Good morning, folks! It’s Tuesday, it’s October 18 and in addition to being , it’s also my dad’s birthday (Happy birthday, dad!).
It’s a little shocking how much news we’ve had just since yesterday, so let’s boogie.
The Rundown
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Did a bad cell connection prevent a bomb from going off in Nederland?
A after surveillance video tied him to a backpack bomb left outside the Nederland police station that failed to detonate via cell phone. I’m just going to let you sit with that sentence for a bit before .
Rally to save Cold Crush
“There needs to be more black-owned locations like (Cold Crush), not less.”
Ashleigh Blair, 27, Cold Crush patron
200 patrons, DJs and owners of other clubs gathered outside Cold Crush, the RiNo nightclub hit with a after rapper was shot and killed outside the venue last week, to . “White, black, Hispanic … it was the one place that I know that everybody came to,” award-winning DJ Squizzy Taylor said. “It showed the power of music.”
Boulder teens’ Nazi group and the “Trump effect”
“Teachers have noted an increase in bullying, harassment and intimidation of students whose races, religions or nationalities have been the verbal targets of candidates on the campaign trail.”
From the Southern Poverty Law Center’s survey about the effect of the 2016 election on youth
While one of the students involved in the Facebook chat between Boulder Valley students labeled “” said that it was “just a bad joke,” and police have closed the case and will not be pursuing charges, school officials are taking the chat seriously after the suicide of the group’s leader and threats against specific students. , from the Southern Poverty Law Center to anti-hate organization Not In Our School, who .
By The Numbers
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The percentage of her struggles at the Rio Olympics that Missy Franklin says were entirely in her head
A no-fooling super deal: . You won’t find a better one, I promise.
Quick Hits
+ “He tried to steer Denver kids away from gangs. .”
+ Donald Trump continues to claim (in advance) that the election will be “rigged” and both election officials () and Hillary Clinton’s .
+ This is not the first time Trump has thrown a fit and claimed a system was rigged against him: .
+ Meanwhile, and while none have pointed to anything dastardly, the .
+ Donald Trump Jr. got , so .
+ Remember Bernie Sanders? (man, that feels like 10 years ago by now)
+ The Cleveland baseball team (who have ) managed to get past to beat Tulo’s Blue Jays and are now .
+ The Denver Archdiocese and the city of Denver for emergency overnight stays and 30-day “decompression” programs to help transition women out of homelessness.
+ The human remains found in the Mesa County desert .
+ There are better ways to visit Colorado .
+ A is pitting Winter Park against Grand County.
+ The Avs have now beaten two of the best teams in the league .
+ ? There’s worse on TV.
+ Seriously, and I just can’t even wrap my brain around it.
What We’re Reading
+ If you’ve ever been in downtown Denver, you’ve seen the rolling down Broadway, headed for I-25. The $65 bus to Mexico, writes New York Times correspondent Julie Turkewitz, is “.” This is a good one folks, don’t skip it.
+ A 10-year-old photographer from Confier will . But that’s just the latest feather in the cap for , who already has .
+ Glad to see that in retirement, .
+ The NFL has a Very Dumb policy banning its own teams from posting highlights on their Twitter accounts. So the Browns and the Eagles to hilarious results.
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+ Not one, not two, but three different people, including an in-home health care worker and two sheriff’s deputies began hallucinating in Oregon. It wasn’t a nefarious Russian plot or a gas leak, it was a villain of another kind: The patches used by the 78-year-old woman .
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Song of the Day
Song: ““
Artist: Kathy Heideman
Sample lyric: “Please don’t frown at me when you could smile /
Our eternity is just a while”
Sounds like: A twangy, smoky tune about the fleeting nature of life and love, recorded by a wandering bar singer in 1976 who stayed in one place just long enough to record a few tracks and then drifted into obscurity.
Head over to our , or, if you don’t have a Spotify account, .
Hat Tips & Corrections
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