Of Mice and Men Lock ’em up: Julie Jargon’s article on sex offenders (“Arrested Development,” December 5) was well-written and very informative. Nice job! Now let me get to the part of this letter that might offend some people by stating bluntly: Sex offenders, take notice! Fair treatment and understanding…
Robert Wayne Rosberg is a convicted sex offender. Some would say he shouldn’t be allowed the luxury of rejoining society. He should be locked up forever. Castrated. Even killed. But since none of those measures are possible, a judge ordered Rosberg to enter Teaching Humane Existence, a nineteen-year-old Denver treatment…
Just before 6 p.m. on a recent, unseasonably warm Thursday, two young girls exit a nondescript office building off Colorado Boulevard and Louisiana Avenue. The girls, who can’t be more than twelve years old, are accompanied by one of their mothers; they’ve just come out of the Glendale Family Resource…
For the first time this century, Denver’s baby Jesus can remain asleep on the hay, undisturbed in the reflected, garish glory of the City and County Building’s annual display. And the City of Denver can rest easy this month, too, since no civil libertarians or religious activists plan to play…
Since the North American Aerospace Defense Command was locked down to the public in April 1999 — when NORAD brass decided that allowing the great unwashed into the top-secret base in Cheyenne Mountain posed a security threat — only military personnel have been permitted beyond the three-foot-thick steel doors. Military…
Sometimes Teri Cueva forgets she’s an old Anglo lady. She’s 35, married to a cop, the mother of three kids, definitely white, and prone to wearing low-key, almost church-going clothes. But as she spends her days talking with teens on probation, all that recedes. She might lose herself as she…
In hip-hop, size usually matters. Consider “Work It,” a new single in which Missy Elliott declares, “If you got a big , let me search ya/To find out how hard I gotta work ya.” Sometimes, though, a rapper can make a large impact with small equipment, as Denver’s Bass Ghost…
When I was in middle and high school, there was a kid in my class named Dave Ringo, who, thanks to an unjust genetic mutation, was a gifted athlete in spite of himself. He spent the entire weekend and most of the week drinking and smoking in bad company. Yet…
The Invisible Man Trace evidence: I really enjoyed Eric Dexheimer’s “Without a Trace,” in the November 14 issue. As I feel the pressures of the holiday season building, I think I can understand why someone like Terry Johnson might want to disappear. I wouldn’t run away myself, but I think…
He was terrified. At any moment they could leap forward, press a screwdriver to his throat and mug him — in front of God and the whole world. In fact, the way they were glowering at him, they could do much worse. “Hi,” Doyle Robinson offered. “How you doin’?” He…
God said, “Love thy neighbor.” He did not say, “Love thy neighbor…unless you live in Lakewood.” Somebody wasn’t playing by God’s rules one morning last month when they left a blue plastic bag on Diane Caoua’s driveway. Inside was a hate letter, pasted onto Colorado Christian University letterhead. Small type…
Now that Johns TV has become a local cult classic, Detroit is trying to proposition some action of its own. Wayne County prosecutor Michael Duggan has been working with Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and police chief Jerry Oliver to set up a similar show, apparently enticed by reports that Denver’s…
“You know the sound of a Harley?” asks David Uhl. “No other engine sounds like that. It’s loud. And you can control it, orchestrate it — you can scare an old lady, get someone to pay attention and get out of the way. You can save your life! It’s like…
Thanks to the GOP’s impressive voting-booth performance earlier this month, most election-night television newscasts in Colorado and beyond looked as pro-Republican as the party’s own TV commercials. But in the intervening weeks, conservative mainstays have continued to complain that the media in general is liberal to the core. Take pundit…
While serving what he saw as a two-year sentence with the Colorado Rockies, pitcher Mike Hampton won 21 games and lost 28, complained endlessly about his misfortunes and collected more than $20 million from a team to which he contributed almost nothing. Now the pest has gotten his way and…
The Rights Stuff Translation, please: I was shocked, appalled and extremely disturbed by David Holthouse’s report on Naim Amini’s child-molestation case (“Trial and Tribulations,” November 21). How is it that something as obvious as providing a competent translator and advising a defendant of his rights could be so blatantly and…
While big shots come in many sizes and shapes, few best (or baste) the United Way’s official Turkey Trot turkey. Believed to be some sort of genetic hybrid, this strange bird stands six feet tall and easily weighs 200 pounds, give or take a few yams. “I’m definitely a Butterball,”…
The voice in his ear kept whispering, “This is only a formality.” It whispered other things, but they were mostly gibberish. The one phrase he could understand was “This is only a formality.” The voice whispered it while he worried whether the judge would ever ask him to explain his…
After prosecuting cases for the City of Denver for thirteen years, Toya Dawson thought she knew the rules. And the most important rule was also the most basic one: innocent until proven guilty. But then Dawson discovered that the city attorney’s office has a different set of rules for its…
Terri Cruz, the up-and-coming featherweight boxer from north Denver, recently took one on the chin in her drive for a belt. But as she’s done throughout her life, she’s come up swinging. “Oh, yeah,” she says. “I’m still training hard and hoping for a title shot.” Cruz, considered one of…
Tears were still glistening on Democratic cheeks when Cody Wertz, the Colorado Democratic Party’s communications director, was on to a new job — the same position, but in Don Mares’s campaign, a switch Wertz announced by e-mail the day after the November 5 election. What? No rest for the weary?…
The last Golden Circle swingers’ social was the most outrageous yet. “We had a Captain Hook and a Tinkerbell, and she lit up when you touched her,” remembers Delilah, one half of the club’s chaircouple. “We had a Tool Time Girl and a hillbilly couple. It was great.” For Halloween…
