• Actor Rob Lowe was not amused when a Beverly Hills sightseeing tour bus driver pointed him out to passengers as “John Stamos.” Lowe, who was on a sidewalk near Rodeo Drive, confronted the driver of the open-air bus and told him he needed to “Get better at your job.”
• Tesla is facing legal allegations that it speeds up the odometers on its electric vehicles so they fall out of warranty faster.
• Actor Kelsey Grammer‘s plans to raze a 200-year-old cottage in Bristol, England has outraged locals. He wants to build a four-bedroom modern home.
• The drummer for the band New Pornographers was arrested on child pornography charges.
• Former members of the University of Colorado football team aren’t impressed by coach Deion Sanders‘ plans to retire the number of QB Shedeur Sanders. The alumni agree with Coach Prime‘s decision to retire Heisman trophy winner Travis Hunter‘s number, but are annoyed that he has used that as an opportunity to retire his son’s number as well.
• If you had Wendy’s vs. Katy Perry in the celebrity feud pool, you are smarter than I am. The burger chain is playing defense after its social media team poked fun at the singer for joining the all-female crew that went to space. The backlash came from celebrities Emily Ratajkowski, Olivia Wilde and Olivia Munn, and forced the brand to backtrack slightly by claiming it has a “ton of respect” for Perry.
• The production of craft beer fell to 23.1 million barrels in 2024, which represents a 4% decline compared to the previous year and is the largest non-pandemic drop in industry history. That is not a good statistic for Colorado, which has the fourth most craft breweries in the country.
• United Airlines took the unusual step of issuing two different profit outlooks for 2025 – one that assumes a recession and a second that doesn’t.
• It is starting to feel little like Groundhog Day in Colorado politics. Former U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo (D) announced she will run to try to reclaim CD-8, while former U.S. Rep. Greg Lopez (R) announced he will run for governor for a third time. He didn’t win the primary race in either of his first two attempts.
• President Donald Trump was no fan of the latest episode of “60 Minutes” that featured stories on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the territory of Greenland. He called on the FCC to revoke CBS’s broadcast license “for their unlawful and illegal behavior” airing stories he did not like.
• Speaking of President Trump, he is also at war with Harvard University after it refused to acquiesce to his demands on a variety of issues. President Trump froze $2.2 billion in grant funding and then asked the IRS to revoke its tax-exempt status as punishment for defying him.
• You don’t really think about competitive fishing as a particularly dangerous sport, but three people died when two boats collided during a fishing tournament in Alabama.
• Actor Haley Joel Osment was arrested and charged with public intoxication and possession of cocaine.
• All 1.4 million residents of Puerto Rico are again without power as the island suffered its second catastrophic blackout in four months.
• A judge in Florida said she was powerless to release an American citizen born in Georgia who was detained as a suspected undocumented immigrant. ICE had moved the prisoner to a detention center and the judge said while she had the power to dismiss the charge, she did not have jurisdiction to force his release.

Who won the week?

• DIA ranked as the third busiest airport in the U.S. and sixth busiest in the world in 2024.
• Fourteen Coloradans landed on Forbes‘ list of the world’s richest billionaires. Phil Anschutz was first among Coloradans with $16.9 billion, while Cargill MacMillan III ($1.4 billion) had the most billionaire-ish name.
• ESPN‘s Lee Corso announced he would retire from “College Gameday,” where he built a cult following by predicting winners by donning the team mascot’s head. Corso is 89 and has been part of the show for 38 years.