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At 10 a.m. this morning, Governor Bill Ritter is scheduled to speak at the dedication of the new Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center, at 490 W. Colfax.
The event will no doubt bring a great deal of satisfaction to family members and others in the community who spent years arguing that the justice center should be named for Philip Van Cise, a fearless former Denver district attorney who fought crime in the Mile High City at the cost of his career.
Alan Prendergast’s feature article about Van Cise, published in February 2008, brought attention to this quiet campaign, which he further documented in a series of blogs (click here, here and here for samples). In the end, Van Cise’s story was so compelling that his supporters won the day. A day like today.
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