Today's Guests

Intrepid Chad Bowar of the KOA News team has seen all 10 movies that are nominated for Best Picture in this year's Academy Awards, which are being presented this Sunday evening.

The 98th Annual Academy Awards

Pete Hammond’s Oscar Predictions: What The Academy Voted For (And Who Didn’t Cast A Ballot At All)

Oscars 2026 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress? (NY Times, may require subscription)

Oscars 2026 predictions: Who will win - and who should? (BBC)

Betting odds: Oscars predictions & odds (2026) | Polymarket

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Brita Horn is Chair(wo)man of the Colorado Republican Party...for about another month as she has announced her resignation effective 4/17, right after the GOP State Assembly

An update from Chair Horn

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Mike Johnston is the mayor of Denver. A few possible topics:

Denver mayor’s office requests delay on Axon ALPR contract vote

What’s the latest on the Denver Post’s owner, Alden Media, not paying rent on the Denver Post building downtown?

Denver Water warns more water restrictions are coming - Axios Denver

Home - Denver Restaurant Week

Denver St Patrick's Day Parade

Denver to transfer 34 yearling bison to Native tribes

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Other Stuff

This seems like an enormous blunder by the US government, if this story is right. Seems like people protecting Trump’s ego and his bizarre preference for Russia.

U.S. dismissed Ukraine deal for anti-Iran drone tech last year

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I'm actually trying this at home, but it's weird because the voice I'm using on the device where I've selected this personality sounds like a 25-year-old black dude who is now almost swearing at me. I'm not sure that it would be better if it sounded like a white girl, though.

Alexa+ gets a new 'adults only' personality option that curses but won't get into NSFW content | TechCrunch

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This happened in West Bloomfield, a particularly Jewish suburb of Detroit:

Live updates: Suspect in Temple Israel synagogue attack in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, is dead, sheriff says | CNN

Temple Israel attack: Suspect dead after car ramming at Michigan synagogue

And elsewhere in the US, another attack by a naturalized citizen Muslim. Why’s he still in the US?

ODU shooter: What to know about the ex-guardsman convicted of aiding ISIS

Gunman in fatal Old Dominion University shooting ID'd as convicted ISIS supporter, officials say

Old Dominion University gunman was previously convicted for ISIS support, sources say - CBS News

And these from recently. Sense a trend?

Austin shooting: 3 dead, 14 injured at a bar as FBI says ‘indicators’ of terrorism

Men who brought explosives to NYC protest cited Islamic State as inspiration, complaint says – NewsNation

It is extremely unwoke to say, but Islam is not like other religions. Many of its adherents do not have the same relationship to concepts of freedom or democracy or tolerance that are hallmarks of the west. It explicitly calls for a range of aggression against non-believers. Not all Muslim immigrants are pro-violence, anti-freedom, anti-American, or anti-Semitic. But it’s inevitable that too many of them are. I don’t know how the government can or should consider this fact in immigration decisions. But to ignore it is ignorant and dangerous.

How is it likely that immigrants from some of these countries will be able to assimilate into a pluralistic, tolerant, sometimes alcohol-imbibing society?

The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society | Pew Research Center

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That's serious wind:

I-25, I-70 among roads closed due to dust, multiple rolled semitrailers amid high winds | FOX31 Denver

Boulder Valley School District closes a handful of schools due to wind

Colorado weather blog: Xcel says possible shutoffs Saturday in Boulder, Jeffco

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Skiing news I didn't get to yesterday:

Vail Resorts earnings were bad but maybe not as bad as some might have expected: Vail Resorts Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2026 Results and Provides Updated Fiscal 2026 Guidance | Vail Resorts, Inc.

And the other big ski resort company also has news: Alterra Mountain Co. CEO Jared Smith to step down - Denver Business Journal

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That's some clever criminality: France's ghost car scandal that allowed one million illegal vehicles onto the roads

(And how about the line at the end by someone claiming that the real problem here was taking power away from the government?)

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Ross Kaminsky on the News with Jeana Gondek