If she feels at all beleaguered, Jennifer Moulton isn’t showing it. Standing behind a podium in the auditorium of Carson Elementary School, Moulton looks decidedly calm despite the anger and the heat. It is after 8 p.m., and more than 200 east Denver homeowners are in the audience, peppering the…
When its new light-rail line is completed this year, Denver will join the ranks of “America’s most progressive cities,” promotional literature for the project says. But construction of the system, some now charge, has involved an old-fashioned conflict of interest. The Regional Transportation District, the government agency building the light-rail…
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…
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…
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…
Rap star Hammer has confronted a sea of troubles over the last two years–sagging popularity, concerts marred by violence, allegations of rape lodged against members of his entourage. Now add to the list a recent judgment against a group of Hammer-owned companies in a lawsuit brought by Englewood’s Great-West Life…
A Chicago-based aviation consultant paid $250,000 by the City of Denver to help plan the future of Stapleton International Airport produced no tangible work other than a twenty-page report on the airport’s main terminal. The city says that the Unison Consulting Group Inc. performed a variety of “management consulting” services…
Chicago-based aviation consultant that was awarded two lucrative contracts at Denver International Airport has a history of involvement in controversial consulting projects at the main airport in Atlanta. Aviation Resource Partners Inc. (ARP), a minority-run firm that has contributed generously to Mayor Wellington Webb’s re-election campaign, has been given more…
The Denver accounting firm Patten, MacPhee & Associates has received a thorough drubbing in the national press over the past two weeks for its role in the hottest scandal of Bill Clinton’s presidency–the Whitewater real estate deal. Now, it turns out, the firm also finds itself near the center of…
