Author: Kevin Simpson
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New state law brings hope to Colorado mobile home residents
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On a late-August Sunday afternoon, state Rep. Meg Froelich readied the meeting room at the Sheridan Library for a town hall with constituents. There was one item on the agenda: a recently enacted law designed to give mobile-home owners more protections and a way to handle disputes with the managers and park owners who control…
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Colorado farmers hurt by drought worry it could get worse
OLATHE — John Harold charges his Chevy through chest-high stalks of sweet corn. He’s talking on his phone, scribbling notes. He’s got corn-harvesting crews spread across the Uncompahgre Valley, picking more than 100,000 ears a day of his trademarked Olathe Sweet. The fields of onions need weeding. His beans, too. More than 100 fields of…
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Building returned to former WWII internment camp site in southern Colorado
DENVER — If buildings could talk, the dusty storage structure that has rested for decades in a park beneath the Granada’s water tower might tell stories about the seventh-graders who giggled and chattered as they assembled floats for the annual homecoming parade. But the building speaks most eloquently about its function from 1942 to 1945,…
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Colorado WWII vet could get recognition after bomber wreckage found
DENVER — Even at 96, Armand Sedgeley recalls long-ago events with the clarity of the raw, 22-year-old Army airman he was on the day he fell from the sky over Italy. Sedgeley, who lives in a Lakewood retirement community, never sought recognition for his actions during World War II, when the B-17 “Flying Fortress,” on…
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Out-of-state shelters dogs find hope in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER — The black Labrador retriever mix with a splash of white on his chest gazes quizzically at the Denver Dumb Friends League volunteer snapping his photo — a freeze-frame soon to be posted online in the hope that his beseeching eyes might connect in…
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Podcast of Colorado Classic could violate Lance Armstrong’s cycling ban
U.S. anti-doping officials raised concerns Friday that fallen cycling star Lance Armstrong’s plans to create podcasts at next week’s Colorado Classic could violate his ban from the sport and threaten sanctioning for the event. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said only that it has “advised” race organizers on the rules. The sticking point is not Armstrong’s “Stages” podcasts…
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Facing inevitable liver transplant, young girl didn’t need to look far for a living donor
Peri Erickson, all 25 pounds of her, turns to her mother in the hospital exam room, curls her right arm in the air and demands: “Feel my muscle.” Claire Erickson gently pinches the flesh of her daughter’s slender biceps and smiles. “Dang, girl, you must be working out,” she says. At 3, Peri hasn’t been…
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Getting to goodbye: An Aurora couple’s struggle to employ Colorado’s new aid-in-dying law
When the time came to grant his wife’s final wish, Herb Myers took the bottle of pills from his safe and went to his home workshop and set it on the flat surface of the table saw. With shaking hands, he pulled apart the capsules, one by one, and emptied their contents onto a dinner…
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Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson touches all bases in first Colorado appearance
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, saying he represents the views of most Americans on the issues, told an enthusiastic rally Monday evening not to listen to opponents who say supporting him is pointless. “When somebody says to you that you are wasting your vote, how is there not a more wasted vote than voting for…
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What drives Donald Trump supporters in Colorado?
The four neighboring Lakewood couples gathered for dinner and watched the Republican presidential debates for months, rotating as hosts and favoring various candidates until December, when a show of hands revealed the group tipped toward Donald Trump. “As we learned, as we discussed, things took a direction,” recalls Charles Patricoff, a 63-year-old retired aerospace worker.…