Richard Blake

The Hancock Era Begins in Denver, What's Ahead

Before an audience that included former mayors Pena, Webb and Hickenlooper, Michael Hancock became Denver's newest mayor. In his inauguration speech Hancock promised to take challenges, such as a "broken budget," and turn them...

Las Vegas Comic Stage Hypnotist Justin Tranz performing in Denver area

Cedric Pride Entertanment will be presenting stage hypnotist/comedian Justin Tranz in five Denver area venues through July 2nd. I had the highly entertaining and thought provoking, if somewhat nervous pleasure of seeing Justin's show...

Denverites, security professionals jubilant over bin Laden death

Denver area residents reacted to the news of bin Laden's death from near euphoria to caution and even nervousness to the intriguing notions as to what the computers captured from bin Laden hold.One resident summed it up...

Will Rare Earths be the next "Go;d Rush" for Denver?

Denver may well be the beneficiary of the latest potential mining boom, the scramble for rare earths. Recent transplants to Denver may well not be aware that Denver was founded as a mining town, during the "...

Car break-ins in Denver, can anything be done?

A friend's car just gotten broken into in Denver. They smashed windows, (they will smash windows even when the car is unlocked), they took the GPS and random other things. That hardly seems like a big...

Denver Metro Economic Forecasters Split 3-2 on 2011

The 24th Annual Economic Forecast Breakfast held this morning at 7 a.m. at the DTC Hyatt by the South Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, drew hundreds of business leaders and politicians from throughout the Denver Metro area and had...

Colorado Consumer Health Care Initiative advocates for uninsured, "barrier-free" healthcare

On Wednesday I was privileged to attend the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative's (CCHI) Christmas party at the Alliance Center next to the downtown Tattered Cover Bookstore on Wynkoop across from Union Station. In addition to being one...

Thanks to Meet-up Hippies return to Denver inspire tribute to Hunter Thompson

The meet-up was advertised as a "gathering of the Rainbow Family," a travelling group of hippies that was last heard of in the 1970s by most of us. It was organized by the meet-up group...

Meet-ups becoming an essential to the Denver social scene

Two incidents in the past two weeks have demonstrated to me just what a phenomenon Meet-up.com has become and how essential it has become to Denver's social scene. A lady I met a couple...

Meet-up an essential on the Denver social scene

Two incidents in the past two weeks have demonstrated to me just what a phenomenon Meet-up.com has become and how essential it has become to Denver's social scene. A lady I met a...

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