With four officers either gone or set to leave, the Aspen Police Department is facing a staffing shortage. With the increase in mental health calls in recent years, the department is looking at officer candidates with a social services background.
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Orange-level COVID-19 restrictions remain just out of reach for Pitkin County as local health officials wait for the county’s incidence rate to dip below a threshold of 700 cases per 100,000 people in a 14-day period.
A rapidly declining incidence rate means the county could hit that number as soon as Monday, according to Pitkin County spokeswoman Tracy Trulove. The public health department would be prepared to enact the lighter restrictions as early as 12:01 a.m. Tuesday morning if that’s the case.
But the county isn’t there quite yet: the incidence rate on Jan. 31 was 732, just shy of the mark to move from Red to Orange-level restrictions, according to Sunday’s daily epidemiology report
Sgt. Terry Leitch gives a heater to an Aspen resident outside of the Aspen Police Department on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. In a little over an hour all of the heaters were claimed by residents without heat due to the gas outage in the Aspen area. People waited in line in their cars and walked up to receive their heater. The Aspen Police Department is expecting another truckload of heaters. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Aspen residents claim heaters outside of the Aspen Police Department to heat their homes during a gas outage on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Detective Danielle Madril passes a heater into a vehicle while community response officer Rachel Beck, left, and Sgt. Terry Leitch unwrap boxes of heaters outside of the Aspen Police Department on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Pandemic sends airline revenues plummeting
Johns Hopkins Lecturer Terry Leitch, former senior director of risk management for Boeing Capital, offers insights into how the airline industry might recover from the economic toll of the pandemic By Tim Parsons / Published Dec 28, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose challenges for every sector of society. Few sectors have struggled as much as the airline industry. According to the International Air Transport Association, airline carriers are expected to see a record loss of $157 billion in 2020 and 2021.
Johns Hopkins Lecturer Terry Leitch offers insights into how the airline industry will recover from the pandemic. From 2001 to 2007, Leitch was senior director of risk management for Boeing Capital, where he designed a quantified risk pricing approach for aircraft financing. Before joining the faculty at the Carey Business School, he licensed his risk financing models to Marsh & Mc