AltWeeklies Wire
Runaways of a Certain Age Stuck in Catch-16new
For all the resources available to troubled teens, the safety net has huge holes when it comes to helping kids in their mid teens whose behavior isn't too extreme.
Westword |
Alan Prendergast |
12-14-2005 |
Children & Families
Restaurants Try to Identify Denver Post's New Criticnew
To the chagrin of dining critic Tucker Shaw, his picture is hanging in the kitchens of eateries around Denver, in the hope that the staff will recognize him and give him special treatment.
Checking Out of Lockdownnew
Suicides by inmates of the Colorado State Penitentiary, where prisoners spend 23 hours a day in their cells, put the spotlight on medical care at the supermax.
Westword |
Alan Prendergast |
11-30-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Denver Going to Potnew
The town named drunkest big city of America has passed an initiative legalizing possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. Champions of alcohol and pot discuss the relative merits of their vices.
My Way for the Highwaynew
Some neighbors of I-70 in north Denver want their section of highway rebuilt as a tunnel instead of a viaduct that rips through their community.
Westword |
Luke Turf |
11-30-2005 |
Transportation
Mom's Away!new
Silvia Johnson wanted to be a "cool mom," so she held innumerable parties at her home, where she provided alcohol, marijuana and methamphetamines to kids and had sexual relations with at least five boys, ranging in age from 15 to 17.
Westword |
Adam Cayton-Holland |
11-23-2005 |
Crime & Justice
The Price You Paynew
The Colorado Department of Corrections just changed the way people can send money to prisoners, hiking the cost up -- way up.
Westword |
Luke Turf |
11-08-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Mr. Bignew
While amassing an empire of a dozen McDonald's franchises, Steve Bigari has used his restaurants as a sort of mad scientist's laboratory. His most recent innovation moves drive-thru operators from restaurants to a distant call center.
Westword |
Joel Warner |
11-08-2005 |
Business & Labor
A Mighty Windnew
The results of Xcel's wind-power program are still in the air. The greatest obstacles to developing wind power are not technical but political, advocates charge.
Carbon Loadingnew
Xcel’s solution to rising energy prices includes a lot of coal. Is that a bad thing?
TV Editor Takes New Gig With Al-Jazeera Internationalnew
Gabriel Elizondo of KMGH-TV/Channel 7 in Denver has taken a job with a spinoff of the controversial Arabic network.
Open Space Disappearing North of Denvernew
As retail projects continue gobbling prairie north of Denver, they leave behind aging malls that were once considered economic boons, and have now become economic bombs.
A Day in Court for Neighbors of Rocky Flatsnew
Opening arguments finally got under way in the class-action suit against the two companies that operated the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant until 1989.
Westword |
Patricia Calhoun |
10-18-2005 |
Environment
Wanted: More Than a Few Good Men and Womennew
A scandal exposed by a Denver high school student made Army recruiters stand down, but now they're working hard to put more boots on the ground.
Tags: Iraq war veterans, Privacy, a bill sponsored by Representative Mike Honda, a California Democrat, all of Colorado and parts of Nebraska, American Friends Service Committee, Montana and Wyoming, pacifists, Quakers, Religious Society of Friends, Sergeant Rodney Shivers, Student Privacy Protection Act, United States Army Recruiting Battalion Denver
An Army of Anyonenew
Young people need a high school diploma to enlist in the Army -- and a few report finding a recruiter willing to help them create one.
