It doesn t seem quite like just yesterday that the Denver Curmudgeon Club in
the early 1990s was leading the charge against the construction and
financing of Denver International Airport, but I remember it well because I
reported their antics while I was at the Rocky Mountain News.
The chief
Curmudgeon was my podmate and mentor, Rocky columnist Gene Amole, who died
May 12, 2002.
Ol Geno was wrong, I mused, as I sat through a recent presentation by
airport executives at the DIA Partnership s “In Focus” meeting.
Led by newly
installed DIA Partnership president Mary Rose Loney and city airport chief
Turner West, the chest thumping and back-slapping about DIA s success could
have resulted in a dozen or so broken arms; it was that enthusiastic.
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