Choke, roast, or pay up

On the mounting cost of breathing easy.

A view from Midtown on Wednesday.

Last week, one of my best friends since childhood, Matt, came to visit. He moved to Colorado with his wife three years ago. While he loves it out West, and has gotten pretty good at fishing trout from Rocky Mountain rivers, he spent much of the previous decade working as a land steward for a conservation group out east o…