Three months ago, when the Aronson family of Evergreen filed a lawsuit against their neighbors the Quigleys, charging them with anti-Semitism, it set off a barrage of criticism against the Quigleys and inspired a slew of soul-searching editorials about how Jew-haters still roam Colorado. Following a round of outraged newspaper…

part 2 of 2 Rol Hudler looks like an English professor and smells of pipe smoke. A thin, balding man with round glasses, he is the third-generation Hudler to be editor and publisher of the Burlington Record; his son, who has begun working for the paper, will be the fourth…

part 1 of 2 It took less than 24 hours for Galen Travis to go from feeling like a very lucky man to someone whose luck had run out. Last fall, Travis, a beefy-faced man who grows alfalfa and wheat outside of Burlington, thirty miles from the Kansas border in…

Tom Blach’s family has been ranching for more than a century now, its annual economic fortunes tangled up in the stalks of grass that carpet 4,000 acres of Yuma County rangeland. “Where we make our money is harvesting grass and putting pounds on cattle,” he explains, adding that “you need…

Over the years, Haagen-Dazs, the luxury ice-cream maker, has earned a reputation for trying to put the chill on its competitors. In 1980 the company sued the owners of Frusen Gladje for allegedly using a copy-cat umlaut (and lost). Four years later Haagen-Dazs tried to freeze out an upstart Vermont…

Five weeks ago, Mitchell and Candice Aronson of Evergreen filed a civil lawsuit against their neighbors, William and Dorothy “Dee” Quigley, alleging a campaign of intimidation and harassment driven by anti-Semitism. The time immediately following the legal filing was hectic. On December 7, one day after they filed their lawsuit,…

Like most other serious boxers, Joe Silva has discovered that his time isn’t his own. Five evenings a week he meets his coaches at a gym in a Thornton strip mall. He stalks and feints his way through shadow boxing, first righty, then southpaw. Later, he stages furious rounds against…

part 1 of 2 A friend writes: We want you to know about the tumor in our son Brandon’s neck, and how it was successfully treated by a Dr. of Chiropractic. We credit Dr. Alvin Stjernholm with saving Brandon’s life. Another friend writes: This letter is being written in thanks…

part 2 of 2 Stjernholm, Son and Grandson Buffalo Acres occupies a wedge of land in unincorporated Lakewood between Mt. Carbon Dam, which holds back Bear Creek Lake, and a new golf course. Dr. Stjernholm nods toward a nearby strip of green. He says, “There’s only one–fairway?–on this side. I…

You would think that developer and financier Larry Mizel would have bigger battles to fight. Mizel, who has an estimated worth of more than $100 million, is chairman of M.D.C. Holdings, Inc., the largest real estate developer in the Denver area. Three months ago he sold his interest in Omnibancorp…

Timothy Wacker represents perfectly the conflict that mental-health professionals continue to face over the treatment of sex offenders. He started raping his sister when he was twelve, an activity he continued for several years. “The only time it was really hard was the first time,” he says. “After that, rationalizing…

part 2 of 2 Most people know of aversion therapy through Anthony Burgess’s book, or Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 movie by the same name, A Clockwork Orange. In both, the leader of a gang of violent thugs is conditioned to become physically ill at the sight, or even the thought, of…

part 1 of 2 In a two-week period beginning in mid-October 1993, Spencer Day went on a crime tear that was as remarkable for its workaday brazenness as it was for its repugnance. On October 19 he pulled an eleven-year-old boy off Wood Street in Fort Collins and forced him…

Crime is on the rise these days, although not necessarily on the streets. Television programs such as Cops show real-life alleged perpetrators (their faces tastefully obscured) being busted by real-life cops. Others, such as America’s Most Wanted, reenact crimes and ask viewers with information to call the appropriate law enforcement…

part 1 of 2 Last spring, when Barbara Tepe walked out of her California home, slipped into the car next to her husband and began driving to Colorado, it was not the beginning of a pleasure outing. It was a journey to stay alive. Six months earlier Tepe had been…

part 2 of 2 As much as their cases have become a rallying cry for women seeking payment for the controversial bone marrow transplant treatment, Barbara Tepe and Cynthia Snow could just as easily be held up as examples of why insurance companies ought not to pay. After all, both…

Once it appears, it’s a difficult image to shake: The friendly skies filled with thousands of iced kidneys, livers, hearts and lungs crisscrossing the country on red-eye shuttles. It’s more than just a reason to hope for a turbulence-free flight, though. A group of the country’s largest surgical centers recently…

One year after 2,000-odd runners sprinted or limped across the finish line, the defunct and discredited Denver International Marathon continues to keep the pulse of Denver city officials pounding. The most recent headache comes from south of the border. Three weeks ago Mexico’s consul general in Denver, Ambassador Leonardo Ffrench,…

Last year, when Bruce Benson had the court records of his divorce from his former wife, Nancy, sealed, he became a member of a very elite club. Of the 36,250 couples who filed for dissolution of their marriages in Denver County District Court between 1986 and 1993, only 68 have…

Listening to Denver city officials, residents might be tempted to conclude that the missteps and delays plaguing Denver International Airport are rare blips on the clear screen that is city government. As any city hall veteran can confirm, however, DIA’s holding pattern is unique only in its scale. Consider the…

part 1 of 2 Ever since Bruce Benson began waging his campaign for the governor’s office, his opponents have used his fortune against him by portraying him as a consumer shopping for an office. During the primary, Republican candidate Dick Sargent vowed, “We’re going to take him out with one…

part 2 of 2 The Savings & Loan Connection In 1991 Benson made much public hay over Senator Tim Wirth’s ties to the national savings-and-loan debacle. Specifically, Benson accused Wirth of indirectly propping up an unhealthy industry through the senator’s allegedly overclose relationship with junk-bond company Drexel Burnham Lambert. Yet…