Note: Originally published in the December, 2017 issue of the Life on Capitol Hill. You don’t make it in the restaurant business by chasing every hot—or haute—trend. You might get in on something new, but, if you’re going to make it, you dig into what you do and live the concept to the end. If you’re lucky (or hardworking, or smart, or all three and more), as has been the case with Pete and Liz Contos of Pete’s restaurants, you don’t have to see the end. You get to keep right

Note: Originally published in the August 2017 issue of the Washington Park Profile and Life on Capitol Hill. Before you get excited about the current GO Bond package, a package which includes new or refurbished pools, a complete replacement of one of the city’s funkiest police stations (District 6), the restoration of mountain parkland facilities and major (and much needed) Colfax Avenue transit improvements, think about this: a substantial portion of the package’s funding is

Note: Originally published in the January 2017 issues of the Washington Park Profile and Life on Capitol Hill. I received irate responses from reader on both sides from this one, but, frankly, the responses from those opposing Trump were the most disheartening. We who oppose what he stands for have to be more broad minded than ever before. Welcome to the new year. And to a new world. Trump’s in power, and half the electorate is giddy with dreams of a restored Republican order

Note: Originally published in the May 2016 issue of the Washington Park Profile. As ever, debate on the presence and regulation of marijuana in Colorado society smolders on. Within Colorado, complaints have arisen over odors, public consumption and intoxication, numbers of retailers per a given area, etc. And, there is tension of course between our state and others which have not legalized the gange: read up on Nebraska’s, Kansas’ and Wyoming’s fight against cross-border traf