Who Had the Worst Week?

• Disney is being sued by a visitor to one of its water park rides over a “severe wedgie” injury.
• Thieves stole $73,000 worth of crab meat while a commercial truck driver slept in his cab. If you see a crab cake the size of an inflatable pool, you are asked to contact the authorities.
• The Denver Public Schools board is an absolute dumpster fire. This week, it was reported that the district gave board member Auon’tai Anderson a secret $3,500 payment that was accompanied by an illegal confidentiality provision. Said attorney Steve Zansberg, who represented several media outlets, “It is unfathomable that any public school district would include a provision in a settlement agreement by which it commits to withhold that public record from disclosure… .” That is attorney-speak for “WTF.”
• The Triangle Bar, one of Denver‘s oldest gay bars, has closed due to issues with homeless encampments.
• DIA has plans to add four new concourses with 100 additional gates by 2045. The addition will allow it to accommodate twice the number of passengers it serves today. There’s no mention of increased parking.
• Going public is hard, and going public during a pandemic is really hard. Denver-based Spruce Power Holding Corp., a company that converts gas-powered commercial trucks into hybrid vehicles, has been accused by the SEC of exaggerating its earnings as part of its IPO three years ago.
• The Colorado Rockies may have had their worst season ever with 103 losses, but they managed to draw 2.6 million fans to the ballpark, which puts them in the top half of MLB attendance. And that is why the Rockies will never be consistently good. What’s the incentive?
• Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Rays made the MLB postseason and drew 19,704 fans to its first playoff game. That’s the fewest fans for a playoff game in more than 100 years.
• Amazon has laid off about 5% of its communications staffers across its various divisions.
• More than 75,000 Kaiser employees, including 3,000 in Colorado, are participating in a three-day strike to protest what they say are “unfair labor practices and unsafe staffing levels.”
• How much does the Town of Vail not want low-income housing? It was willing to pay $17.5 million to acquire 23 acres that Vail Resorts wanted to use to build housing for its workers.
• Twitter has taken yet another step to offer less value to users.

So, who won the week?

• CBS4‘s news team’s focus on covering the entire state has resulted in significant ratings increases.
• If you missed out on the chance to buy Echo Mountain, good news! For just $7 million, you can buy the 373-acre Slopes at St. Mary’s Glacier ski area. The area hasn’t been operational since 1986, so you might need to upgrade a T-bar lift or two. Better hurry, though. Glaciers aren’t what they used to be.
• Jailed Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her fight against women’s oppression in Iran and advocating for human rights. 
• In the battle for Denver sports radio listeners, Altitude Sports Radio topped 104.3 The Fan for the first time.
• Prada has inked a deal to design the spacesuits that astronauts will wear during NASA‘s 2025 trip to the moon. I can’t wait for the designers to tell the astronauts they have decided to skip the kevlar and go with silk because it’s more slimming.