Note: Originally published in the February 2017 issue of Life on Capitol Hill. Homelessness, affordable housing and drug addiction: these are crises we’ve grown accustomed to thinking about in Central Denver. Kids going hungry, though? That’s not something commonly discussed. In the U.S., nearly 13 million children live in food-insecure households. According to nonprofit Hunger Free Colorado (hungerfreecolorado.org), 1 in 10 Coloradans and 1 in 6 Colorado children struggle wi

Note: the following is a four-part series (not originally published as such) on the evolution of Denver's most-prominent registered neighborhood organization, Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods. These articles ran between February 2017 and February 2018 in Life on Capitol Hill. Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods goes all volunteer—Roger Armstrong departs On Jan. 10, Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods (CHUN) announced a seismic change: Executive Director Roger Armstrong, a 20-yea

Note: This editorial was originally published in the January 2018 edition of Life on Capitol Hill. It discusses subjects meant for a mature audience. What's your take on drug addiction? Are addicts a problem to be forgotten—just a bunch of losers who need to "get it together"—or are they people who've gotten hooked while trying, for a very short span of time, to forget about the darker aspects of their lives for a while? I'll show my cards: as someone who has had on-again-off

Note: This article was originally written for Life on Capitol Hill. It bolstered community protest, but in the end, Denver Public Schools stood by its decision to close the school. It was originally published January 2017. Dec. 15 was a sad night for three area Denver Public Schools (DPS) schools: that night, the Denver Public Schools Board of Education voted to close west Denver's Greenlee Elementary, northeast Denver's Amesse Elemetary and near northeast Gilpin Montessori,

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