When we offered last month to help the U.S. Department of Energy find a new name for Denver’s nuclear bomb factory, we weren’t just blowing smoke. In fact, our fission expedition generated a whopping 14.2 tons of entries! And while we could pick only one winner, they all got glowing…
Jerome Wayne Dingerson took the Rocky Mountain News for a ride–literally. Dingerson, owner of the Lakewood-based Bear Creek Horse & Carriage, last month provided holiday hayrides for young News carriers and their families. Unbeknownst to the News, however, he was on probation for sexually assaulting a twelve-year-old girl who once…
It is not yet time to print playoff tickets and map a parade route through downtown, but your Denver Nuggets–the problem children of the National Basketball Association–are growing up. Last month they put together their first .500 December in four years. They won five straight before collapsing against Philadelphia Sunday…
When Ron Maynard announced his plans to build a new railroad repair facility just outside the tiny Weld County town of Hudson in 1988, the government couldn’t be helpful enough. Maynard’s company, Rocky Mountain Railcar Inc., received tax credits and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fixed-interest loans from state…
The Eternal Flame A thousand thank-yous to the “Flaming Heterosexual” who responded to Patricia Calhoun’s December 15 column, “Grave Doubts,” on Madrid St. Angelo and Taylor St. John. He (or she) hit the nail right on the head, albeit unwittingly, when he (or she) said, “Will homosexuals please, please get…
John Horan has handled a thousand bodies, but even now, after 25 years, the forgotten ones still touch him.”This was an eleven-year-old child,” he says, examining a green cardboard package no larger than a deck of cards. “I can’t imagine how anyone could abandon the remains of an eleven-year-old child…
Matthew Davis Denver A smoking deal: Wow, could it be another holier-than-thou diatribe from our favorite shrill liberal (and I mean that in the worst possible way), Westword editor Patricia Calhoun, regarding the evils of guns? If Westword is so concerned about saving lives, how about issuing a moratorium on…
