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While the well-to-do worry about quality of life, low- and middle-income residents voice fears of being pushed out of boomtowns as the increased demand for housing sends prices to the sky. Growth critics imagine the West turning into a string of Vail-like resorts, where the rich play and others stay away. Denver's Roman Catholic Archbishop J. Francis Stafford wrote in a pastoral letter last fall, "We risk creating a theme park 'alternate reality' for those who have the money to purchase entrance and around them sprawls a growing buffer zone of the working poor...
Hansen then began a long series of appeals for congressional help. As a result, her dismissal was put on hold while the Navy investigated. During this time, in February 1994, Hansen hurt her knee in a skiing accident in Vail, Colorado, and found out just how much the Navy had turned against her. "I should have believed my superiors when they said filing charges would ruin my career," Hansen says. What she didn't know was that it could ruin her health. When she called her commanding officer from the emergency room in Vail, he ordered her to leave there...
...spruce tree, or in the oak brush that dotted the parched sandstone slopes of Colorado's Storm King Mountain. For three days the fire behaved itself, apparently stalled on a mere 50 craggy acres near the resort town of Glenwood Springs (pop. 5,800), 60 miles west of Vail. Extinguishing it fast did not seem a high priority; 13 other fires were burning nearby, and more than 100,000 acres blazed elsewhere across the hot, dry U.S. West...
...their wits. Many were middle managers who were forced off the corporate gravy train in the latest recession and said, 'Why live in New York or L.A.? I can have a modem and a fax and live anywhere I like.' The upscale golden eagles go to Jackson Hole or Vail, the plain mid-scale eagles to Buffalo, Wyoming, or Grand Junction, Colorado...
Check forgery was Hogue's next gambit. In 1986, he was arrested in Palo Alto for writing false checks, but according to police reports, charges against him were dropped. Later that year, Hogue resurfaced in Vail, Co. posing as Stanford Ph.D. and bioengineer Dr. James Hogue...