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1994 Stories by Steve Jackson

• ON THE OUTSIDE

  published December 21, 1994

  Two weeks before Christmas, black, gay, controversial AIDS activist Steve Arrington finds himself running out of money and time. Broke and staving... More >>

• A REAL CLASS ACT

  published December 14, 1994

  On the evening of September 12, the blare of a fire alarm cleared the hallways and classrooms of Arapahoe Community College in Littleton. It was... More >>

• PRACTICE WHAT YOU TEACH

  published November 30, 1994

  part 1 of 2 "I have received your letter and one from your unfortunate boy. I am very sorry for you." Over the past 120 years the paper... More >>

• PRACTICE WHAT YOU TEACH

  published November 30, 1994

  part 2 of 2 By 1988 the situation at Mitchell had worsened. Dropout rates had continued to climb, as had drug use and gang activities--much of... More >>

• BUYING TIME PART II

  published November 16, 1994

  part 2 of 2 The Clinic, Politics, and Wes Kennedy By the late Eighties it was clear that the AIDS epidemic could not be dealt with as... More >>

• BUYING TIME PART II

  published November 16, 1994

  part 1 of 2 Dr. Adam Myers arrived at Denver General Hospital in 1974, following a residency program at the University of Colorado in which he... More >>

• GEORGIA ON THEIR MINDS

  published November 16, 1994

  A popular nurse at the Denver General Hospital AIDS clinic was forced to resign last week--under the threat of being fired--for bending the city's... More >>

• BUYING TIME

  published November 9, 1994

  part 2 of 2 There's not much sense lecturing someone in an HIV clinic about the long-term hazards of smoking, although Myers suspects a link... More >>

• BUYING TIME

  published November 9, 1994

  part 1 of 2 September 15, 1994--Denver General Hospital Dr. Adam Myers picks a surgical mask off the wall outside an isolation room on the... More >>

• ADOPTING AN ATTITUDE

  published October 26, 1994

  The Colorado Supreme Court told him to get with the program. The publicity of a family sex scandal put his potential for personal bias in the... More >>

• SACRED GROUND

  published October 19, 1994

  part 2 of 2 In 1973 Congress passed the Archaeological Resource Protection Act, which prohibits disturbing sites of human habitation over... More >>

• SACRED GROUND

  published October 19, 1994

  part 1 of 2 After a steep ascent, the trail plunged down a rocky slope toward a wall of sheer cliffs. Kenny Frost pulled up short. U.S.... More >>

• GIVE AND TAKE

  published October 12, 1994

  A national watchdog of charitable donations on behalf of the nation's disadvantaged trotted into town Tuesday to sink its teeth into one of... More >>

• TOP OF THEIR GAME

  published September 21, 1994

  The young man sitting in the downtown coffeeshop pulled the newspaper clipping out of his schoolbook. The dominant article on the page reported... More >>

• DENVER OR BUSTED

  published September 14, 1994

  part 1 of 2 The red light on her answering machine was blinking frantically when Georgia Caven walked into the living room of her Lakewood... More >>

• DENVER OR BUSTED

  published September 14, 1994

  part 2 of 2 For all Georgia's boundless patience and energy, there was one type of patient she couldn't warm up to. In the early Eighties DGH... More >>

• EVERGREEN'S EVERGREENWHO DESTROYED THE TOWN'S FAVORITE FIR?

  published September 7, 1994

  It really wasn't much of a tree. The little conifer that grew next to a roadside cutoff on Highway 74 outside of Evergreen was only four feet tall... More >>

• BOOK 'EM

  published August 31, 1994

  part 2 of 2 But it was a certain group of sixth-grade boys who gave Trost the most trouble. On January 12, a week after the West Side Story... More >>

• BOOK 'EM

  published August 31, 1994

  part 1 of 2 John Trost takes a deep breath. Dressed in a sports jacket and tie that speak of upper-class tastes, the slight, boyish-looking... More >>

• FAMILY FEUD

  published August 3, 1994

  One book at a time, Professor Ron Grimes clears the shelves of his small office at the University of Colorado. There are several hundred. Black... More >>

• BAD MEDICINE

  published July 27, 1994

  part 1 of 2 Kayla Moonwatcher remembers putting the finishing touches on the sweat-lodge altar. It's perfect, she thought, as she looked... More >>

• BAD MEDICINE

  published July 27, 1994

  part 2 of 2 Avis Little Eagle joined Indian Country Today fresh out of journalism school. She is Hunkpapa Lakota, the people of medicine man... More >>

• GETTING TESTY

  published July 27, 1994

  To AIDS activists in Denver, the reaction from Colorado Springs was typical: The only county health director in the state to object to a... More >>

• ADDING INSULT TO INJURY

  published July 6, 1994

  Leslie Whited didn't think that it was too much to ask that her daughter be allowed to attend elementary school only a few blocks away from home... More >>

• THE FARM TEAM

  published June 22, 1994

  part 1 of 2 Allah-who-akbar. At the call to prayer, the Brown family assembled in the living room of their home near the tiny town of Mosca,... More >>