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2003 Stories by Stuart Steers

• Follow That Story

  published December 18, 2003

  Attendance at the premier annual fundraising event for the Denver Public Library was down this year, a sign that tension between the library... More >>

• Power to the People

  published December 11, 2003

  Prowers County sits just shy of the Kansas border. Most of the 14,219 people who live here struggle to survive by growing winter wheat and grazing... More >>

• It Takes a Village

  published December 11, 2003

  The saga of the East Village housing project has finally come to an end. Last week, wrecking crews arrived at the 16.5-acre site off Park Avenue... More >>

• Between a Block and a Hard Place

  published October 30, 2003

  There was a time in the mid-'80s when Stephen Gregory wondered if moving to Curtis Park was a mistake. The neighborhood was chock-full of old... More >>

• Adding Insult to Injury

  published October 16, 2003

  Many people would say that Pinnacol Assurance is a Colorado success story. Benson Von Feldt would disagree. Von Feldt has spent the last... More >>

• Beyond U.S.A.

  published October 2, 2003

  FRI, 10/3 Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver curator Cydney Payton has a love affair with art's cutting edge: Always seeking ways to... More >>

• Follow That Story

  published September 25, 2003

  Last September, a forty-year-old Hispanic man stood in the courtroom of the Denver Drug Court and looked at the magistrate, then at his wife and... More >>

• Talking Dirty

  published September 11, 2003

  Angela never expected that her life would have a happy ending. She grew up in grinding poverty on a cattle ranch in central Mexico, where her... More >>

• Follow That Story

  published August 28, 2003

  Members of the Denver Library Commission got an earful from Denver Public Library volunteers last week, when twenty of them showed up at a... More >>

• Stop, Thief!

  published August 21, 2003

  Anything to do with water in Colorado has a way of creating awkward situations and odd bedfellows. Consider the typical Aurora resident who... More >>

• Tune In

  published August 21, 2003

  FRI, 8/22 A mighty wind will be blowing in Denver this weekend at the annual summer strumming extravaganza known as the Swallow... More >>

• Checked Out

  published August 7, 2003

  For more than twenty years, Cynthia Monley had devoted a good part of her life to the Denver Public Library. Every year she and a dozen... More >>

• Follow That Story

  published July 3, 2003

  The Denver Health and Hospital Authority board of directors voted unanimously last week not to recognize attempts by nurses to organize union... More >>

• Last Line

  published June 19, 2003

  Denver's smallest railroad is used to being overshadowed. Sitting at its tiny station behind REI's superstore, the Platte Valley Trolley... More >>

• Critical Condition

  published June 12, 2003

  St. Anthony Hospitals, part of the Centura Health network, is emphatic about its mission -- so much so that the hospital lists its "core values"... More >>

• Seize and Desist

  published May 22, 2003

  For Vince Phason, his 1987 GMC school bus was much more than just a set of wheels. Phason used the bus to travel all over town. To transport... More >>

• Imagine a Great Mayor

  published May 1, 2003

  They say people get the government they deserve. As state legislators vote to cut off medical care to children, that may not say much for the... More >>

• House Rules

  published April 10, 2003

  Cable-fortune heir Kim Magness lived and died very publicly. But the show must go on -- posthumously -- since a Denver judge ruled that the trial... More >>

• In Sickness and in Wealth

  published April 3, 2003

  The Oborsh family doesn't fit the Medicaid-recipient stereotype. The family lives on a comfortable suburban street not far from the Southwest... More >>

• Anti-War Craft

  published March 13, 2003

  While students around the world were walking out of classes on March 5 to protest for peace, Erin Durban stayed in school. But she's no war hawk.... More >>

• Imagine a Great Campaign

  published February 27, 2003

  Let's say you're the proprietor of a popular LoDo brewpub, or a onetime Cherry Creek gallery owner, or the former chief of police. You decide... More >>

• Dangerous Liaisons

  published February 27, 2003

  The eight major candidates for mayor each have a strategy to break out of the pack in... More >>

• Blockheads

  published February 13, 2003

  The Baker neighborhood is one of the most diverse in the city, sprawling from West Sixth Avenue to Mississippi and from Broadway to the South... More >>

• Follow That Story

  published February 13, 2003

  Promoters of Mile High Telecom are in trouble with the law -- again. On Monday February 10, U.S. District Court Judge William Zloch of... More >>

• Con Air

  published February 6, 2003

  Travis Credle was intrigued. The man sitting across the table from him was outlining the problems with local telephone service 1,800 miles... More >>