- No Denver hotel may have more history than the Brown Palace, but that history is also working against it. The hotel has undergone multiple renovations to try to make it as modern as competitors such as the Four Seasons and the Ritz-Carlton, but it also finds itself located in the wrong part of downtown – far away from Union Station and the Arts District. The Brown Palace is now for sale for the third time since 2014.
- U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may get away with banning vaccines, but Massachusetts residents rebelled when he threatened to take away their sugary Dunkin‘ coffee drinks. That’s a bridge too faah.
- RFK Jr. still had a better week than Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. President Donald Trump fired her after two brutal days testifying before Congress in which she alleged that President Trump authorized a $200 million advertising campaign featuring her and deflected questions about whether she was sleeping with one of her top aides.
- Data indicate that the arrest rate for rapes in our state sits at just 10%.
- A report commissioned by Visit Denver and restaurant financing company InKind finds that Denver‘s restaurant scene is in “crisis.” The Cliffs Notes version: Denver lost thousands of restaurant jobs between 2020 and 2025, our costs and prices are on par with New York and L.A.’s, and city bureaucracy continues to be a challenge.
- What did a $110,000 investigation into one of the Denver Police Department‘s division chiefs find? We don’t know. DPD refuses to release the report.
- The Atlanta Track Club agreed to award nearly $40,000 to three participants of its USATF Half Marathon Championships when they were led off course by an official race motorcycle. Complicating the situation is that the race was qualifying event for the world championships in Denmark, and the three individuals who should have finished on the podium for the race now have not qualified for the world championships.
- There’s a reason CEOs usually don’t appear in advertisements, and McDonald’s reminded us why when CEO Chris Kempczinski awkwardly promoted the chain’s new Big Arch burger, which he referred to lovingly as “this product.” Among the competing brands who immediately jumped online to roast him were Burger King, Buffalo Wild Wings, Wendy’s and even Ryanair.
- If you are waiting for an overnight package from someone in Vail, cross your fingers. A FedEx semi-truck traveling to Denver crashed and tumbled into Clear Creek.
- The battle between AI company Anthropic and the Trump administration continues. Anthropic is holding its moral line while the Trump administration tries to declare Anthropic a supply-chain risk and sever its government contracts. The courts will decide.
- Troubled singer Britney Spears‘ challenges continue. She was arrested this week for DUI.
- The Hollywood Reporter dug through recently released Department of Justice files to uncover how a small cadre of public relations professionals enabled Jeffrey Epstein.
Who won the week?
- Linhart PR‘s CFO Carri Clemens is celebrating her 30th anniversary with the agency.
- 9News morning anchor and reporter Lauren Scafidi is leaving the station for a new undisclosed career opportunity.
- DIA awarded a 10-year advertising contract to JCDecaux North America, a subsidiary of the world’s largest outdoor advertising company. The contract still has to be approved by the Denver City Council and, if approved, will become effective in May 2026.
- Aurora Chef Michael Diaz de Leon of the taqueria Molino Chido is one of 16 participants on the CBS television show “America’s Culinary Cup.”
- Denver is on the shortlist to host the 2028 Democratic National Convention.
- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, paid $170 million for a still-under-construction mansion on Miami’s Indian Creek island.
- We’ve seen versions of this story before – a college accidentally notifies students they were accepted when they weren’t, and humiliated kids have to backtrack on public announcements of their college plans. This time, BYU flipped the script. After nine prospective students were mistakenly sent acceptance letters despite not being admitted, the school has decided to enroll them.
