• Tesla issued a recall for 46,000 Cybertrucks – nearly every one it has produced – due to a risk that its stainless steel panels can fall off. It’s been a tough year for Tesla. Between increasing competition for electric cars in China and Elon Musk‘s embrace of President Donald Trump, the company’s stock has dropped more than 50% over the past four months.
• We experienced an annual rite of spring last weekend when the best team left out of the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament started complaining about how unfair the process is. This year, West Virginia has that (dis)honor, and the state’s governor held a press conference announcing he had directed the state attorney general to launch an investigation into the selection committee.
• Employees who work at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center are not happy that the mall plans to start charging them $20 per month for parking.
• Uber-progressive ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s has been a thorn in the side of its uptight corporate parent Unilever for the past couple of decades, but the war in Gaza – combined with the current boycott culture – has amplified their conflict. Unilever announced it would spin Ben & Jerry’s off by the end of this year, but that hasn’t stopped the conglomerate from trying to kick the ice cream maker one final time. This week, Unilever fired Ben & Jerry’s CEO despite its continued strong financial performance.
• The NHL was minding its own business when it learned from media reports that it had become a bargaining chip between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. What could go wrong?
• ICE has been having a hard enough time reaching its quota for arresting undocumented immigrants, and now it is having to arrest some of them twice. Two of its detainees held in a secure facility in Aurora escaped during a power outage.
• What could you possibly say about an oil company that would cause $667 million in damages? I don’t know, but that is what a jury in North Dakota has ordered Greenpeace to pay to the one that operates the Dakota Access Pipeline.
• The last time Jackie Robinson had a win this big was the 1955 World Series. Robinson posthumously defeated Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot after Ullyot defended removing an online article about Robinson’s military background to the point that even Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was uncomfortable and demoted him.
• It’s Spring Break week for Jeffco, Cherry Creek, Douglas County and several other school districts, so say a little prayer for those who ventured to Europe for a little vacation. A fire at a nearby power substation shut down Heathrow Airport in London, throwing the schedules of international airlines into chaos. Heathrow officials claim the airport will be operating at 100% again by Saturday, but I wouldn’t count on it.
• Friends are mourning the loss of former Rocky Mountain News reporter Norm Clarke. He was known for his must-read Herb Caen-inspired column about celebrities, politicians, sports stars and business leaders. He left Denver in 1999 for Las Vegas, where we can all agree that he had much better fodder for his columns. He was 82.

Who won the week?

• The University of Colorado has named Michele Ames vice president for communication in system administration, where she will manage communications for the Office of the President and support the Board of Regents. 
• Mitchell Byars, formerly of the Boulder Daily Camera, has accepted a Boulder-based reporter position with Axios.
• IMA CEO Rob Cohen may be Denver‘s most valuable executive. He served as a catalyst for the redevelopment of the Union Station area when it was still on the drawing board, and his company now owns one of the anchor buildings that helped shift the heart of Denver to LoDo. He put together a bid to lure a WNBA team to Denver, and later successfully won a bid for a NWSL team when the WNBA deal fell through. Now, he has announced an ambitious plan to build a 14,500-seat soccer stadium that includes an entertainment district at I-25 and Santa Fe.
• The NBA‘s Boston Celtics set a North American record for a sports franchise when they were sold for $6.1 billion this week. The previous record was $6.05 billion for the NFL‘s Washington Commanders.