• The Denver Post is shuttering its hyper-local YourHub section effective this week. The paper claims the move “is part of our effort to focus our resources on other areas of news coverage.” What it didn’t mention is that it has also laid off a deputy sports editor, a part-time photo editor and a part-time breaking news reporter. Corey Hutchins‘ “Inside the News in Colorado” newsletter has those details.
• Bridges generally are designed to get people from point A to point B as efficiently as possible, but a bridge proposed for Civic Center Park wanders a bit aimlessly, perhaps in a subconscious nod to the drunk people who would no doubt be among its biggest users. The CEO of Historic Denver was more succinct, saying the bridge is “completely unnecessary” and “does nothing right.”
• A Christian school in Tennessee banned a senior from graduation after she announced online that she is gay.
• NPR, Colorado Public Radio and two other Colorado radio stations have sued the Trump administration arguing that an executive order cutting millions in public funding violates their free speech and relies on an authority that he does not have.
• Starbucks baristas in South Korea have stopped calling out customers’ names for completed drink orders after customers were using political insults as part of their “names.”
• An employee in the Washington Capital‘s corporate sales department may have accidentally shared star player Alex Ovechkin‘s plans to play one final year before retiring.
• Two Secret Service agents were caught on video brawling outside the home of former President Barack Obama. Both have been suspended pending an investigation.
• Speaking of brawling, a group of parents attending a kindergarten graduation in Arkansas fought in full view of kids in the school’s hallway.
• President Donald Trump loves handing out insulting nicknames, but he isn’t very happy to be on the receiving end of one. When asked about the nickname TACO – Trump Always Chickens Out – that has been used to describe his tariff policy, President Trump was … less than pleased. One political analyst believes that the TACO insult may have legs.
• Analysts are blaming repeated missed quarterly earnings and overall bad publicity for Vail Resorts‘ decision to dump its CEO Kirsten Lynch and replace her with former CEO Rob Katz.
• A judge has ordered Twitter/X to pay $8 million for breaking its office lease in Boulder in 2022.
• Southwest Airlines this week officially ended one of its most-beloved perks – free checked bags.
• Former gymnast Mary Lou Retton, the darling of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, was arrested for DUI.

Who won the week?

• Denver7 has added Dan Grossman as a morning anchor. He most recently was a national correspondent for Scripps News.
• Actor Pedro Pascal added to his “everyman” street cred when he was caught flying coach from London to Cannes to attend the film festival.
• Faizan Zaki, a 13-year-old from Allen, Texas, is this year’s winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.