- Big agency Burson just reported that its 2025 earnings fell 6% year over year.
- Fox31 parent company Nexstar is cutting journalists in newsrooms across the country to reduce costs in advance of its expected acquisition of 9News parent company Tegna. The math is curious: more stations, and fewer people to staff them.
- AI company Anthropic has found itself at an impasse with the Pentagon over a philosophical line it won’t cross: Claude cannot be used for fully autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance. The Pentagon assures Anthropic it has never considered such applications. I’m guessing Anthropic asked Claude if the Pentagon can be trusted, and, well, you can guess the answer.
- Colorado‘s own U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert temporarily derailed the deposition of former U.S. Senator and First Lady Hillary Clinton by secretly photographing Clinton and sharing it with a conservative podcaster – a violation of the agreed-upon ground rules for the Jeffrey Epstein-related proceedings. Democrats objected to the breach of protocol; Republicans lamented that the photo became the story. Asked why she did it, Boebert offered a two-word philosophy: “Why not.”
- If the BAFTA awards were looking for attention after being routinely overshadowed by numerous other film awards, they certainly picked a curious strategy. Tourette Syndrome advocate John Davidson, the inspiration for the BAFTA-nominated movie “I Swear,” was invited to the ceremony, and his condition caused him to shout, among other things, the N-word at presenters Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo. The host of the awards show offered two statements – one thanking the crowd for its “understanding” of Davidson’s disability and a second generically apologizing if “anyone was offended.” It took another two days for BAFTA to realize that it probably should extend an apology specifically to Jordan and Lindo, and for putting presenters and audience members in that position to begin with.
- NBC‘s Savannah Guthrie and her family increased the reward for information about her kidnapped 84-year-old mother to $1 million. Nancy Guthrie, 84, has now been missing for four weeks.
- Juan Padro, the co-founder of Culinary Creative Group that runs Denver-area restaurants such as Tap & Burger, Kumoya, Señor Bear, A5 Steakhouse and Bar Dough, is stepping down amid a lawsuit accusing the group of “keeping employee tips under the guise of a ‘service charge’ and paying a manager with the money.”
- University of Virginia QB Chandler Morris has filed a lawsuit against the NCAA demanding he be allowed to return for a seventh college season. One of his arguments: He was injured early in the 2022 season, but returned to play three games at the end of that season. He says those three games weren’t normal games but rather “three appearances (that) were part of a medically prescribed mental health treatment plan” and therefore shouldn’t counted as using up a year of his eligibility.
- Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates apologized to Gates Foundation staff members for his affairs and ties to Jeffrey Epstein that have cast a cloud over the foundation and its work.
- Meanwhile, CBS News contributor Peter Attia has resigned after the extent of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was disclosed in files released by the DOJ.
- What started as a feel-good, unifying moment – the U.S. Men’s Hockey Team winning the gold medal for the first time since the 1980 Miracle on Ice – quickly turned partisan when FBI Director Kash Patel celebrated in the locker room like he won a medal and President Donald Trump took a swipe at the gold-medal-winning U.S. Women’s Hockey Team during a congratulatory post-game call.
- The Westernaires, the Golden-based youth horseback-riding organization, will no longer perform “cowboys-and-Indians tropes — including a reenactment of the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn and white children dressed in Native-inspired regalia performing sacred Indigenous dances.” That decision wasn’t made willingly, though. A threat from the National Western Stock Show to ban them forced their hands.
- Italian golfer Andrea Pavan was hospitalized after suffering serious injuries when he fell down an elevator shaft. Pavan “called for the elevator but failed to notice, when the doors opened, that there was no elevator car waiting to collect him.”
- The Colorado Rockies are Rockie-ing again. They traded for pitcher Pierson Ohl in the offseason, and a week into spring training announced he would need to undergo Tommy John surgery that will cause him to miss the entire upcoming season. Rockies Fever! Catch It!
- The Met Gala could use some public relations help after it announced that Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos will serve as honorary chairs for the 2026 event. Jeff Bezos has most recently been in the new for gutting The Washington Post with extensive layoffs, and even causing some foreign correspondents to find themselves out of work and stranded in war zones.
Who won the week?
- The Denver Press Club has reached the half-way point in its 2026 membership drive. You can join here.
- Good news for local bars and brewpubs: drinking at bars is on the rise even as alcohol consumption is on the decline.
- Former Colorado state Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis avoided jail time after being convicted of four felony charges of forgery and attempting to influence a public servant. She was sentenced to two years of probation and 150 hours of community service.
- Warner Bros. Discovery may have jilted Netflix to accept a better acquisition offer from Paramount, but it did receive a $2.8 billion break-up fee in the process.
