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Happy, everyone! It’s the shortest day (and longest night) of the year, which is a great excuse to peruse .
Here on the , we’ll get about nine hours of sunlight today, but it could be worse. Fairbanks, Alaska will I’m going to take the optimistic route and say, well, it’s only going to get brighter from here on out.
Turn on your lamps. It’s time for the news.
The Rundown
+ Today’s Weather: Well how about that? We could .
+ Today’s Editorial: “”
Frontier Airlines: “Whoops. Our bad.”
DIA’s frenemy airline Frontier is still digging out from under the chaos caused by last weekend’s snowstorm, , making it harder to recover from a crisis. , including what to do if your luggage is still stuck.
+ The TSA says it’s ready for the busy holiday weekend, but .
+ Just in case the giant tents and demonic horse aren’t enough to let you know you’re at DIA,
Sacred installation will move, soil and all
“Countless emotional tears were shed at the site thus transcending normal museum decorum and firmly ushering ‘Wheel’ into the realm of Native American sanctuary as a ceremonial Medicine Wheel worship place.”
Artist and professor Edgar Heap of Birds
“,” the massive outdoor installation by Edgar Heap of Birds at the Denver Art Museum and ceremonial Medicine Wheel worship place for American Indians, was slated to move when activists balked at what they called a “desecration” of the site. After the uproar, the museum said it has worked with Heap of Birds for . John Wenzel breaks down the story, .
By The Numbers
91,726
That’s between July 2015 and July 2016, a 1.7 percent increase. While that number is nothing to sneeze at, it’s actually a smaller increase than the same period between 2014 and 2015 and has bumped us down to only the seventh-fastest growing state in the union. If you need a hit of inter-state competition, though, here’s a fun fact: in the union. Another fun fact: The only state that since 2010 has grown faster than Colorado? Texas.
+ All that population must be great for our economy, right? Sure, our unemployment numbers are extremely low, but as usual, those numbers .
Quick Hits
+ The since Colorado legalized it in 2014, proving that — like Facebook before it — pot became significantly less cool to teens as soon as their parents started using it.
+ 17-year-old Brooke Higgins after plotting to kill staffers and students at Mountain Vista High School last year.
+ Colorado has .
+ Two games from the end of the season is not a good time to Broncos. Not a good look.
+ , but it’s a little bit like lipstick on a pig.
+ Denver’s city government that would make lobbying and gifts more transparent.
+ At least 29 people were in Tultepec, Mexico.
+ Have you ? Because the FBI is looking for him.
+ Agritourism is a real thing, and .
+ I love my tiny Cap Hill apartment, I really do, but I wouldn’t say no if someone let me move into , even if just to use the huge woodworking studio.
+ .
+ Considering that “Biogas” already sounds like a metaphor for something a little less pleasant, it’s not surprising that But it’s not all jokes: Dairy farmers in the region have suddenly lost a destination for truckloads of manure.
+ I’ll always approve of a reference .
+ My dream of driving across the American West in an electric car (except in my bank account).
+ Which is more ironic: That one of Colorado’s top foreclosure lawyers is named “Castle” or that she and her husband against allegations they defrauded homeowners?
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What We’re Reading
+ While the Lubbers clan makes ribs on Christmas Eve (feel free to steal that tradition), the spans cultures and religions. Two Denver Post staffers, Managing Editor Linda Shapley and Roundup co-pilot Francie Swidler, shared their recipes and traditions for and , and I guarantee you’ll be hungry after watching those videos.
+ . Let’s just say it involves a celebrity vet, a ring-billed gull who tried to eat a chicken nugget and a whole lot of strange luck.
+ Somehow, seems super appropriate for 2016.
+ Everyone has a system when they head into a casino, but (but unfortunately for him, a judge ruled he had to pay it back).
+ I do not approve of .
+ Even though the , the legend of Nikola Jokić — the Nuggets center whose past life as a “fat point guard” powers his buttery smooth passing ability — is growing, as showcased .
+ More than 60 people in Siberia that contained methanol instead of alcohol. Yes, I said “drinking bath lotion,” because in many poor parts of the world, .
Trump Digest
+ Simple question: ?
+ Turns out, .
+ A subsection of conservatives in the West are hoping Donald Trump will be an ally in .
+ After Democratic chairman Tom Wheeler said he was retiring from the FCC when Trump is inaugurated, the republicans left on the commission have said that .
Song of the Day
Song: “”
Artist: Donovan
Sounds like: A little burst of ’60s sunshine on this, the shortest day of the year. Happy solistice, everyone.
Head over to our , or, if you don’t have a Spotify account, .
Hat Tips & Corrections
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