Recently added articles from Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO):
OBITUARIES & MEMORIALS.(News)
Aug 25, 2008 ... SCHUMANN, Memorial Service, Tuesday, 9AM, Crown Hill, 29th and Wadsworth (west side). Interment, Ft. Logan. ROBERTS, LUCILLE Born Stella Lucille Smiley in Arvada, CO. Died August 20, 2008. She graduated from Englewood High School in 1942. Lucille met Ronald Roberts in 1940 and ...
The stuff of history.(Spotlight)
Aug 25, 2008; Clarke, Bill ... Byline: Bill Clarke, Rocky Mountain News From a pair of Eisenhower's eyeglasses to a Henry Clay coat-pocket cigar case, from stuff stored in an old box or a dresser drawer to materials that had been carefully curated and were worthy of display in a museum, we were overwhelmed by ...
Teen boy's electronics stash raises questions.(Spotlight)(Column)
Aug 25, 2008; Pfalmer, Beth ... Byline: Beth Pfalmer, Special to the Rocky I found a lot of electronics in my 14-year-old son's room. I don't know how to confront him, as I found them while searching without his permission. Should I ignore what I found? While your son resides in your home, he has no ...
Online reviews get mixed ratings Debate heats up over 'everyman' opinions, which often are biased.(Business)
Aug 25, 2008; Smith, Jeff ... Byline: Jeff Smith, Rocky Mountain News Denver public relations consultant Pat Smith worries that everybody and his sister, qualified or not, are reviewing products on the Internet. Smith has firsthand experience. A former client, TracMe, which made a locator beacon ...
Drawing power Though no longer a weekly cartoonist, Feiffer still wields his political pen.(Spotlight)
Aug 25, 2008; Chandler, Mary Voelz ... Byline: Mary Voelz Chandler, Rocky Mountain News Jules Feiffer gave up a weekly cartoon strip years ago. But this longtime observer of the country's political and mental health is still busy making images that combine his darkly funny take on modern life with a languid style ...
Play it again . . . please.(Sports)
Aug 25, 2008 ... As for the players, it's a go. The guys who put on the pads - not the ones in the suits with the neatly knotted ties - believe the Colorado-Colorado State football series means too much to be discarded. Is anyone listening? No one can say definitively that ...
Rallies mostly peaceful Tensions flare briefly as anarchists block 16th Street Mall buses, tangle with cops.(News)
Aug 25, 2008; Thorn, Patti ... Byline: Patti Thorn, Rocky Mountain News Protesters shouted, sang, danced, chanted, partied, meditated - and even shopped - Sunday in what was generally a peaceful show of diversity. But a few skirmishes with police left no question that any infraction would be met ...
Consumer consumption is bad guy at fest.(News)
Aug 25, 2008; Smith, Jerd ... Byline: Jerd Smith, Rocky Mountain News Listen to activists at Sunday's Green Frontier Fest and the theme is clear: The creed of American consumers - that we need more of everything all the time - needs to end if we are to stop global warming. "We can remake the dream ...
All's well that ends well Quintanilla delivers rare finishing touch to 12-inning game.(Sports)
Aug 25, 2008; Etkin, Jack ... Byline: Jack Etkin, Rocky Mountain News The improbable scene came at the end of a long, strange and even unsightly afternoon. There was utility infielder Omar Quintanilla, of all people, trotting down the third-base line Sunday, tossing his helmet aside and about to jump into ...
Worlds apart - in more ways than one.(Sports)
Aug 25, 2008; Krieger, Dave ... Byline: Dave Krieger, Rocky Mountain News A colleague from New York phoned his grandson back home during the first week of the Olympics and explained to the little boy that when he was going to sleep, his grandpa was waking up, and vice versa. "G," said the 5-year-old ...
Formula one for U.S. Three-year plan returns Americans to top of platform.(Sports)
Aug 25, 2008; Tomasson, Chris ... Byline: Chris Tomasson, Rocky Mountain News Standing on the top step of the podium, Carmelo Anthony took a bite out of his gold medal. It tasted pretty good. "That's the best feeling I've ever had other than the birth of my son," Anthony said Sunday of the ...
Lehrer rested and ready.(News)
Aug 25, 2008 ... As the Broadway musical noted: "You gotta have heart, . . . lots and lots of heart" to cover national political conventions. And that heart must be strong. That's a major reason that Jim Lehrer had heart-valve surgery April 25. He wanted to be in top ...
Gold-medal joy well worth wake-up call.(Sports)
Aug 25, 2008; Saunders, Dusty ... Byline: Dusty Saunders, Special to the Rocky I set my alarm for 2 a.m. Sunday in order to view the final moments when the U.S. men's basketball team would crush Spain and take the gold. There was no crush for the gold. The spunky Spaniards trailed the U.S ....
Rockies 4, Reds 3.(Sports)
Aug 25, 2008; Etkin, Jack ... Byline: Jack Etkin and Pat Rooney, Rocky Mountain News NUMBERS GAME 6shutout innings thrown by the Rockies bullpen during the team's 4-3, 12-inning win on Sunday. Jason Grilli, Manuel Corpas, Brian Fuentes and winner Ryan Speier threw one scoreless inning each and ...
In keeping with the plan Cutler's preseason interception dearth spurs good feelings.(Football Monday)
Aug 25, 2008; Legwold, Jeff ... Byline: Jeff Legwold, Rocky Mountain News Three games, 43 passes thrown, 79 plays run, and Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler came away with nothing in his preseason's work. And that is exactly the total he wanted. As in no interceptions, no fumbles and no ...
Regional scene.(Sports)
Aug 25, 2008 ... Byline: Rocky Mountain News Columbine High School graduate Mariah Johnston scored in the 22nd minute to spark the University of Denver women's soccer team (2-0) to a 1-0 victory Sunday against the University of Colorado (0-1-1) at Prentup Field in Boulder. The ...
Quite a baptism for first-time delegates.(News)
Aug 25, 2008 ... It's interesting to note amid all this historic history-making going down in the annals of history that our own state delegation to the Democratic National Convention is full of firsts. Forty-seven of them. All 47 are first-time delegates. With 55 elected delegates ...
Biden. Really? VP choice a letdown after talk of new politics.(Commentary/Editorial)
Aug 25, 2008 ... Byline: Rocky Mountain News Joe Biden. Thud. If you're going to make an uninspiring choice for your vice presidential running mate - and Barack Obama is hardly the first presidential candidate to have done so - at the very least the choice should be safe ....
A sigh of relief after Day One of protests.(Commentary/Editorial)
Aug 25, 2008 ... Byline: Rocky Mountain News If Sunday is any indication, the massive anti-war protests that some predicted would engulf downtown Denver this week will be anything but. There won't be much rabble to rouse. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has clearly made ...
People of Golden exhibit moral clarity.(Commentary/Editorial)
Aug 25, 2008 ... Byline: Rabbi Levi Brackman Recently I came to a Golden City Council meeting to ask council members to consider a request to place a menorah in downtown Golden this coming holiday season. But a much larger controversy was boiling. In Golden as part of their coverage ...