Today is my favorite day of the week because it’s the day that we honor french fries. Bless you Friday, bless your greasy and delicious heart.
Friday is also a day when we tell you about all the things you could be doing with your life this weekend. Such as go to the Alamo Drafthouse and (and watch the movie as well) (Can’t make that? , , or ). You could also . Or . Or, in Denver. Not interested? , and .
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That Marijuana Decision
“I regard this as a red-letter day. If things work as they should, this will be the first day of a cannabinoid pharmaceutical industry.”
Robert Sievers, a chemistry professor at the University of Colorado who studies cannabinoids
Now that the dust has settled on , reporters Alicia Wallace and John Ingold look closer at what’s going on and find .
It’s not all flowers and cake: .
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By The Numbers
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That was the last year an enclosed shopping mall was built in the United States. Macy’s, a staple of many existing shopping malls, announced yesterday it’s . Read here, and .
Quick Hits
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+ The photo of this woman’s face is priceless: . More photos, these of , here.
+ who avoided prison time after being convicted of raping a drunk woman to the outrage sparked earlier this year when a former Stanford University swimmer was sentenced to six months in jail after being convicted of raping an unconscious woman.
+ The Colorado Avs coach . Related: .
+ Adams County prosecutors charge two in .
+ Someone (probably definitely multiple someones) planted a five-acre marijuana grow operation in Pike National Forest, west of Colorado Springs, and now .
+ Come November, Coloradans will vote on . Poll: ?
+ When an officer pulled to a stop behind 32-year-old Brianne Martin’s car in Colorado Springs and approached her open window at 12:40 a.m., she spat out a hard boiled egg. . <– This story comes from our resident champ of unsolved murders and weird crime stories, .
+ show evidence of contacts between Clinton’s State Department and donors to her family foundation and political campaigns.
+ explains why .
+ Colorado’s Attorney General & Secretary of State are asking residents to please, .
+ Donald Trump accuses Barack Obama of being .’
+ Itap another sign that America’s job market is hot: too long while businesses make up their mind about hiring them.
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What We’re Reading
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+ There have been 157 recorded blooms of corpse flowers in the 119 years between 1889 and 2008 — and eight already this year in the U.S. … ? See also: .
+ 15 years after 9/11, ?
+ In a battle royale, to-the-death knife fight among every U.S. president, ?
+ Mortality, .
+ A Visual History of
+ Shoutout intern Hayley, whose last day is today (bye Hayley!) and who shared .
Song of the Day
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Hat Tips and Corrections
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Correction The last enclosed mall that was built in the U.S. was built October 2014 in Sarasota, Florida. You can read the New York Times’ story about the mall that bucked the trend here