Is that a gun in Dr. Norm Resnick’s pocket? Yes, and he’s not glad to see you. The beleaguered radio talk-show host on the USA Patriot Network can’t really say who would shoot him, but he has been packing double heat since the April 19 bombing of the federal building…

In 1974 Michele Wallace lost her life to another human being in the Rocky Mountains. But other predators weren’t through with her. For the next eighteen years, various creatures picked at her remains and scattered them in the wilderness near Kebler Pass, just west of Crested Butte. Before she turned…

The 150 people gathered at a local church last Saturday were irked by the thought of liberal journalists putting their clammy secular fingers on America’s pulse. But judging by the performance of Rocky Mountain News deputy editorial-page editor Dave Shiflett, they would be lucky to encounter a journalist who even…

John Frew has never held public office. But he knows how to give a politician a bloody nose–and he’s gotten a few in return. When the 38-year-old Park Hill attorney, lobbyist and political consultant was still in his twenties, he was enough of a campaign veteran to conduct a workshop…

Amendment 16, the innocuously worded anti-obscenity measure on November’s ballot, has the potential to stir up more passion than most blue movies. And in a strange twist that recalls Victorian-era anti-smut crusades, Denver’s bluebloods have been recruited to bankroll the amendment and serve as foot soldiers. While proponents say the…

part 1 of 2 In the midst of a mind-numbing ramble about the Founding Fathers, lecturer Marty Nalitz finally said something worth remembering: “Every one of those guys was a right-wing, Bible-thumping fundamentalist!” Nalitz, whose real job is hosting talk radio on the nationwide USA Patriot Network, was preaching to…

part 2 of 2 Tom Tancredo has been stirring the political pot in Colorado for two decades. In the Seventies, he and other freshman legislators who hated environmental laws and other government mandates were dubbed the “House Crazies.” They were successful in installing a new speaker, rancher Bob Burford. When…

part 2 of 2 Norm Resnick may relish his combative reputation, but when it comes right down to it, his Dr. Norm routine is often meek. He usually cuts off callers rather than argue with them. Epperson’s conspiracy theory went “beyond my comfort level,” he says, and adds that one…

part 1 of 2 As a professor of education for twenty years at the University of Northern Colorado, Norm Resnick specialized in training prospective teachers how to handle the emotionally disturbed. And in light of that, his new career as a radio talk-show host makes strange sense: His callers worry…

Cliff Moers went to a boarding school in Colorado Springs, but in some ways it might as well have been on another planet: The teachers insisted on using one language while the students used another. Now Moers is trying to start a charter school in the Denver area that would…

The beautiful Victorian castle above Colorado Springs where blue-collar bluebloods live out their final days proves that highly skilled manual labor can produce stunning results. But as the people inside the castle can testify, even the finest craftwork doesn’t last forever. Since 1892 the Union Printers Home has been a…

One day last month an army of bulldozers and house-movers showed up, and there went Irene Redfern’s neighborhood. But not Irene Redfern. For the past six decades Redfern’s life has revolved around the intersection of Downing and Evans. When Safeway decided to zap more than a dozen houses on her…

The information highway begins with a sharp right turn just outside Windsor. From the roof of the Windsor Center, a small office building on the edge of this farm town fifty miles north of Denver, your brain will board a parabolic dish paid for by beer prince Jeffrey Coors and…