The Scales of Justice Regarding “Justice (Dept.) Is Served” in the April 27 issue: Enough already about Rocky Flats! You’ve coasted on this topic long enough. Can’t Westword’s editor find anything else to write about? Joe Garcia Arvada I very much appreciated grand jury foreman Wes McKinley’s assessment of the…
The break-in at the small South Broadway office a month ago had all the sinister overtones appropriate to what would turn out to be Richard Nixon’s final weeks. In fact, a Denver police detective recalls the phone conversation that put him on the case: “The guy called up and said,…
Former Aurora resident Sunny Big Keem, convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and solicitation to commit murder in connection with the 1992 slaying of a California millionaire, is expected to be sentenced to life in prison next month in Los Angeles. When the prison door slams shut behind him, it…
The controversial Winter Park Recreation Association went a long way toward smoothing over its frosty relations with the City of Denver last week. It fared more poorly at the Moffat Tunnel Commission, which turned up the heat–and the numbers–in its efforts to collect rent from the cash-flush mountain resort. While…
Austreberto Aguirre’s big vision is a shadow of its former self. This week’s edition, anyway. La Gaceta, the newspaper he’s published in one form or another since 1947, today is little more than a few Xeroxed pages stapled together. Inside, where Senor Aguirre, editor and founder, once ran hard-hitting exposes…
part 2 of 2 Most physicians who are honest with themselves will acknowledge that cancer can be a capricious disease and that claiming success for cures or remissions is an inexact science. Add to this the fact that many terminal patients go to oncologists with the expectation only that they…
part 1 of 2 If every physician wound up with patients like Charles Stevinson, medical school might not seem like such an onerous obstacle. That’s because Stevinson, whose car dealerships and real estate have made him a millionaire more than a hundred times over, has taken the physician-patient relationship to…
Dem bones: Longshot Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Arteaga wanted to make a statement when he staged a marathon walk to Denver from his residence in distant Trinidad earlier this month. Instead, the candidate–who’s taking on incumbent Roy Romer despite never having held elective office–wound up dead by the side of…
Big Bill Tilden’s shoulder was bothering him, and Don Budge was having dinner with President Roosevelt. Little matter. Pro tennis’s dinosaur division, the five-stop Advanta Tour, made its debut Thursday night at McNichols Sports Arena without a single visit by the paramedics. For a while there you needed No Doz–the…
Scratch another executive director from the troubled Colorado AIDS Council. Known as the Governor’s AIDS Council until it was transferred to the Colorado Department of Health last summer, the agency has been plagued by politics and a near-constant turnover of its top administrators. Now, after only two months on the…
Some Kurt Replies Michael Roberts’s April 13 article regarding the gifted Kurt Cobain’s suicide, “Suicide Is Brainless,” is completely without compassion–e.g., “suicide is an essentially selfish act usually committed by people who aren’t looking past their own noses at the times of their deaths.” How could Mr. Roberts possibly know…
It was early in 1993, and Susan Barnes was furious. Like millions of other Americans, she’d been following the Tailhook scandal and the investigation that ensued. Not one of the 140 Navy and Marine Corps officers recommended for discipline would face criminal charges. Of the 35 admirals investigated for their…
part 2 of 2 One of the so-called “good deal” trips took Guard members to Europe, where they had taken Air Force Academy cadets for training in over-water navigation. During a stop in Berlin, says Dewett, he, Colonel Rosson and several other officers and enlisted men attended a live-sex show…
part 1 of 2 The Colorado Air National Guard went to war against North Korea early on the morning of April 9. The hostilities came almost without warning and then quickly intensified; within hours of reporting for duty at Aurora’s Buckley Field, Guard members were diving for cover and donning…
When Leonard Fahrni says he reads Playboy for the magazine’s articles, you can believe him. Fahrni does indeed read Playboy–and Entertainment Weekly and God knows what else–to fill his storehouse of knowledge. To him, each dollop of data, each apparently trifling fact, deserves to be gathered, recorded, catalogued and treasured…
All the news that’s unfit to print: Every year Carl Jensen and a loyal staff of news watchdogs at Sonoma State University in California pore over publications large and small, sniffing out the important stories that appeared somewhere–anywhere–only to be met by almost overwhelming silence from other media outlets. Jensen’s…
The tulips are in bloom, and Bud Biegel is thinking comeback. Last June he tore a hamstring while diving for a foul pop, and before he could heal, some banjo hitter whacked him on his mitt hand with the bat. Busted index finger. Out for the year. So after getting…
When my wife and I were planning to have a second child, we didn’t give much thought to what we would feed him or her–we naively thought that would be the least of our worries. Instead, we’ve found ourselves embroiled in a daily battle with corporate America over the most…
Of Life and Limb I feel the articles in Westword are always thought-provoking, but Kate Hawthorne’s April 13 cover story, “Out on a Limb,” was positively inspirational! My best wishes to those families. And to Westword I say, Keep up the good work! I don’t know what we would do…
Colorado polluters would be able to avoid fines and keep secret internal investigations of their own environmental wrongdoing under a bill that, after being thwarted in recent years, stands a good chance of passage by the Colorado General Assembly. The Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry calls the bill a…
The most vocal liberal on the state Criminal Justice Commission has given up–driven out, he says, by politics that seem to breed prisons. In an eight-page resignation letter, Roger Lauen urged Governor Roy Romer, other commission members and legislators to “please wake up” before the current mania for building prisons…
History books remember Cynthia Ann Parker as the Anglo girl who was kidnapped at age nine from her frontier Texas home in the spring of 1836 by a Comanche raiding party. Twenty-four years later she was rescued by the Texas Rangers, then spent the few remaining years of her life…
