Good morning folks. Hope you enjoyed your unseasonably warm weather this weekend, because here comes … ? I remember having to stuff my childhood Halloween costumes under giant parkas and explain at house after house what I was supposed to be under the layers of insulation. This is not the Colorado I remember (though anyone will know how dangerous it is to get caught up in nostalgia for things we can’t return to).
Well, before the rest of this Monday gets away from us, let’s get into the news.
The failed Nederland bombing was a revenge plot 45 years in the making
“They were a cult. They gave us hippies a bad name. I thought about throwing a few of them down a mine shaft myself.”
Rick Bertschinger, Nederland resident
Folks, I say “you have to read this” a lot in this newsletter. I always mean it, but this time, I am insisting you read Kirk Mitchell’s incredible report on and the 3-foot-6-inch suspect who was known as “Midget Jesse” in the early ’70s. It includes free love, drunken miners, hallucinogens, a vigilante lawman, and a barely noticed window sticker that tied it all together.
Where have all of Colorado’s campaign yard signs gone?
Usually by this point in the campaign season, every drive, dog walk or jog around town would involve seeing hundreds of yard signs for or against this candidate or that ballot measure like so many fallen leaves. But this year, the lawns of Colorado have gone mysteriously unpoliticized. (hint: it involves Facebook).
By The Numbers
10-5
That is, believe it or not, a football score (albeit one that can only happen ). But that score in CU’s was more than enough to and looking ahead to a bowl game.
Ridiculously good deal: . There is literally no better deal on the internet.
Quick Hits
+ Want to live in a tiny house? , built from the bones of a trailer park washed out in the 2013 floods, to get a taste before you take the tiny plunge.
+ is going to the World Series (but ).
+ over the weekend in Denver.
+ The son that former CU wide receiver Rae Carruth wanted dead .
+ (where students represent more than 60 countries) to spread her message of empowerment through education.
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+ The Junkins fire — which has destroyed 9 homes after being sparked by a downed power line west of Pueblo — .
+ Denver’s Great NASCAR hope was extinguished in a cloud of smoke as .
+ Once a decade, Denver asks for a bond issue to pay for big building projects (the last one funded 380 projects). It’s about that time again, and .
+ AT&T wants to buy Time Warner (owner of CNN, HBO, etc.) and .
+ The Rapids fell just short of the Supporters’ Shield, but managed to do something rare: .
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+ Donald Trump .
+ that showed up on the 16th Street Mall.
What We’re Reading
+ The most fabulous wig store in Denver is moving shop, but that you’ve driven by hundreds of times but maybe haven’t ever stepped inside.
+ *hysterical cable news anchor voice* ?
+ So just how tall can a building made of wood be? We’re about to find out, to test new technology that has made the most classic building material very attractive again.
“Now we almost never leave the apartment. If we’re going to die, we prefer to be together when it happens.”
Aleppo resident and former student Omair Shaaban
+ A couple of weeks ago I shared and I know I thought “how could anyone still live here?” details exactly how he and his wife survive. It sounds terrifying and, more than anything, utterly exhausting.
“Advertising loops and leers up at every pause, everywhere, and even when things are working more of less as they should, a televised NFL game is more pause than action.”
+ One of my favorite sports writers has a theory about why the NFL’s ratings are tanking: (I mean, the Seahawks and Cardinals tied last night with only 6 points each ). But while a couple of great games could spike interest again, David Roth wonders if a long enough stretch of bad games could make all of us (including lifelong fans like me) (just ask any non-American who has ever tried to watch a game).
+ I would be remiss not to mention the Saturday Night Live sketch that briefly broke the internet over the weekend (no, not ). If you’ve seen it, you already know where I’m going with this. If you haven’t, , possibly Tom Hanks’ greatest acting achievement to date.
Song of the Day
Song: ““
Artist: Karl Blau
Sounds like: A well-regarded indie rocker from Olympia with the smoothest baritone in the game tackled a country classic and made it his own. (. It’s fantastic)
Head over to our , or, if you don’t have a Spotify account, .
Hat Tips & Corrections
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