One of the most frequent questions I am asked these days is, “Who decides ‘X,Y,Z’, the state or local board?” Depending on ‘X,Y,Z’, some decisions are easy to place at either the state or local […]
They don’t actually stuff a donut into a pizza (though if someone starts that business we’ll cover it), but Berkeley Donuts is a business inside of another: in this case Hops and Pie, one of […]
As lawmakers in the state legislature begin their work for 2021, Colorado Senior Lobby President Robert Brocker has a reminder for them: the contributions and value of older Coloradans is significant. $20.1 billion dollars annually […]
February is Black History Month and it offers an opportunity to think about history from your own ethnic point of view and how it relates to Black History. For example, in Denver in the mid-1920’s, […]
Your heart beats about 115,000 times and pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood every day. It beats 2.5 billion to 3 billion times in a lifetime. Seems like if anyone deserves a Valentine this month, […]
No one really knew what kind of effect COVID-19 would have on housing. Most in the industry prepared for the worst, but what unfolded was something absolutely extraordinary – a new found appreciation for what […]
Denver Public Schools announced this month that they were finalizing a contract with a Chicago-based search firm to head up the search for a new superintendent, meaning the search will now start more earnestly. District […]
More Denver Public Schools students returned to in-person learning this semester. At the same time, teachers and staff in schools are beginning to have access to COVID-19 vaccines. For months, parents, teachers, and community members […]
To be honest, this is not what I imagined my senior year would look like. In middle school my friends and I would sit in the stairwell during lunch and craft elaborate daydreams of what […]
As a child, you assume that the world is either entirely orderly or pure chaos; growing older and understanding that neither is particularly true can be a paralyzing recognition of the challenging mountains that life […]
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