The Unfair Force Dishonor roll: I read Julie Jargon’s “Honor Rolled,” in the July 17 issue, with interest, as I have many such stories over the past twenty years. Each case is unique, but a common thread runs through many of the stories. My son’s case was very different from…
For more than forty years, cadets at the United States Air Force Academy have been pledging to live honorably and to abide by a simple code: “We will not lie, steal, or cheat, nor tolerate among us anyone who does.” It is their most sacred tradition, a bond to those…
Andrea Prasse is reviled at the Air Force Academy. Not only was she branded a liar, but she dared to go public about it. So when the superintendent offered to let her return in February, nine months after she was found guilty of breaking the honor code, cadets blasted her…
After last call at the Church, where techno legend Carl Cox had just rocked a sweaty, stylish crowd, laughing throngs of Fourth of July weekend revelers buzzed past both ends of the alley running behind the club. Deep in the shadows, hidden behind a fort of blue recycling bins, Bear…
Denver’s once-friendly doggie daycare industry has gone to the dogs. Since Deb Steinberg opened the area’s first facility, Doggy Day Camp, in what’s now Centennial back in 1991, the industry has been breeding like crazy. Today there are thirteen doggie daycares in Denver alone. “This is the perfect example of…
1. Messy assault accusations aside, Kobe Bryant can’t be faulted for his taste in accommodations after checking into the Lodge and Spa at Cordillera. The Segovia Suite, which can cost $725 per night, features which of the following, according to the Spa’s Web site? A. A butler and a French…
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s new book, Living History, may be sitting on top of the New York Times’s bestseller list, but the true Clinton aficionado’s collection isn’t complete without It Takes a Hillary, written by local author, student teacher and grandmother Cheryl Osburn-Housley. The recently published 35-page “multi-genre work” is…
The Purrfect Storm Itch, itch, itch: Kenny Be usually skewers popular metro celebrities with shrewd, funny insights. However, this was not the case with “Maybe Curiosity Killed the Cats,” his July 10 “Worst-Case Scenario. I understand that he’s trying to add a little levity to a bad situation — but…
The Bullard family has leased the building at 1443 Stout Street for 35 years, most of which were seriously downscale. “It was nothing but a joint all those years,” Rusty Bullard, now forty, admits. And until five years ago, that joint was divided down the middle into two clubs: the…
Depending on your job, there could be fifty good reasons to bring a gun to work. If you happen to work in a law firm, make that a hundred. The top five: 5. Compare muzzle velocity with that smug paralegal’s puny .32. 4. Annual brief-shredding contest, semiauto division. 3. Elegant…
1. According to one expert, cat mutilations sweeping the area may be caused by: A. Roving skinheads. B. Roving pinheads. C. Roving corvids. D. Raving rockers. 2. Andon Guenther, a Denverite kicked off the Paradise Hotel reality show, snickered that which of these was forbidden for contestants? A. Necking. B…
At ten before six on Sunday evening, the last of the Fourth of July weekend’s heat wave blazed over the shiny, happy shoppers braving the third and final day of the Cherry Creek Arts Festival. Sipping four-dollar lemonades in souvenir cups and pushing babies in designer strollers, they perused the…
On the surface, the story of how Father Eustace Sequeira came to Colorado seems fairly straightforward. His decision to study counseling and psychology at Regis University was influenced by the institution’s fine reputation among Jesuits like himself and by the presence in the area of his brother, Everton Sequeira, an…
When I was coming of political age, in the late 1970s, there were important decisions to be made. Learning what adults meant when they used complicated words like “filibuster” and “the Senate,” for example. And, of course, deciding which political party to join. After carefully researching the Democratic and Republican…
From Tancredo to Grave Darts and flowers: Regarding Michael Roberts’s “The Flag-Bearer,” in the July 3 issue: Thanks for the great cover with Tom Tancredo. It’s just what my dartboard desires. Samuel Nelson Denver The Tom Tom club: As an American living and working in Mexico (with a legal permit,…
On the first weekend of summer, more than twenty members of the Colorado Federation of Republican Women gather in a ballroom at the south-metro Embassy Suites for a day of fun and politics, conservative style. Julie Lewis, the CFRW’s District 6 director, is the jubilant mistress of ceremonies, as well…
Tom Tancredo may seem to be the most prominent public figure to have graduated from the Independence Institute, but there’s no shortage of competition for the top spot among the think tank’s alumni. Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton is a former senior fellow and boardmember at the institute. Donald…
For Buddy Schmalz, the buzz about John Hickenlooper going from brewpub owner to mayor-elect is old news. Schmalz has been there, done that. The brewer at the Schmalz-family-owned Dostal Alley Brewpub & Casino in Central City, he was sworn in as mayor of that mountain town in January. Like Hickenlooper,…
Amy Rickords stands near the southbound light-rail station at 16th and California holding two five-and-a-half-inch nails in her hand. “Wanna see a trick?” she asks passersby. Most pedestrians either ignore her or mutter “No” and continue on their way. But for those who stop, Amy will push the nails into…
1. With a hot Fourth of July predicted, the Denver Health Department advises residents to do all but which of these? A. Drink lots of fluids. B. Ice your coffees. C. Avoid hot and heavy meals. D. Don’t use your oven. 2. Which performer has made an explosive tradition of…
The Denver Health and Hospital Authority board of directors voted unanimously last week not to recognize attempts by nurses to organize union representation — after employees at Denver Health filed a lawsuit against the city agency, saying the hospital violated their constitutional rights by threatening and intimidating them and disregarding…
A Boulder correspondent recently — and sullenly — reported that she’d looked at the cheapest house for sale in that town (a 900-square-foot dump), but at $296,000, it was still too pricey. She, or at least her ego, might have taken less of a beating had she instead entered the…
