Who Had the Worst Week?

• No doubt the venerable Denver strip club Diamond Cabaret has been the source of many a communicable disease outbreak, and this time it might be monkeypox.
• Denver Public Schools paid $2.1 million to settle allegations that it misused AmeriCorps funds.
• Verizon is scrambling to upgrade its 911 call-routing technology in Denver after media reported that its system routed 911 calls to dispatchers in Aurora during a recent high-profile shooting.
• What’s to blame for downtown Denver’s increased violence? Food trucks!
• The U.S. Forest Service halted construction on a Keystone chairlift that would access a new 555-acre, 16-trail expansion. That action was in response to the resort mistakenly building a temporary construction road in protected alpine tundra.
• Glass windows on the exterior of a downtown Denver apartment complex have been shattering due to heat.
• An airline passenger who brought two McDonald’s sausage McMuffins on a flight from Indonesia to Australia was fined the equivalent of more than $1,800 for failing to declare “potential high biosecurity risk items.“
• Jeff Bezos’ $500 million unfinished yacht was towed from its Rotterdam shipyard in the middle of the night because officials refused to allow him to partially disassemble a bridge that it would be too tall to clear once finished. Outraged at the request, locals had threatened to pelt the yacht with eggs and tomatoes when it passed the historic bridge.
• Warner Bros. spent $90 million to make the movie “Batgirl,” but the result was so bad that the studio has completely shelved it – it won’t appear in theaters or on streaming services.
• After more than 14,000 episodes, NBC has relegated “Days of Our Lives” to its Peacock streaming service, ending the soap opera’s 57-year run on broadcast TV.
• Restaurants are tough businesses to start with, and now a review scam is making life even more difficult. Scammers are leaving one-star reviews and then demanding a ransom to remove them.
• WNBA star Brittney Griner was found guilty of drug charges in a Russian show trial. The best odds of her being released are a prisoner swap.

So, who won the week?

• The Denver Broncos new ownership group added Formula One racing legend Lewis Hamilton. It turns out Hamilton’s a bit of a local – he owns a home in Beaver Creek.
• DIA held onto its title as the third-busiest airport in the world. Only Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth ranked ahead of it.
• The New York Times added 180,000 digital subscribers in the second quarter of 2022, giving it 9.17 million total.
• Applebee’s got coverage for its latest marketing stunt: a line of chicken wing-flavored lip glosses.