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Phil Anschutz

The Miracle Worker

By Andy Van De Voorde
Jan 29, 1998

One night in 1968, a 29-year-old Phil Anschutz sat in the bar of the Casper, Wyoming, airport cutting the biggest deal of his life with an oil wildcatter named Jeff Hawks. Outside, in the direction of Gillette, the sky was on fire, the result of an inferno that had erupted...
The End of the Line

A farewell to the Moffat Tunnel Commission, Colorado's most madcap state agency.

By Andy Van De Voorde
Jan 15, 1998

After years of bedeviling some of the state's most powerful people, the Moffat Tunnel Commission is about to disappear. The obscure state agency, which was intended to do nothing more than oversee a pair of ancient railroad and water tunnels under James Peak, will chug into the sunset on February...
A Little Soused on the Prairie

Six decades after Prohibition failed, a Colorado town known for living it up considers going dry

By Andy Van De Voorde
Dec 4, 1997

The eastern-plains town of Grover has never been bashful about its drinking. Tammie Byner recalls the time her mother was roped by a drunken cowboy while walking down Main Street during the annual Earl Anderson Memorial Rodeo. Revelers have been known to topple clean off the Pawnee Buttes that tower...
The Jet Set

The go-go years of the 1980s resurface in a bid for the old Stapleton Airport.

By Andy Van De Voorde
Sep 25, 1997

The last time Denver super-developer-turned-S&L-deadbeat Bill Walters was heard from, he was lying low in his wife's California condo, ducking calls from the press and hoping not to hear a knock on the door from the G-men assigned to mop up the nation's thrift crisis. Walters had a lot to...
Big Wheel

Local Baptist preacher Acen Phillips has a passel of fancy cars and a devil of a history in court.

By Andy Van De Voorde
Aug 28, 1997

The Reverend Henry Lyons, the embattled president of the nation's largest black denomination, has come under fire in recent weeks for driving a Rolls-Royce that he allegedly purchased with church funds. Perhaps when Lyons is in town this week for the annual meeting of the National Baptist Convention USA, he...

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