Denver’s most powerful people, ranked. Co-written with Luc Hatlestad and Maximillian Potter. Read it at 5280.com or view a PDF here. (5280, January 2010)

All Terrance Carroll ever wanted was a chance. After escaping the mean streets of Washington, D.C., and heading west as a young man, he overcame childhood trauma to ascend to the upper echelons of Colorado politics. Now, as the first black speaker of the House, Carroll’s goal is to give all Coloradans something he had to fight for—the opportunity to [...]