Author: Neil Westergaard

Attorney Stan Garnett isn’t naive about homelessness. He’s on the board of Bridge House, a Boulder nonprofit that provides counseling, housing assistance and other needed services to the homeless and working poor of Boulder County. He also served 10 years as Boulder County district attorney before joining the Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck law firm last…

Editor’s Note Neil Westergaard — the former editor of the Denver Post and and the Denver Business Journal and one of Colorado’s best known journalists — has begun contributing a regular column to Colorado Politics on Denver civic affairs. A campaign pitch during a candidate forum recently in LoDo captured perfectly the current sentiment of…

Editor’s Note Neil Westergaard — the former editor of the Denver Post and and the Denver Business Journal and one of Colorado’s best known journalists — has begun contributing a regular column to Colorado Politics on Denver civic affairs. Almost 20 years ago, I penned the first of what was more than 500 columns I…

Colorado Politics presents eight contributed essays offering guidance to Colorado’s next chief executive from some of the state’s best political minds. CLICK HERE for more. When the political ads mercifully end on Nov. 7, and the winning candidates turn to the task of governing, I will be relieved. That’s because the sleazy political commercials –…