Two weeks ago a young newspaper hawker named Robert Lewis caused a stir after he was handcuffed and jailed at Coors Field. Lewis’s incarceration by off-duty Denver police officers on a criminal trespass charge made news because few people realized Denver’s new ballpark has its own private cell block. But…

Coors Brewing Company recently became one of the country’s most progressive corporations. It happened quietly on May 11, when the board of one of Colorado’s top ten employers voted unanimously to expand the company’s generous benefit package (everything from health insurance to adoption assistance) to include “domestic partners”: unmarried adults…

Ten days ago South Dakota senator Larry Pressler blew into Denver for a short overnight trip. When he left he was $25,000 richer, thanks to a fundraiser held in his honor by Tele-Communications, Inc. The Denver cable giant’s timing couldn’t have been better. Exactly a week later, the biggest telecommunications…

Right now Colorado attorney general Gale Norton looks like she should be a shoo-in for Hank Brown’s soon-to-be-empty U.S. Senate seat. She’s won two statewide elections, she’s made herself highly visible in what is normally a dry, low-profile office, and she’s smart. She’s pro-choice, talks tough on crime and pushes…

Susan Casey, who’s running for Mary DeGroot’s soon-to-be-vacant city council District 6 seat, wants the public to know she’s not the typical kind of money-and-politics candidate. She won’t take donations from PACs, corporations, or “special interests.” Her campaign slogan is “Soccer Mom for City Council,” and her literature guarantees that…

Representative Pat Schroeder, who’s still irked by Newt Gingrich’s recent remarks that women are unfit for combat, just may get the chance to prove him wrong. But it’s coming at a price. The Army is currently paying forty civilian women $500 each to subject themselves to a six-month regimen of…

All Swanee Hunt, Denver philanthropist and U.S. ambassador to Austria, wanted to do was write a newspaper column about her newest musical creation: “The Witness Cantata.” Then she used the word “suffering” in a closing paragraph. Now she’s suffering for it. As Newsweek reported it, Hunt’s March 24 column in…

Mary P.’s kids think it’s a pager. And at the community newspaper in metro Denver where she works as an assistant to the publisher, they kid her about how it complements her clothes. At this point, she thinks of it as her “buddy” and says, “It’s with me night and…

Trauma is the kind of injury that can kill you. It’s the scene from ER that starts with flying gurneys, lots of blood and a doctor shouting a laundry list of incomprehensible instructions. That’s if you’re lucky. Because the fictitious hospital in ER is indeed a “trauma center.” There is…

In two dingy rooms of the Barrister Building on Grant Street, a handful of well-educated, well-versed and digitally dexterous Denverites owe their jobs to O.J. Simpson. They aren’t lawyers, journalists or even T-shirt hawkers. They’re not making history, they’re recording it. All night, all day. The television-transcription firm Journal Graphics…

For four days this summer, Denver will play host to an international trade conference and forum. Hosted by Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, the forum will focus on ensuring free trade in the Western Hemisphere. Maybe they should start a little closer to home…