The logjam in Denver's federal district court is one of the worst in the country. Blame Congress, Timothy McVeigh, greedy lawyers -- and judges who don't have time to judge.
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 Army wants to take over more of the ranchland around Pinon Canyon -- but it's not accounting adequately for the 238,000 acres it already has, taken 25 years ago in the largest land grab in the country's history.
On September 8, Judge Richard Matsch ruled that the Army's 2007 environmental review of operations at the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, where it trains troops about four months a year, was inadequate to justify increasing operations to 365 days a year. When the Army created the
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
