part 1 of 2 It’s early Saturday, just after 7 a.m. on a crisp autumn day. The ash and locust trees that line the sidewalks around 20th Avenue and Vine Street are bright with change. The elderly bungalows behind the trees look no different from those in many older, well-kept…

part 2 of 2 In their lawsuit against the City of Denver, Lane, Sullivan, Powell and two women claim that the city has taken sides, choosing to align itself with Planned Parenthood. “Complaints…by Planned Parenthood, its employees and supporters are routinely and vigorously prosecuted, no matter how spurious,” the suit…

Two lawsuits alleging that the City of Denver harasses anti-abortion protesters seem to be in their death throes. But that didn’t stop one of Mayor Wellington Webb’s top aides from blaming the litigation for the mayor’s refusal to support a program designed to prevent the spread of AIDS. During an…

Taxpayers shelled out more than a quarter of a million dollars over the past year to try to determine whether some rocks in a Boulder field constitute a federally protected Indian sacred site. The money was used to pay representatives of fourteen federally recognized tribes–many with nebulous or transitory historic…

part 2 of 2 Myles demanded that teachers put more time into helping students prepare their self-evaluation portfolios, “which, of course, meant more work,” says Honnecke. “And some of them did not like that.” “In particular, she and Ted Bettridge often butted heads,” says one Open School staffer. “You could…

part 1 of 2 High school senior Rebekah Myles is a teenager with plenty on her mind–and a legal muzzle that prevents her from talking. Otherwise, she’d love to discuss what happened to her mother, Karla Myles, a school principal who lost her job and her reputation when a female…

The new-age movement has invaded Rocky Mountain National Park–and knowingly or not, modern-day mystics are destroying sites of historical significance to American Indian tribes. The damage is being done by people who move rocks and other artifacts in places where Indians once lived or conducted religious ceremonies, says Kenny Frost,…

Students expecting to graduate in October from the licensed practical nursing program at Denver’s Concorde Career Institute have been told they must wait until January. Greater than their disappointment, say some nursing students, is their fear that the education that cost them $12,000–many times the price of LPN programs at…

part 2 of 2 In the last quarter of her junior year Pauline was ready to quit, this time for good. It wasn’t just the prejudices of a few misguided people that wore her down. Working and studying was a drain; there was never enough money, and she was ashamed…

part 1 of 2 Thin and frail, Pauline Robinson lay down on her couch. She would have liked to read a book to pass the time, but her cataracts made that all but impossible. The difficulty was irritating; there was still so much she wanted to read, and at her…

After a tough fight, a second charter school will finally open in Denver this fall. But it won’t be the controversial Thurgood Marshall school, nor will it be another proposed school aimed at helping at-risk inner-city kids. The lucky winner goes simply by P.S. 1, a so-called urban school based…

They spent their young adult lives looking after kids and husbands, cooking and cleaning. And then Arla Tolman and Suzanne Martin decided they wanted something to safeguard their futures. They wanted careers–as dental assistants. What they say they got was the financial and psychological equivalent of a root canal. That…

part 2 of 2 The elder Cousins was the epitome of self-discipline. He’d purchased his first home in Atchison, Kansas, when he was seventeen years old and had it paid off by the time he was eighteen. Then he moved to Denver to work for the Pullman Company, selling the…

part 1 of 2 Stan Dillard stares hard at a drop of rainwater that has worked its way through the roof to the ceiling. It hangs for a moment, then plunges to the thin carpet covering the floor of the Fraternal Club of Dining-Car Waiters and Porters. “Got a leak,”…

A controversial black gay AIDS activist has been run out of town with a bloody nose–assaulted by an apartment manager, he says, a convicted drug dealer who worked for his former employer and arch enemy: the Urban League of Metropolitan Denver. The dispute, which took place in an apartment complex…

A statewide program that pays for medication needed by people with AIDS recently dropped a drug, ganciclovir, that prevents blindness. The Assistance for AIDS-Specific Drugs (AASD) program was established in 1989 to give Colorado’s AIDS patients quick access to some medicines, eliminating much of the paperwork and many of the…

The federal government intends to erect a controversial new building in Boulder despite opponents’ contentions that some of the land slated for the bulldozer contains an American Indian sacred site. The flaw in the opponents’ argument, according to Clair Green, a spokeswoman for the General Services Administration, is that representatives…

part 1 of 2 The motorcade wound slowly through the snowy streets of the city, following the hearse that carried the body of Denver police officer Shawn Leinen. Leinen, 28 years old and a three-year veteran of the force, had been shot and killed a few nights earlier by a…

part 2 of 2 Doug entered the Washington Hospital Center program for pastoral care in September 1987. For his field training he was sent across the street to the National Rehabilitation Hospital. He got off to a rocky start, though, when he was told to put together a Sunday service…

Antoinette Marcel had her day in court last week. But the swami didn’t show. So magistrate Terence Hunter of Boulder District Small Claims Court concluded that Swami Amar Jyoti, the guru of the Sacred Mountain Ashram west of Boulder, sexually assaulted Marcel more than twenty years ago. And Hunter awarded…

part 3 of 3 The detectives asked Matt if he knew the expression, “What are you claiming?” “Claiming, it’s like, it’s sort of territorial,” he replied. “Or it could also be like, you can claim a part of a group, too. You can be like, `I claim, you know, I’m…

part 1 of 3 A little after noon on April 16, 1993, an office worker at Paddock Center, a vocational education school in Boulder, peered out the window as she dialed the police. “I want to report a gang fight,” she said. A few minutes earlier, she had watched as…