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The Army National Guard

  • News

    May 3, 2012

    Growing numbers of veterans are becoming addicted to gambling

    Where's the military when the chips are down?

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    John Severe latest biker with military background busted in Virgil Means homicide

    Update: "For all those who are worried.... I'm ok. Just dealing with some shit but I will be fine." That's a Facebook message posted a short time ago by John Severe, a Colorado Springs resident who's worked for the military. And he is indeed dealing with some shit: He's one of five people arrested t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    GLBT Color Guard first gay group allowed to march in Veteran's Day Parade

    Big pic below.​The GLBT Community Color Guard, made up of gay and lesbian veterans, has sought permission to march in the annual Veteran's Day parade before, but the answer's always been no -- until this year. With the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, an invitation to take part in tomorrow's e ... More >>

  • News

    February 17, 2011

    Six great Colorado hoaxes

    Big pic below.​The GLBT Community Color Guard, made up of gay and lesbian veterans, has sought permission to march in the annual Veteran's Day parade before, but the answer's always been no -- until this year. With the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, an invitation to take part in tomorrow's e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    Children of the corn: Online students make a drug-free pledge at Chatfield corn maze (photos)

    ​Yesterday, Colorado online students and their families gathered at the Botanic Gardens corn maze near Chatfield Reservoir to mark Red Ribbon week. There, they were rewarded for making a pledge to stay drug-free with a National Guard helicopter flyover and more. Get a feel for the festivities ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Immigrant border deaths as important as rancher Rob Krentz's murder, protester says

    An "illegal" message.​Most locals celebrated the 4th of July weekend with picnics and fireworks. But approximately fifty locals marked the holiday yesterday with a vigil at Aurora's GEO detention center. There, they decried current immigration policy in Colorado and elsewhere, with a focus on ... More >>

  • News

    June 3, 2010

    Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

    An "illegal" message.​Most locals celebrated the 4th of July weekend with picnics and fireworks. But approximately fifty locals marked the holiday yesterday with a vigil at Aurora's GEO detention center. There, they decried current immigration policy in Colorado and elsewhere, with a focus on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Ken Salazar finds oil spilling from Gulf into Colorado

    ​The Deepwater Horizon disaster keeps spilling into my inbox, more than 1,300 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, where there's "oil for miles and miles," Attorney General Eric Holder lamented yesterday in New Orleans. Denver is more than 1,300 miles from the Big Easy, but the disaster has spilled ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Rob Corry doesn't think National Guard should have seized MMJ cards on 4/20, Scott Renfroe

    Rob Corry's got another MMJ doubter in his sights.​It's been a busy day for the Corry family. Earlier today, attorney Jessica Corry spoke about a legal and industry coalition formed to potentially sue over portions of HB 1284, the medical marijuana regulatory bill nearing passage. Now, her hu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Tom Tancredo's call for troops on the border picked up by one of his least favorite politicians: John McCain

    Photo by John JohnstonTom Tancredo has a new and unexpected ally.​On Monday in this space, ex-Congressman and former presidential candidate Tom Tancredo called for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border following the murder of ranch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    Tom Tancredo tweets about murder of Arizona rancher Rob Krentz, presumably by an illegal alien

    Photo by John JohnstonTom Tancredo meets Twitter near the Arizona border.​It's not all that unusual for former Congressman and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo to get fired up about what he sees as the unprotected border between the United States and Mexico. In fact, he did so earlier this ... More >>

  • News

    February 4, 2010

    Can a veterans court help former GIs find justice here at home?

    Photo by John JohnstonTom Tancredo meets Twitter near the Arizona border.​It's not all that unusual for former Congressman and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo to get fired up about what he sees as the unprotected border between the United States and Mexico. In fact, he did so earlier this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    Balloon Boy family shouldn't have to pay for sheriff to "look pretty on TV," lawyer says

    Wasn't chasing this sucker more fun than rescuing Mr. Whiskers?​Two weeks ago, David Lane, attorney for Balloon Boy dad Richard Heene, griped that a $47,000-plus restitution charge for leading law-enforcement officials on a wild experimental-craft chase was way too high. That complaint has no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 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 Nation ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 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 ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2009

    Jane Norton for Senate: The next great GOP hope

    Jane Norton.​Last month, the National Republican Senatorial Committee registered a couple of domain names on behalf of former Colorado Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton -- and today, Norton's using one of them, JaneNortonForColorado.com. Up-front: A news item that declares, "Jane Norton official ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2009

    Q&A with local scribe Dan Baum, author of Nine Lives

    11:11 ProductionsDan Baum How do you report on one of the most-covered events in recent U.S. history? That was the conundrum facing Boulder-based writer Dan Baum, then a New Yorker staff writer, when he arrived in New Orleans a few days after Hurricane Katrina. Baum and his wife and writing partner ... More >>

  • News

    November 27, 2008

    Janet Napolitano’s sorry service in Arizona makes her a terrible choice for Homeland Security secretary

    11:11 ProductionsDan Baum How do you report on one of the most-covered events in recent U.S. history? That was the conundrum facing Boulder-based writer Dan Baum, then a New Yorker staff writer, when he arrived in New Orleans a few days after Hurricane Katrina. Baum and his wife and writing partner ... More >>

  • News

    August 21, 2008

    Police and protesters look to the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle for guidance

    11:11 ProductionsDan Baum How do you report on one of the most-covered events in recent U.S. history? That was the conundrum facing Boulder-based writer Dan Baum, then a New Yorker staff writer, when he arrived in New Orleans a few days after Hurricane Katrina. Baum and his wife and writing partner ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2008

    The Bill Ritter Meet the Press Transcript

    11:11 ProductionsDan Baum How do you report on one of the most-covered events in recent U.S. history? That was the conundrum facing Boulder-based writer Dan Baum, then a New Yorker staff writer, when he arrived in New Orleans a few days after Hurricane Katrina. Baum and his wife and writing partner ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2008

    Delegating Denver #38 of 56: North Dakota

    11:11 ProductionsDan Baum How do you report on one of the most-covered events in recent U.S. history? That was the conundrum facing Boulder-based writer Dan Baum, then a New Yorker staff writer, when he arrived in New Orleans a few days after Hurricane Katrina. Baum and his wife and writing partner ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 21, 2008

    Courage Under Fire

    11:11 ProductionsDan Baum How do you report on one of the most-covered events in recent U.S. history? That was the conundrum facing Boulder-based writer Dan Baum, then a New Yorker staff writer, when he arrived in New Orleans a few days after Hurricane Katrina. Baum and his wife and writing partner ... More >>

  • News

    October 25, 2007

    Recreate '68 Plans to Do Just That

    Chicago in 1968 was a place of violence and chaos. Some activists would like to re-create those good old days.

  • Dining

    March 8, 2007

    New Orleans Pearish

    Jax Fish House

  • Calendar

    January 25, 2007

    Troupe Troops

    Jax Fish House

  • News

    November 9, 2006

    HDNet Gains

    Dan Rather tips off for Mark Cuban's network.

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2006

    More Messages: 7 Hell

    Dan Rather tips off for Mark Cuban's network.

  • News

    October 6, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of October 6, 2005

  • News

    September 29, 2005

    An Army of Anyone

    You need a high school diploma to enlist -- or a recruiter willing to bend the rules.

  • News

    November 25, 2004

    The Message

    Gunny for Governor?

  • News

    September 16, 2004

    The Bus Stopped Here

    Along for the ride on the Silver City Express.

  • News

    April 15, 2004

    Pitching Tents

    A camp for the homeless works in Portland. Can it work here, too?

  • News

    February 26, 2004

    Tough Luck

    Why are lawmakers putting up a fight against the Toughman contests?

  • Calendar

    February 5, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Why are lawmakers putting up a fight against the Toughman contests?

  • Culture

    March 13, 2003

    Going Up and Coming Down

    Architects and architecture are in the news and on the walls of Denver's MCA.

  • Music

    January 9, 2003

    Chin Music

    Henry Rollins takes no prisoners, wants no sympathy and gives good quote.

  • News

    August 1, 2002

    Cruz Control

    Educated in the school of hard knocks, Terri and Arturo Jr. still come out fighting.

  • Music

    February 21, 2002

    Don Walser

    Rolling Stone From Texas and Texas Top Hand (Texas Music Group)

  • News

    February 14, 2002

    Chants of a Lifetime

    As the Olympics begin, glory looks certain for America's golden hockey girls.

  • Calendar

    February 1, 2001

    High Flyers

    Remembering the Tuskegee Airmen at the Aurora History Museum.

  • News

    July 13, 2000

    Many Happy Returns

    Paul Zentgraf offers you greetings! and salutations!

  • News

    May 18, 2000

    A Plague on All Your Houses

    Denver readies itself for a bio-bomb — but is the federal program behind this exercise a dud?

  • News

    August 5, 1999

    The Old Man and the Weed

    Eighty-three-year-old hermit Raymond Gutierrez is the state's unlikeliest pot farmer. But did he do it?

  • News

    December 31, 1998

    Strange but True

    Eighty-three-year-old hermit Raymond Gutierrez is the state's unlikeliest pot farmer. But did he do it?

  • News

    June 4, 1998

    Off Limits

    Eighty-three-year-old hermit Raymond Gutierrez is the state's unlikeliest pot farmer. But did he do it?

  • News

    July 25, 1996

    The Committed

    The state pours millions of dollars--and controversial social theory--into a prison for mentally ill felons.

  • News

    January 3, 1996

    THE SNIT HITS THE FAN

    WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THOSE CALLS BY PAT SCHROEDER FOR INVESTIGATIONS? NOT A WHOLE LOT.

  • News

    December 21, 1994

    LETTERS

    WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THOSE CALLS BY PAT SCHROEDER FOR INVESTIGATIONS? NOT A WHOLE LOT.

  • News

    September 7, 1994

    STRAIGHT TIME

    WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THOSE CALLS BY PAT SCHROEDER FOR INVESTIGATIONS? NOT A WHOLE LOT.

  • News

    April 27, 1994

    CONDUCT UNBECOMING

    MILITARY WOMEN UPSET ABOUT INEQUITIES GET A VOICE--AND LEGAL HELP--FROM CIVILIANS.

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