Good Morning! Are you excited for today, day 252 of year 2016? ? , amirite?
Or maybe you don’t give a single pip about the Broncos. Oh, you’re one of them. Well , like I wrote this Roundup, a Roundup for all, no matter your sportsteam allegiance.
Congress goes to court to get answers on Aurora’s VA hospital
“Itap been a long struggle to get straight answers,”
U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, on Aurora’s VA hospital, which has .
There’s asking nicely for something, and then there’s subpoenaing. After months of bickering between legislators and a tight-lipped U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, a U.S. House committee into what went wrong with Aurora’s VA hospital. .
A “screwball Hollywood caper,” complete with horses
I never write “you have to read this,” but this article about the man who was kidnapped from an adult video store, held hostage for five days, whose family paid $200,000 in ransom, and how everyone involved has ties to the horse-breeding industry, well, you have to read this. and if Paul Rudd isn’t on the screen this time next year playing the kidnapee I’m going to be disappointed. .
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The Rundown
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+ Today’s Poll: People using drugs on the Cherry Creek trail are now being given 90-day suspensions from using the trail. ?
+ Articles: , and, will take you to today’s list of articles, no matter the day.
By The Numbers
3 percent
That’s what a new study says . Color me skeptical, I thought regular raises were a thing of the past. Do you get an annual raise? Well that’s a bummer, because this column calls the annual three percent raise “,” and, in my favorite quote from the piece, writes “Itap unlikely that companies will do away with regular pay increases. .” Yeah. Revolt and quit.
Quick Hits
+ Look at . Now .
+ Guess which state is the leanest in the country. .
+ Metro Denver home prices are… wait for it… no not yet… .
+ The presidential campaign has intensified long-standing political divisions, but there is one area of broad agreement among voters in both red states and blue states – a pervasive pessimism that .
+ Republican Donald Trump by tens of billions of dollars on Wednesday.
+ for an article in its in-flight magazine that tells visitors to take precautions in areas of London with large ethnic-minority populations.
+ After studying ten years of court data, two Louisiana State economists found that Louisiana juvenile court judges gave harsher sentences to black children .
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+ NFL’s commissioner disagrees with Colin Kaepernick’s protest, but .
+ Megan Rapinoe was stymied in a bid for a second national anthem protest Wednesday night when Washington’s National Women’s Soccer League team .
+ The career of Estes Park 17-year-old (and transgender) model Casil McArthur started really taking off last year, .
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+ A man with a mask and a gun .
+ Tim Tebow has a new employer, a new sport, yea, .
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What We’re Reading
+ The creepy clown stuff has . This time the clown had a machete. .
+ Ayahuasca may be on the controlled substance list but the psychotropic beverage is hot, hot hot. .
+ Some news from the Burning Man festival: . Tangential: .
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Song of the Day
If I were a football player and football players each got their own walk-on songs that played when they ran onto the field .
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