Colorado Central Articles From — June 1995

Essay by Hal Walter

Mountain Life – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

I knew I was on the edge when I actually sat down with paper and pen to diagram how I could spell out a certain two-word expletive using wrecked car bodies. Read the rest of this article

Article by Steve Voynick

Mining – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Frontier-era miners had a saying that no mine was ever really worked out. They closed or abandoned their mines simply to await “better times.” Read the rest of this article

Review by Ed Quillen

Telephony – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Mid-Mountain Regional Directory
1995 edition
Desert Bloom, Inc. Read the rest of this article

[amazon-product]1882308158[/amazon-product]Review by Ed Quillen

Mountain Life – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

A Wilder Life: Essays from Home
by Ken Wright
Published in 1995
by Kivakí Press
ISBN 1-882308-15-8 Read the rest of this article

[amazon-product]0816514135[/amazon-product]Review by Jeanne Englert

Boating – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Breaking Into the Current: Boatwomen of the Grand Canyon
By Louise Teal
Published in 1994
by The University of Arizona Press
ISBN 0-8165-1413-5 Read the rest of this article

[amazon-product]0963500503[/amazon-product]Review by Lynda La Rocca

Local History – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

My Search for Augusta Pierce Tabor – Leadville’s First Lady
by Evelyn E. Livingston Furman
Quality Press, Denver
ISBN 0-9635005-0-3 Read the rest of this article

Essay by Ellen Miller

Politics – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Newt Gingrich has riled people again, which isn’t real news. What is news is that maybe a Washington beltway politician might be getting a glimmer about the rural West. His remarks came recently on a network talk show and he put out the remarkable theory that Westerners don’t like or trust the federal government. Read the rest of this article

Sidebar by Marcia Darnell

Growth – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

I have to credit Roy Romer. Most government officials faced with a problem huddle with their cronies in the locker room and say, “What are we gonna do?” Romer is, at the least, making a show of talking to The People. At best, he’s actually listening and acting on the input he receives. Read the rest of this article

Article by Marcia Darnell

Growth – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Gov. Roy Romer’s fifth Smart Growth Summit in Alamosa began with the introduction of an obscure journalist named “Ed Quillian,” who presented a compelling argument for his assertion that Chicago won the Mexican War. Read the rest of this article

Sidebar by Martha Quillen

Growth – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

About the governor’s conferences on “Smart Growth”:

“Since this is the third in a series, how smart are we getting?”Jerry Swingle, Western Colorado Congress Read the rest of this article

Essay by Martha Quillen

Growth – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Visioning conferences. Smart Growth Summits. Meetings. Committees. Symposiums. Seminars. Last month, Ed and I attended three conferences concerning growth — and thereby missed dozens of similar gatherings. Read the rest of this article

Brief by Central Staff

Growth – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Colorado’s population is growing at a faster rate than Africa’s, which means a new Denver in five years, and New Mexico is growing faster than Brazil or India. Read the rest of this article

Brief by Central Staff

Highways – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

We’re all familiar with the adopt-a-highway program, wherein a civic group agrees to pick up trash along the road.

Now the Colorado Historical Society and the Colorado Department of Transportation are looking for some volunteers to adopt a new generation of roadside historical markers. Read the rest of this article

Brief by Central Staff

Growth – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

“It is nuts around here. We have been discovered.” So said Julie Hupper, town manager of Buena Vista, in the April 23 edition of the Denver Post. Read the rest of this article

Brief by Central Staff

Politics – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

A recent edition of National Review reports that Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt, secretary-general of the United Nations, has endorsed Maurice Strong as a potential successor when his five-year term expires in 1997. Read the rest of this article

Brief by Central Staff

Tourism – June 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Even though it often appears that Colorado cares only about its interstate highways and adjacent sacrifice zones, that’s not quite true. Among Colorado’s roads now are 21 Scenic and Historic Byways, selected by a commission named by Governor Roy Romer in 1989. Read the rest of this article