JP Sears has gained fame as a comedian, life coach and author of How to Be Ultra Spiritual, which offers readers a guide to achieving “spiritual superiority” in just twelve and a half steps. No surprise, then, that he has a soft spot for Boulder, the recent repeat winner (according to National Geographic) as happiest city in the country, which he lovingly needles in a hilarious video on view below. In conversation, he makes it clear that his fondness for the town is no passing fancy.

After more than forty years with Colorado Public Radio, the majority of it as the organization’s president, Max Wycisk has announced that he’ll step down as CPR’s boss at the end of June 2018. But he stresses that his move shouldn’t be interpreted as a sign of turmoil within the state’s largest and most powerful public-radio network.

The just-announced grand marshal for the 2018 National Western Stock Show parade, scheduled for January 4, 2018, is a horse. Yes, a horse: Thunder, the mascot of the Denver Broncos. Surprisingly, though, it’s neither the stupidest choice to fill the role nor the first animal to do so.

Last December, when hometown Denver hero T.J. Miller was arrested in Los Angeles for allegedly slapping an Uber driver after an argument about Donald Trump, the tenor of the coverage was mild bemusement. Not this time, though. Miller is the latest high-profile star to be accused of abuse in the post-Harvey Weinstein era, with a woman coming forward anonymously to say that he sexually assaulted and punched her during his college years. But rather than issuing a vague apology for past behavior, Miller has responded with harsh words for his anonymous accuser.

On December 29, 2016, San Antonio mom Kelly Huber was killed and her two daughters, Ashley and Taylor, were seriously injured after a fall from a ski lift at the Granby Ranch ski area. A subsequent investigation determined that Huber’s death, one of fourteen at a Colorado ski resort during the 2016-17 season, was caused by what was deemed an “unprecedented” mechanical error involving the lift’s electronic drive. Now, William Huber, the girls’ father, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Granby Realty Holdings, the ski area’s owner, that reveals the most details to date about the tragic incident.

In our recent post headlined “Why KBPI May Not Be Rocking the Rockies at 106.7 FM for Much Longer,” we reported that while the venerable rock station was still accessible at the 106.7 FM frequency that it’s occupied for more than twenty years, its shift to 107.9 FM, designed to align the signals in Denver, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs, meant this could change soon. And it has: At 5 p.m. today, December 18, rock-loving listeners who tune in to the old dial spot will discover that the format has flipped to 106.7 The Bull, a new country outlet.

In “What Can Happen If You’re Black, Wear a Hoodie and Buy a Muffin in Aurora,” published in September, we told you about an American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado lawsuit filed on behalf of Omar Hassan, a man of Ethiopian descent who became an alleged victim of racial profiling when police ordered him to leave an Aurora coffee shop, apparently because of his appearance alone. Now, the ACLU is suing two different Aurora police officers for roughing up Dwight Crews, another African American, after he alerted to his pet cat slipping out his front door. And while the stories are separate, ACLU of Colorado legal director Mark Silverstein sees unfortunate similarities.

As we’ve reported, 2017 has been among the worst-ever years for climbing deaths in Colorado, with at least ten casualties on fourteeners in the state, and plenty of tragedies at other natural wonders, including the passing of Henry Gholz in Rocky Mountain National Park during late September. Now, another climbing fatality has occurred just weeks before year’s end in Fremont County, with the victim identified as Andrew Biebuyck, a Virginia geologist.

In 2016, as we reported, a jury acquitted Clarence Moses-EL of a 1987 rape for which he spent nearly three decades in prison. This verdict followed then-Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey’s decision to retry Moses-EL for the crime even after a judge had vacated his conviction the previous year in the wake of a confession by another man, LC Jackson. Now, Moses-EL is suing Morrissey, as well as the City and County of Denver and a slew of additional defendants, in federal court.