Peter Jones has written award-winning stories on news, politics, business and culture for many Colorado newspapers and magazines, including 5280, The Colorado Statesman (now Colorado Politics), Colorado Daily and Colorado Community Media, as well as for National Public Radio, Colorado Public Radio, The Christian Science Monitor and International Business Times, among many others. He was also an assignment editor for Advantage Informatics, a full-service media content vendor. Click on images to read print stories.
Who shot JFK? (and Marina Oswald’s mysterious screen test?)
Beatles on the Rocks
She’s Sgt. Pepper’s not-so-lonely album-cover designer
Republican autopsies? Why elect a coroner?
A Farewell to Arms: The Don Becker Story
To hear Peter Jones’s radio interview with the late Don Becker about his mental illness, visit the Prove It! page.
If these blocks could talk ..
Name your own price for pot?
Protesting the Democratic National Convention
Ghosts in the fondue at Littleton’s favorite haunt
The transpiring story of a girl named Coy
Forget your metaphorical mountains, meet one-lung Sean Swarner
Survival of a family … and one hell of a smooth Holocaust survivor
Humor and the Holocaust survival story of Jack Adler
From Cuba to Hollywood, 86-year-old adventurer jumps for joy
Alfred Packer, Arnold Palmer and other oddities of Arapahoe County history
UFOs over south metro Denver
Redefining the free lunch
In debt with Alan Simpson
Don’t forget Tacoma, Kingsman, Barstow, San Bernardino …
Grading the standardized test
The pains of a growing city Part 1
The pains of a growing city Part 2
Idea! Centennial’s got ’em
‘It’s like a Jerry Springer story …’
Thou hast seen nothing yet, Sancho Panza
Legalized pot divides Republicans
Series: GOP Arapahoe County has got the blues Part 1
Series: County blues Part 2
Series: County blues Part 3
Between a rock and a hard place
Meet the real ‘modern family’
Colorado Statesman: A new face for the Republican Party
Cowboys, Indians, fools’ gold and fools
Mile High City Bomber!
Colorado is not smokin’
… and it ain’t fu’in around when it comes to license plates
Eminent domania!
A first for winter burning bans
The disgraced county clerk who won’t go away
