Happy Monday, folks. You probably , dealing with people in your life watching football or successfully avoiding any trace of football. Congratulations to you all. But it’s officially The Working Week again, and that means two things: You have a lot of news to catch up on and you’re probably already planning your weekend (you can’t go wrong with ). I can help you with the news part, too. Let’s get to it.
The Rundown
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Driver killed in bizarre school bus crash
“The bus driver circled back around to this level. We don’t know why.”
Denver Police Department Sgt. Mike Farr
The Legacy High School football team had just returned from a game in Chino, Calif., Sunday afternoon when their bus driver circled back into the airport and crashed into a concrete pillar, . Bruce Finley’s story , but we expect to hear updates, including the identity of the driver, later this afternoon. Keep an eye on or make sure you’re to see the latest.
Love of burritos is stronger than E. coli
“In 25 years of doing foodborne illness cases, I’ve never had a client ask for coupons for the restaurant they had gotten sick at.”
Marler Clark, an attorney who represented 97 Chipotle customers
At least one of the 97 people who were sickened by Chipotle during the Denver-based chain’s run of foodborne illness cases earlier this year (most of the others just wanted cash money ????????????????????). While the burrito coupons are the funniest part of the story, Tamara Chuang went deep into the settlements to .
Take a seat, Germany. There’s a new hop king in town.
“For Colorado, there’s way more demand than there is than supply, without question. We could have thousands and thousands of acres growing here before we could even get close to coming to what our actual demand is.”
Bill Bauerle, horticulture professor and plant physiologist at Colorado State University
Congratulations, beer snobs. Your demand for triple-hopped IPAs and has pushed farmers in Colorado and around the country to plant thousands of new acres to grow hops, for the first time. And , it’s not slowing down any time soon.
By The Numbers
$150,000,000
That’s how much the city of Denver would spend to build more affordable housing in the city under a plan proposed by Mayor Hancock. , but most housing advocates say that the 10-year plan isn’t nearly bold enough to make a dent in an already out-of-control housing market. Take a look at .
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Quick Hits
+ Depending on the weather, .
+ Doctors told Rob Barlow he’d be tethered to an oxygen tank by the time he was 30. Well, .
+ The rafting company who led the outing where 11-year-old Drake Durkee died .
+ Hillary Clinton, who probably wore too many layers for an 80-degree memorial, , making her health a part of this election, .
+ Meet Karen Oliveto, .
+ Darryl Glenn and Michael Bennet had their first debate in Grand Junction last night. .
+ , and no one can figure out who it belongs to.
+ The Denver Center for the Performing Arts is one of the most widely influential nonprofits in the country, , led by a woman previously known for her political acumen.
+ Panthers QB Cam Newton took several shots to the head by Broncos defenders, . The , which begs the question: ?
+ Meanwhile, () has a winning record after week one.
+ Here’s Mark Kiszla’s . You’re bound to have an opinion one way or another, so I won’t spoil it here.
+ Like the bodies of Catholic saints of old, to retell the story of that day.
+ I thought I was pretty hot stuff for finding an arrowhead when I was 8. .
+ Have you noticed that suddenly every TV channel has their own EXCLUSIVE, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN theory about the murder of JonBenét Ramsey these days? .
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+ A surveillance camera shows a man approaching the Florida mosque attended by Orlando nightclub shooter
What We’re Reading
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+ The cheap clothes at H&M and Forever 21 are because even the neediest people on earth don’t want them when you’re finished with them.
+ (yes, really, even if you aren’t a teen girl). calls it “equal parts Gossip Girl, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Mean Girls and every movie Christopher Nolan (Memento, Inception, and the most recent Batman trilogy) has ever put out.” The girls’ relationship with technology, especially their phones, is crucial to the show’s plot, but since the show began in 2010, it’s become .
+ There’s . That’s bad enough, but one of the most-used faux fish is escolar, colorfully known as the “Ex-Lax fish” .
+ Look at . I really want to try “T” Town Chili now.
Song of the Day
Song: ““
Artist: Low Cut Connie
Sounds like: Your friend that never stopped partying after college describing his wild life like he was a modern Jerry Lee Lewis. Very catchy.
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Hat Tips & Corrections
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