Day 243, 2016. 69 days until November’s election. 233 days since , 131 days since , and two since .
But today, day 243, it’s no day to be morbid. Nope. It’s another day of the Roundup.
The Big Stuff
Colorado voters will not make any fracking decisions after two proposed failed to get enough signatures to make the ballot. , though one of the anti-fracking organizations challenges that assertion and may also file a legal challenge over the ballot denial, which means there’s a chance that this story is not over. .
Denver voters won’t vote on private marijuana clubs. More than 7,500 signatures were turned in supporting this measure (for Denver ballot measures, 4,726 valid signatures are required) but only 2,987 signatures were deemed valid. .
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The Rundown
* Today’s Weather: , also, the
* Today’s Editorial:
* Today’s Poll: ?
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* Articles: , and (announced in yesterday’s roundup), will take you to today’s list of articles, no matter the day. Today. Always today.
By The Numbers
1,391
That’s 1,391 parking tickets, written by one volunteer in one year, all for disability parking violations. . And that’s something advocates for disabled people .
Quick Hits
+ Maybe you heard: . I listened to this personal 1979 interview of Gene Wilder last night, .
+ Remember when I wrote last week that if , that I would publish a list of all your picks? Well I lied: I’m only publishing the best picks (sorry Dennis, Chong’s Bongs Field at Mile High did not make the cut). But on the bright side, that list of sponsors is a poll, and that’s fun, . Early and often, people, early and often.
+ Hillary Clinton , while in tangential news Justice Department lawyers investigating police agencies for claims of racial discrimination and excessive force are increasingly turning up a different problem: .
+ to campaign for Hillary Clinton.
+ R.I.P, .
+ Authorities in Adams County are investigating the .
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+ A man told Arapahoe County investigators he crashed his car in an effort to kill his 2-year-old son, he said “.”
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+ A in Conifer leaves a mother dead and her son injured.
+ The most famous heavy-metal band to hail from Des Moines is (tangentially) in the news again, after the FBI put out a APB on .
+ in connection with a fatal drag-racing hit-and-run that .
+ At least six officers confront and then .
+ I bet you didn’t even realize that we had been living .
+ This morning we re-launched , a site that carves up the Denver Police Department’s reported crime data and gives you details about , or, say, in the city, or . If you’re devoted to the map that used to be the entire site, don’t worry, . Note: If you have questions or suggestions about the site, I built everything but that map there, drop me an email and let me know.
What We’re Reading
+ Taylor Swift, .
+ Goat Yoga Yoga Goat Goat Yoga Yoga Yoga Goat Goat Goat Yoga Yoga (try saying that five times fast)
+ With this phone number, one could .
+ It pays to be a .
+ From July: .
+ The history of
+ Maybe you’ve heard of these… .
+ A 25-year-old figured out he could (legally) set up a website, a PAC, and (absolutely unethically) take donations from Trump supporters. , none of which has gone to Trump.
+ For the tinfoil-heads amongst us: .
+ , which sounds nuts, but also sound click-baity, but also sounds nuts. These are confusing times we live in. Note that . My favorite comment on this story so far: “.”
Song of the Day
but if you’re like me and it played in your earphones while you were jogging over the weekend then you probably set a landspeed record yourself. Bless you, bless your beats, bless your rhymes, Jay Z.
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Hat Tips and Corrections
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