For a 50-minute 
documentary film, “Denver In Decay” has sure made the rounds in town, around the state and the country. People are reacting – and that’s a good thing.
Not only are they reacting with critical e-mail, mean texts and accusatory social media postings – but with messages from dozens and dozens of fed-up folks who have used the same word: finally. Finally someone showed the madness for what it is. And we did.
I’ve now worked in Denver parts of four decades. I love it here. I care. It is the most basic reason this film was made. But today, it is way too easy to cast something/someone aside simply because of the party they vote for.
I’ve long-considered both Gov. Jared Polis and Mayor Michael Hancock my friends. Both men are friendly, funny and easy to be around. After “Denver in Decay,” are those friendships over? Up to them. The truth hurts.
Both do not appear in the film because our messages, texts and phone calls were never returned. Not our fault if gatekeepers didn’t deliver those messages. The same is true for a number of politicians, from Federico Peña to Rhonda Fields.
Rioters and protesters tore down the monuments to Francis Scott Key, author of the Star-Spangled Banner, our National Anthem, and the statue of Father Junipero Serra, founder of the Spanish Missions in California. The monument to Christopher Columbus in NYC was defaced as was St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The New York Museum of Natural History just decided to remove the statue of Teddy Roosevelt, which has stood at the entrance of the museum since 1940.
