Who Had the Worst Week?

• The Denver Nuggets won their first NBA championship earlier this week, but the euphoria of the celebration went downhill pretty fast:
  • On the night the Nuggets won, many of the national headlines were about the 10 people who were injured in a mass shooting that took place amid the championship celebration as the they were winding down.
  • During the championship parade several days later, a Denver police officer was somehow run over by a slow-moving fire truck that was carrying star players Nikola Jokić and Jamal Murray. The officer will survive, but it is not clear whether he will lose a leg.
  • A presumably drunk fan threw a beer can at Jokić while he was riding on the fire truck. The beer missed Jokić but deflected and hit his wife in the face.
  • At the conclusion of the parade, two more people were shot just blocks away from Civic Center Park.
• With the Nuggets season over, it is a good time to remind you that your Colorado Rockies remain in last place in the N.L. West.
• Heavy rains and hail have put a damper on the annual City Park Jazz series. Some concerts have been canceled, and others that usually attract thousands have seen only hundreds. Now, organizers fear the financial losses may be devastating.
• Lower-than-expected use of C-470’s toll lanes has required CDOT to loan its tolling oversight arm $4 million to cover revenue shortfalls. None of the other toll roads in Denver has required a similar bailout.
• Actor Marlon Wayans was cited for disturbing the peace when he got into a dispute with a United Airlines employee at DIA over carry-on luggage.
• Gannett announced that 51 members of the Pueblo Chieftain’s print production team will lose their jobs when it transitions the printing of the paper to The Denver Post.
• The East Moon Asian Bistro in Westminster has been ordered to pay nearly $250,000 in back wages after federal officials said the restaurant failed to pay overtime to employees and illegally kept their tips.
• Twitter has been evicted from its Boulder office after it just stopped paying rent.
• Transgender activist Rose Montoya has been banned from the White House after she shared photos of her topless on the South Lawn during an LGBTQ Pride Month celebration.
• Circle K fired a 75-year-old woman in Westminster for gently pushing a robber away when he went behind her counter to steal cigarettes. She had worked at the store for 18 years.
• The Concacaf Nations League semifinal soccer game between the U.S. and Mexico lived up to its tradition of ugliness. There were multiple melees, four red cards and a U.S. player had half of his jersey ripped off. Meanwhile, the ref ended the game 5 minutes early because of repeated homophobic chants from Mexico fans. The U.S. won the game 3-0 and will now face Canada in the final on Sunday.

So, who won the week?

• As I mentioned earlier, the Denver Nuggets won their first NBA championship.
• Just in time for the re-opening of Casa Bonita, the prestigious Michelin Guide has added Colorado as the sixth U.S. region whose restaurants it will award its coveted stars. The other regions are New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, California, and Miami/Orlando/Tampa. In reality, I’m guessing that most, if not all, of the star-rated restaurants in our state will be in Aspen, Vail and/or Telluride.
• UPS drivers are celebrating after the shipping company agreed for the first time to add air conditioning to its iconic big brown delivery trucks. Temperatures can exceed 120 degrees in the trucks’ cargo areas.