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COVID-19 in Colorado: Scenes, Conversations, and Dispatches

The Rev. Terrance "Big T" Hughes spent seven weeks on a ventilator for critical COVID-19-related lung failure, and is recovering. (Photo courtesy of Rachel Hughes)

Greene: Denver pastor and COVID victim to leave hospital after seven weeks on ventilator...

Big T is back.  I am over the moon to report that the Rev. Terrance Hughes, after about seven weeks on a ventilator with severe,...

VIDEO: When a visit to mom takes place through a window "I can't come...

Last week, on a walk in my neighborhood, I noticed a man standing outside the window of a room at a memory care center,...
Valerie Love, a respiratory therapist at the VA Hospital in Aurora, outside the room she and team of critical care specialists are trying to keep the Rev. Terrance "Big T" Hughes alive. (Photo by VA spokeswoman Brandy Morrison)

Greene: ‘Small wins,’ then a setback in the fight to keep Denver pastor alive...

Last Thursday, respiratory therapist Valerie Love stood next to the bed of the Aurora VA Hospital's first and longest COVID-19 patient, the Rev. Terrance...
Brett Wenger (left) and Terry Walsh (right) pose for a photo at Rolling Smoke Barbecue in Centennial on April 10, 2020. (Photo by Forest Wilson)

Checking in on restaurant owners and workers three weeks after shutdown As the stay-at-home...

It's been three weeks since Terry Walsh called the employees of his Centennial barbecue restaurant into his office and, one by one, laid them...

Guest Post: Quiet is the sweet spot amid this tragedy

This may be the sweet spot of tragedy in my world, the calm before the pandemic storm. I’ve not lost loved ones or even...

Denver’s cityscape stills in the time of coronavirus 'Me, I don’t like this, what...

An inscription on the entrance wall of Denver’s Wellington E. Webb Municipal Building asks those who enter “What is the city but the people?”  That...