Subject: Fort Carson

• Hometown Boy

  February 5, 2009

• Guerrillas in the Midst

  When terrorism hits home, Gary Cunningham will be ready.

  October 15, 1998

• More Messages: Tuned In

  December 5, 2006

• Rocky columnist Bill Johnson's Error Jackpot

  July 12, 2007

• Delegating Denver #14 of 56: Guam

  October 22, 2007

• Best Olympic Hopeful

  March 27, 2003

• Impressive Salon.com series looks at the dark side of Fort Carson soldiers returning from Iraq

  A colorful view of journalist Michael de Yoanna. Every nanosecond of every day, new writing appears on the Internet -- and for the most part, that's a good thing. All too often, however, important reportage gets lost in the flood. Today's, for instance: "Coming Home," a series of investigative reports on Salon.com about "preventable deaths at Fort Carson, a U.S. Army post in Colorado, among troops who have returned from combat tours in Iraq." The reports, which appeared throughout this week --

  February 13, 2009

• Fort Carson and brigade politics

  The public-affairs office at Fort Carson hasn't issued a press release about the Army's decision not to base an additional brigade there -- a move that calls into doubt millions in additional contracts, not to mention even more money in long-term economic impact. The most recent news items on its official website, which declares Fort Carson to be "The Best 'Hometown' in the Army," are a May 29 piece about a soldier who was killed in a motorcycle accident and a May 27 preview of a change-of-com

  June 3, 2009

• Rescue Me

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  August 26, 1999

• Live Fast, Die Young

  She was fifteen going on twenty-five, but three bullets made sure Jenny never saw sweet sixteen

  November 6, 1997

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters from the week of 4/3/2008

  April 3, 2008

• The Good Soldier

  March 20, 2008

• Old Chicago

  DJ Fox keeps Chicago house for the Denver masses.

  August 5, 2004

• McDogooder

  Colorado's burger king prepares for his next quick-service conquest.

  August 24, 2006

• Suns Set

  The president's gone, but Denver's oldest black biker club keeps on rolling.

  December 15, 2005

• Mr. Big

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  November 3, 2005

• The Message

  Pucked Up

  December 16, 2004

• The Message

  Early Shift

  April 8, 2004

• It's Not Easy Being Green

  Look who's mad at Dick Lamm now!

  March 18, 2004

• The Message

  Free at Last

  February 19, 2004

• Pop Quiz

  Primary Colors
  January 29, 2004

  January 29, 2004

• Red, White, Orange and Blue

  The Broncos call in a $20,000 air strike for patriotism.

  September 25, 2003

• The Message

  Blood and Sand

  April 17, 2003

• The Message

  The media's massive buildup to battle makes war seem almost anti-climactic.

  March 20, 2003

• Dremiel's Dream

  The Greco-Roman wrestling gold may be in this heavyweight's grasp. But it's not a lock.

  December 26, 2002

• Mint Condition

  January 18, 2001

• The Glendale T&A Party

  Two years ago they took over their city. Since then, things have just gotten curiouser and curiouser.

  January 20, 2000

• The Gay Nineties

  Since Amendement 2 passed seven years ago, Colorado Springs has learned a lesson in Family Values.

  November 25, 1999

• Feature

  November 25, 1999

• All Vets Are Off

  Some vets say the Veterans Administration's medical cost-cutting measures are unhealthy.

  July 8, 1999

• Nothin' but Net

  The NBA tournament begins this week, but the players in the Denver County Jail have their own championship to worry about.

  June 10, 1999

• Strange but True

  December 31, 1998

• Sex Machine

  Dr. Stanley Biber has made 3,500 women--and 300 men.

  August 27, 1998

• Strange but True

  December 26, 1996

• Older but Bitter

  Sixty-eight-year-old Wanda Crawford hasn't killed anyone yet. But authorities say it's not for lack of trying.

  August 22, 1996

• UNDER THE GUN

  AFTER LISTENING TO COLORADO'S PATRIOTS, FRANCISCO DURAN SHOT OFF MORE THAN HIS MOUTH.

  December 14, 1994

• New website charts what parts of Colorado are being stimulated

  A photo from the StimulusColorado.org website. StimulusColorado.org, a new website co-sponsored by Associated General Contractors of Colorado, the Colorado Association of Mechanical and Plumbing Contractors, Colorado Contractors Association, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation, aims to inform the populace about how much the state is receiving from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and how it'll be spent. At this point, there's not

  July 7, 2009

• They're baaaack: the black helicopters of Yoder

  Cue the Wagner: Blackhawks buzz the Kirby ranch.​All Shellie Kirby wants is a place where she and her husband Mark can live in peace with their Spanish mustang, Rebel, and their other horses and burros. But their seventy-acre ranch in the southeast corner of El Paso County, where the couple has lived the past fifteen years, is no longer that place. Since May of 2006 Kirby has been locked in hellacious battle with the sizable military presence in the county over the persistent buzzing of h

  September 14, 2009

• Fort Carson: Those aren't our black helicopters!

  Mystery choppers over the Kirby ranch.​A recent blog item featured several photos of the black helicopters of Yoder, which have been buzzing Shellie Kirby's ranch in the southeast corner of El Paso County for the past three years. Kirby has filed several complaints with Fort Carson, the National Guard, Peterson Air Force Base and other suspected sources of the Black Hawk and Chinook choppers that have dive-bombed her property and terrified her horses, to no avail. For various reasons -- i

  September 18, 2009

• An unlikely posse of politicians wants to save Pinon Canyon from a bad guy: the Army

  October 1, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Hold your horses!

  ​Twenty-five years ago, the Department of Defense took over 235,000 acres of ranchland in southeastern Colorado -- the largest condemnation of private property in the country. And the Army's not done yet. Six years ago, word surfaced that the feds would try to add another 400,000 acres to the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, and for the past three years, Congress has approved a prohibition on the Army's use of any appropriated funds to expand PCMS. Last session, the Colorado Legislature also

  October 7, 2009

• From the week of October 15, 2009

  October 15, 2009

• Josh Penry campaign scoffs at Scott McInnis' reasons for not debating

  "Put down your weapons. I come in peace."​This morning, gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis' responded to critics of his decision not to debate his fellow Republican rivals with a Denver Post op-ed in which he argued that while "GOP candidate forums" are fine, direct faceoffs will do more harm than good. "Republicans aren't afraid of differing views," he writes. "We must, however, be committed to unity and civility." Andrew Cole, Josh Penry's press secretary, avoids replying to this ass

  November 5, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Meanwhile, back at the ranch... and Pinon Canyon

  ​Representative Wes McKinley is sitting in a bar in Denver, but his mind is hundreds of miles away -- on the rangeland of southeastern Colorado, that stunning swathe of cactus and canyons and ranches that have been in families for generations. The land that the U.S. Army would like to conquer and use for training, adding to the 238,000 acres it already occupies at Pinon Canyon. For five years, ranchers and other residents of the area have been fighting the Army at every turn -- but the Ar

  November 19, 2009