@johnlaconte

Winner, "Best Investigative News Package" Colorado Press Association 2024 Better News Contest

 Vail, CO
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Joined September 2009
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🚨INVESTIGATION: How oligarchs & corporations used campaign cash & political power to help ski monopolists kill antitrust laws, take over vast swaths of public land & turn an outdoor sport for middle-class Americans into an exclusive hobby of the rich. Truly fascinating story.
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Skiing, more than ever before, has become a pastime for the elite. Two companies now dominate the slopes, turning them into cash machines where a day can run you thousands. Vail Daily reporter John LaConte dug into the deal that made it happen.
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Check out my story about #Vail’s history with ski patrol unions (link below). Thanks to @Truist Securities for the shoutout vaildaily.com/opinion/lacont…
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Colorado Springs' new Sunset Amphitheater became Ford Amphitheater after a multimillion-dollar naming deal -- but some concert-goers are confusing it with Vail's Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater and showing up with tickets to the wrong venue. via @johnlaconte denverpost.com/2024/08/23/va…

Concertgoers are confusing Vail’s Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater with Colorado Springs’ new Ford...

The Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater event director said concertgoers showed up in Vail to see The Beach Boys with tickets to the Colorado Springs venue, as the band played both venues on simultaneous...

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CO: Terminated Vail Police Officer Adam Bloom’s case reveals details about investigation of another officer Story by @johnlaconte vaildaily.com/?p=535801

Terminated Vail Police Officer Adam Bloom’s case reveals details about investigation of another...

Before Vail Police Officer Adam Bloom was terminated for reportedly harassing a woman at a local bar, he was involved in another complaint at a different local bar, police records show. Bloom was...

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Finally someone put the PR through the reporting process and of course it was @johnlaconte. And holy shit Jay Lucas was my boss in 1995. Some of you know the story of why he fired me.
Vail Daily@VailDaily6 Apr 2023
Delivery and disruption: Vail Resorts’ new ‘My Epic Gear’ idea draws skepticism from veterans in the ski rental business ift.tt/3WoNkK6
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Props to @Forbes for running a correction today based on my reporting from yesterday (Vail Mountain lying about season length last season). They also claimed this year would be earliest opening ever, also untrue. Here's my story: vaildaily.com/news/last-seas…
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Commercial clear cut/salvage logging project near Vail got special approval to make 25-foot tall slash piles vaildaily.com/news/large-sla…

Large slash piles set to burn near Vail could create quite a show this winter

Four miles north of Vail in the White River National Forest, a logging project known as the Piney Timber Sale has resulted in the collection of massive, machine-built slash piles, which are...

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“These visitors simply must be accommodated by restaurants and retail” vaildaily.com/news/vail-beav…

Vail, Beaver Creek opening more terrain, hoping for full season

A Nov. 30 to Governor Polis and the Eagle County Commissioners from Beaver Creek Resorts Company – as well as the towns of Vail, Avon, Eagle and Minturn – requests a variance program which would...

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Replying to @willmenaker
A great valor thief. RIP
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Sure disneyland is closed but who needs the park when u can enjoy masterclass POV like this: youtube.com/watch?v=nWu6OThk…
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In lieu of hand sanitizer, try holding your hands over open flames for 10-20 seconds.
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Replying to @johnlaconte
@johnlaconte love to see you Robards into a tree in vail
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If I don’t remove my earpod before falling asleep, the next morning I’ll get served an ad for whatever I just dreamed about. #ExtremelyOnline
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‘87 bro what a time to be alive
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With a telescoping GoPro mount as his bindle stick, the modern day hobo charts his journeys though posts, hoping to provide “authentic content” for a revolving cast of benefactors.
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I do love the Community Pride Highway Cleanup and the local families who volunteer
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This is the moment a man who nearly lost his life and his “guardian angels” were reunited. Join me after #WorldsBest on @CBSDenver for the story behind this emotional moment captured by our cameras- you will want to cheer these people on! Preview: cbsloc.al/2SpEHez – at Vail, CO
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Marcus Theaters is getting horned up. h/t @johnlaconte – at Brooklyn, NY
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