Day: April 24, 2026

Who Had the Worst Week?

~ Jeremy Story ~ Leave a comment
  • Diners in the Union Station neighborhood are hoping two feuding Indian food trucks will reach a naan-aggression pact before things get really ugly. Mile High Tikka and Tuk Took, which often park on the same block, are engaged in a lawsuit after initial discussions to partner fell apart and allegations of threats and theft of trade secrets were leveled.
  • Who knew? Satanists and the Amish are more alike than I realized – both apparently share an aversion to technology. An Elizabeth High School student who is also a member of the Satanic Temple has won an accommodation from her school to not use its digital hall pass system because it violates the third tenet of Satanism – “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.” I’m not sure why a “digital hall pass system” violated that tenet – maybe the school was making the kids swallow it or something – but I can’t wait to see 1) how many other students quickly sign up to be Satanists and 2) what other accommodations that tenet will require.
  • If you are interested in government work, might I suggest the Colorado Department of Human Services. The pay and benefits may be average, but there is a pretty decent chance that when it is time to leave, you’ll walk away with a nice financial settlement. The agency has now paid out nearly $3 million over “alleged pay, age, gender and disability discrimination, whistleblower protection violations, and retaliatory firings, among other accusations.”
  • Reporter Brendan Keefe shared that he had an expense report rejected by CBS because he didn’t use the company’s preferred rental car provider while on assignment in Kirkuk, Iraq. Instead, he submitted a handwritten receipt in Arabic for the rental of one of the few cars he could find – a 1972 Toyota pickup truck – but CBS said he was supposed to use Hertz.
  • If you spent more than five weeks earning your master’s degree, well, you’re a sucker. The Washington Post profiled students who are gaming the online education system to earn bachelor’s degrees in just a few months and master’s degrees in weeks.
  • FIFA is outraged – OUTRAGED – that the New Jersey transit system is price-gouging World Cup soccer ticket holders by charging $150 for round-trip train service from New York City to MetLife Stadium on game days, a trip that normally costs just $12.90. For the record, it is FIFA that has perfected the art of price-gouging. Its new “dynamic pricing” ticket system introduced especially for the U.S. market has priced some World Cup tickets at more than $10,000 each.
  • How bad have the Colorado Rockies been over the past few years? Last year’s World Series champions, the L.A. Dodgers, lost their first game to the Rockies and immediately implied the Rockies must be cheating to have actually beaten them.
  • Has Nexstar, parent company of Fox31, acquired Tegna, parent company of 9News? Well … it’s complicated. Yes, the deal closed weeks ago, but a federal judge has now issued a preliminary injunction barring Nexstar from making changes to Tegna stations while the courts decide if the acquisition was legal. That gives 9News employees a stay of execution.
  • Nike‘s official Boston Marathon slogan – “Runners welcome. Walker Tolerated” – hasn’t gone over well in the running (and walking) communities. To Nike’s credit, the slogan has gone over better than its London Marathon slogan last year – “Never Again. Until Next Year.” – that was widely criticized by Jewish groups for brand-hijacking the anti-Holocaust message, “Never again.” Sometimes companies will claim that attention was the goal, that they are playing marketing chess while those criticizing them are playing checkers, but Nike’s market cap is less than one-third of what it was just four years ago, so … no.
  • Carnival Cruise Lines is warning passengers not to fish from the balconies of their suites. Carnival’s policy states that “guests caught attempting to fish on one of their ships could face a $500 fine, immediate removal from the ship at the next port and even a permanent, lifetime ban from the cruise line.”
  • Power couple Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe announced they have split, ending a decade-long relationship. Bird is a basketball Hall of Famer and Rapinoe is one of the best-known women’s soccer players in the world, and together they have six Olympic gold medals and six World Cup gold medals.
  • O’Dwyer’s reports that healthcare PR firms saw a 1.6% decline in revenue in 2025, as economic uncertainty, rising costs and a challenging political environment created challenges for healthcare organizations.
  • A skydiver intending to parachute onto the field at the Virginia Tech spring football game was blown off course and crashed into the video scoreboard. He hung helplessly for about 15 minutes until first responders rescued him.
  • Turnabout is fair play, right? A millionaire U.S. big-game hunter was trampled to death by five elephants while hunting in central Africa.

Who won the week?