Good foggy morning, folks. Today I have exactly one request of everyone: Help me get the word out about the Roundup. It seems like just about everyone who gets this email really enjoys it and I want more people to see it.
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OK, that was 100% more self-promotion than I’m ever comfortable engaging in, so let’s get to the news.
The Rundown
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+ Today’s : ““
Quick Hits
“It is a heck of a story, when you stand back and look at what has been engineered here. I have never seen Pete Coors with such a big smile on his face.”
Mark Hunter, CEO of Molson Coors
+ The could have easily been the final straw in the long history of the Coors company. But somehow, against all odds, Molson Coors just bought out the entirety of MillerCoors. The move consolidates a formerly spread out corporate structure as it looks to expand globally. Aldo Svaldi .
+ Amy Bounds over at The Daily Camera has a disturbing story about that was only exposed when the leader of the “4th Reich’s Official Group Chat” killed himself last month. It’s hard not to see this as a connection to the so-called “alt-right,”” which , and consists of, among other things, .
+ Democrat incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet and GOP challenger Darryl Glenn , and if you thought that they would be able to avoid talking about the presidential campaign, you’d be very, very wrong. .
By The Numbers
531,594
That’s how many calls the Denver Police Department responded to in 2015, .
Seriously, this is such a good deal: . There is literally no better deal on the internet.
Even Quicker Hits
+ Speaking of DPD, ? After another ACLU chapter in California raised the issue as well, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook each announced they are suspending or limiting access to their data by Geofeedia, the service used by DPD, rendering it much, much less useful to law enforcement.
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+ Traveling to Japan, New Zealand, Chile or the Netherlands? .
+ The rumors of Donald Trump’s behavior as the owner of the Miss USA pageant .
+ The family of Jack Jacquez, by on-duty police officer James Ashby, has for hiring Ashby . Also noteworthy: (yes, that’s what they’re called).
+ The Broncos, who just played Sunday, play the San Diego Chargers tomorrow. Does Von Miller care about the quick turnaround? ?
+ No one wants to watch the Nuggets (the numbers back that up). But coach Mike Malone thinks the team () is a lot like Colorado itself .
+ (named, of course, Fifty-Two 80’s).
+ A tale of two Tebows: , .
+ A pickup truck .
+ *extremely voice* Sure, , but the so-called “wine cellar” only holds 150 bottles, so you can probably get the price down by a few bucks.
What We’re Reading
+ The peach-hued pages of The Financial Times .
+ It’s not just : that offer ANW-style training instead of free weights and sweaty elliptical machines.
+ Robert Mo is heading to prison for three years. His crime: being a “seed spy” for a Chinese bioengineering firm after .
+ In New Jersey, .
+ The dreampop Icelandic band is an indie music legend, singing in a made-up language over the course of seven albums. But somehow, these “serious artist types” as they put it, . My hipster 22-year-old self still can’t believe this is real.
+ It seems like even Samsung .
+ This bridge in Little Rock was deemed “structurally deficient,” but as the dozens of explosive charges designed to bring it down didn’t faze it one bit.
Song of the Day
Song: ““
Artist: Wilco
Sounds like: A brief, intense flame of existential angst (and some nonsense) that includes possibly my favorite 45 seconds of recorded music. Trust me, you’ll know it when you hear it.
Head over to our , or, if you don’t have a Spotify account, .
Hat Tips & Corrections
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