The Tennessee Pass rail line along the Eagle River, I-70 and Highway 6 in Dowd Junction.
Warren Zevon sang it best: “Send lawyers, guns and money,” he bellowed in his hit song of the same title. He might have thrown in “public affairs consultants and politicians” had he been referring to the Colorado railroad wars shaping up over the long-dormant Tennessee Pass Line.
The guns may not be necessary as Colorado Pacific Railroad takes on Colorado Midland Pacific in parallel bids to revamp the long-languishing line that bisects Eagle County, but the lawyers are already making bank, with a big Denver firm set to start billing both Avon and Eagle County.
Boebert scrutiny intensifies as House impeaches Trump historic second time
Lauren Boebert poses with members of American Patriots III% and Bikers For Trump in 2019.
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Silt Republican whose district includes most of Eagle County, delivered a fiery and sometimes head-scratching speech on the House floor Wednesday as the U.S. House of Representatives voted 232-197 to impeach President Donald Trump for inciting a riot with false claims of a stolen election during certification of Electoral College votes on Jan. 6.
Five people died, including a Capitol Police officer, as hundreds of insurrectionists – some with ties to domestic terrorism groups – stormed the Capitol and sent members of Congress scrambling for safety. Ten Republicans joined with all 222 House Democrats to impeach Trump, who encouraged rioters to march on the Capitol and “fight like hell.”
Union Pacific tracks along the Eagle River through Dowd Junction.
Colorado Pacific Railroad on Saturday announced it will challenge a deal between Union Pacific and Rio Grande Pacific to possibly rehabilitate the Tennessee Pass Line and offer passenger and freight service through Eagle County.
In a brief press release, Hayden Soloviev, Vice Chairman of New York-based Solow Building Company and Crossroads Agriculture – the parent companies of Colorado Pacific Railroad – made its plans known Saturday afternoon after Rio Grande Pacific subsidiary Colorado, Midland & Pacific Railway Company announced its deal with UP on Thursday.
Here’s the statement from Soloviev in its entirety:
Holidays highlight critical issue of mental health in Colorado mountain towns
Two of things keeping us sane these days skiing … and dogs.
The holidays can be a tough time of the year on the behavioral health front under the best of circumstances. Throw in a global pandemic, economic collapse, and the most divisive election in recent memory, and you have a perfect storm of deteriorating mental health for many folks.
Ski towns in the idyllic mountains of Colorado, where everyone is supposed to be happy and healthy all the time, are not immune.
Take, for example, ski instructors. You’d think they’d be happy just to be plying their trade at all given how many other people in the tourism, recreation and entertainment industries have been shut down by COVID-19.