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A City Deal

Denver wreaks havoc with the nonprofits that run its community centers.

By Megan Hall
Mar 8, 2001

After months of delays, city officials announced on February 9 their decisions regarding the future of five of the six nonprofits that currently lease city-owned community centers. For Jan Belle, the director of the sixth nonprofit, the Southwest Improvement Council (SWIC), the wait has been "torturous," and it's not over...
Animal Crackers

P.T. Barnum was a great showman, but Denver's Bart Barnum may be just as good.

By Megan Hall
Mar 1, 2001

Bart Barnum answers the phone in a theatrical fashion, his voice slow and cartoonish. "Barnum House," he says. You ask him if it might be possible for you to come by and take a look at the place. Of course it is, he responds enthusiastically. He would be delighted to...
Ghost Story

The truth about what really happened to Holly Andrews still haunts her family.

By Megan Hall
Feb 15, 2001

Questions about Henry Lee Lucas will be debated for decades. This report is not offered as a final answer. There may never be a final answer. -- Report from the Texas Attorney General's Office, April 1986 A few weeks before Christmas, Tammy Andrews was rummaging through a storage space beneath...
Mint Condition

The Denver Mint is off limits to local authorities even when an employee's safety is threatened.

By Megan Hall
Jan 18, 2001

Walk west across Cherokee Street from the City and County Building, pass through the spike-topped iron gates of the Denver Mint, at 320 West Colfax Avenue, and you may not be in Denver anymore. That's what Mint employee April Garcia has discovered during her ongoing attempt to get a restraining...
Friendly Fire

Some members of American Legion Post 34 never saw much action -- until now.

By Megan Hall
Jan 11, 2001

Rich Navarro never fought in a war, but he sure knows what it's like to be in the middle of a dogfight. Navarro enlisted in the Air Force on February 9, 1955 -- more than a year and a half after the Korean War ended, and nine days after the...

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