Good morning folks. Our Denver Post family was struck with tragedy yesterday evening when while crossing Speer in the Cherry Creek neighborhood of Denver.
Words can’t express how warm, enthusiastic and above all empathetic Colleen was as a person and a reporter, so I’ll let her work do it for her. There was no one more professional while telling the kinds of stories that made you proud to work for a newspaper like The Post.
Earlier this week, she . In just the past few years she talked to , members of Denver’s , the and . Then, on a dime, she could turn and write wonderful stories about our state’s food scene, from to .
In 2010, she . As my colleague , I hope she gets one, too.
The Rundown
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By The Numbers
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That’s how many runs the Rockies were ahead of the Dodgers in the seventh inning of the last game of yesterday’s doubleheader. . All the good feelings from the first game, , were wiped away in an instant.
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Quick Hits
+ Downtown Denver is going to be a mess this weekend with Taste of Colorado and the Rocky Mountain Showdown closing lanes and bringing hundreds of thousands of extra people downtown. .
+ John Adsit, who was critically while escorting an East High School protest in 2014, .
+ The Broncos face the Cardinals tonight for the last preseason game. .
+ Walmart , so why not in Colorado?
+ John Bowlen (son of Broncos’ owner Pat) in a domestic disturbance in April, but he’s now appealing, .
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+ The city of Denver has .
+ A hit-and-run driver fled a crash and attempted to elude police .
+ When you’re a receiver , you don’t have much choice but to trust your QB, even one with as little experience as Trevor Siemian.
+ A vibrator (for “anti-wrinkle” use) .
+ The people of Mexico .
+ You can rest easy tonight: Those poor, poor Sports Authority executives .
+ (a.k.a. Chipotle founder Steve Ells’ Country Club home).
What We’re Reading
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+ Things I learned in : his hair was a perm and he hated it, he rehearsed every single word of his seemingly improvised patter and he was a “tyrant” running his business.
+ We’ve shared a version of this before, but it’s worth repeating: (and the rest of us from repairing just about anything on our own).
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Song of the Day
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Artist: Bill Withers
Sounds like: One of the all-time greats singing a powerful tearjerker.
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Hat Tips & Corrections
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