Give Colorado credit for doing something that only Ted Cruz has figured out: how to deny Donald Trump victory.

As circumstance would have it, I’m attending a conference in Washington, D.C. – not too far from where the National Governors Association just concluded its annual winter meeting.

In the official Republican response to the State of the Union last night, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley took a veiled jab at her party's frontrunner for the presidential nominee by calling for inclusion and mutual respect over anger and divisiveness.

Yes, that was Mayor Ed Lee and newly re-elected Supervisor Aaron Peskin laughing and having coffee together the other day at the window table of Mario’s Bohemian Cigar Store Cafe in North Beach.