Nurses at two of Denver’s biggest hospitals, Saint Joseph Hospital and Denver Health Medical Center, are following the lead of nurses at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood by trying to organize to fight what they say are unfair and unsafe working conditions. Nurses at two other metro hospitals are also…
When Nick Mystrom points out the various features of the duplex he’s building on South Pennsylvania Avenue, his pride is obvious — and why not? The project is the first this 28-year-old has done by himself: He bought the land, sketched out the preliminary design on which an architect based…
The shootings at Columbine High School last year caused untold repercussions, almost all of them bad: lost lives, broken hearts, families ripped apart. But for the folks at the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post, there may be a silver lining — a Pulitzer Prize. Few staffers at either…
Beelzebub arrived in a white pickup. He pulled to the curb in front of the Kelleys’ home in Cherry Creek, his truck facing oncoming traffic, and proceeded to leer at Vicki, who stood in jeans and a T-shirt cleaning her own truck. Vicki is blond, pretty. When men glance her…
Exclusive partyFrank Sullivan is a staunch party man. At a fundraiser last year, the District 8 precinct captain and longtime Democratic foot soldier refused to let Jan Tyler, a Republican candidate for the Denver Election Commission, even speak. (He says he told her, “Hell, no. This a Democratic Party, and…
No question: Kids are different today, diluted versions of earlier specimens. At the Northglenn Judo Club, which meets Tuesday and Thursday nights at the Northglenn Community Center behind the Holiday Inn off 104th Street, the old-time instructors have had to adapt in a way that Bobby Knight should have and…
The Fur’s Flying Kudos to Eric Dexheimer for his February 3 “Trap Sheet,” an informative and unbiased report on trapping. Wildlife management is difficult enough for trained professional biologists. Our politically correct society has been duped into assuming that wildlife issues should be voted upon by the general populace. This…
The three-story Victorian house in the Humboldt Street Historic District looks like something out of a fairy tale: Balconies jut out from its upper floors, a turret flanks one side of the century-old red-brick mansion, and the surrounding grounds are fortified by a wrought-iron gate. For a short time in…
On a crisp morning early last February, Paul Jensen, a 44-year-old man without even so much as a traffic ticket dulling his reputation walked out of his ranch house near the central mountain town of Salida and prepared to break the law. Consistent with his shoot-straight, live-by-the-rules character, Jensen had…
A dollar won’t go far these days. But five dollars is a different story — especially in Arapahoe County. County public defender Hollynd Hoskins knows just how far five bucks can stretch: across five months, several law-enforcement departments and two counties. Last July, Hoskins tried to give $5 for bus…
Last year more than 40,000 Coloradans faced delays in getting new telephone service, and frustration with US West became front-page news all over the state. Adding fuel to the fire were revelations that US West routinely lied about installation dates — a policy dubbed “customer not educated” — and ranked…
Prison nationLast week, while most state lawmakers were wrestling with 57 varieties of gun legislation, Dorothy Rupert and Penfield Tate tried to focus public attention on the lawbreakers (armed or not) already getting their room and board at state expense. Their press conference to push Senate Bill 104, which would…
I’ve been calling Ask-A-Nurse (at 303-777-NURS) almost since the moment the service was hooked up in 1987. These days the program is known as Centura Health Advisor, and registered nurses man the phones from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. But in the early days, you could call in the middle…
Last September 15, listeners to the Alice morning team of Jamie White, Frosty Stillwell and Frank Kramer discovered, to their great displeasure, that the squad had been reduced by two-thirds: Stillwell and Kramer were absent and unaccounted for, and White was in the company of Danny Bonaduce, of Partridge Family…
At the age of 27, Stevie “Li’l But Bad” Johnston has the aspect of an old warrior. The angry clots of scar tissue decorating his eyebrows frame a gaze as piercing as a jaguar’s. He speaks so quietly that you can sometimes barely hear him. But bring up the subject…
Class DismissedRegarding Patricia Calhoun’s “Life’s Little Lessons,” in the January 27 issue: After seeing Calhoun and Tom Tancredo on Channel 12 for lo, those many years, I am absolutely dumbfounded that he could grow and become a human! It has encouraged me to be less judgmental and kinder. Columbine was…
It’s ten minutes after nine. Room 205 comes alive. The children file in to the murmur of the Pledge of Allegiance, recited in English and Spanish over the public address system. They pull their chairs from the tabletops, where they’ve been stacked overnight, and sit down quietly — quietly for…
He doesn’t need to wear dark sunglasses and a hat. He doesn’t have to resort to a fake name or unlisted phone number in order to avoid the spotlight. And when people do recognize his face, they don’t always know his name — even in Gunnison, where he’s lived for…
Five years ago, vocal hemp supporters Kathleen Chippi and David Almquist put their money where their mouths were by opening the Boulder Hemp Company. The pair’s activism by way of commerce has since produced a line of cookies, snacks and baking mixes made with hemp flour, which they grind from…
Last fall, city representatives argued that building large terraces on the south side of Red Rocks Amphitheater was an absolutely vital part of a proposal intended to raise the venerable venue’s standards to the level demanded by today’s persnickety consumers and, not coincidentally, to prevent the entire place from winding…
Paint it orangeThe cultural connoisseurs at the Metro Football Stadium District have issued their “Call for Artists” in preparation for dressing up the Denver Broncos’ new home. Anyone who is interested — and who works in an “appropriate” art medium — can submit a proposal to the district’s Public Art…
Okay. So maybe Sean McGuire is a lawyer with too much time on his hands. Or maybe he’s really a man of convictions, fighting his own criminal conviction. But then again, maybe this is just a story about a man and his dog. “Come on, Roscoe,” McGuire says. “Now, stay…
