Last night, I trudged into Machebeuf Hall on the Loretto Heights Campus along with about 220 other people. We were there to attend the first meeting organized by the City and County of Denver to give neighbors (and, really, anybody) who had concerns or ideas about what should happen to the campus with new owners. …
Much as I applaud The Denver Post’s series on our city’s loss of green space (or just plain open space) to rampant development, it’s now 2019. The horse is out of the barn. This series should have been published in, oh, say, 2015. There could have been a way for city leaders to slow things …
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Last year, I bought a ticket from the Denver Architecture Foundation for a June 2018 tour of Evans School. Rob Eber, the person who led the tour and offered us a lot of wonderful information, is the son of one of the school's long-time owners, Richard and Alan Eber. The tour prompted many questions because …
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Yesterday’s New York Times ran an online story pegged to the swearing in of Jared Polis – Colorado’s new governor. The headline: “Colorado’s Got a Gay Governor: Who Cares?” Indeed. I read the story a couple of hours before I watched some of today’s State-of-the-State speech by Polis, and I thought, all I want is …
I think it does. "Democracy Dies in Darkness" -- the motto on the masthead of The Washington Post – is a reminder every day. It also means that metro Denver residents need to know what is happening during this period of expansive growth and change in the region. But today, we’re again looking at Larimer Square, …
I honestly can say I am having a problem watching the national news of the day. So I went online yesterday to read the vast array of on-line news publications in Denver and Colorado. I hit upon a column on The Colorado Sun, written by Diane Carman. Here's the headline: Job one for our next …
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