(Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on the Aspen Daily News Editorial Board’s endorsements in the Nov. 4 election. Part two will appear in Monday’s issue.)

The Aspen Daily News Editorial Board urges voters in the Roaring Fork, Colorado River valley to support ballot item 7A: a proposal to create and fund an early childhood development service district.

In discussing 7A, more than one member of our editorial board shared a similar story of someone they knew: A young couple in the Roaring Fork Valley has a child, and suddenly, the new parents are faced with the difficult decision of whether to leave the community they’ve called home for many years because the financial hardship of raising a kid here is just too great.

And so they leave. And the valley loses not just ano

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