's legacy but before we go there let's travel back to when tensions were building in the lead up to the full on the battle of Aspen these campaign ads from 1970 should give us a sense of the local Oracle called. The American hero golfer on the record what it was that desperately needed before you were the truck and I'm all right Ok. I think you're right we have responsibility but still lives in the past the number one responsibility of protecting. People on the force there are a lot if they come out those people and there was that one big girl from the can you tell me. Oh horrible rock and roll for fire for our Sure you or I The we're far from sure of kabaddi big groups are sure of. The cause and that. Was that guy from the. 2 doctor. Will be that was what we're going to like but I don't want that happening to the other half of it. I think. And I think part of the shock and I. Was. Out of my family and I. 6 think again I didn't. Want to die because I was. Receiving a political No 5 because. I think. Joe Edwards was a big player in the freak power movement I spoke with him earlier this month in the gas cabin at our farm he starts off by explaining how the freak power movement began a number of the businesses felt threatened by rising number of hippies that he said come to town in 1987 he was a lawyer with his 1st case that ultimately became Colorado's 1st civil rights lawsuit which he won and we sued the police and the City Council because they had taken this petition from the business to strictly enforce a very different forms to discourage these people we don't mind the local police magistrate at the time wanted to ask. Free of hippies and was arresting them for vagrancy or undesired transients and so if you had long hair you got rested for Richard. Cordray long so they were definitely on balance to describe. They were. In 1909 Thompson became curious about Aspen's local politics up until that point he had been working as a journalist having moved to Woody Creek several years earlier the most important office on the ballot was for mayor but Thompson couldn't run because he didn't live in the city recalling Edwards success with the hippie trials Thompson convinced him to run under Gore read about freedom already so. We talked for about a half an hour an hour so. I didn't sort of it never occurred to me the next day they went over to the Jay bar and yakked about it over a few beers and eventually Edwards acquiesced it was a close race ultimately Edwards lost but the results were of the old there was a base for the freak. I think. Under the freak power political party Thompson ran for picking County sheriff in 1970 on a plan that's been described as one of the 1st compassionate systems of law enforcement in the country. This included efforts to stop the rampant development by renaming Aspen Fat City investigating consumer fraud banning automobiles from downtown and protecting the local environment around Aspen. The start of the game. Have achieved it. All. I think is. Great use platform was just. My. Liberal conservative. Over here put drug dealers in stocks. And he was going to put our personal record are weak so we knew all he was going to . Put all kinds of risks of assumption or some silliness like theory he just was here and so for. The race became the heads versus the hippies the developers versus the freaks and neither side wanted the other to destroy Aspen. Their race made national headlines Thompson's 1st story for Rolling Stone debuted in October in 1970 it was called the Battle of Aspen freak power in the Rockies you know the way he related were occurred in the battle of Aspen was I thought pretty accurate. Other things that he said happened and there happened. To some of his later years writing. He got. Free handed with his derision and some of it who are your stories was completely ready to do so and never have existed that was probably his most accurate. Is floors technically accurate writing and. Yet. He later guarded through. Pretty well stuff. Right he voted. For. In the debates it became apparent that incumbent sheriff Whitmire didn't know how to handle the new wave of young people flocking to at. Then when the national processor arrived expecting to find Thompson a spectacle they did and he pulled moves like reading from the Colorado revised statute when he was asked questions like what he thought his duties as sheriff would be both the business and ranching communities were worried about Thompson's bid that's when things started to get weird. Group when we heard the sheriff who are hiring undercover agent to try to infiltrate her stamping and call for a new machine and. Drugs of all parents in trying to get her into something. Voter harassment charges were filed when a man was taken from the picking county jail by a sheriff's deputy to register in the clerk's office the opposition filed challenges against newly registered voters with the county clerk citing technicalities such as misspelled names or improper addresses they also created a series of illegal campaign mailers they sent out to every post-office box holder in Aspen just a few days before the election. Did you ever think Thompson when. I write I thought. I thought I would probably live here because the 1st precinct Sakineh you on the city. We were. Going to the right. Conservative them down. Remember Droom hotel when they were party to body. Going to the election campaign or corridors so stairs flew. Down stairs already to Barty and everybody. Really up and hopeful. Happy. In the city were a. Big downer. Canada. Although the loss was devastating for supporters of the Great Power movement Joe Edwards says the campaign was a success because no one expected Thompson to win in the 1st place let alone come in as close as he did. Change Thanks for such a right to ridiculous. Behavior the. City Police County Sheriff's Office. In the seventy's much of the platform Thompson campaigned on was actually implemented Kara Whitmire was removed from the sheriff's posts in 1986 following incidents involving missing funds at the jail subsequently . Thompson's original choice for under sheriff was elected and implemented a number of Thompson's original campaign promises including a shift away from the enforcement of drug laws and a more humane approach to the treatment of prisoners whose team was nicknamed Dick dove and the deputies of love. One of those deputies was Bob Braudis he was elected sheriff in 1986 brought us joins me in the kitchen of our farm to talk about the aftermath of the freak power movement and Hunter s. Thompson legacy I had moved here from the East Coast in 69 and I started reading about Hunter's political positions on several issues and I agreed with all of them I agreed with is right and the war on drugs what punish people who deal bad drugs. So I signed up to volunteer as a foot soldier it is paid by was to register a ski bums. Who had never voted before they were freaks they were longhairs called Freaks by the establishment and we decided to get as many freaks as we could to register to vote that was my sole job so I was talking my ski bum friends that registered as General Delivery Aspen Colorado they were live in the nerve a hands at the Highlands parking lot ski and every day but they wanted to see some change here so we started snowballing our freak power movement we felt like we were going to win and towards the end we were you know we were celebrating and then we lost and most of us said well we worked let's go skiing but a whole bunch of us stayed in politics here so freaked power even though Hunter as the prime example of the freak seeking power last freak power I lived and the guy that hired me as a deputy and 76 to keenest he would have been Hunter's chief deputy if he had funded but elected Dick Enos will to be the undersheriff he hired me had 76 and then after 10 years of working for dac I ran for share so there's this string of free power from 1970 to the present Joey just Salvo is one of us so one way or the other we lost but then we won he says he sees Thompson's platforms still being implemented today more than in public safety I see it imprinted by land use policies there was a stone strong environmentalist he thought that the worst threat to our valley here other than certain public safety and law enforcement stuff was lead us. Everyone was looking for 100100 Acre one acre zoning so if you were rare sure with 100 acre pasture you out of this 101 acre lots everyone was counting their money when the freaks and I could name a like Michael Kinsley Dwight Selma Joe Edwards we downs Old Dogs own the whole county so that all of a sudden if you had a 100 acres and you wanted one acre lots you were limited to 35 acres owning So you get 3 lots of your locking and you went through a growth manager plan so what we didn't achieve in public safety for years and told to keep has got elected we did it she in the land use preservation of the ecology we stood up to the plate and we swatted fastballs from by developers and their lawyers with their 3 piece suits and their alligator briefcases from New York City we stood up and we swatted at their fastballs we hit a bunch of foul balls but we slowed them down. Our other choice was to Qual into the ground polygamy Asin over us and come out 20 years later but we stood up and we fought develop but so did we win or lose that's a question that no nobody could answer but I would say we lost to the forces of the economy brought us reflects on Thompson's legacy as a writer Hunter's writing has affected people wavy on this community and I don't think many people in today's community you know 2078 asprin know what Hunter said in his writings I don't think they read I don't think they care and Hunter would be very demoralized by what has happened here in Aspen it's become the mountain town of the one percent. Unless unless you're blind you know that housing is beyond the reach of most working people so we are importing our labor from 304050 miles and longer away they drive here every day they drive home every day they add 2 hours or more to their work day just because the jobs are here but the housing is out of their reach I don't think that's well balanced I think that a balanced community a sustainable housing sustainable community and Hunter would agree with me all of this he would be way more articulate and he when he was a master of the metaphor he drew conclusions from comparisons like in The Rum Diary he said real estate developers spread like this paddles on parking lots and Puerto Rico that was a literate of as well as about a 4 so Hunter was a great writer and his his causes were public safety and public environmental concerns. If you were alive today brought us says that Thompson would still be disappointed by his campaign loss in 1971 or would probably agree with me though we fatherhood and we lost and that was preordained that you cannot fight the forces of the market and the forces of the market recently have taken over you seen prices here for downtown commercial space and residential space go off the scale who the hell can afford to live here hardly anybody if you want to buy it. That's in the all thing about aspirin's sell it or save it you know well we sold it and we're selling it every day and guys are churning the mill every flip every turnover is huge profits for the guys that invested no one I know has lost a lot of money here if they had to sell before the market reached another peak it was because their financial horizon was not long enough but nobody has lost money on Aspen real estate investment so ask them to become a commodity and look at the real estate firms we have here now they have headquarters in Germany headquarters in New York headquarters of allée they're not local Mason and Morse mom and pop real estate agents they're international marketers selling something that appeals to the people they can buy anything they want asked for has become a product and a commodity that most of us don't really accept we like the old days where we control our local environment and of our environmental threats I think those threats have been fought against but the threats of one I would say that after the recession. Because there was so much wealth created on Wall Street that guys it invested what are the banks say 2 percent interest at the most on a savings account you can do a lot better on a West and a lot or a downtown commercial property so we have become a market for us in the international globalization real estate trade. It's hard to admit but people from Europe people from Asia are investing in Aspen only because of its investment qualities they don't have a. They write out a check to a nonprofit rolled up their sleeves and get all sorts of. Praise from the community but none of them are out there volunteering none of them are on Mountain Rescue 9000000 are grinding around on the fire department when I have acted public safety as my career as opposed to land use and zoning I said Hey my job is to make sure the people here are safe not that they can protect their real estate investment or get the right to buy a house so I had to I had to separate from my community involvement and focus on one thing which was public safety which I think I did a great job on and people here were real say we had we had 3 or 4 years during my administration where we had no violent felonies no assaults other than domestic violence or misdemeanor stuff which is very serious but we didn't have the guys mugging you in the alleys downtown at 3 in the morning it was a safe place to raise your kids still is what is quality of life a big component of quality of life is security and safety you know that's the job I took on as far as for testing environment we had many compadres who did a real good job at that so our land use code has been as strong as you can imagine and we're still sort of losing to the market forces. That was former Pickens County Sheriff Bob Broderick speaking with me in the kitchen area of our farm now let's spend Jefferson Airplane's track White Rabbit. Here's what's going on this week in the valley. Aspen with lightnin Malcolm at 8 30 pm. Thursday in Carbondale studio for arts and work also known as saw will have an open house starting at 5 o'clock pm. Also Thursday is there such thing as bad art the Aspen art museum seeks to find out with the great debate starting at 5 o'clock pm from Public Radio's Carolyn Zacharias an as moderating. Thursday at the Carbondale branch public library Boulder assistant professor Rico Rose wrote will present an inclusive learning and new media as part of the c.u. Carbondale lecture series that talk begins at 6 o'clock pm. And founder of a Theater Company's production of the play dead man's cell phone starts at 7 30 pm and will run Thursday Friday and Saturday. The Spectrum dance festival has brought forth by dance initiative kicks off Friday at 6 o'clock pm and will run through Sunday in the launchpad. Friday Saturday and Sunday the Glenwood vaudeville abuse hall musical Little Shop of Horrors will run at 7 30 pm. That's all that's curated this week. For more on arts and culture to an end to Morning Edition weekdays from 6 to 9 am and visit us online at Aspen Public Radio dot org where all episodes of the show live I produced today show solo it was edited by Carolyn Zacharias and local musicians Greg La and Jason Patton wrote the show's theme tune on the court entrance special thanks to d.j. Watkins and grassroots t.v. For help with the research on today's show as well as of course the stuff and listening to some foundation I'm Claire Woodcock at the Ed Luce Leeson arts and culture to ask thank you so much for listening curated as a production of Aspen Public Radio News. This is Aspen Public Radio broadcasting on k. Ajax Aspen and k.c. 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