Not long after twilight on the evening of December 16, several hundred people gathered outside the darkened Denver City and County Building, its...
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No one likes to be the bearer of bad news, but sometimes it is unavoidable. Just a few days after his office announced a $120 million in budget cuts,...
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Downtown Denver just lost hundreds of televisions. For nearly eight years, the ESPN Zone sports bar lured patrons into the 23,000 square foot space in...
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You may have heard that the economy isn’t doing well. One result of this is people are reigning in their personal spending on non-essential...
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"Demographic trends favor downtown," claims the headline of a recent opinion piece by Jonathan Weber for MSNBC.com. Weber does not cite any...
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Growing up in Denver, I was accustomed to defending the city from ill-informed out-of-towners who thought we all rode horses to work and survived on a...
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Earth has made a comeback. Earth Day and the Environmental Protection Agency were both founded in 1970 under tenure of Richard Nixon. Several years...
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Personal leisure, local restaurants, non-profit funding- all of these have been hit hard by the deepening global recession. This week in Denver we...
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A couple of years ago I boarded my very first locomotive and was instantly smitten. There is some special quality to rail travel that is just not...
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The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment were directly linked to the popularization of coffee in the Western world. At least, that is the argument made...
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