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Good morning, folks! Even though the snow has long melted, I wanted to take this (very tardy) opportunity to congratulate Rebecca (no last name given), who was one of a dozen people on Nov. 17th. She had the foresight to know that everyone who picked a day in October was living in a winter wonderland fantasy world and will get her $50 gift card soon! Nice work!
OK! On to the news.
The Rundown
+ Today’s Weather: Speaking of snow, , but the , and it’s not a very good chance.
+ Today’s Editorial: “”
Green Mountain lights up the night
Most of Colorado’s wildfires are only visible to the metro area in the form of hazy ash, but last night’s brief blaze on Green Mountain . After some evacuations, the fire was mostly contained and didn’t destroy anything but dry grass ().
Why Heidi Hemmat left Fox 31
“I tell them I think I’m in danger because they put this guy’s mug on TV and he wants to kill me, and they wave the journalistic flag about that, but they don’t want to burn advertisers? Thatap telling to me.”
Heidi Hemmat, in an interview with The Denver Post
Over the holiday weekend, former Fox 31 anchor and investigative reporter Heidi Hemmat wrote a lengthy blog post about the circumstances that led to her leaving the station, and being pressured to drop cases because the companies were advertisers (accusations that “).
By The Numbers
$35
That’s how much AT&T is charging per month , which it owns. While that might sound like a great deal, it’s the , which The Verge calls “a poison pill wrapped in a piece of cheese” that will end up giving consumers like us less choice, higher prices and fewer innovations like Netflix, Spotify and other things we take for granted.
Quick Hits
+ The CU Buffs . But in the meantime, two of their players after the team’s division-clinching win over Utah.
+ A plane carrying the Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense crashed in Colombia, killing 75 people. Tragically, this is not the first sports team .
+ No matter what they think about it, .
+ .
+ These are .
+ Coffee + Bagels. Two great tastes that go great together ().
+ This ain’t Pisa and .
+ At least someone is .
+ It takes a lot of people to , so it’s strange that not one of them said “Hey guys? This is a terrible idea.”
+ Denver’s watershed is a haven for wildlife and fishing, but under a Trump presidency, .
+ If you’ve read about the order for the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters to evacuate before Dec. 5, .
What We’re Reading
+ “We’re great at farm to table, but we’re really bad at table to farm.” Luke Runyon looks at a Colorado scientist who is looking to .
+ I’ve read this article twice. Both parties and just about every economist wants to put people to work to build character and prop up the economy. It’s a dense, imperfect academic read, but man, it’s got me thinking.
+ Denver is testing to see if it can store water in aquifers ().
+ Reddit is answering the really tough questions:
+ .
Trump Digest
+ I missed this for yesterday’s Trump Digest, but it’s probably the most important story of the presidency. The New York Times mapped , including resorts in the Philippines in which he’s a business partner with that country’s ambassador to the U.S. and Brazilian hotels currently under criminal investigation.
+ Tom Price has been tapped to lead the Dept. of Health and Human Services, a choice that shows he’s “absolutely serious” about dismantling Obamacare. , and it includes sub-headlines like this: “Empowering Patients makes insurance better for people who are young and healthy. It makes insurance worse for people who are old and sick.”
+ It was Trump vs. the First Amendment today on Twitter: First, he retweeted a bunch of people (including a 16-year-old) whose only sin was calling out Trump’s . Then early this morning, he tweeted that burning a flag () should .
+ , who Trump is reportedly considering for Secretary of State.
+ Donald Trump is also considering David Petraeus for the job of Secretary of State. This is slightly mind-boggling, because after a campaign partially built on hammering Hillary Clinton for allegations of mishandling information that turned out to either not be classified or of much consequence, Trump is considering a man who was drummed out of the CIA for sharing highly classified information with his mistress, .
+ Elaine Chao, and, amazingly, will be the second person to serve as both the Secretary of Labor and Secretary of Transportation and (Elizabeth Dole was the first).
Song of the Day
Song: “”
Artist: ABBA
Sounds like: A giant shrug of a come on (“hey, you could do worse”) set to maddeningly catchy pop music.
Head over to our , or, if you don’t have a Spotify account, .
Hat Tips & Corrections
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