• Boulder‘s Comprise PR has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a move that CEO Doyle Albee says will allow him to “right-size things.” Said Albee, “We’ve had plenty of work, we just haven’t been paid for all of it. I absorbed 30% to 35% of my billings last year. Three clients went bankrupt (and others) just have some payment issues. It was just a gut punch that we just couldn’t economically recover from.”
• One of The Washington Post‘s most respected columnists, Ruth Marcus, resigned abruptly after the newspaper’s publisher spiked a column she wrote that was critical of the editorial section’s new direction.
• The town of Amagansett in the Hamptons has now spent tens of thousands of dollars – $24,800 alone to an arbitrator – in an attempt to determine who stole a $25 gift card from a local elementary school. After 1,400 pages in testimony from more than a dozen witnesses, they still have no idea who took the gift card.
• Celebrity attorney Gloria Allred has been accused of using high-pressure tactics … on her own clients. “Allred consoles women on camera, (but) in private she scolds and intimidates them and threatens to drop them as clients if they disobey her,” some clients say. She reportedly told one client who was experiencing a panic attack, ““How old are you? Get a hold of yourself.”
• Meta has secured a ruling that prevents a former Facebook employee from promoting her book that alleges that CEO Mark Zuckerberg misled investors and American regulators, and that Meta’s chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan sexually harassed her. The ruling didn’t address the veracity of the allegations; it just determined that they likely violated a non-disparagement agreement.
• Pro tip: The best way to ward off evil spirits on your airline flight? Start swallowing rosary beads. They’ll turn the plane around, but I guarantee you won’t become possessed.
• Major League Baseball introduced a new series of “Overlap” hats, and almost immediately removed three of them due to … questionable content? The design of the hats overlayed the team logo – usually a stylized letter – on top of the team name. Unfortunately, the result for several teams was not exactly what was intended. The Texas Rangers‘ version spelled “TeTas” (a vulgarity in Spanish), the Houston Astros‘ spelled “AsHos” and the Anaheim Angels‘ spelled “AnAels.” The now-withdrawn hats are selling for as much as $1,000 on eBay.
• Fifteen-time golf major champion Tiger Woods ruptured his Achilles tendon while working out preparing for the 2025 Masters tournament.
• The owner of the Denver Pavilions says the property is “in a tenuous situation” due to an $85 million loan that must be paid off in the next three months. Current tenants include H&M, Lucky Strike and Regal Cinemas, but other tenants who have left recently include Sephora, Hard Rock Cafe and Banana Republic.
• The stock market has dipped into what economists call a “correction,” falling more than 10% in less than a month.
• An American Airlines flight was able to make an emergency landing at DIA minutes before one of its engines caught fire. Videos posted to social media showed many of the passengers evacuating onto the wings of the plane, which is what the engines are attached to, so someone may want to look into that.
• The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs showed up on the Trump Administration‘s list of more than 50 universities it is investigating for DEI-related “racial discrimination.” I imagine the UCCS spokesperson’s first response was, “I think they spelled Boulder wrong.”
• Meanwhile, University of Colorado regent Wanda James is disputing allegations that she inappropriately used her public position to benefit the marijuana dispensary she owns.

Who won the week?

• Children’s Hospital Colorado promoted Rachael Fowler to media relations strategist.
• Former CBS4 sports reporter Marcia Neville was the first woman in the state to hold that position when she started in 1983. She just received the Dorothy Mauk Pioneer Award this week for her work increasing coverage of girls and women’s sports. The award is named after Denver Post reporter Dorothy Mauk, the first full-time woman sportswriter at a major U.S. daily newspaper.
• Aurora Quest K-8 student Vedanth Raju won both Denver’s regional science fair and the Colorado state spelling bee in a six-day span this past week. Someone should start a GoFundMe to send that kid to South Padre for spring break.
• Apple announced that it has green-lighted a fourth season of “Ted Lasso.”