Time to thaw your turkey!
Sorry, often I prefer to greet our pricey readers a bit of extra gently, however each minute counts when you nonetheless have a frozen Butterball that you just’re hoping to serve Thursday.
Between the Thanksgiving prep and the continued particular legislative session, I nearly didn’t discover that the Broncos — this could’t be proper, can it? — received their fourth sport in a row.
I’d dwell on the poignant disappointment of a once-proud fanbase being so jazzed about reaching .500, however we’ve completely an excessive amount of information to get to.
So let’s spatchcock this turkey and get to it already.
ELECTIONS

Subsequent November, Colorado voters will seemingly be requested to radically overhaul the state’s election system. Briefly, each candidate for an workplace on the state legislature stage or increased can be placed on the identical main poll, no matter social gathering affiliation. Then the highest 4 vote-getters would advance to the overall election, which might be a ranked-choice election. Sandra Fish has way more on how the initiative would work and why Kent Thiry, the previous CEO of DaVita, is funding this push.
HIGH COST OF COLORADO

Considered one of my favourite stand-up one-liners is from the dearly departed Mitch Hedberg: “Rice is nice whenever you’re hungry and also you need 2,000 of one thing.” However lately, as eating places are working on razor-thin margins, each grain counts. Within the newest installment of our Excessive Value of Colorado sequence, Tamara Chuang talks to the operators of Kokoro about how strain from all sides has eating places rethinking their fundamentals.
POLITICS

It appears to be like like everybody took totally different classes away from Proposition HH’s failure on the poll field. Brian Eason spent the weekend analyzing the choices that lawmakers are working by means of in the course of the particular session to offer property tax aid, together with the progressive wing of the Democratic social gathering’s measure that will double a tax credit score for the working poor.
OUTDOORS

The bounce in spending on out of doors recreation between 2021 and 2022
The out of doors enterprise continues to ascertain itself as a pillar of all the American economic system, Jason Blevins stories. Using 5 million staff and accounting for two.2% of the nation’s gross home product, out of doors recreation nonetheless has room to develop, particularly because the federal authorities weighs laws that will make recreation an even bigger a part of land administration plans and extra.
CLUB Q SHOOTING

On the one-year mark for the reason that mass capturing, tons of of individuals gathered Sunday outdoors of the membership in Colorado Springs to honor the 5 individuals who have been killed, the 18 folks injured and the group eternally modified within the rampage that lasted lower than a minute.
ENVIRONMENT
I grew up within the ’90s, when the primary downside on Captain Planet’s thoughts was the outlet within the ozone layer. However as Michael Sales space stories, the world got here collectively and banned the chemical compounds most accountable on the Montreal Protocol, and what was as soon as a planetary risk is now described by the Boulder scientists who monitor it as “a really modest ozone gap.” Be taught extra with Michael’s interview with Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration senior scientist Stephen Montzka.
MORE NEWS
Historic drought, poor planning, competing political agendas and climate-change denial contributed to dangerously low ranges at Lake Mead and Lake Powell, consultants say. So what’s truly being achieved to reverse the injury? Jerd Smith of our accomplice at Recent Water Information dives into the complicated decision-making that may throw all the river system into catastrophe.
🔑 = supply has article meter or paywall
COLUMNS
The Colorado Solar is a nonpartisan information group, and the opinions of columnists and editorial writers don’t mirror the opinions of the newsroom. Learn our ethics coverage for extra on The Solar’s opinion coverage and submit columns, recommend writers or present suggestions at opinion@coloradosun.com.
Thanks for kicking off this busy week with us. If you happen to want me, I’m going to be practice-proofing my pull-apart bitter cream and chives rolls so I can get an ideal batch by Thursday.
— Eric & Olivia