Good morning from your inbox, folks! It is the literal last day of summer, though the spirit of the season left us a few heat waves ago. If you’ve got the time tonight, slap on some cargo shorts and an Aloha shirt and fire up the grill to send summer off in a viking funeral of hamburgers and charred corn. Then get ready for autumn by or making (seriously, we all got to try the samples used in the photos and they were scrumptious). Well, I’ve succeeded in making myself hungry, so let’s get down to business before I eat my laptop.
The Rundown
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The Big Stuff
“Because of the lack of transparency in some insurer’s filings itap hard to say how or if these significant rate increases have been justified.”
Adam Fox, director of strategic engagement for the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative
Insurance — Obamacare or otherwise — is getting even more expensive. Just like it has for the last couple of decades, health insurance premiums are going up an average of 20 percent for individual buyers next year. Republicans such as Cory Gardner are quick to blame Obamacare, but Colorado’s insurance commissioner points out . John Ingold , including the groups who are trying to figure out where the hight costs are coming from.
One burglary suspect fatally shot in Westminster, four others on the run. Yesterday afternoon, a Westminster police officer . The other four suspects, three men and a woman with pink hair, .
By The Numbers
40 years
That’s how long the Campus Lounge in Denver’s Bonnie Brae neighborhood has been in business under the watchful eye of former DU hockey star Jim Wiste. , so you’ve got one more chance to get a quesadilla and beer during a Broncos game.
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Quick Hits
+ Denver’s got some limits on how tall buildings can go in RiNo, but the city has a simple loophole for developers that want to build higher: .
+ The Great American Beer Festival is right around the corner and even if you don’t have tickets, you in every region so you can try something great the next time you’re at a taproom.
+ Montbello (but if you hear gunshots there tonight, ).
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+ Former Denver mayor update: , .
+ Tulsa police said that one of the reasons was that he reached into his driver side window. But a photo from the crime scene .
+ On the heels of yet another shooting of an unarmed black man by police, .
+ Let me be the last person to .
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+ There’s .
+ If you (like me) don’t trust your front porch with your Amazon packages, .
+ In shades of , a graphic artist is .
+ Man, I love the : A man came into a Verizon store to ask about speakers, then .
What We’re Reading
+ Westword goes long (as Westword often does) on Denver’s controversial sweeps of the homeless downtown, .
+ Everybody’s talking about Skittles, thanks to an extremely flawed and dangerous metaphor tossed out by Donald Trump Jr. on Twitter. How do I know that the metaphor is flawed and dangerous? “.”
+ I learned something about Skittles over the last day or so that is weirdly disturbing for entirely different reasons. Comedian and writer Nick Wiger tweeted yesterday: “I worked on a couple Skittles ads years ago. Wanna hear something f***ed up? .'” I, like any sane person, thought he was joking, but and he’s right. Before you start picturing Skittles in your Indian food, I also looked up and it actually has to do with it’s lens-like shape, not its resemblance to a fibrous legume.
+ “A bear chasing you is simply scary but a guy with a big mouse’s head can give you the creeps. Whatap the difference?” that’s worth clicking on just to see the top photo (we’ve all been there, kid).
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+ Watch a giant inflatable moon .
Song of the Day
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Artist: Ace of Base
Sounds like: A deep(er) cut from the first CD I ever bought with my own money in fifth grade. Let the Scandinavian rhythms wash over you.
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Hat Tips & Corrections
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