THE DENVER ARTS FESTIVAL IS THIS WEEKEND And my favorite Art Festival guru Jim DeLutes joins me at 1pm to talk about what you can expect to find at the festival this weekend. Find more about the festival by clicking here. By the way, it's in Central Park which is Stapleton, not downtown Denver if that makes you want to go more.

MIKE ROSEN JOINS US AT 2 TO TALK ABOUT THE OFFER AND MORE I have watched more tv in the last week than I have in the last month but boy have I seen some good stuff. Today we're talking about The Offer on Paramount+ and Operation Mincemeat, a movie about a British con played on the Nazis that I had never heard about.

HERE ARE SOME FUN THINGS HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND For the holiday weekend, check them here.

BOULDER IS BEING SUED BY HOMELESS ADVOCATES And of course it's over their camping ban and here's hoping Boulder realizes this is a chance to get things right by fighting this as far up as it needs to go. One of the plaintiffs, who has been homeless off and on since 1996, said this:

"I would like to see the criminalization of our lifestyle (emphasis mine) stopped. It makes a really difficult situation even more difficult, and there’s no reason for it," explains 46-year-old Jeni Shurley, who has been homeless on and off since 1996. Shurley signed onto the lawsuit after being ticketed in December 2021 for sleeping in a "bike-drawn tiny home." During one of her interactions with Boulder Police Department officers that month, Shurley was told to "get out of Boulder," the lawsuit claims.

So she's at least admitting that this isn't just because she's down on her luck temporarily, it's a "lifestyle". I hope Boulder fights this with every fiber of their being because this is their chance to take back public spaces from people like Ms. Shurley who CHOSE to live like this and create garbage and havoc for everyone else who chooses to live like a responsible human being. My sympathy is zero for her. Zero.

IF RE ELECTION JARED REALLY BELIEVES IN LOCAL CONTROL HE'LL VETO THE HORRIBLE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BILL The sole purpose of this bill is to cement Democratic support by government workers. It can bankrupt small counties and cities, but the Dems don't care. They love unions more than they love the rest of us. The Denver Gazette says Polis should veto it here.

ANOTHER PRO-LIFE BALLOT MEASURE IS BEING RUN And this one would abolish abortion completely and has zero chance of passing but here we go again. I wish they would spend time and energy on educating people about options and what abortion really is instead. We're so far away from voters making abortion illegal.

THIS LONE TREE GIRL IS GOING TO CHANGE THE WORLD And it's not just me saying that, she's already proving it. I interviewed Gitanjali Rao when she created the Kindly app that encourages kids to think about what they are about to send in an effort to end bullying. Now she is working on a program to spot opioid addiction using the body's proteins before it gets out of control. Imagine if doctors had a real diagnostic tool other than the word of the patient! She is amazing, read more here.

COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IS USING KIDS INFO WITHOUT PARENTAL PERMISSION And they are doing so to create a database of covid school vaccination rates. A group representing charter schools has asked them to stop using Governor Polis emergency order from last year to do this.

A WATER SLIDE SO BIG IT NEEDS A CHAIR LIFT And now I have to go to Malaysia.

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