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Think of John Elway and the rest of the Broncos’ offense trying to score without their front line. Or the Avalanche endlessly trying to kill an eternal double penalty. Now you know what it’s like to work in Secretary of State Vikki Buckley’s division of commercial recordings, which is struggling…

Justice, Boulder Style Thanks for a great article on Alex “See No Evil” Hunter (Juliet Wittman’s “He Aims to Plea,” September 24). I can only hope that as Election Day 2000 nears, the people of Boulder will finally do the right thing and vote him out. As inbred as Boulder…

For six hours we’ve been surrounded by elk we never see. They move around us in tight circles, mating, pooping, bugling, but always invisible. How can this be? After all, between the two of us, we have one person who knows hunting backward and forward and one who at least…

Listen carefully. In the 21 months since JonBenet Ramsey’s body was discovered in a Boulder basement, Colorado has tried the two men charged with the Oklahoma City bombing, convicting both Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols and sentencing McVeigh to death. We have hosted the Summit of the Eight. We have…

Sunder Schlagel: You mean I make love better to you now than I was when I was ten years old or eleven years old? Jill: Mmmm-hmmmm. Yeah. Sunder: Mother, you cut me down… Sunder: That’s basically it. The sex life was just probably the only thing that was working out,…

Mark is looking after a friend’s three-month-old baby. “I’m her godfather,” he says proudly. Mark is a young man with fair hair and fresh coloring, sipping an iced mocha in a downtown Peaberry’s, the baby sleeping in a carrier at his feet. Mark, now twenty years old, is one of…

In the early 1990s, residents of the 1600 block of Humboldt Street–a mix of retirees, young professionals and middle-class families–fought to save the block from crime and drug traffic. Today the neighborhood, situated between downtown Denver and City Park, is flush with activity fueled by the massive redevelopment that is…

When Robin Bowman gets a notion to start something, wild horses can’t stop her. In fact, for the idea she’s exploring right now, the horses could only help. They’re part of her equestrian equation, a striking symmetry that’s hard to resist. Here’s the equation: Colorado prisoners tame wild horses in…

Net loss: On Monday, former Denver Post business reporter David Algeo was sentenced to ninety days in the Jefferson County jail, eight years supervised probation and a $2,000 fine for having sex with a fourteen-year-old girl he met and seduced over the Internet. (After their first–and last–assignation, the big-spending Algeo…

While all kinds of smut continues to gush from the Internet pipeline, censorship is alive and well when it comes to the print media. When Metropolitan State College of Denver’s student newspaper, The Metropolitan, wanted to print a full-frontal nude photo of a woman along with an article about artist…

A lease announced earlier this month between the Denver Broncos and the Metropolitan Football Stadium District would give Broncos owner Pat Bowlen virtually all the revenue from football games at the proposed new stadium, including tickets, concessions, parking, and luxury-box rentals. Since Bowlen has made it clear that he wants…

Somewhere between fumbling potatoes onto his mother’s kitchen floor and bowing on stage with the B.B. King Holiday Revue, George “Guy” Mosley discovered that juggling was his ticket to the bigtime. But that was many years and many miles from the corner of 16th and California, where today the old…

An Icky Situation Bad enough that, come November, we’re going to get stuck in the voting booth for hours trying to figure out the ballot measures. Now you tell me that some of them are there only because Vikki Buckley screwed up (Eric Dexheimer’s “The Buckley Stops Here,” September 17)?…

Two years ago, in an off-election year, Secretary of State Victoria Buckley received nearly $20,000 in campaign contributions. About $5,000 of that came directly from bingo-related businesses: bingo halls, equipment suppliers and the owners of those businesses. Although bingo was originally envisioned as a small, church-basement activity to help raise…

Stew Jackson’s big band is at a rehearsal hall at 20th and Lincoln. Two hours from now, they’re scheduled to go on stage behind the Supremes at Red Rocks, but they can’t decipher the music. The arrangements are a train wreck, Jackson thinks–no one has gone to the expense of…

Is it time for one of Colorado’s gubernatorial candidates to hang it up? The only way to explain Democrat Gail Schoettler’s recent financial relations with US West is that she must have dialed 303-BADKARMA. In the latest campaign-finance reports filed with the secretary of state’s office, Bill Owens, the Republican…

An auction earlier this month of the Gilman Property, 6,000 acres of land adjacent to the Vail ski resort that a judge once called “some of the most valuable real estate in the state, if not the world,” came off as scheduled–but not as expected. Despite the advance hoopla, only…

Drips ahoy: The secretaries got hosed during a recent salary review at the Denver Water Board. But the lawyers got along swimmingly. The controversy started when an in-house survey determined that secretaries, security guards, dispatchers and other “support” staff were making 1.9 percent more than local market rates. That same…

Plugging Away Chris LaMorte’s September 10 “The Mom Squad” teaches us how, through the magic of one dead little girl and the power of the Internet, people without actual lives of their own can fill the long days and nights by exchanging cyberjabber over America’s telephone system. And unlike its…