QUID HAS HEARD that Colorado’s most expensive and elite college continues to be the mysterious center of the Western universe. Seems that as the scandal over CIA Director David Petraeus continues to unfold, all roads lead to what the outside world still calls The University of Denver, and which club members refer to as DU. Petraeus, the stalking paramour, the paramour’s stalked adversary, the distantly stalked, dazed and confused emailed general, Condi, George W. Casey, Jr., Sara Castellanos, John V. Garza, and Sinbad all attended a place where so many have given so much money over the years. Coincidence? Magnet for shirtless emails? Or just wildly overpriced?
AND QUID HAS HEARD that Denver’s venerable freeze-butt cow-pie-palooza is up to something, but not one can figure out what. Seems that out of the blue, Denver Stock Show officials called for a big media circus to make their big announcement: The Stock Show will stay in Denver. That was big news — about a year ago when Aurora and Denver agreed that the stock show would (are your ready?) stay in Denver. At one point, when this city and yours truly had hope, Aurora and stock show officials were flirting with the idea of moving it to new and better digs in Aurora as part of a Gaylord Hotel-a-Palooza, which is now just another distant Aurora memory. The whole thing makes Quid wonder whether this is becoming the Denver Stalk Show’s way of trying to get a date anywhere but in their old and nasty confines under I-70. Whatever, happy to hear those so inclined can freeze among friends for many Januarys to come.
AND QUID HAS HEARD that nothing creates a real understanding of how best to fix Colorado’s convoluted economic system like, well, nothing. That point was underscored this week when at long last, Gov. John Hickenlooper’s ballyhooed TBD government spending initiative revealed shocking findings. Seems that after years of state and local politicians lamenting the conflicting mess of laws and amendments in the state, such as TABOR, Amendment 23, The Gallagher Amendment and Taco Tuesdays at Taco Bell, a seemingly endless investigation into the mess determined that TABOR, Amendment 23, The Gallager Amendment and Taco Tuesdays at Taco Bell were indeed responsible for making it hard to pay state bills and explain stuff to the mortals. Words like “unsustainable” and “extra sour cream” have never been more pronounced than they were this week, it turns out. And what will change now? TBD Squared.
AND THAT’S ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS