Look, folks, we generally don’t care who gets the credit for good things around the West, so long as progress is made and people’s lives are improving (or heck, just plodding along about the same.) But it irks us a bit when a New Yorker comes to town claiming credit for all sorts of things…
Month: January 2025
Editorial: Denver’s fight to preserve the Park Hill conservation easement rewarded with 155-acre park
Denverites knew inherently that a conservation easement shouldn’t be lifted on one of our last chances to create a large park in this city. So community members rallied against plans to lift the easement to allow development of the old golf course in northeast Denver. As a result, Denver will get a new 155 acre…
Editorial: Denver has a plan for Trump’s mass deportation scheme. Hopefully we don’t need it.
As Coloradans wait anxiously for President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan to begin – remember he has promised to call it Operation Aurora — Denver’s Mayor Mike Johnston has responded to the unknown with a plan that emphasizes our shared humanity and America’s legal framework of rights. Like Johnston, we too are unsure how seriously…
Editorial: Colorado’s new last-resort insurance company shares a name with California’s. Could it share the same fate?
When disaster strikes, humans rebuild. Rising from the ashes, drying out from the storm, and sifting through the rubble are in our nature, as is coming to the aid of a neighbor, friend or family member in a time of crisis. But who should pay when a catastrophe so expensive it’s hard to comprehend befalls…