Letter: Throwing good money after bad
Editor’s note: The following letter was originally addressed to the Wheeler Opera House board of directors.
Dear Wheeler Opera House board,
Any arts organization that is able to pay its CEO $1 million per year does not need a $19,000 grant from money collected to support the Wheeler Opera House. There is any number of other arts organizations in Aspen that don’t squander their budgets on exorbitant CEO salaries.
Walt Madden
Aspen
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