Good morning, folks. I have my first cold of the season. After a long stretch of relative health, it’s easy to forget how annoying they are until it hits you, especially when you have things to do like writing a newsletter for your closest friends, or walking the dog, or breathing without effort.
Anyway, that’s all to say that today’s Roundup will be a little shorter and a little punchier, so wash your hands, grab some zinc and let’s get to it.
The Rundown
+ Today’s Weather: It definitely doesn’t feel like summer anymore, .
+ Today’s Editorial: “”
Breaking News
+ JUST IN: Tyler Despres, the co-founder of popular retro cover band Gin Doctors and Denver music scene veteran .
Quick Hits
“Itap one of those budgets where I’m certainly going to be the least popular person in the state with an awful lot of people.”
+ $45 million in cuts to schools, $195 million cut from hospitals, 6 percent hike in state college tuition, $100 million gone from road funding, the complete elimination of a taxpayer refund in 2019 and .
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+ Formal charges have been filed against the Denver cop .
+ Reminder: .
By The Numbers
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, according to new estimates, and is roughly double the number of homeschoolers in 1999.
Ridiculously good deal: . There is literally no better deal on the internet.
Even Quicker Hits
+ David Michael Ansberry, the 3-foot-6-inch suspect in a failed attempt to bomb the Nederland police station in last month could face life in prison after .
+ Obama says the that has been the subject of months of protests.
+ Wait a minute. ?
+ Meanwhile, before the NFL trade deadline despite having a Swiss cheese offensive line.
+ A former nunnery has been reimagined .
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+ , making it the bloodiest weekend in what looks to be the bloodiest year in more than 20 years in the city.
+ The city of Denver “as a matter of convenience.”
+ Remember Photobucket? The Denver-based photo storage service is back in the news as a Colorado Springs hacker with has been sentenced to 29 months in prison.
+ Nutella has decided that they are no longer a dessert food, .
+ There’s suddenly .
+ and police are cryptically warning parents to “closely watch what their children are researching on the internet.”
What We’re Reading
+ Remember (despite living more than 30 miles from the airport)? He seems to have , according to the Telegraph.
+ Alex Landau received one of the largest police brutality payments in Denver history after officers brutally attacked him in 2009 during a routine traffic stop. And now he has an Emmy. The Undefeated and the affect his story has had in Denver and beyond.
+ Here’s some very heavy scientific thinking for you this Wednesday morning: ““
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+ I can’t make a better pun than “bust a movement” about this story of a dancer … , so I’m not even going to try. 💃💩
+ No matter what happens next Tuesday, the White House will be occupied by someone significantly less cool, as evidenced by (bonus: ).
Song of the Day
Song: ““
Artist: Akron/Family
Sounds like: It’s the anniversary of the day I awkwardly asked out my girlfriend a long, long time ago, and this song, full of ocean sounds and simple little heartfelt lines, always takes me right back there.
Head over to our , or, if you don’t have a Spotify account, .
Hat Tips & Corrections
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