It’s Friday, and we’re digging into the biggest stories of the week. First, local multimillionaire Kent Thiry is bankrolling a new campaign to reform Colorado’s elections, and the signature-gathering kicked off this week. Will you give the DaVita founder’s ideas your John Hancock? Plus, public transit riders face “mounting disruptions (www.denverpost.com/2024/06/12...) ” as RTD struggles with outages and maintenance issues, according the Denver Post. Colorado Newsline senior reporter Chase Woodruff and our politics and green chile correspondent Justine Sandoval join producer Paul Karolyi to break down those stories and, of course, share our wins and fails of the week.
Confused about how ranked choice voting works? Check out the explainer we published (www.dropbox.com/paper/ep/redi...) in our newsletter this week.
Paul referenced Chase’s excellent analysis (coloradonewsline.com/2024/06/...) of how effective Kent Thiry’s last few election reforms and suggests this longread from The Lever on Kent Thiry’s political ambitions (www.levernews.com/the-plutocr...) . He also referenced CoLab’s recent Voter Voices survey (www.cpr.org/2024/06/05/colora...) , and the John Oliver clip ( • Dialysis: Last Week To... ) of Kent Thiry.
Justine talked about Sony Pictures buying Alamo Drafthouse (www.nytimes.com/2024/06/12/bu...) and the labor organizing (www.westword.com/news/workers...) at local Live Nation venues. Paul highlighted this BusinessDen article (businessden.com/2024/06/11/de...) about Indian restaurants. Chase talked about the new Denver museum (denverite.com/2024/06/12/mcni...) and Manny Barella (www.denverpost.com/2024/06/12...) .
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