12/12/21

awesome + uniting

• Record-breaking Colorado Gives Day raises $54.4 million for local nonprofits
• Coloradan Nichole Ayers Chosen For NASA’s New Astronaut Candidate Class
• Load of toads: CPW, Denver Zoo team up to save Colorado’s boreal toads with hope to release 20K tadpoles next summer

awesome + controversy

• Snow Drought Ends: It Was 7 Weeks Late, But Denver Finally Recorded A Measurable Snow
• Wellington marijuana initiative officially passes by a single vote
• US approves Indigenous name change to Mestaa’ėhehe Mountain for Colorado mountain

awful + uniting

• More than $73M in unemployment benefits paid to potential fraudsters, audit finds
• Furor Over Plea Deal for Ex-Cop Over Assault on Elderly Man
• RTD, TSA, Denver Police And Colorado Guardian Angels Stepping Up Patrols At Troubled Union Station

awful + controversy

• Mayor Hancock vetoes flavored tobacco ban slated to start in 2023
• Denver to consider outlawing homemade, untraceable “ghost guns” as they become more common nationwide
• Multiple CO Republicans Conceal Their View on Election Conspiracy Question by Saying They Can’t “Speak” for “Other States”