Welcome to Valley Roundup. I’m Carolyn Sackariason.

Elected officials in the town of Carbondale are considering an attempt to regulate the free market by not allowing some residential units to be rented to tourists.

http://www.postindependent.com/news/22098234-113/carbondale-scrutinizes-short-term-rentals

And in Aspen, the city council is thinking about tinkering with the retail free market landscape by limiting the number of pot shops there can be.

Have Aspen’s pot shops runneth over?

City mulls cap as pot shop proliferation continues

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/marijuana/no-foolin-here-native-roots-marijuana-dispensary-wants-naming-rights-to-mile-high-stadium

For your amusement, the Aspen Skiing Company is planning on an Alpine Coaster at Snowmass but some are concerned about impacts to wildlife and wilderness solitude.

http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/171133

http://www.aspentimes.com/news/22072513-113/public-weighs-in-on-snowmass-summer-improvements

Meanwhile, at the end of a quiet residential neighborhood in Aspen’s west end, developers are hoping to get a Four Seasons approved.

Will Aspen warm up to a Four Seasons?

Finally, text messages between a former mayoral candidate and a town official in Basalt leading up and after the election are raising eyebrows.

At least 114 deleted Basalt text messages between Whitsitt, Schilling

Joining me this week on Valley Roundup are Randy Essex, editor of the Glenwood Post Independent, Roger Marolt, columnist for the Aspen Times, Curtis Wackerle, editor of the Aspen Daily News and Jill Beathard, editor of the Snowmass Sun. And later in the show, I speak with Aspen Public Radio’s Elise Thatcher about controversy surrounding the latest municipal election in Basalt.

Valley Roundup is a production of Aspen Public Radio news.