Editor’s note: The Aspen Times has posed five questions of each of the eight Aspen City Council candidates running for two open seats in the March 2 election. We have been running answers (200 word limit) to one question each day this week. Coming Friday: What other methods are there to achieve more affordable housing other than building new housing?.

But if Democrats aren’t moved to enfranchise the District in the name of fairness, they may be impelled to do so out of self interest. The rural skew renders the Senate between 6 and 7 percentage points more conservative than the general electorate, according to the polling website FiveThirtyEight. By 2040, political scientists project, the 70 Senators who hail from small states will collectively represent only 30 percent of Americans.

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Of course, there still a lot of work to do. During all the demos, HTC hardware, including the headgear and the hand controllers, were hooked up to a PC and HTC says it wants to make its wall mounted sensors smaller before they start selling them to the public. But still, HTC and Valve are clearly putting a lot of pressure on other VR makers like Facebook owned Oculus and Samsung: The Vive sounds like an extremely promising piece of hardware that might finally get people more excited about virtual reality.

The United States Air Force has released the Final EIS for the F 35 installation. The Final EIS is substantially similar to the Draft EIS that was released in August of last year and still predicts the significant and disproportionate negative impacts to those living closest to the airport. A final record of decision is expected following a 30 day waiting period (no sooner than March 30, 2020).

But all those years of difficult preparation and the hard work and expense of retaining accreditation have an unforeseen benefit, too. The group formed after the unrest following the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown Jr. In Ferguson, Missouri. An exception, for example, is language. It is more difficult for an adult to learn a new language. Not impossible, obviously.