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1995 Stories by Richard Fleming

• ANOTHER ROW OVER PLUTONIUM

  published July 19, 1995

  It's impossible to tell which will last longer: the plutonium released from Rocky Flats, which remains radioactive for 24,000 years, or the... More >>

• KID GLOVES

  published July 12, 1995

  At 5 a.m., the green foothills near Fort Collins look spongy in the early light. Along a wide residential street of Laporte, a farming town turned... More >>

• THE EPA GOES RADWHAT BETTER PLACE FOR A NEW GOVERNMENT LAB THAN A RADIOACTIVE SITE?

  published June 21, 1995

  The government laboratory that does environmental testing for the Environmental Protection Agency's regional headquarters will be relocating to a... More >>

• HOT PROPERTY

  published June 14, 1995

  Marj Rust enjoys the view from her home on a ridge west of Rocky Flats. She can take in a rolling expanse of rangeland running east from the... More >>

• COVER UP IN THE LOCKER ROOMLOOK! UP IN THE NORTH BOULDER REC CENTER CEILING! IT'S A JANITOR!

  published May 31, 1995

  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... More >>

• DON'T TOUCH THAT DIALOGUE

  published May 17, 1995

  Five years ago, the best minds in Colorado sat down with Governor Roy Romer and brainstormed a way to make environmental cleanups faster and... More >>

• CHOOSING SIDES

  published April 26, 1995

  Melinda Kassen was known as a hard-hitting critic of Rocky Flats when she worked as an attorney for the Boulder branch of the Environmental... More >>

• DON'T SPREAD ON ME

  published April 19, 1995

  It was last September when Debbie Quackenbush asked a person on the staff of Boulder's wastewater treatment plant whether it was true that the... More >>

• GLOWING REPORTS

  published March 15, 1995

  It has been four and a half years since Colorado's state health department began a study of the health risks posed to Denver area residents over... More >>

• BARRELS OF FUN

  published March 15, 1995

  A few blocks west of I-25, along 46th Avenue in an industrial area of northwest Denver, four boys from the nearby Quigg Newton housing project... More >>

• BLOWING SMOKE

  published January 25, 1995

  Clearing the air is what it does best, boasts Envirotest Systems, the embattled operator of Colorado's new auto-emissions testing program. But the... More >>

• HOUSES OF ILL REPUTE

  published January 11, 1995

  A homebuilder under grand jury investigation in Florida for leaving dozens of buyers without promised houses is now building luxury homes near the... More >>

• THIS IS ONLY A TEST

  published January 4, 1995

  Sixth-grade science students at Peck Elementary School in Arvada have been putting on up-with-nature environmental shows for more than a decade.... More >>