Good morning! It’s Tuesday ( or so try not to be too disappointed).
The Tool Kit
Here’s everything you need to chart your own course: Today’s weather story (), something and a link to and a link to .
Lyft wants to be the first (and last) part of your public transit trip
“Itap the only program in the nation that is going to have this (proprietary) app and fully subsidized ride-share. We want to see if we can have success with it and expand it.”
Allison Wittern, spokeswoman for the city of Centennial
So you’re a city with a great bus and rail system, ready to whisk your residents around quickly, cheaply and with less impact on the environment. Good for you! But what if, because you’re a sprawling, car-oriented suburb, where a large portion of your residents live more than a mile from the nearest transit station? This is the by offering residents in a test area a ride — arranged by Lyft — . John Aguilar .
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“These Games have made it obvious that the top two sports in Brazil are: 1) Futebol, the unofficial state religion, and 2) Booing athletes made in the USA.”
Mark Kiszla’s in Rio and he’s turning in some fantastic columns, including , a piece on how and a blunt .
+ , because we’ve got those columns, and the right news to help you make sense of the flood of Olympic events.
Surge pricing (quite literally)
Xcel has dropped a bid to charge customers a flat fee to access the electrical grid (while lowering the per-kilowatt cost) , writes Aldo Svaldi. The news is a big win for proponents of home-based solar power, but it might be a little confusing for everyone else. Read the whole story to see exactly .
By The Numbers
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That’s the number of days that Joe Sakic and the rest of the before the Avs’ first game of the . Good luck, Joe.
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Quick Hits
+ Wheat Ridge, one of my favorite suburbs, gets exactly one stop in the expanded light rail transit system, and they’re working to .
+ Former Colorado senator Ken Salazar .
+ Colorado voters will have the chance to make it .
+ Milwaukee’s police chief, fresh off , said .
+ A methane “hot spot” hovering over the Four Corners area has 250 sources according to NASA and .
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+ The newest trend in the skyrocketing craft brew scene? .
+ One of the promises of the slow legalization of marijuana was always the parallel rise of hemp. But three years into the nation’s biggest experiment, .
+ Gunmen stormed a tourist restaurant in Puerto Vallarta and kidnapped a half-dozen men, and new evidence shows that one of the kidnapped
+ An “act of God” flood from a 48-hour torrent of rain has and .
+ Groupon, formerly known as the place you thought about buying a coupon for a massage from but never did, is .
+ Americans love their cars. Part of that love, I’m convinced, is the small sense of freedom that comes with knowing that if you really wanted to you could just get in your car and just drive away from your problems. Which is why I think Americans are resistant to getting electric cars that can go 100 miles on a single charge, .
+ Chipotle, in an attempt to win back your business, .
+ The Rockies have been so close to being good this season. But the key stretch that will determine their playoff fate .
What We’re Reading
+ I had a bad day involving birds yesterday (see the Corrections section below) so to troll me, features editor and travel writer sent me this fascinating story about a band of women in India .
+ Since the only segment of society that seems to get anything done in this world is the military, this story argues, .
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+ If you were reading one of our stories about , one detail may have jumped out at you. The gold medal winner, Ruth Jebet, was constantly referred to as “a native of Kenya running for Bahrain.” Turns out Jebet is part of a .
+ Breaking up with someone used to be (mostly) a big fight or a heartbreaking conversation, then you just avoided the person for the rest of your natural life. Pity the poor millennial and their intertwined digital lives, .
Song of the Day
Song: ““
Artist: Mazzy Star
Sounds like: A sharp knife wrapped in soft velvet.
Head over to our , or, if you don’t have a Spotify account, .
Hat Tips & Corrections
Oh boy, folks, did I have a doozy of a day yesterday. As many, many of you noticed, I said the “swans” were returning to San Juan Capistrano (which would be a beautiful/terrifying sight, I’m sure, but not fair to the swallows that actually make the yearly migration) and I used “bail” instead of “bale” talking about the Farmer Olympic event of hay baling. I fall upon your collective linguistic mercy.
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