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Are DIA Conspiracies Denver's Greatest Work of Public Art?

By Jared Jacang Maher
Oct 3, 2016

A mutant swarm of conspiracy theories has circled around Denver International Airport since before it even opened in 1995. Hatched in the pre-Internet age of ham radio and self-published pamphlets, nurtured by the first wave of crackpot bloggers and post-9/11 forum-board prophets, DIA conspiracy theories have continued to grow and...
Why Gangbangers, DA Had No Stomach for a Hasan Jones Child-Abuse Trial

By Jared Jacang Maher
Aug 19, 2016

In his wheelchair, Hasan Jones rolled into the courtroom for his sentencing hearing Thursday, August 18, for the death of two-year-old Ny’ari Hines. The hearing at Arapahoe District Court finalized a plea deal that avoided a child abuse trial that neither hardened gangbangers nor hardened prosecutors seemed to have the stomach...
Pit bulls as service animals: Denver quietly changes its policy

By Jared Jacang Maher
Apr 29, 2011

For more than two decades, Denver has tenaciously defended its pit bull ban. Years of lawsuits, protests and bad press have done nothing to unmoor Denver's political leadership from their conviction that this particular breed of dog is far too dangerous to allow within city limits. No exceptions... until now...
Pueblo officials peeved about over-budget projects? Hey, at least they're not Denver

By Jared Jacang Maher
Apr 1, 2011

Pueblo's elected leaders are peeved that the city is currently $1.4 million over budget in its ongoing effort to remodel Pueblo's historic City Hall building. Councilmembers there are comparing the project to their experience with the construction of Pueblo's Municipal Justice Center in 2008, when costs rose some $13 million...
Urban mountain bike course on track in Denver after discovery of illegal trail in Boulder

By Jared Jacang Maher
Mar 30, 2011

Parks rangers with Boulder County have shut down an illegal mountain bike trail built down a steep face on the north side of Flagstaff Mountain, after someone now identified as professional mountain biker Mike West was cited for using it. Luckily, extreme mountain bikers will soon have a new spot...

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