Good morning and Happy St. Patrick’s Day! “May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.”
St. Patrick’s Day was always a pretty big deal growing up because my dad’s family was Irish. He grew up in Chicago, where the city’s Irish immigration history runs so deep that they dye the river green. We had corned beef and cabbage for dinner, only one night a year, gratefully, and year-round my dad was big on “counting your blessings.”
I hope your day is filled with luck, you don’t get pinched, and that after you catch up on today’s news, you have time for a green beer, or a green tea. And particularly fitting for today in Colorado: “May the wind be always at your back.”
THE NEWS
OUTDOORS
After Telluride Ski and Golf owner Chuck Horning refused to grant the town of Telluride access to a parcel of land for its 25-year-old summer concert series, the Mountain Village Town Council voted to begin condemnation of the parcel. And as Jason Blevins reports, the public move is the tip of an iceberg of frustrations between town officials and Horning.
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POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
So far, lawmakers at the Colorado Capitol have been cutting small-ticket line items — including diapers and food assistance grants — that they know won’t make much of a dent in the $1.2 billion budget shortfall. But as Brian Eason reports in this breakdown, every dollar saved on small programs is a dollar they won’t have to cut this week from the big ones — Medicaid providers, education and the state workforce — in the final sprint to introducing a budget bill this month.
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OUTDOORS
331.9 million
The number of visitors to national parks in 2024, the highest ever recorded.
The National Park Service logged a record 331.9 million visits last year, beating a pre-pandemic record in 2016. But you probably won’t see any officials talking about it. Jason Blevins got hold of a memo sent to parks staff instructing them not to issue news releases or any “other proactive communications, including social media posts” after the Trump administration fired at least 1,000 employees at NPS.
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ECONOMY
While Tamara Chuang was trying to answer one question “how many restaurants are open in Denver,” she found a surprising number of answers. Click through to see data from the city of Denver, Yelp and other sources to help suss out the true health of the industry.
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HOUSING
After residents started seeing men in shackles and handcuffs being dropped off at the large home in their well-heeled neighborhood, they started asking questions. And the answers they got about Rene’s House, operated by a local nonprofit called A Special Place in a house owned by a city councilman, just led to more questions. Nancy Lofholm digs into how this house is causing a stir in Grand Junction — and causing pushback on a new law aimed at easing the statewide housing crisis.
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MORE NEWS
COLORADO SUNDAY
Fewer trees, less fuel for fire. That has been the recent common adage among wildfire mitigation experts and the officials put in charge of maintaining the urban-wildland interface. But a growing number of environmentalists in Colorado are using recent fires as evidence that the current form of thinning could be making things worse. Tracy Ross digs in on the science of mitigation in this week’s Sunday feature.
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Hope you have a blessed day, sprinkled with some luck of the Irish.
— Jennifer and the whole staff of The Sun
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