“I call it the gargoyle,” says Scott Stone, owner and sole proprietor of the Stone Fossil Co. of Frontier, Wyoming. “It’s one of the most incredible finds ever. I mean, it’s a fifty-million-year-old gargoyle.” Stone has never seen the piece, but, like many others, he has heard about it. He…
In 1975, Colorado’s brash young governor said no to the highway lobby. Newly elected on an environmental platform, Dick Lamm vowed to “drive a silver spike” through plans for a southwest suburban beltway linking I-70 and I-25. Lamm said the highway would foster suburban sprawl and gridlock and that the…
Proponents of the Animas-La Plata Water Project (ALP) in southwestern Colorado have agreed “in concept” to a reduced version of the project that knocks non-Indian water users out of the picture, according to confidential documents obtained by Westword. The Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute tribes, whose tribal councils have…
Patrick Robb’s business philosophy is as unambiguous as the army tanks parked outside his small South Denver home. Taxpayers, he argues, spent a fortune bankrolling the fiercesome weapons of the Cold War. Now that the war is over, it’s time to get some back. “I look at it this way,”…
G-string: This week’s Denver Summit of the Eight has inspired a global village of cottage industries hoping to bask in the reflected glow of the 50-watt klieg lights. On the commercial side, there’s the Faux Show opening Friday at the Art & Artists Gallery, with “repainted great masterworks” from France,…
Financial consultant Richard Daniel has been on the receiving end of more than $30,000 in city contracts the past few years, including the job of selecting a developer to build Denver’s controversial eighth municipal golf course at Green Valley Ranch near Denver International Airport. At the same time, Daniel, who…
Letty Milstein may get her day in court after all–the Colorado Supreme Court. The mother of flamboyant Denver socialite Judi Wolf, Letty has been caught in the middle of a year-long battle over her freedom since her daughter petitioned the Denver Probate Court to appoint a temporary guardian in April…
Over the weekend, Dante Bichette, Ken Griffey Jr. and their brethren in The Bigs tried something new–interleague play. Meanwhile, Kale “Gilly” Gilmore, Pat “The Deacon” Massengil and their friends tried something old–baseball circa 1862. Guess who had the better time. Amid Saturday afternoon cries of “Huzzah! Fine handle!” and “From…
The Late Shift Excellent story by Karen Bowers about the murder of the security guard (“Graveyard Shift,” June 5). The number of people at the Denver Wastewater facility saying “I can’t believe this” probably hasn’t decreased since the killing, either. Imagine the joyous commute to work (is someone going to…
Everything is going according to plan in Boulder. Not according to the “plan” cited by police chief Tom Koby back in January–back when it seemed like there might actually be an arrest in the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, Boulder’s only official homicide of 1996. And not according to the plan…
The town of Laporte sits on the edge of the Roosevelt National Forest, its back turned to the interstate a few miles away, and that’s how it should be. Fewer than ten miles from the heart of Fort Collins, Laporte is the kind of nostalgic refuge from the big city…
This month Letty Milstein gained a permanent guardian–and lost her independence permanently. Refusing 83-year-old Letty the right to appear at her own hearing last week, as well as the right to hire an attorney to represent her interests at that hearing, Denver Probate Court Judge C. Jean Stewart ruled on…
Over the years, the Pikes Peak Hill Climb has survived fatal crashes, inclement weather on the windswept summit and even the oddball behavior of a Texan named Bill Williams, who in 1929 insisted on pushing a peanut up the 14,110-foot mountain with his nose. But a proposal to pave the…
Denver mayor Wellington Webb is taking advantage of the upcoming summit of industrial nations to push a personal agenda that ranges from special-interest politics to the interests of an old friend. While he was in Washington last month trying to line up federal money to help pay for the Denver…
The year-end edition of this year’s Bolt Action student newspaper at Manual High School provides a window into the world of the next generation. It’s not a pretty view. Gone, apparently, are the days when fellow students told one another to “Stay as sweet as you are” and when soon-to-be-graduates…
A special prosecutor has dismissed criminal contempt charges against Idaho Springs attorney Titus Peterson, bringing to a close a case some lawyers had characterized as a threat to the state’s entire defense bar. “I think the special prosecutor did the right thing,” says Peterson’s lawyer, Paula Greisen. “These charges should…
Summit chanted evening: Shortly after the annual Cinco de Mayo debacle on Federal Boulevard last month, the Safe City’s Youth Commission delivered to Mayor Wellington Webb, the Denver City Council and assorted “decision-makers” a report on its recent “Youth Summit.” The results were not exactly of Sermon on the Mount…
So I say to my agent, I say: Listen, I’m doin’ all the things it takes to be successful. I’m givin’ a hundred and ten percent every day. On D, I’m goin’ to get it in the gaps, hittin’ the cutoff man and usin’ my instincts for the game. So…
The Wolf at the Door Steve Jackson’s pseudo-expose of excruciating ennui on the Milstein-Wolf debacle (“Mommy Dearest,” May 22) was a tragic waste of forests. I was acquainted with Judi and Marvin Wolf during my tenure as a social chronicler for the Rocky Mountain News; I found them to be…
Don DeFiore is an early riser, and the way he figures it, if he’s up, he might as well go to work. He often arrives at the City of Denver’s wastewater building a good ninety minutes before the start of his 7 a.m. shift, using the extra time to relax…
The Denver City Council chambers, resplendent in white and gold, are nearly empty the night of May 15 as the seven members of the Public Safety Review Commission file in, businesslike, for their monthly meeting. There is the feeling that the commission, which reviews citizen complaints of police misconduct, is…
That hits the G-spot: The most unfortunate timing of the week belongs to Denver mayor Wellington Webb, who scheduled his announcement of G-8-related downtown beautification projects at 1:30 p.m. Monday–the exact moment the Oklahoma City bombing-trial verdict was read. But, hey–at least the return of the verdict means that all…
