Republican-led states are reopening. And so is Colorado. By Allan Smith: nbcnews.com/politics/polit…

The latest from @SawyerDaBear & NBC News Graphics: The yachting crowd was gearing up for a booming 2020 sailing season. Then the coronavirus happened. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/y…

New from NBC News Graphics: Visualizing the 100,000 coronavirus deaths in the U.S. Note that one dot in the graphic represents 25 Americans killed by COVID-19. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/v…

INTERNSHIP: NBC News Graphics is hiring a fall intern (paid, part-time) to work entirely remote. This is the first time we've opened it up to candidates nationwide! Details: gist.github.com/freejoe76/569d… See our work: nbcnews.com/datagraphics Email me your resume: [email protected]

Today's the deadline for the NBC News Graphics fall internship! Come work with us on the Data/Graphics team. Details ⬇️

Today marks six months since the NBC News Graphics team created and published our world map of coronavirus cases ( nbcnews.com/health/health-… ), which also means six months of keeping that (and, subsequently, the U.S. map, and our other graphs & charts) up to date.

I made this quiz you can take that tests how many HTML5 elements you can name... because I'm a geek for markup... and quizzes... joemurph.com/article/detail…

Note: I'll be tweeting over at Joe Murphy from here on out (just consolidating accounts).

Bicycling through the first tunnel at Colorado National Monument on the first day of Ride The Rockies. #rtr2015 tout.com/m/j75meh?ref=t…

Banana Don holds court on the first day of Ride The Rockies. #rtr2015 tout.com/m/xmylao?ref=t…

From the top of Colorado's Grand Mesa, elevation almost 11,000 feet. #ridetherockies #rtr2015 tout.com/m/645hl0?ref=t…

It's not Ride The Rockies if Dan the pancake man isn't flipping on the griddle. #rtr2015 #ridetherockies tout.com/m/09651r?ref=t…

Digital First Media workers unite to fight for fair contracts dfmworkers.org/2016/01/12/dig… #newsmatters

The Denver Nuggets (15-24 season record), beat the Golden State Warriors (36-3 season record): denverpost.com/nuggets/ci_293…

Zero black actors, directors nominated for The Academy Awards this year. What that says: dpo.st/1lb1hCM #OscarsSoWhite

#newsmatters How the hedge funds that buy up newspapers are changing the news (hint: it's not for the better) dfmworkers.org/2016/02/04/hed…

Map Game: Given a map of central California, can you place Santa Clara? (so far 11.1% of people have) denverpost.com/superbowl/ci_2… #SB50

Note: I'm over at Joe Murphy now.

JUST LAUNCHED: See the 2016 year-end neighborhood crime rate comparison rankings crime.denverpost.com/neighborhood/c…

Reported violent crime in Denver hit a four-year high in July crime.denverpost.com/crime/violent/