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This time at All-Star weekend, Nikola Jokic is an NBA champion. That doesn’t mean anyone thinks he’s the face of league

Steph Curry and Kevin Durant both didn't include Nikola Jokic among their candidates for the next face of the NBA after their generation. But Jokic, even after winning a championship heightened his exposure, is happy to just be the class clown anyway.




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Colorado’s contested Democratic primaries turned on more than ideology, despite prominent lawmakers’ losses

"If you take politics as a game, you have to play underneath the rules. You can't appear to be disagreeable; you have to appear to voters as someone who’s getting things done."




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Opinion: Initiatives 50 and 108 are “reckless” efforts to control property taxes

Two reckless initiatives headed for the November ballot, 50 and 108, would gut the resources needed to pay firefighters, recruit and retain volunteers, buy equipment, and respond quickly when you call.




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Rockies’ All-Star/Futures Game set for Monday at Coors

The Rockies' Colorado High School All-Star/Futures Game will be played 2 p.m. Monday at Coors Field.




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Maverick Handley, Ali Peper are student-athletes of the year

A catcher bound for Stanford and a golfer-ice hockey player who spent half the school year in Boston and is headed to Harvard were named male and female student-athletes of the year at The Denver Athletic Club's 41st annual athlete-of-the-year banquet Thursday night.




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Allan Dyer of Cherokee Trail is The Denver Post’s 2016 All-Colorado baseball coach of the year

The Denver Post's 2016 All-Colorado baseball team and coach of the year, plus honorable mention to make up a squad of the state's top high school players.




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Former Wheat Ridge tennis coach Tom Sabus dies; local linemen to play in China

The Wheat Ridge community is still reeling after the death of former boys tennis coach Tom Sabus.




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Legacy’s Dawn Gaffin wins 2016 Dave Sanders Colorado Coach Award

Dawn Gaffin is the 2016 winner of the Dave Sanders Colorado Coach Award, which is presented annually by The Denver Post to a teacher-coach committed to female athletics and high ideals like Sanders, who was killed while saving students in the Columbine massacre in 1999.






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Critics blast regulators over Colorado’s first use of new environmental justice law in fuel-storage controversy

For people living near a gasoline storage facility in Commerce City, the company’s decision to cancel its expansion near an elementary school was an environmental victory.




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Colorado seeks public comment on new draft of Suncor pollution permit more than a year after EPA rejection

Most of the revisions to the permit for Suncor’s Plant 2 were highly technical, and none change the amount of pollution Suncor is allowed to send into the air.




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After guiding industry through big changes, head of Colorado oil-gas group to step down

Dan Haley is stepping down as CEO and president of the trade association after nine years.




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A new Denver data center could use as much water as 16,000 people every day. Should the city give it a tax break?

Denver-based CoreSite plans to build a new data center in the Elyria Swansea neighborhood to provide computing services to companies in the metro area and beyond.





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Xcel Energy announces $45B investment plan, with about half for Colorado

Xcel Energy plans to spend $45 billion on capital investments in the next five years with about $22 billion of that earmarked for Colorado as the utility prepares for what it calls a historic shift in energy demand.




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Oil, gas company Enerplus closing Denver office, cutting 73 jobs after merger

Enerplus Corp. merged with Chord Energy Corp. earlier this year in $11 billion deal.




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Editorial: A weak policy at CU allows coaches or professors to pursue sex with students

"Professors, coaches, and other University of Colorado employees are technically allowed to use their positions of authority to develop intimate relationships with students and athletes."





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Endorsement: Fund services for victims with a tax on guns. Yes on Proposition KK.

If a crime or tragedy happens in Colorado, the second person a victim talks to after the police is often an advocate from one of the dozens of organizations primarily funded by a dwindling pot of federal money.




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Endorsement: “Do not retain” votes on Colorado judges could inadvertently give a win to Trump supporters

Coloradans should vote to retain Justice Monica M. Márquez and send a message to those wielding her retention as a political cudgel that far-right extremists cannot bully Colorado justices.




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The Denver Post editorial board opposes the ban on mountain lion, lynx and bobcat hunting

Coloradans are being asked to ban mountain lion hunting and the hunting and trapping of bobcats and the endangered lynx should the animal ever get delisted.




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Delta flight lands safely at DIA after midair “mechanical issue” damaged plane’s nose

A Delta Airlines flight flying from Detroit landed safely at Denver International Airport on Monday after a mid-flight mechanical issue damaged the plane’s nose.




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Holiday Party Recipe: How to make a showstopper Antipasti Platter

This abundant board features tortellini skewers, prosciutto-melon skewers and stuffed mushrooms, as well as classic antipasti items.




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Ultimate Cheese Board Recipe: Baked Herb Ricotta with Hot Honey and Cheesy Millionaire Dips

Looking to build out a showstopping cheese board for your holiday guests? Grab the biggest board you've got and fill it with baguette slices, cheeses and these two incredible cheesy dips.








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Five Weeknight Dishes: Five-star coconut curry chickpeas with pumpkin and lime and more

Here are five especially delicious options for the week ahead and those to come.




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Local officials near Rocky Flats are disbanding their oversight council — but that doesn’t mean all fights are over

Rocky Flats Stewardship Council met regularly to monitor testing data at former nuke weapons site.




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Man dies after fatal hit-and-run at Arvada car wash, police say

The hit-and-run suspect allegedly waited for the victim -- an unidentified man in his 60s -- to get out of his car in the Autowash parking lot before running him over.




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Westminster pulls out of Rocky Flats tunnel and bridge access project, citing health concerns

Westminster is the second community surrounding the 6,200-acre federal property to withdraw from an intergovernmental agreement supporting construction of a tunnel and bridge into Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge.




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Neighborhood parks in Arvada, Denver receive more than $15 million in grant money for improvements

The Department of the Interior awarded the money from its Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Grants Program.









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Teri Garr, the offbeat comic actor of ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie,’ has died

Teri Garr, the quirky comedy actor who rose from background dancer in Elvis Presley movies to co-star of such favorites as “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has died. She was 79.




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Ella Hagen, already a three-sport individual state champion, adds another trophy by dominating Class 4A state cross country meet

Ella Hagen won her second Class 4A cross country crown on Saturday at the Norris Penrose Event Center.




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State cross country: Aiden Le Roux, Addison Ritzenhein are fastest boy and girl in Colorado after setting course records

Aiden Le Roux and Addison Ritzenhein both set all-classification course records at the Norris Penrose Event Center.




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Colorado high school football playoffs primer: Favorites, challengers, dark horses and burning questions

Cherry Creek seeks its seventh straight appearance in the title game, while Mountain Vista looks for its first.



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Snow way: Frederick delivers all-encompassing performance in snowy 1st-round win

Frederick beat Northfield 32-14 on Friday in 4A's first round.




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CHSAA state football playoffs: How the first round played out in Class 5A and 4A

A look at how the first round of the CHSAA state football playoffs played out in Class 5A and 4A.




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Yadira Caraveo-Gabe Evans congressional race remains locked in a stalemate two days after polls closed

Two days after polls closed, the campaigns for Yadira Caraveo and Gabe Evans were waiting Thursday to see if new ballot totals posted by election officials would sway the race in a more definitive direction.




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Gabe Evans overtakes Rep. Yadira Caraveo in congressional race as ballot count continues

The 8th Congressional District sweeps across Denver's northern suburbs and covers rural sections of Adams and Weld counties as well, along with a small slice of Larimer County.




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Denver’s affordable housing sales tax has been defeated, Mayor Mike Johnston concedes

While it made up ground in later returns after Tuesday's election, the measure was rejected on 51% of city ballots counted so far, according to the latest results released by the Denver Elections Division on Friday evening.