Delores describes herself as “stinkingly healthy,” but health is relative at this Commerce City truck-stop clinic, where she is undergoing a mandatory Department of Transportation physical. This is not the territory of low-risk cholesterol, weight or heart rate. “Oh, our health problems are all the same,” Delores says. “High blood…
Tim Brown, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Newspaper Radio Corporation, defines himself simply. “All I am,” he says, “is a disgruntled, disenfranchised radio listener who got tired of not having choices.” Brown certainly isn’t alone: The number of people dissatisfied with radio has expanded like one…
He has dominated his game like nobody before him, and, possibly, like no one ever again. He burst on the scene in the mid-1980s after a solid but unremarkable college career. After turning pro, he redefined the rules of his sport’s endorsement deals, and his image was omnipresent in the…
Rental-Health Problems Last but not lease: Jonathan Shikes’s “Past Due,” in the July 4 issue, was a great article. I had similar problems with tenants in Virginia while living in Europe, but I wasn’t so lucky. It cost me over $26,000 for repairs and took six months. We almost lost…
Cyndee Struyk expected her divorce to be final in three months. Instead, it took almost ten. The divorce was also supposed to be a mannerly proceeding in which she and her husband of seventeen years would meet before a magistrate in an informal setting, where they would freely exchange information…
A man abuses his daughter, and somehow the authorities find out. The social services department in his county soon files a dependency-and-neglect petition, and the man’s in the system. Then his wife accuses him of abuse, so a domestic-violence case is filed. The wife subsequently files for divorce, which means…
Attorney Sheila Gutterman is at the forefront of the divorce debate in Colorado, but she’s taking a different approach to how marriages should be dissolved — an approach over which lawyers themselves are split. While simplified dissolution is sweeping the state, Gutterman is advocating an even newer concept: collaborative family…
The next time you pay a bus fare, you’d better count your change. Last month, the Longmont Police Department arrested three employees of First Transit Inc., the company that earlier this year began running two-thirds of the Regional Transportation District’s privatized routes, for stealing thousands of dollars in bus fare…
Matthew Jay doesn’t look or act much like a ski bum. Even though his love of skiing prompted his move to Aspen three years ago, Jay seems more like a young banker than a fun-loving ski-town dude. For a visit to his lawyer’s office in downtown Denver, he wears a…
The name of Denver’s latest sports team came as good news to Bill Stearns, proprietor of www.sodastuff.com, a Web site devoted to soft-drink memorabilia. “It’s crazy,” he says. “People keep calling for Orange Crush T-shirts; for years they’ve been doing this to me. To people in that area, the Broncos…
Although he’s been retired for years, former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway has certainly scored his share of headlines lately. But two of the stories behind them have hit him like a blitzing linebacker. On June 4, Big John was clotheslined by a Denver Post article (penned by gossip columnist…
Look: The children are coming in from recess, and it’s clear that the fractious ten-year-old everyone calls Rockie needs more counseling — maybe even another personality transplant. Rockie still fails to heed his teachers. He doesn’t play well with others. As usual, the poor kid’s flunked his midterms and will…
The Nutty Professor Rocky Mountain highballs: What can I say? Patricia Calhoun’s “Conspiracy Nuts,” her July 4 column “in search of the lost boys of summer,” was just about the funniest thing I’ve read in months. In a PC world where everything seems so dire at times, I can always…
Synchronicity, or a clinking, clanking, clattering collection of calliginous junk? While by no means the definitive road map to maximum synchronicitude, the following timeline pinpoints a few of the more interesting overlaps between The Wizard of Oz and Dark Side of the Moon. Follow, follow, follow, follow. 2:10: Little Dorothy…
Their story usually goes like this. Juan is a disabled ex-Marine living on a monthly check from the Department of Veterans Affairs. His wife, Brenda, is a homemaker who occasionally takes in babysitting money. They have three children — two girls and a boy. They think the house is beautiful,…
The sharks are biting at Colorado’s Ocean Journey. Not the sharks inside the fish tanks, but the sharks along Seventeenth Street, who are circling the aquarium even as it bleeds red ink. In March, a tearful Doug Townsend, head of the aquarium, told the public that it would close on…
David Touff helped to build Denver — but he doesn’t remember that. Alzheimer’s changed his landscape, turning familiar sights into unexplored sites. Each trip out of the house became a journey into a strange new world. Dancing on Quicksand: A Gift of Friendship in the Age of Alzheimer’s, by first-time…
To people standing in the hot sun on the morning of July 1, Mayor Wellington Webb’s final State of the City address seemed almost as long as his three terms as mayor. By the time the Denver Municipal Youth Band had played (twice, including the Rocky theme “Eye of the…
From the beginning, proponents of the joint operating agreement between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News maintained that although the papers’ business departments would be mingled under the pact, their voices would remain separate and independent — and thus far, that’s proved to be the case. But the…
Summer in Colorado means long, sunny — and sweaty — days in one of the fittest states in the country. Chiseled, sinewy men and women, with body-fat percentages roughly equivalent to the number of doughnuts consumed daily by the average Midwesterner, struggle to decide whether to go mountain biking, running,…
Trial by Fire Tourism terrorism: Regarding Patricia Calhoun’s “Our Fair City,” in the June 27 issue: First the fires hit Colorado. Then Zacarias Moussaoui wants to move his trial to Denver. What’s next? Bubonic plague-carrying prairie dogs taking over the grounds of the State Capitol? Colorado may not get many…
Some calamities begin with a letter, others with a phone call. An argument. A drink. A wrong turn. In the case of Sunserea McClelland, catastrophe comes at her from behind one snowy spring morning. She never sees it coming. Seconds later, her whole world turns upside down. All changed, changed…
