Usually, Colorado’s wild animals mind their own business–but now flocks of government agents and self-appointed experts are doing it for them. This summer they will attempt to relocate, reintroduce and otherwise manipulate vicious carnivores, bad bears and smelly weasels. To find out what’s happening, you could sit through a bunch…
Paper Trail I didn’t follow the Paul Kelly case very carefully when it happened. But I read some of the Boulder Daily Camera articles, and if someone had asked me what the case was all about, I probably would have said something like, “Yeah, a bunch of high school morons…
One week before the end of spring term at the Emily Griffith Opportunity School, the shoe-repair shop is not just deserted, but decimated. Where students once learned the footwear basics, nothing remains but a few wooden tables and the lingering smell of polish. One floor up, in the watch-and-clock-repair lab,…
A leaky roof atop the new, $72 million Denver Public Library has caused damage to hundreds of books and has allowed rain to trickle into the office of the city librarian, but DPL officials are looking for a silver lining. “We’ve had great adventure here,” says City Librarian Rick Ashton,…
It cost Denver taxpayers $700 to have Lance Allrunner arrange a secret ghost-busting ceremony at Denver International Airport last month. But the way Allrunner sees it, it was money well spent. Allrunner, a 26-year-old Denver resident, traveled by car to the Cheyenne Indian reservations in Oklahoma and Montana earlier this…
It is spring, and what could be more springlike than standing on the sidewalk outside Bob’s Build-A-Bike with twenty other boys, admiring everyone else’s bicycle while hoping yours is better? Pretending not to notice as drivers slow their cars and stare. Wishing you could afford just one treat inside Bob’s…
Copping a plea: Not only did this month’s just-us-cops chat between Denver councilman Ed Thomas (a Mary DeGroot supporter) and Denver police chief Dave Michaud (a proponent of Wellington Webb) inspire numerous versions of the conversation, it also resulted in a few spin-off industries. Exhibit A, reproduced here, is a…
If Dr. Kevorkian isn’t doing anything this week, he might want to drop by CBS headquarters and apply his skills to everyone in the place. When last we looked, for instance, smug Dan Rather was still glued to his chair, dispensing the usual mixture of lame Texas aphorism and lofty…
Platte Busted Kenny Be is so right on. His May 24 “Valley of the Cars” should be mailed to every Denver city planner, along with a stink bomb, an $80 monthly lot fee and a permanently renewable parking ticket. They’ve created a mecca no one can get to, or at…
Rumors about a Peeping Tom had circulated among staff members at the North Boulder Recreation Center for years, and when a janitor was caught in the rafters above the locker rooms, employees thought the matter had finally come to a close. But no charges were filed, and the janitor returned…
Antoinette Marcel had her day in court last week. But the swami didn’t show. So magistrate Terence Hunter of Boulder District Small Claims Court concluded that Swami Amar Jyoti, the guru of the Sacred Mountain Ashram west of Boulder, sexually assaulted Marcel more than twenty years ago. And Hunter awarded…
More than fifty boxes of former Denver mayor Federico Pena’s Denver International Airport files have been removed from the Colorado State Archives at the request of current Mayor Wellington Webb. Those public records, which include staff reports, notes and other documents accumulated during the Pena administration, were taken to the…
part 2 of 3 “He’s never going to be back,” said his mother. “He’s never going to be the Paul that we knew.” Holcomb had been raised in Colorado, and it was on vacations to see her family that Paul had fallen in love with the place. She and her…
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part 1 of 3 A little after noon on April 16, 1993, an office worker at Paddock Center, a vocational education school in Boulder, peered out the window as she dialed the police. “I want to report a gang fight,” she said. A few minutes earlier, she had watched as…
part 3 of 3 The detectives asked Matt if he knew the expression, “What are you claiming?” “Claiming, it’s like, it’s sort of territorial,” he replied. “Or it could also be like, you can claim a part of a group, too. You can be like, `I claim, you know, I’m…
Choice opportunities: After Mary DeGroot’s surprisingly strong showing in the May 2 election, some early supporters complained they could no longer get through to the busy–and suddenly much more popular–candidate. That wouldn’t surprise Sue Bollman, immediate past president of NARAL, who says she was “appalled” by DeGroot’s response when incumbent…
About five minutes after Duke’s Grant Hill was selected in last year’s National Basketball Association draft, the hucksters slapped his name on a pair of $110 sneakers and sent along a check big enough to keep him in Armani suits, BMWs and swimming pools until the millennium. However, it took…
A Hispanic-owned firm that won millions of dollars’ worth of contracts as an electrical supplier at Denver International Airport actually is nothing more than a front company operating a bogus pass-through scheme to take advantage of affirmative-action rules, a city hearing officer has ruled. The company, Denver-based M&N Electrical Supply…
Susan Casey, who’s running for Mary DeGroot’s soon-to-be-vacant city council District 6 seat, wants the public to know she’s not the typical kind of money-and-politics candidate. She won’t take donations from PACs, corporations, or “special interests.” Her campaign slogan is “Soccer Mom for City Council,” and her literature guarantees that…
The room’s only source of illumination is the wavering morning sunlight filtering though the fence, past the basketball court and into a bank of windows along one wall. Already, the dulcet sounds of new-age flute music float from a portable tape player, a backdrop to the soft shuffling of feet…
Don’t Slam the Door Do I hold the record for generating the most indignant and irate replies to a letter? It is truly gratifying to find that you have such a righteous readership (Letters, May 10 and May 17). You may let them know I am leaving Los Denverles forever…
