Seven years ago, when Glendale mayor Steve Ward was a law student at the University of Denver, he learned of a midterm vacancy on the city council of the small municipality on Denver’s southeast side. He was then 27 years old and three years out of the Marines, where he…

It was only three years ago in the sprawling San Luis Valley that whites and Hispanics–two groups long plagued by tensions–came together to fight a common enemy. They united to battle a water development company whose attempts to buy up water rights for distant cities threatened the way of life…

The Anheuser-Busch brewery rises from the agricultural flatlands north of Fort Collins like a beer lover’s Magic Kingdom. Rows of flowers line the sidewalks and the road leading to the main entrance, and visitors are invited by sunny collegiate greeters to take the brewery tour, a highlight of which is…

Computer programmer Jack Woehr considers himself a “candidate for the Nineties.” Running for the Democratic nomination in the 6th Congressional District, a seat occupied by incumbent Republican Dan Schaefer, Woehr is mounting a computerized campaign that includes press releases by E-mail and contributions solicited over Internet. Despite those high-tech flourishes,…

In Jefferson County School District, where outcome-based education has been denounced as too radical, you’d expect administrators to be patted on the back for reviving elements of the fondly remembered one-room schoolhouse. But the move to “multi-age” classes has some parents in the state’s largest district angry. Because multi-aging combines…

Eve Meelan bought purple laces for her green Doc Martens to make a fashion statement. But when the fifteen-year-old freshman set boot on the campus of Smoky Hill Senior High School last week, she found her laces tied to the First Amendment. Dean of Students Cathy Brondos told the surprised…

The days should be getting sunnier for anyone living downwind of Rocky Flats. The Department of Energy facility is officially out of the nuclear-weapons business. Secretary of Energy Hazel O’Leary has promised the plant’s dark secrets will be dragged into the light. And the federal government seems serious about cleaning…