Who Had the Worst Week?

• Tesla employees have reportedly been spying on customers through cars’ cameras and microphones and sharing the most embarrassing. videos with fellow employees.
• An ornery moose that moved into the courtyard of the Mountain Village Apartments in Steamboat has residents uneasy.
• FBI officials in Denver are warning people not to use free public phone charging stations because of the threat of malware.
• The LSU women’s basketball team won the national championship, but the team’s celebration has been overshadowed first with a feud between LSU star Angel Reese and Iowa star Caitlin Clark, and then a feud no one saw coming between Reese and first Lady Jill Biden.
• Colorado taxpayers are subsidizing million-dollar weddings in resort towns like Aspen through an obscure economic incentive program. One of the biggest beneficiaries: actor Kevin Costner.
• Elon Musk continues to punch out at his enemies. This time it was NPR that felt the impact when Twitter officially labeled it “state-affiliated media” – the same designation that propaganda outlets like the Russian-government-owned RT and the Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Daily newspaper receive.
• The company behind the proposed Park Hill Golf Course development hit yet another roadblock this week when Denver voters rejected the plan roughly 60%-40%.
• The line to sue Kanye West got longer this week when two former teachers at his private school Donda Academy alleged the school violated state regulations.
• Bud Light’s partnership with transgender TikTok star Dylan Dulvaney has triggered some conservatives, most notably singers Kid Rock and Travis Tritt, who took to social media to rail against the company.
• Our city continues to be ripped apart by one of the most controversial issues in a generation – pickleball.
• Samsung engineers inadvertently disclosed trade secrets when they submitted confidential source code to ChatGPT and asked it to check for errors and optimize the code. Anything submitted to ChatGPT is retained and used by its engineers to improve the service.

So, who won the week?

• John Elway officially retired from the Denver Broncos this week. His tenure as GM was a little rocky, but history will be very kind to his legacy of two Super Bowl wins as a player and one as a GM.
• The Colorado Rockies delivered a 1-0 win in their home opener against the Washington Nationals. The best news: the new pitch clock helped keep the game to just two hours, 18 minutes.
• Mike Johnston and Kelly Brough elevated from the other 14 candidates for Denver mayor to make the run-off.