HST's Political Legacy: Freak Power Rules

Dave Danforth, longtime Aspen journalist and owner of the Aspen Daily News, joins Curtis Robinson to discuss HST's political legacy in the Rockies. Of course, Hunter famously believed that politics is the art of controlling your environment and in the 1970s, he advanced the "freak power" politics in and Around Aspen, Colorado – he mostly lost the battles but won the war. Dave recalls an academic paper for his Yale coursework and outlines how HST helped bring environmentally aware officials to public office.