awesome + uniting
- Denver’s Ruby Hill Rail Yard opens for skiers and snowboarders and comes with free gear rentals.
- Former Broncos linebacker Von Miller returns to the Super Bowl as a Los Angeles Ram.
- Girl Scout cookie sales begin in Colorado.
awesome + controversy
- Denver based Frontier Airlines bids $2.9 billion to acquire rival budget airline Spirit.
- Steve Fenberg is selected as the next president of the Colorado Senate
- The Boulder King Soopers on Table Mesa reopens with memorial ceremony
awful + uniting
- A train derails in Denver and sends 3 empty cars into the South Platte River.
- Colorado’s Michaela Shiffrin deals with adversity after finishing 9th in super-G and skiing out in her first two races of the Beijing Olympics.
- Utah senator single-handedly blocks the designation of the Amache internment camp as a National Historic Site.
awful + controversy
- In an “emergency meeting,” Colorado election conspiracy theorists threaten election officials with violence.
- Mesa County clerk Tina Peters is arrested and released by Grand Junction police.
- The city of Colorado Springs settles the lawsuit over the police killing of De’Von Bailey for $2.97 million and a promise for increased bias training.