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Good morning and happy Monday, folks. Did you enjoy your special sneak preview of autumn on Saturday? I’ll admit that my mind has already started thinking about all the many things I’ll be roasting and baking once I can actually turn my oven on again. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your internal body temperature regulation) it’s still very much summer, so grab an iced coffee and let’s get down to business.
The Rundown
+ Today’s Weather: , even after our tiny taste of fall this weekend.
+ Today’s Editorial: ““
+ Today’s Poll: ?
+ Articles: Every article we published , , , and a .
A small-town battle with heroin
“Itap everywhere. Itap all over our county. Itap not just in one town. Itap in every one of our towns.”
Deputy Tyerek Kirkland of the Otero County Sheriff’s Office
Heroin has long been entrenched in Denver and other major Colorado cities (), but in the last several years, the opioid epidemic has spread to some of the most remote, least-patrolled parts of the state, . “Five, six years back, everyone was doing pills. All of the sudden in the summer of 2012 and 2013, it just exploded,” said Eric Gronemeyer, a recovering addict who works as a recovery counselor in the area, echoing the cycle that has . But in places like Otero County, there are no drug task forces or massive resources. Often, it’s just an understaffed sheriff’s department and a tasked with slaying a dragon. You need to . It’s hard to read, but very important.
QB or not QB? Everyone’s sick of the question
“I just squandered a great opportunity to separate myself and I put the team in a bad situation,” he said. “There’s no excuse for that. Poor, poor quarterback play.”
Mark Sanchez, multiple-fumbler and Broncos quarterback
Yeah, it’s preseason. Yeah, we’re missing starters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right when the Broncos fandom thought that a victor would emerge in the QB battle, . So awful that Nick Groke writes that it .
I could spend more time on this, but there’s a fantastic thrice-weekly newsletter that does for the Broncos what we at the Roundup do for news. or .
By The Numbers
10,000
That’s how many — that added a 10 percent tax on all tanning services. I would say a steady drumbeat of doctors and scientists saying just how unhealthy UV exposure is for you and people like “” probably haven’t helped business either.
Quick Hits
+ Patricia Livingtson, the 81-year-old who struck and killed 14-year-old Cole Sukle in Denver earlier this summer .
+ Topgolf has . (I know, I’m mad at myself for that lazy pun, too.)
+ Denver is .
+ Even though the U.S. men’s basketball team , Denver Nuggets 21-year-old big man Nikola Jokic isn’t going to complain about his silver medal.
+ Violent threats against schools are making students in ways that no other generation has experienced.
+ The people who grow Rocky Ford cantaloupes say that they’re “twice as sweet” this year, but they might not be trustworthy. How about you just ?
+ True story: and it was actually really tasty.
+ The man behind Backstreet Boys and N’Sync and about 1,000 other boy bands .
+ You have to read this Jason Blevins story about a Grand Junction . That’s living your best life if I’ve ever seen it.
+ The man behind the Dueling Pianos Roadshow in Denver was also .
+ The world’s largest model train store .
+ One of every three Salvadorans in Colorado lives in Aurora, so the city is fighting tooth and nail to .
+ , according to the city’s auditor.
+ (reminder, it’s 50 times more powerful than heroin) and many were mislabeled.
+ There’s only one Denver home on the Parade of Homes this year, .
+ I don’t know much about the Tragically Hip or Gord Downie, but to Canadians, .
What We’re Reading
+ Over on the Denver-centric corner of Reddit () user “jhwkdnvr” posted an YouTube clip of a 1988 Channel 4 (Bob Palmer! A very young Larry Green!) report about . (the bank robber was shot and killed by police on camera) was so striking that a few years later, it was , starring nobody you’ve ever heard of (, but man, it’s intense).
+ It’s pretty easy to get down on the way elections work in this country, but as Colorado Public Radio points out, .
+ Most businesses will throw a big party for being open for 10 consecutive years. So how do you think that this is going to celebrate?
+ “The scourge must stop.” Apple, Google and AT&T are assembling, Voltron-style, that account for 90% of the phone calls you get.
+ Auto mechanics and a creative photographer , because why wouldn’t you do just that with your limited time on earth?
Song of the Day
“I didn’t know Phil Collins had, like, swagger.”
My girlfriend Sarah, upon watching this video for the first time this weekend.
Song: “” (An all-time great video in which the band parodies popular early ’90s commercials)
Artist: Genesis
Sounds like: The Top 40 radio you listened to as a first-grader (or an intensely catchy and just fantastic rock and roll song that was unfairly looked down on by hipsters and prog rock fans alike for the last 25 years).
Head over to our , or, if you don’t have a Spotify account, .
Hat Tips & Corrections
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