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Rocky Mountain Arsenal

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Art-O-Mat artist Kathy Fisher on making cigarette machine art

    Five dollars buys you a collage by Colorado artist Kathy Fisher. Fisher creates collages for Art-O-Mat, the company that turns old cigarette machines into art-dispensers -- one of which, since last month, has made its home at the VSA Colorado/Access Gallery on Santa Fe Drive. Fisher took some time t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    Top five pitches for John Hickenlooper and Michael Hancock to use on California businesses

    Eat this, In-N-Out.​In a repeat of a trip he made with then-governor Bill Owens back in 2003, Governor John Hickenlooper is now winging his way to California. He and new Denver mayor Michael Hancock are officially trying to encourage businesses there to expand to Colorado -- and, unofficially, ... More >>

  • News

    November 24, 2011

    What's on your bucket list, before it's too late?

    Send your Colorado bucket list to newyear@westword.com

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Commerce City buys Mile High Greyhound Park: There goes Rusty!

    ​Commerce City is no longer going to the dogs. A few years ago, the industry-heavy town north of Denver thought it was in such need of a new image that it considered changing its name. Instead, it's now aggressively working on a physical makeover -- and has just purchased the former Mile High ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Fracking Aurora is a natural gas: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

    ​ On Thursday, June 23, 2011, the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission will explain how hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations on the former Lowry Bombing Range comply with Arapahoe County's 2007 Sustainable Growth Objectives. It will be an easy sell...

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Rocky Mountain Arsenal Visitors' Center opens to the public

    ​Over the past fifteen years, the federal government has turned the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, once one of the most contaminated Superfund sites in the United States, into a wildlife refuge, complete with nature trails, lakes for fishing and summer camps. Tomorrow, the Arsenal will open its newes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Pueblo nuclear power plant proposal radiates with fear from Japan and Rocky Flats fallout

    Rocky Flats​Yes, timing is everything. Last night, opponents of a proposed nuclear power plant in Pueblo County pointed to the situation in Japan as just one reason to stop the project. And tonight, experts will talk about how nukes already resulted in plutonium contamination outside the forme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    Rocky Mountain Arsenal's transition from Superfund site to wildlife refuge is complete

    ​Fifteen years after Shell Oil Company and the U.S. Army began a massive, $2.1 billion cleanup at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, one of the most contaminated Superfund sites in the United States, the Army is getting ready to hand over the last of its cleaned parcels to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2010

    Ken Salazar under fire: Can he survive the spill?

    All systems go, but which way? Out the door?​It was fairly predictable that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar would emerge as the whipping-boy of conservative pundits over the Deepwater Horizon spill. What better symbol of the alleged impotence of the Obama administration than a cowboy-ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    Ken Salazar: Lessons on the Gulf spill from Denver's own "toxic horror"

    Photo by Alan PrendergastWhite-tailed deer cross a road at the Rocky Mountain National Wildlife Refuge.​Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has been spending a lot of time on the Gulf Coast lately, dealing with the noxious plumes (environmental and political) spewing from the Deepwater Horiz ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2008

    Annual count is for the birds

    It's time to count birds again, and we don't mean your Thanksgiving and Christmas turkey dinners. The Audubon Society of Greater Denver, in conjunction with local Audubon groups around the nation, is asking its members to count the birds they see in their back yards on New Year's Day - a tradition ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2008

    Mile High Music Fest Live Blog, Day One

    It's time to count birds again, and we don't mean your Thanksgiving and Christmas turkey dinners. The Audubon Society of Greater Denver, in conjunction with local Audubon groups around the nation, is asking its members to count the birds they see in their back yards on New Year's Day - a tradition ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 27, 2007

    For the Birds

    It's time to count birds again, and we don't mean your Thanksgiving and Christmas turkey dinners. The Audubon Society of Greater Denver, in conjunction with local Audubon groups around the nation, is asking its members to count the birds they see in their back yards on New Year's Day - a tradition ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 30, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    It's time to count birds again, and we don't mean your Thanksgiving and Christmas turkey dinners. The Audubon Society of Greater Denver, in conjunction with local Audubon groups around the nation, is asking its members to count the birds they see in their back yards on New Year's Day - a tradition ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 11, 2004

    Art of Chance

    Borchert tries his luck

  • News

    April 22, 2004

    Off Limits

    It's curtains!

  • News

    March 11, 2004

    Toxic Shocker!

    The government ambushed the Rocky Flats grand jury. Now its foreman is gunning for justice.

  • Calendar

    October 16, 2003

    Cultural Pioneers

    Campaign for Tibet remembers the Rowells

  • News

    July 5, 2001

    This Is a Job for Superfund!

    Colorado's legacy of contamination spreads far and wide.

  • Sports & Recreation

    March 29, 2001

    Best Liquid Asset

    David Jamiel

  • News

    January 4, 2001

    Off Limits

    A calendar hits the wall.

  • News

    July 20, 2000

    Bombs Away!

    The government built a nuclear-weapons plant sixteen miles upwind of Denver. But decades passed before the public got wind of what was happening there.

  • News

    February 24, 2000

    Off Limits

    Happy Birthday, DIA!

  • Calendar

    July 1, 1999

    Night & Day

    July 1 - 7, 1999

  • News

    April 8, 1999

    Letters

    July 1 - 7, 1999

  • News

    April 1, 1999

    Mr. Clean

    Superfund ombudsman Robert Martin is either a white knight -- or an EPA whitewash.

  • News

    February 11, 1999

    Toxic Wait

    Some residents say the Rocky Mountain Arsenal still isn't clean enough to polish Commerce City's image.

  • News

    October 29, 1998

    Shy, but Not Retiring

    Colonel Bishop, Rocky Mountain Arsenal boss, has left the Army--but he's already back on the job.

  • News

    May 21, 1998

    Up From Underground

    Colonel Bishop, Rocky Mountain Arsenal boss, has left the Army--but he's already back on the job.

  • News

    January 29, 1998

    Walter Gerash

    The Devil's Advocate

  • News

    January 29, 1998

    Twenty Years of Denver

    The Devil's Advocate

  • News

    September 4, 1997

    While You Were Away

    The Devil's Advocate

  • News

    May 1, 1997

    Letters

    The Devil's Advocate

  • News

    April 10, 1997

    Letters

    The Devil's Advocate

  • News

    April 3, 1997

    And Not a Drop to Drink

    The Devil's Advocate

  • News

    October 3, 1996

    Wade in the Water

    Governor Romer and the lieutenant governor step into the Animas-La Plata dispute.

  • Music

    July 5, 1995

    A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE

    DENVER-BASED HARRIET THE SPY LOOKS FOR PUNK IN ALL THE RIGHT PLACES.

  • News

    June 28, 1995

    PEOPLE & PLACES

    DENVER-BASED HARRIET THE SPY LOOKS FOR PUNK IN ALL THE RIGHT PLACES.

  • Calendar

    May 31, 1995

    THRILLS

    DENVER-BASED HARRIET THE SPY LOOKS FOR PUNK IN ALL THE RIGHT PLACES.

  • Music

    May 3, 1995

    THE YOUNG AND THE CRESTFALLEN

    DENVER-BASED HARRIET THE SPY LOOKS FOR PUNK IN ALL THE RIGHT PLACES.

  • News

    March 15, 1995

    GLOWING REPORTS

    THERE'S PLENTY OF GOOD NEWS ABOUT ROCKY FLATS. AND YOU'RE PAYING FOR IT.

  • Music

    February 15, 1995

    IN THE BLACK

    REAL PUNK ROCK LIVES--ON DENVER'S BLACK PLASTIC RECORDS.

  • News

    November 2, 1994

    STAPLETON'S LATEST DELAY

    KING SOOPERS BALKS AGAIN ON KEY REDEVELOPMENT DEAL.

  • Culture

    October 19, 1994

    PIECE OF THE ROCKY

    KING SOOPERS BALKS AGAIN ON KEY REDEVELOPMENT DEAL.

  • News

    October 19, 1994

    OVERSIGHT OVERKILL

    HOW MANY OFFICIAL WATCHDOG GROUPS DOES IT TAKE TO CLEAN UP THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARSENAL? TWO, SO FAR.

  • News

    September 14, 1994

    LETTERS

    HOW MANY OFFICIAL WATCHDOG GROUPS DOES IT TAKE TO CLEAN UP THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARSENAL? TWO, SO FAR.

  • News

    June 29, 1994

    SPORTS & RECREATION

    HOW MANY OFFICIAL WATCHDOG GROUPS DOES IT TAKE TO CLEAN UP THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARSENAL? TWO, SO FAR.

  • News

    June 22, 1994

    LETTERS

    HOW MANY OFFICIAL WATCHDOG GROUPS DOES IT TAKE TO CLEAN UP THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARSENAL? TWO, SO FAR.

  • News

    April 6, 1994

    HOW GREEN IS MY PRESIDENT

    IN A STRANGE SUPERFUND TWIST, POLLUTERS SAY CLINTON'S CLEANUP PLAN IS "PRO-BUSINESS."

  • News

    March 9, 1994

    FILING A COSTLY FLIGHT PLAN

    THE CITY PAYS UP TO $14 A WORD FOR A CONSULTANT'S REPORT ON STAPLETON.

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