• Evergreen High School is the latest Colorado school to experience gun violence. There have been 13 school shootings in our state since Columbine in 1999.
• Conservative political activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at a college event in Utah. The assassination follows the politically motivated murder of Minnesota State House Speaker Melissa Hortman (D) three months ago, and has sparked fears on both sides of the aisle that political violence will continue to escalate.
• Variety, CNBC, the Associated Press and other news outlets fell victim to Howard Stern when they reported that radio personality and TV host Andy Cohen was replacing Stern at SiriusXM. Stern had been in lengthy and contentious negotiations with SiriusXM, and Cohen opened what would normally be the Stern show by announcing that he was replacing Stern with his new show, “Andy 100.”
• Fall temperatures in Denver have risen 3.7 degrees over the past 50 years, impacting everything from demands on the electrical grid to.seasonal allergies.
• CBS, pathologically afraid of the Trump administration, has named Kenneth R. Weinstein as ombudsman to review complaints about CBS News. Weinstein formerly was head of a right-leaning think tank and has no experience overseeing news coverage.
• Britain removed its ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, after the release of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein‘s “birthday book” showed the depth of the relationship between the two.
• Nepal has lifted a social-media ban after at least 19 people were killed in clashes between protesters and police.
• Two Cornell University students killed a 120-pound black bear and brought the carcass back to their dorm where they skinned and butchered the remains. The two students had valid hunting licenses and did not break any laws, but still … worst dorm neighbors ever.
• Texas A&M fired an English literature professor over course content related to gender identity. A student protested that the lecture was “illegal” due to an executive order issued by the Trump administration. The university also removed the head of the university’s English department and a dean from their posts due to the incident.
• The parent company of KUNC, the NPR affiliate for Northern Colorado, cut more than one-quarter of its employees – 10 total – following Congress‘ decision to defund public media.

Who won the week?

• Former Cory Gardner staffer and GBSM alumnus Sam Stookesberry has launched his own agency, Highline Strategic Communications.
• The Denver Voice is co-hosting a panel discussion on the state of nonprofit journalism tomorrow. It will feature Laura Frank, executive director of the Colorado News Collaborative; Tim Regan-Porter, CEO of the Colorado Press Association; Dana Coffield, co-founder and editor of the The Colorado Sun; and Mark Horvath, the founder of Invisible People.
• The Denver Broncos selected the Burnham Yard area of Denver – about a mile southeast of Empower Field – as the home of a new stadium for the team.
• Oracle announced stunningly positive financial results that sent it stock up 36% in a single day. That increase propelled founder Larry Ellison‘s net worth past Elon Musk to make him the richest person in the world.