Fremont County

Update: Robin and Mark Herklotz ID'd as Black Forest fire victims, 509 homes destroyed

Update: The two victims of the Black Forest fire, which sparked to life on June 11, have been ID'd as Marc Allen Herklotz, 52, and Robin Lauran Herklotz, fifty, married residents of Black Forest. The laborious identification process speaks to the horrific force of nature that took their lives. In t ... More >>

Video shows Evan Ebel shooting Texas deputy

Yesterday, in announcing a reprieve for quadruple murderer Nathan Dunlap noted that Lisa Clements remains against the death penalty even after what happened to her husband, the late Colorado prison chief Tom Clements. What happened to Clements is that Evan Ebel allegedly murdered him, then took off ... More >>

Fetuses-aren't-people lawsuit: Colorado Supreme Court declines to hear the case

The Colorado Supreme Court has declined to hear a case in which Englewood-based Catholic Health Initiatives argued that it couldn't be held liable for the deaths of two unborn babies at one of its hospitals because fetuses are not people. The case was the focus of our recent cover story "The Meaning ... More >>

Fetuses-aren't-people argument was "morally wrong," says Catholic hospital

Catholic Health Initiatives has acknowledged that it was "morally wrong" for its lawyers to argue in court that fetuses aren't people. As explained in our cover story "The Meaning of Life," the Englewood-based operator of 78 Catholic hospitals in seventeen states claimed that it couldn't be held lia ... More >>

Fetus = person? District court judges have come to different conclusions

This week's cover story, "The Meaning of Life," tells the story behind a seemingly contradictory legal argument being made by Englewood-based Catholic Health Initiatives: that a fetus is not a person. The court case in which it asserts that claim has now been appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court. ... More >>

Is a fetus a person? The Colorado Supreme Court may have to decide.

See also: Fetus = person? District court judges have come to different conclusions

Christo's "Over the River" project approved by Fremont County Commission

Whether you think Christo is a genius or a hack, he is inarguably a patient man. After first conceiving of "Over the River" in 1992, today he became one step closer to realizing his vision. This morning, Fremont County Commission voted unanimously to approve his temporary use permit. This permit was ... More >>

"Over the River" hits a new snag with DU students lawsuit

Christo's "Over the River" will soon have another bridge to cross. Even as a public hearing that could secure Fremont County's approval of the project along the Arkansas River gets under way this morning in Canon City, a group of University of Denver students will be filing suit to stop it.

Christo's "Over the River:" DU students and staff on their opposition and lawsuit to stop project

The grassroots group Rags Over the Arkansas River is trying to block Christo's "Over the River" art project along the Arkansas River. Students from the Environmental Law Clinic at DU's Sturm College of Law were at the Denver federal courthouse at 9 a.m. today, filing suit against the U.S. Bureau of ... More >>

Christo's "Over the River" faces public hearings this week for final permits

After nearly twenty years of planning, Christo and his "Over the River" project are two temporary-use permits away from full approval. The installation, which would suspend 5.9 miles of fabric over a 42-mile stretch of the Arkansas River, was conceived in 1992, but only received the go-ahead last No ... More >>

Billionaire Bill Koch buys the town of Buckskin Joe and moves it to his ranch

William Koch buys another piece of Western history: Buckskin Joe

​Turns out that William Koch, the Florida billionaire who bought the tintype of Billy the Kid for more than two million bucks at a Denver auction in June, isn't just interested in photos of the Old West. He's interested in Old West towns, too. And he just bought himself a big chunk of Colorado ... More >>

Michael Bennet targeted in new attack ad from organization co-founded by Karl Rove: Scary!

Michael Bennet.​These three Denver blog posts are just for you. Colorado Pols has the scoop on new spots attacking Michael Bennet, from Karl Roves' American Crossroads outfit. The bucks for (Ken) Buck start here. Coyote Gulch details the request for a report prior to approving Fremont County ... More >>

Forget Shane: Come back, Christo! Christo, come back!

Wolfgang Volz, copyright Christo 2007 As noted in a previous blog, "Doing the Math on Christo's Arkansas River Wrap," Colorado art mavens and opinion leaders are just crrraaaazy about Over the River, the proposal by husband-and-wife artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude to suspend six miles of silvery ... More >>

Death of a Cowboy

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Letters to the Editor

From the week of February 24. 2005

Beyond Contempt

The child-protection system wants to shut down family-rights activist Suzanne Shell. And vice versa.

Punching Through

Rexway comes out swinging on a new album.

To Die Inside

Nathan Jones's sentence was not supposed to be a death sentence.

Cruel and Unusual

Declaring prison a waste of his time and your money, a minor felon seeks his own execution.

Best Colorado Beach Club

Desert Reef Beach Club

A Broken Code

The supermax snitch unit was supposed to bust prison gangs, but who was really rolling over?

Fight Club

The Cowboys set up federal prisoners for beatings -- and blamed it all on the inmates.

Captive Market

Jobs. Gadgets. Profits. Crime pays big-time for the prison-industrial complex.

Who's Minding the Store?

The Royal Grudge Bridge

Bill Fehr has big plans for the Royal Gorge Bridge--including a $749,600 rent increase.

Party Crasher

Back from the abyss, Sam Zakhem campaigns for the forgotten man: himself

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