In the early 1990s, residents of the 1600 block of Humboldt Street–a mix of retirees, young professionals and middle-class families–fought to save the block from crime and drug traffic. Today the neighborhood, situated between downtown Denver and City Park, is flush with activity fueled by the massive redevelopment that is…
When Robin Bowman gets a notion to start something, wild horses can’t stop her. In fact, for the idea she’s exploring right now, the horses could only help. They’re part of her equestrian equation, a striking symmetry that’s hard to resist. Here’s the equation: Colorado prisoners tame wild horses in…
Net loss: On Monday, former Denver Post business reporter David Algeo was sentenced to ninety days in the Jefferson County jail, eight years supervised probation and a $2,000 fine for having sex with a fourteen-year-old girl he met and seduced over the Internet. (After their first–and last–assignation, the big-spending Algeo…
While all kinds of smut continues to gush from the Internet pipeline, censorship is alive and well when it comes to the print media. When Metropolitan State College of Denver’s student newspaper, The Metropolitan, wanted to print a full-frontal nude photo of a woman along with an article about artist…
A lease announced earlier this month between the Denver Broncos and the Metropolitan Football Stadium District would give Broncos owner Pat Bowlen virtually all the revenue from football games at the proposed new stadium, including tickets, concessions, parking, and luxury-box rentals. Since Bowlen has made it clear that he wants…
In the fight game, the fun never stops. On Friday night, welterweight Oscar De La Hoya, boxing’s undefeated “Golden Boy,” took eight rounds to dispose of a faded ex-champ, Julio Cesar Chavez, in Las Vegas. De La Hoya had so bloodied his old enemy that Chavez could not answer the…
Somewhere between fumbling potatoes onto his mother’s kitchen floor and bowing on stage with the B.B. King Holiday Revue, George “Guy” Mosley discovered that juggling was his ticket to the bigtime. But that was many years and many miles from the corner of 16th and California, where today the old…
An Icky Situation Bad enough that, come November, we’re going to get stuck in the voting booth for hours trying to figure out the ballot measures. Now you tell me that some of them are there only because Vikki Buckley screwed up (Eric Dexheimer’s “The Buckley Stops Here,” September 17)?…
Two years ago, in an off-election year, Secretary of State Victoria Buckley received nearly $20,000 in campaign contributions. About $5,000 of that came directly from bingo-related businesses: bingo halls, equipment suppliers and the owners of those businesses. Although bingo was originally envisioned as a small, church-basement activity to help raise…
Stew Jackson’s big band is at a rehearsal hall at 20th and Lincoln. Two hours from now, they’re scheduled to go on stage behind the Supremes at Red Rocks, but they can’t decipher the music. The arrangements are a train wreck, Jackson thinks–no one has gone to the expense of…
Is it time for one of Colorado’s gubernatorial candidates to hang it up? The only way to explain Democrat Gail Schoettler’s recent financial relations with US West is that she must have dialed 303-BADKARMA. In the latest campaign-finance reports filed with the secretary of state’s office, Bill Owens, the Republican…
An auction earlier this month of the Gilman Property, 6,000 acres of land adjacent to the Vail ski resort that a judge once called “some of the most valuable real estate in the state, if not the world,” came off as scheduled–but not as expected. Despite the advance hoopla, only…
Drips ahoy: The secretaries got hosed during a recent salary review at the Denver Water Board. But the lawyers got along swimmingly. The controversy started when an in-house survey determined that secretaries, security guards, dispatchers and other “support” staff were making 1.9 percent more than local market rates. That same…
A vast right-wing conspiracy couldn’t get the job done. For that matter, neither could the left-handers. This summer’s hero hit five dozen dingers off 57 pitchers. And in the end, the Chicago Cubs’ Steve Trachsel–who gave up a league-high 32 long balls in 1997–yielded Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire’s historic 62nd…
Plugging Away Chris LaMorte’s September 10 “The Mom Squad” teaches us how, through the magic of one dead little girl and the power of the Internet, people without actual lives of their own can fill the long days and nights by exchanging cyberjabber over America’s telephone system. And unlike its…
“I’m always on the record,” Governor Roy Romer confessed as he sat down with a Washington Post reporter for a 45-minute heart-to-heart last month. The interview was just one in a possibly never-ending series of sincere chats during which Romer, the three-term Colorado governor who took a second job as…
For years you have had the same fleeting thought as you drove by: Jeez, that place looks old. I’ll bet it hasn’t changed since 1944–or 1896, or the Seventies, or Prohibition. And as it turns out, looks are rarely deceiving. Because one day, when you finally stop and open the…
With the new fall television season almost here, how does this premise grab you: A group of women, ordinary gals–housewives, soccer moms, office workers–decide to spice up their humdrum lives by entering the glamorous and exciting world of undercover private investigation. Been done before, you say? Wasn’t Charlie’s Angels about…
Every good entrepreneur knows that a successful business venture requires a mix of personalities that work well together. The eccentric but brilliant software designer can be teamed with an experienced manager, then money is raised, contracts are signed, sales flourish. The right combination of talent can work marketplace magic. Then…
Mrs. Brady’s URLs http://joshua-7.com/mrsbrady/ The online source for all things JonBenet. This site, run by the infamous Mrs. Brady, offers a daily dose of everything remotely related to the Ramsey case, culled from news sources across the country. WebbSleuths http://www.smiley-face.com/webbsleuths/ Decidedly pro-Ramsey in its outlook, this forum boasts an impressively…
Further proof that gardening can be hazardous to your health–or at least leave you digitally impaired–can be found in a nasty little weed that, along with its cousins, is threatening to take over the American West. Like many of its fellow noxious weeds, Russian knapweed is particularly adept at killing…
Acting flighty: Okay, so Denver city officials who’ve spent the last four years on their hands and knees begging an airline–any airline–to launch an overseas nonstop from Denver have earned the right to crow about British Airways’ new London service. Those spiffy new 777s look nifty out on the tarmac,…
