Column: Defining region lies in identifying what it offers

What should Northern Colorado’s relationship be to Denver? What should our relationship be to Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyo.?

Those were a couple of the more interesting questions posed by Aaron Fodge, a transportation planner with the North Front Range Metropolitan Planning Organization and a presenter I heard from on the first day of this year’s Leadership Northern Colorado class.

For the next six or so months, I’ll be attending Leadership classes and reporting back to readers on all that I learn and see. The program, a partnership between the Fort Collins, Loveland and Greeley chambers of commerce, is meant to bring…