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What Passes for Medical Care at Denver's Downtown Jail Can be Costly and Even Fatalnew

Cancer patient Tim Thomason didn't think he could feel any worse. His Denver jailers showed that he could.
Westword  |  Alan Prendergast  |  08-04-2008  |  Crime & Justice

How Seriously Should We Take Rush Limbaugh's Fantasies of Riots in Denver?new

Anyone who dismisses the syndicated talk-show host as a credibility-free joke does so at his own peril. Although he's embarrassed and contradicted himself plenty of times during recent years, he still attracts an audience estimated at 13.5 million people per week.
Westword  |  Michael Roberts  |  05-05-2008  |  Media

Pedicab Entrepreneur Steve Meyer Has Started a Rolling Revolutionnew

Meyer wants to sell pedicabs to the world -- but is the world willing to go along for the ride?
Westword  |  Joel Warner  |  04-28-2008  |  Transportation

The FBI's Anti-Terrorism Task Force Goes Info-Shoppingnew

FBI agents in search of people planning violence at the party conventions have been questioning anarchists in Missouri. Among those they targeted was Nate Hoffman, one of the organizers of the leftist bookstore Crossroads Infoshop in Kansas City.
The Pitch  |  Nadia Pflaum  |  08-13-2004  |  Civil Liberties

The Truth behind Shove-It-Gatenew

The controversy behind Teresa Heinz Kerry's remark to editorial writer Colin McNickle looks different to those familiar with the paper that publishes his work. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, which is owned by right-wing billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, has a long history of attacking Heinz Kerry and her husbands.
Philadelphia Weekly  |  Steve Volk  |  08-05-2004  |  Media

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