Yep! If you don’t know by now - change has come. And it’s happening everywhere. Several years ago we realized the Internet would promote change in the newspaper business. Read the article below, “New Blend Of Media Expands Free Speech, Press” by Gene Policinski from the First Amendment Center. He captures it well and explains the direction the media is taking. So the time has come to hustle and flow. Hustle to provide to you, our readers, with what you want and need and to flow with the times of this fast-paced technological world...

Celebrating what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 80th birthday, mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves highlights a weekend celebration of activities in a concert of spirituals, art songs and other music performed in collaboration with The Spirituals Project Choir at 7 p.m. on Jan. 16, 2009, at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in the Denver Performing Arts Complex. The Dream Concert, presented by MDC/Richmond American Homes Foundation, will feature acclaimed mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves in a solo recital to honor Dr. King’s legacy and to mark the 80th anniversary of his birth. The 70-member, multiracial, multigenerational Spirituals Project Choir will also perform a number of pieces alongside Graves.

Y.I.M.B.Y. Yes In My Back Yard. The new agenda for affordable housing is to convince people that housing is not a luxury but a right, and that housing of mixed incomes and uses is desirable for more efficient economies. Everyone has a place called home. This premise is a far cry from the protectionist presumptions of many owners of real estate. For them, the practice of sharing their neighborhoods is 'N.O.P.E. (Not on Planet Earth).’ This is a long-term strategy of gated communities, to sell only to specific income levels and to protect the size and nature of their neighbor's parcels. The problem with these exclusive communities, as Douglas and Arapahoe Counties discovered, is there is no one to provide basic services. Why is it that in Boulder County they devised a means to offer inclusionary zoning in all communities? Do you think that they foresaw the housing crisis would impact all of the people living in Boulder County and not merely the lower tier of the economy?