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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 …
Continue reading "Denver now has “ize” after its name. That’s not good."
So this morning, a friend of mine tagged me on a post on City Councilman Albus Brooks’ Facebook page. Here’s what Brooks wrote: "Denver Community Planning & Development is looking for 7 design professionals and community members to help guide the design character of future downtown development as a part of a new Downtown Design …
For several months, anyone who lives on or near East 17th Avenue has wondered what will happen to a couple of parking lots and a couple of restaurants that have been vacant for months. The stretch of East 17th Avenue heading out of downtown has for decades been called Restaurant Row. The buildings generally have …
Continue reading "Another shoe has dropped in the neighborhood"
One of the best-known architects and urban planners in the country has now said that sometimes there can be too much public participation in how plans are being made by a city. This caught my eye, in a story posted in Architect magazine: “Andrés Duany is souring on what he sees as excessive, obstructionist community …
Continue reading "What if the city held a meeting, and no one showed up?"
So, I left town for a few days, and came back to find that the beautiful amaryllis I posted on Dec. 20 had turned into an almost dead plant. What had been six gorgeous bright red blossoms were droopy, smelly blobs. So, here is what it looks like now, something out of a bad science …
Continue reading "Amaryllis, what the hell happened to you?"
