Quoted: "If you tear down all of the historic buildings downtown and build new, what are we?" asks Mark Nickita, president of downtown-based architecture firm Archive DS. "We're Troy with higher taxes and a worse school district."

Very interesting story about new money clashing with old values in Aspen. The deceased owner was a bohemian; the new owner helped fund the swift-boat ads. I wonder how the owner of this newspaper feels about the issue :)

Quoted: Many Aspenites were happy to see Explore purchased and preserved. Yet others see it as just the latest sign that Aspen is being sold off to the ultra-wealthy. They worry that Mr. Wyly, who paid $4.6 million for the store, will change its politics. Distrust of wealth among some longtime Aspenites runs so deep that no matter what Mr. Wyly does with the store he will be criticized.

Quoted: He adds that calling him a "conservative" and Mrs. Thalberg a "liberal" is oversimplifying. "I'm interested in personalities, not political parties," he says. What's more, he says, it's irrelevant to the bookstore. "People go to a bookstore because they love books, not because of politics."