Jim Congrove.
Jefferson County Commissioner Jim Congrove had such an eventful first term in office — a grand jury probe into his financial dealings, a Colorado Bureau of Investigation inquiry into the county's use of a private investigator who happens to be a bosom pal of Big Jim, a slew of lawsuits launched against him and the county by former supporter and perpetual county critic Mike Zinna — that he decided not to run for re-election this year. But with only a few weeks left in offic
Mike Zinna, official scourge of Jefferson County.
The proverbial wheels of justice turn slowly but not always surely. So it's always interesting when the gears spit out a real acknowledgment of wrongdoing, even if the folks involved are all pointing fingers at each other.
Recent documents filed in Mike Zinna's long-running court battles with Jefferson County government show various current and former county officials engaged in a particularly nasty, if murky, bit of blamestorming. Develop
The movies teach us that there are good guys and bad guys -- and then there are bad guys named Angel, as in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. But two new books by former Colorado prisoners trace wildly divergent paths through the thickets of crime and punishment -- one an ever-downward spiral of dope and betrayal, the other a tale of redemption and exhortation.
The more interesting book, by far, is the downer. Vato Maldito: My Life of Crime, by John "Bubbles" Gallegos (Enlightened Pyramid
