Good morning, Colorado, and happy MLB Opening Day!
All reports indicate the Rockies will indeed be fielding a team this year, though with the rest of the National League West loading up and the boys in purple stuck in a forever rebuild, I wouldn’t expect much.
As always, though, baseball isn’t about winning, losing or even really having that much fun. It’s about the joys of being bored, and few places are nicer to de-stress, knock a few back and let sweet boredom wash over you than a summer night at Coors Field.
With the Rockies opening their season tonight in Arizona to face the defending NL champions, catch up on the prior 30 years of Rockies history by revisiting our series from last year: What’s wrong with the Rockies?
Here’s today’s news from The Sun.
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THE NEWS
WATER
Colorado River Basin tribes take harder stance on negotiations about the river’s future
As Colorado River Basin states and the federal government negotiate a new set of operating rules to replace existing drought-response agreements that expire in 2026, tribal leaders are working to ensure their voices are heard this time. Tribes weren’t included when the agreements were originally negotiated in 2007. At a conference on the Southern Ute Reservation on Wednesday, leaders reiterated some of their requirements to assure tribal support in negotiations. Shannon Mullane reports.
TECHNOLOGY
Federal data may be underestimating the number of Coloradans with inadequate internet, report says
Federal data documenting who has adequate internet service and who doesn’t may be underestimating those who do not by more than a million people, according to a new analysis, including 13,000 people in Colorado. As Tamara Chuang reports, inaccuracies like this can mean missing out on billions in federal funding.
HEALTH
How doctors in Denver helped pioneer research on a new drug for food allergies
The FDA last month gave approval to a drug called Xolair to help people with certain types of food allergies avoid severe reactions from accidental exposure. The drug is a big step forward in fighting food allergies and, as John Ingold writes, it was researchers at National Jewish Health in Denver who conducted some of the earliest studies on using certain types of drugs to prevent severe allergic reactions to food.
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What’s Happening
Denver Small Press Fest. We’ll say farewell to March this weekend, and with it goes the Mo’ Print (month of printmaking). So what better way to celebrate than with a festival? That is, a small, DIY, handmade, homespun, very creative and occasionally kooky festival, of course.
On Saturday, the Denver Small Press Fest convenes at the Globeville Center. More than 70 vendors of hand-drawn and small-press-printed books, buttons, stickers, posters, tees, comics, zines and other crafty in-betweens gather for an afternoon of artistry and small business camaraderie. If you like books that don’t quite fit on your shelves or that fold in on themselves, then the Small Press Fest is your place.
Refreshments and coffee will be available, and after parties will be held at Ratio Beerworks and Fort Greene bar in Denver’s River North district.
Free; 11 a.m.-4 p.m., March 30; Globeville Center, 4496 Grant St., Denver
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