Dale Tooley

Denver mayoral races are not easy to predict

St. Patrick's Day: Dale Tooley was green before green was in

​Want to give someone a quick feel for Denver? Walk the seven blocks of Wazee Street from Cherry Creek -- where Denver got its start when gold was discovered 150 years ago -- up to Coors Field, where the Rockies will start digging for gold in just a few weeks. There's history all along the w ... More >>

Sign of the times: No St. Patrick's Day sign-changing lunch at McCormick's

​For the first time in more than a decade, McCormick's Fish House & Bar, at 1659 Wazee Street, did not host its annual luncheon to celebrate the Changing of the Sign -- the ceremony held outside the bar on the Thursday before St. Patrick's Day, when Wazee at 17th Street turns into Tooley, in ... More >>

The long, long journey to an all-inclusive Justice Center

Philip Van Cise. They're going to need some pretty big signs to hold all the names of the august Denverites honored at the city's new justice complex. After a contentious, sometimes bitter and racially charged process that stretched over several months, the Denver City Council finally agreed Monda ... More >>

No justice for Van Cise?

A task force has named four finalists in the naming-rights battle over the new Denver Justice Center -- and historic gangbuster Philip Van Cise isn't among them. To those who know anything of Van Cise's remarkable but much-neglected story, the news is a bit puzzling, and disheartening. Not that t ... More >>

Justice Center campaign goes straight to video

In the battle over naming rights for Denver's new Justice Center, two clear favorites have emerged: Dale Tooley, the city's district attorney for much of the 1970s, and Philip Van Cise, the one-term DA of the 1920s who busted a sophisticated ring of con artists and took on the Ku Klux Klan. Tooley w ... More >>

Phil Van Cise: Scourge of Denver's Underworld

Fearless DA Phil Van Cise cleaned up Denver — and it cost him his career. Can a new justice center right an old wrong?

Triumph of the Swill

A tsunami of suds is likely when the Modern Drunkard Conventioneers pour into Denver.

Off Limits

Heaven Help Us

The Message

The Mayor's Race

Edifice Complex

The little guy went big time...and the results are monumental.

Imagine a Great Campaign

It takes more than money to make a mayor. You have to know your way around Colfax, when to cry Republican and how to handle a drag queen.

Off Limits

Pressing engagements

True Romance

How a snap decision led to a long love affair with the West.

The Young and the Restless

As the turks of Denver's black politics grow old, what's to be made of their legacy?

Women's Work

Colorado activists struck first on domestic violence.

Mouthing Off

Colorado activists struck first on domestic violence.

Off Limits

Colorado activists struck first on domestic violence.

EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY

Colorado activists struck first on domestic violence.

OFF LIMITS

Colorado activists struck first on domestic violence.

THAT HITS THE SPOT!

ONCE THIS RESTAURANT BATTLED HIPPIES. NOW IT'S THE COUNTER-CULTURE'S LAST STAND.