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Holiday Lights
It’s that time of year! We’re gathering all the best Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or not-religious-but-into-lights displays around the Denver metro area. and you could make it into the paper (or get a $25 gift card to help offset your electrical bill). If you, like me, are apartment bound and lightless, to build a custom route to see the best of the best in your neighborhood and beyond this holiday season.
The Rundown
+ Today’s Weather: The , and in the meantime, it’s going to be chilly.
+ Today’s Editorial: “”
Yes, Colorado drivers really are that bad
It’s rare when folk wisdom like “Colorado drivers are bad” gets the data to back it up. But alas, here we are. Colorado drivers aren’t in the 10 worst for the big stuff (DUI, speeding) but we’re No. 1 for all the stupid, annoying things like failing to signal and running red lights that combine to make every commute that much more unbearable. Aldo Svaldi has the whole story, .
+ To put my “sixth-generation Colorado native” hat on for a second, I wonder if this has anything to do with ? (I’m kidding. Or am I?)
Neighbors struggle with deaths of mother, sons
“There’s a lot of grieving going on. Itap a shock … Itap unfathomable.”
Brandon Tartler, next door neighbor
While police work on piecing together , the quiet cul-de-sac they lived on in Highlands Ranch is struggling to come to terms with the shock. . There is still so much unknown about this story, so keep an eye on as we get new information throughout the day.
By The Numbers
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That’s how old Jim Delligatti, the inventor the Big Mac, was . Maybe there’s something to that special sauce after all.
Quick Hits
+ Colorado set another record on Black Friday (breaking the record set last Black Friday).
+ A black family in Aurora was the target of racist vandals, , part of .
+ A pair of Broncos fans who were tossed in the drunk tank after a game last year are suing DPD and Denver CARES — the detox center — .
+ We got a look at back in August.
+ A Conifer High School football coach and teacher after he was found with the girl at a cabin.
+ A Denver Health doctor is under fire (but won’t be fired) after she .
+ The traditionally racy Pirelli calendar has been turned on its head this year, with photographer Peter Lindbergh as a “cry against the terror of perfection and youth.”
+ Seems like people .
+ The man who was banned from Twitter for on SNL/Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones .
+ “________ + craft beer” as a business model seemingly has no ceiling. This time,
+ A whole lot of people waited for hours (the video on this story includes an adorable, extremely excited young girl).
+ Step one in fighting the opioid epidemic is making sure people don’t get addicted in the first place, which is why .
+ The Dew Tour superpipe competition in Breckenridge has been canceled for — what else — .
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What We’re Reading
+ Here is and why it’s going to really be difficult to bring them back down to earth.
+ .
+ These are, including Texas Chainstore Manager, , Diet Choke and more groan-inducing monikers. (also, check out my band, The Groan-Inducing Monikers, playing never)
+ I don’t know how this “” quiz works, but it said I’m a 29-year-old from Pennsylvania, so it was only off by 3 years and 1,500 miles.
Trump Digest
+ The anti-Trump electors for their doomed fever dream of an Electoral College revolt.
+ The Democrats who hope to right their party’s listing ship .
+ While Ben Carson still hasn’t formally accepted the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in Donald Trump’s cabinet, FiveThirtyEight has a message: “.” HUD deals with home buyers, poverty, discrimination, segregation and a host of other vitally important functions and, they argue, has been treated like a political backwater by presidents for decades.
+ , besides being an insight into the Trump family ethos, has a particularly funny anecdote about the extremely rich Trump children setting up a lemonade stand and then .
+ Tom Price, the incoming head of Health and Human Services, says that , when in fact, , which put poor women at a higher risk of a pregnancy they couldn’t afford.
+ “”
Song of the Day
Song: “”
Artist: Spectral Display
Sounds like: A deeply charming example of how electronic music can actually be warm and emotional — not just bone-shaking bass drops (plus from the band’s native Netherlands).
Head over to our , or, if you don’t have a Spotify account, .
Hat Tips & Corrections
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