My apologies. I’m guessing you’re at work right now, reading this, thinking: “Why am I at work right now, reading this?” You’re at work because you couldn’t take today off. Who cares what the reason is, you’re here, gazing at the holiday weekend on top of the hill. That weekend is still a work day away. A whole, l o n g work day.
But look, you have the Roundup. This isn’t work, and you’re still getting paid. Who will notice if you read this sentence twice… three times… four times. Look at that, you’re ten seconds closer to freedom. Look, you’re two seconds closer. The time, it tick tick ticks. Maybe it’s time to write your boss a thank-you note, from me, for all the Roundups that you’ve read on company time. My coworkers say I’m full of good ideas. I’m not sure they’re being sincere.
People. It’s Friday, and it’s time for The Friday Question: Have you made any weekend plans? That question is pertinent this weekend, because shallow people will judge the quality of your life by the quality of your Veterans Day and Labor Day weekend plans. Not me, no. I’m here to help. Have a link: . Have another: . Have a third: Reporter Dylan Owens’ deep dive into .
And look, here we are, maybe a whole minute closer to the weekend. We made it, you with your eyeballs, me with this keyboard, we’re a minute closer to the exit.
My mom always said “You can’t finish what you don’t start, Joe,” and she was right. I’ve been starting this Roundup for too long. We’re on paragraph five of the start. Let’s do this. Let’s finish the Roundup.
The Big Stuff
on drug activity along the and other Denver parks. Helping them is a new directive that allows DPD and park rangers to issue 90-day park or trail suspension notices to people observed involved in illegal drug activity — a new rule that has Colorado’s ACLU asking questions. The ACLU’s beef: These suspensions preclude due process, also, Denver’s city charter allows its parks director to ban certain uses or activities from its parks, but the suspension means banning people.
The city is hanging its we’re-cracking-down hat on a new number: , an increase in open drug use. Reporter Jon Murray .
We have the next installment in the Aurora theater shooting lawsuit: . Those four are the four who did not settle with Cinemark and are continuing their court appeal in the lawsuit against Cinemark. Remember the hubbub after this June news broke, ? John Ingold’s been on this since the start, and .
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The Rundown
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By The Numbers
408,000
That’s the number of Colorado students who took the standardized tests last spring. , and .
Quick Hits
+ An update on our colleague Colleen O’Connor’s death: . Reporter Kevin Simpson writes Colleen’s obituary, .
+ after his long-awaited immigration speech that definitively ruled out a pathway to legal status for people living in the country illegally.
+ New wildfire alert: burned at least 40 acres Thursday.
+ . Did you know the festival doesn’t announce its lineup until right before the festival opens? True story.
+ We don’t use the word “lawman” as often as we used to, but look, there it is, hanging out in the headline of .
+ I just checked, and Hurricane Hermine has hit Florida and weakened to a tropical storm. So, here’s the latest on , a , and a .
+ The service problems with the train to Denver International Airport have, it turns out, consequences: .
+ In November, Denver voters get to vote on .
+ after .
+ Our Denver Metro crime blotters are a great place for stories of the day-to-day, yet still criminal, things that happen in our towns. Take one of the incidents in this week’s Denver crime blotter: . Or in Aurora, where a neighbor’s car was stolen, then a neighbor boy said he “found” it and “returned” it, and ? crime blotter is a bit more dark: after cutting off the couple in traffic.
Oh but we’re not finished with the sampling from the crime blotters. West Jeffco’s blotter includes the timeless tale of the pizza store employee who gets angry at his coworkers, gets off shift, comes back with a mask on for some reason and . Adams County’s blotter is boring so it doesn’t get linked. Oh but in , .
+ A 14-year-old boy was shot in the back in Grand Junction, and .
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+ The turns .
+ , part of a sharp rise in gun violence in the nation’s third-largest city this year. 90 people were killed in Chicago last month. , which is high, but is not anywhere near Chicago’s level of violence.
+ CDOT and a construction company . Was that because things had gotten so bad? Is that standard construction practice?
+ Find out what is all about.
+ The Denver Broncos .
+ owned by the Maryland Jesuits as part of its effort to atone for profiting from the sale of enslaved people.
+ The Eagle Fire Chief who was charged with stealing $120,000 from his previous job .
+ Advice: .
What We’re Reading
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+ [inside-media baseball link] Man, did you hear about ? It’s as brutal as it is well-reported, hitting so close to the mark that Vice management sent out a worldwide staff memo talking about ways it could improve.
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+ Some swimming lanes at the Rio Olympics .
+ Contrary to established science, .
+ Breaking taco news: .
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