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BREAKING: Modest Mouse founding drummer Jeremiah Green has died at the age of 45 following a brief battle with cancer. cos.lv/M7Eg50MfYMR

Read a great Reddit thread putting historical dates in perspective. Here are 8 gems. 1/ The moon landing was only 66 years after the Wright Brothers first flight (1903-1969). Within a lifetime, humans went from having limited flight tech to travelling ~239k miles from Earth.

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#DidYouKnow that the longest vote to elect a House Speaker was in 1856? It took two months and 133 ballots to elect General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks (MA) as House Speaker. Banks was a member of the nativist American Party that opposed expanding slavery into new, Western states.

Colorado's first Missing Indigenous Person Alert issued for man last seen in Denver dpo.st/3GBwQCZ via kieran nicholson

Need your pet rescued in the midst of a Colorado firestorm? There's an app for that denverpost.com/2023/01/04/mar… via John Aguilar

So, to recap: The House GOP is being held hostage by a member of the caucus who won her seat just two months ago by a margin so thin it triggered a mandatory recount in a district that has been R for more than a decade.

🧵1/ Earlier this week I called out a Denver mayoral candidate for announcing he would “plow the damn roads.” While we can ignore the pandering to voters, we should not ignore the challenges & policy consequences of this proposal. This is a long thread. Please settle in.

This might be the most hilarious book blurb I've ever seen. Really embarrassing Mike Pompeo couldn't find ANYONE else to praise his book.

May I suggest this simple and wondrous tool to property owners whose sidewalks remain death rinks? They’re cheaper than the ticket you’d get for failing to clear the path!

For once, I have good timing. #copolitics

Are you an organization with a news media contact? For the love of God, just give me a phone number. I hate your "press@" email. You don't check your email. You don't reply to your email. Your email cannot confirm that you're even still alive. Give. Me. A. Phone. Number.

But we still have our December snow piles... #Boulder #cowx

Q: Wait, Denver has a nude bathhouse? A: Yes, and I chatted with patrons who bared all for The Denver Post on Lake Steam Baths and why it's beloved by regulars. As one source put in a follow-up email: "My family were enchanted that I was interviewed naked!" denverpost.com/2023/01/18/lak…

Recently, a bear discovered a wildlife camera that we use to monitor wildlife across #Boulder open space. Of the 580 photos captured, about 400 were bear selfies.🤣 Read more about we use wildlife cameras to observe sensitive wildlife habitats. bit.ly/3XSKlUq

. #Journalists: Boulder County's A&E storytelling queen Kalene McCort has moved on 🙁 so I'm looking for a features reporter to fill her shoes to cover arts and entertainment for Daily Camera and Longmont Times-Call. Bonus: I'll be your boss (I'm an awesome boss). bit.ly/ArtsReporter.