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RNC Day Three
The amount of news coming out of the Republican Convention continues to astonish. Last night from the night’s actual headliner, Donald Trump’s running mate .
Ted Cruz turned nine minutes of prepared remarks into . The speech ended in a chorus of boos from the convention floor, as , escorted her out.
+ Hickenlooper appears to have been added to a new, longer list, one that you and I are members of: .
+ of people taking responsibility for Melania Trump’s plagiarism in her speech on the convention’s opening night.
We’ll have updates on what’s going on in Cleveland throughout the day, so .
“Can you put a call in to your supervisor? The city attorney? … Is there any way we can avoid this possibility? … This is going to change my life,”
Denver District 4 state representative Dan Pabon, from police body camera footage of Pabon, who .
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By The Numbers
77.7 million
, a record number, up from .
Is it the weed or is it a ridiculously effective tourism marketing campaign? According to a research firm hired by the Colorado Tourism Office, . Even though . But now, at the request of the Colorado Tourism Office, they did more research and found out it wasn’t the weed. So there you go.
Quick Hits
+ Papa John’s is in the news after the franchise apologized for a Denver employee’s (since fired) . Note: A photo of the receipt with the n-word spelled out is in the article.
+ Some mayhem this morning: , , and .
+ Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne joined the Associated General Contractors of Colorado and other politicians and construction groups Wednesday to that will be needed in the next seven years.
+ This is the story of an unarmed man — cellphone video taken moments before the video show the man laying in the street with his hands up.
+ Talking with elderly parents about when to stop driving can be a difficult conversation. But the deadly situation an 81-year-old Denver woman now finds herself in could serve as a cautionary tale. In that light, wrote up this guide on .
+ “The Bachelor” star . Higgins will face incumbent (who is also ) this November to represent District 4 in Denver in the .
+ A Colorado resident who was denied a passport for refusing to check “male” or “female” on their passport application filed a lawsuit, and now . Related: , one of the first of its kind.
+ You have until the end of the day Friday to sign up for . , and .
+ The proprietors of Cheapertaxes LLC bilking the government of millions of dollars.
+ Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones abandoned after . Some have said those people, , were exercising their free speech rights… .
+ Mark Kiszla: .
+ Nederland’s back in the news, this time for… . There’s a photo that goes with the story which is so nonchalant as to be kind of amazing.
What We’re Reading
+ because of Amazon’s problem with counterfeits (). Dear reader, we have a question for you: Have you purchased what turned out to be counterfeits from Amazon?
(click through anyway for the amazing tweet from a woman who ordered a doormat and got a photo of a doormat instead). (h/t for the tip and the links on this story)
+ for those in the U.S. without insurance.
+ is ‘an amazing win for consumers.’
+ ???????? Sea boar emerges from Baltic Sea, (video).
+ The author has been . Related:
+ Have you heard of the style of art? Have you seen North Korean art? I answered a firm “no” to both until I read this article and clicked through this slideshow National Geographic put together about .
+ .
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Song of the Day
It’s political convention season, when parties left and right search for the tune that will make their convention complete. The triumphant chords of Springsteen’s Born In The U.S.A. make that song an easy pick, but…
did you know the version of that song that’s played on the radio isn’t the first version Bruce Springsteen recorded?
Today’s song , which Springsteen recorded when he recorded the songs that ended up on his “Nebraska” album, and which matches the emotional candor of the lyrics in ways that the radio version just obliterates.
Head over to our , or, if you don’t have a Spotify account, .
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The beat on this two-minute jam is exactly what you need for this long weekend
Today’s song is , because we haven’t had any Leonard Cohen yet, and it’s Leonard Cohen time. Head over to our and help.
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