Good morning, Colorado.
I got home from a trip this weekend and the first thing I did when I got off the plane was sneeze. And then I sneezed on the car ride home. And I sneezed as we greeted our cat. And I sneezed as I went to bed. Tree pollen is here.
Pro: That means spring is also here. Con: I need to refresh our supply of tissues. Oh well, all in the name of pretty flowers.
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THE NEWS
HEALTH
Colorado locked up middle-aged women for “lunacy,” old jail ledger reveals
Reporter Jennifer Brown and photographer Olivia Sun watched as two women pulled out a leather-bound ledger from 1878-1928 that still smells of tobacco. The museum workers pointed out some of the names. Of those, 74 were women who had been booked for “lunacy” or “insanity.” Many were subsequently put in an asylum.
We talked to the museum experts about their findings, and dive into one woman’s story in particular.
OUTDOORS
Eyewitness describes wolf’s final hours in a rural Wyoming bar
In a small western Wyoming town, a man brought a muzzled, leashed and gravely injured wolf into a bar. Allegations later emerged that he had run down the animal on a snowmobile, taped its mouth shut and showed it off at the bar for hours before killing it.
Mike Koshmrl with the WyoFile talked with a bar patron who first alerted authorities about what happened at the Green River Bar.
ENERGY
Looking for energy rebates? Colorado, Polis unveil a new Google-built calculator to help you find them.
Colorado worked with Google and the nonprofit Rewiring America to develop a new online tool that puts all of the state’s available federal, state, local and Xcel utility incentives into one easy search. That’s good news for homeowners and contractors who can potentially cut down on hours of research. Michael Booth has more on what the rebate calculator can do.
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BOOKS
“Dude, Where’s My Flying Car?” tracks mobility into the (not so distant) future
Author Tim Jackson is a car guy — decades leading a state trade association of car dealers is testament to that. But he’s also a bicycle guy. And an aviation guy. In “Dude, Where’s My Flying Car?” he looks at the past, present and future of personal mobility, tracking the industry into a future when flying cars may be upon us sooner than we think.
Kevin Simpson | Writer
To my fellow allergy sufferers, godspeed. To everyone else, cherish your clear sinuses.
— Danika & the whole staff of The Sun
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