The tapeworm has turned: A tip-top secret tape making the rounds these days promises “the truth” about all the deal-making behind Denver International Airport. Pop it into the VCR, though, and what do you get? “Corruption in High Places,” a 56-minute quasi-talk show starring Stew Webb, January 1993 Westword cover…
October 18, 1994–Two days after the miracle, the stunned Montreal Expos are crying in their Beaujolais. Don Baylor is pinching himself. And Denver fans–all five million of them–can’t seem to sober up. The Colorado Rockies have amazed the world by winning the National League pennant in just their sophomore year,…
A Matter of Corpse Regarding “Deliverance” by Arthur Hodges in the March 30 issue: Mr. Arthur Hodges, you are a sick and twisted writer…I love it! Madison Sterling Denver The Edge of Right Regarding “Life on the Edge” by Karen Bowers in the March 23 issue: Our town is not…
A partner in a law firm that has been paid more than $800,000 in fees by the city of Denver for airport legal work was censured two years ago for conduct the Colorado Supreme Court said “involved dishonesty and misrepresentation.” Darrell E. Nulan was suspended from practice for sixty days…
Three weeks ago, Herschel Caldwell, the owner of a small newspaper company called Focus Journals Inc., filed for protection from his creditors under federal bankruptcy laws. The filing came as little surprise to, among others, Oliva de Castanos, a former editor of Caldwell’s Denver Medical Journal, who had been trying…
President Clinton’s Superfund environmental cleanup plan has sparked criticism by a group that includes some of the country’s most prominent polluters, but the problem isn’t Clinton’s affinity for environmentalism. These business leaders are joining the ranks of environmentalists who claim that the president isn’t green enough. In fact, one of…
part 2 of 2 Perhaps because of the company’s financial straits, Mack’s lavish lifestyle began causing some discomfort in corporate headquarters. Harold Arnold, for instance, who sold Children’s Enrichment to CCCNA and who remained on the company’s board for a short time, says Mack’s style made him uneasy. “Sometimes you…
part 1 of 2 On a recent sunny day in the beginning of March, Donald Mack relaxes in his Greenwood Village house, a brick-and-wood affair that sprawls over a couple acres off Belleview Avenue. An Arabian mare moves slowly in the side yard (the stallion is kept in Parker). A…
It is still well before lunchtime, and Loren Newton is on a road west of Denver, headed toward Morrison for his fourth corpse of the day. He is at the wheel of his car–a big, bizarrely retrofitted station wagon that, at the moment, has no body in the back. He…
All wet: Whitewater spilled over into Denver last week with President Bill Clinton’s televised explanation of why he’d misstated the size of the Clintons’ loss on the land deal. That loss–estimated at $68,900 for the past two years–was actually about $22,000 less, Clinton said, blaming the discrepancy on an inaccurate…
These are strange days in the arenas and on the playing fields, wouldn’t you say? The White Sox have sent nagging irritant Michael Jordan down to Single A, and the United States government is sending the Patriots to South Korea–probably because they haven’t won the AFC East in about a…
In order to maintain his buffness, Playgirl’s Man for March Greg Lane eats practically no fat at all. He says this caused his blood cells to get “all clumped up.” Luckily, a blood doctor told him to eat mass quantities of broccoli, and he was cured. At the moment, Greg…
The so-called “pay-to-play” municipal finance racket appears headed out the window, and with it a bountiful source of campaign money for elected officials throughout the United States–including Denver mayor Wellington Webb. Within the next few weeks, the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., is expected to enact a rule…
Suffering from insomnia? Irritability? Fatigue, angst or general malaise? Maybe it’s time to pull the plug. Charles Bolta will be happy to do it for you. One of only twenty electro-ecologists in the country, he tests houses for electromagnetic fields (EMFs). A former lighting designer (and self-described “hippie-turned-new-ager”), the appropriately…
Leave Us a Loan Congratulations to Patricia Calhoun for cutting through all the crap the mayor’s office has been handing out about Denver International Airport (and Denver’s daily papers and TV stations swallow). Her March 23 column, “Loan Sharks,” was the only honest piece of journalism I’ve seen on this…
Julie Ireland storms into rehearsal, late, her long dress and long hair streaming behind her, her bare feet stomping along. “These guys are very, very fast,” she says of the comedy group she is about to direct. “Anything you teach them, they suck up like a sponge, although there’s quite…
The municipal judge in Edgewater is a convicted felon and former mental patient, but he’s considered an improvement over his predecessor. That judge reportedly was fired because he couldn’t seem to make it to court on time. The town’s police chief carries out “reverse stings,” in essence importing criminals to…
Pew-nitive damages: “Go thy way, and sin no more without consulting us first.” That was the word handed down from the Church of World Peace (whose international headquarters is located in Denver) to Tonya Harding and Michael Jackson, both of whom received plenary indulgences for their sins–perceived or real–from the…
This March Madness thing now has two lunatic faces–one male and one female. It wasn’t always so. Just a generation ago, the only women you saw around college gyms in the spring were waving pompons or cheering for their boyfriends. Through no fault of its own, women’s basketball was cause…
Construction delays at Denver International Airport have grounded a key DIA side project: the “Air Train,” the city’s sole attempt at providing efficient mass transit to the distant facility. “Definitely the fact that we’ve rescheduled the opening has put the Air Train on the back burner,” says Mike Dino, an…
A city bureaucrat’s pet pig has given new meaning to the term pork-barrel politics. In 1992 Carol Moran, the administrative assistant to current Denver City Council president Dave Doering, brought a Vietnamese pot-bellied piglet home to the Capitol Hill apartment building she owned with then-friend Karen Christiansen. Louise, as the…
The Girl Can’t Help It I read the “The Girl Next Door” by Andrea Barnett in the March 16 issue. Being a former racist, I understand the white pride issue. I am white and am very proud of my race. I think everyone should be proud of who they are…
