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Van Cise

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    Five great Colorado whistleblowers

    Philip Van Cise​This week's cover story, "A Dam Shame," looks into the controversy generated by a state dam inspector named John Redding, who raised concerns about ethical violations inside the Colorado Department of Natural Resources--and ended up paying a high price for his concern. People w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2009

    The long, long journey to an all-inclusive Justice Center

    Philip Van Cise. They're going to need some pretty big signs to hold all the names of the august Denverites honored at the city's new justice complex. After a contentious, sometimes bitter and racially charged process that stretched over several months, the Denver City Council finally agreed Monda ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2009

    A Van Cise reprise in the Justice Center debate

    Philip Van Cise. As Christoper Osher reports in this Denver Post article, Mayor John Hickenlooper has added one more to the list of candidates whose names might end up on portions of the new city justice complex: Van Cise. Gangbusting DA Philip Van Cise, the son of a prominent attorney and father o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    No justice for Van Cise?

    A task force has named four finalists in the naming-rights battle over the new Denver Justice Center -- and historic gangbuster Philip Van Cise isn't among them. To those who know anything of Van Cise's remarkable but much-neglected story, the news is a bit puzzling, and disheartening. Not that t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2009

    Justice Center campaign goes straight to video

    In the battle over naming rights for Denver's new Justice Center, two clear favorites have emerged: Dale Tooley, the city's district attorney for much of the 1970s, and Philip Van Cise, the one-term DA of the 1920s who busted a sophisticated ring of con artists and took on the Ku Klux Klan. Tooley w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2008

    Name the new Justice Center for somebody just enough: Philip Van Cise

    Philip Van Cise. On November 19, Mayor John Hickenlooper sent out the formal invitation, inviting locals to come up with names for the two new buildings that will comprise the Denver Justice Center Complex. But the behind-the-scenes maneuvering to find the right name has been underway for some ... More >>

  • News

    February 14, 2008

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters from the week of 2/14/2008

  • News

    February 7, 2008

    Phil Van Cise: Scourge of Denver's Underworld

    Fearless DA Phil Van Cise cleaned up Denver — and it cost him his career. Can a new justice center right an old wrong?

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