Standing outside Aspen’s City Market grocery story on a recent Sunday, Tige Eads wants to talk about plastic bags. He has a good story. His wife was shopping at the store recently while employees were ...

ASPEN, Colorado – The city of Aspen has unveiled a proposed ordinance that seeks to charge grocery-store customers 20 cents for each plastic or paper bag used in sacking their items. The ordinance is ...

As far as the Colorado Court of Appeals is concerned, the 20 cents shoppers pay for paper bags at Aspen’s two supermarkets is a fee and not a tax. The appellate court’s ruling, made public Thursday, ...

The Colorado Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will entertain arguments from a nonprofit that claims the city’s 20-cent charge on disposable paper bags at Aspen’s two supermarket should have gone to ...

ASPEN, Colorado ” Two Aspen women have decided that a fine way to do their bit for the environment and maybe make a little money is to become bag ladies ” tote-bag entrepreneurs, to be precise.

The Colorado Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision announced Monday, upheld Aspen’s fee on paper grocery bags, finding that the 20-cent charge is not a tax because it offsets the costs of a municipal waste ...

Attorneys for the city of Aspen and the Colorado Union of Taxpayers made oral arguments Wednesday before the Colorado Supreme Court about whether the municipality’s mandate that the town’s two grocers ...