🌱 $25 To Breckenridge + Migrant Flow Slows + 82 Traffic Fatalities

Hello and happy Thursday. I'm back in your inbox this morning with everything you need to know about what's happening these days in Denver. Today you'll learn about:

• Former Rocky Mountain News art critic, Mary Voelz Chandler, passes away after battle with cancer.
• The entire list of the 24,637 vanity plates that were rejected last year.
• Denver had 82 traffic-related fatalities in 2022.

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Thursday's weather: Partly sunny. High: 45 Low: 28.

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Here are the top stories today in Denver:

1. Snowstang Bus service provides round trip tickets to Breckenridge for $25. Colorado Department of Transportation is now offering roundtrip bus rides between Denver's Union Station to Breckenridge Ski Resort for $25. The Snowstang bus program is part of the CDOTs goal of reducing traffic and auto emissions. (Summit Daily)
2. Mary Voelz Chandler crosses the rainbow bridge. Beloved Art and architecture writer Mary Voelz Chandler passed away on Jan. 10 after a prolonged battle with cancer. Chandler had been a writer at the Rocky Mountain News until it closed in 2009, and was a well-known voice across Denver's art, artist and architecture communities. (Westword)
3. Migrant tide slowing in Denver. The City of Denver is only allowing migrants to stay in city run shelters for 14 days, as the flood of migrants who have been pouring into coming into Colorado begins to slow. (KDVR)
4. Here's the entire list of the 24,637 requests for vanity plates that were denied in 2022. Colorado's DMV rejected over 24,000 vanity plates last year. FOX31 made a request for the entire list of rejected plates and received 525 pages of rejected plate requests. (FOX31)
5. With 82 traffic-related fatalities in Denver in 2022, how can Denver make the streets safer? Denver continues to struggle to make progress with its goal of Vision Zero. That's the program that the City of Denver adopted in 2010 in in hopes of getting to zero traffic-related deaths and serious injuries by 2030. (Westword)

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Today in Denver:

• Little University: Bear Valley Branch Library. (10:30 – 11 a.m.)
• Writing in the Museum: History Colorado Center. (1-3 p.m.)
• Colorado Wildlife Council: Conference call. (10 a.m.)
• Ian Fidance: At Comedy works. (7:30 p.m.)

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From my notebook:

• Denver Police Department Chief Ron Thomas will be at the Community Crime Prevention Coalition meeting on Thursday, Jan. 19, at 6 p.m. at Empower Field. (Denver)
• NKollectiv Gallery Opens. The "Biota" exhibit runs Jan. 20—March 11 in the Santa Fe Art District. (NKollectiv Gallery)

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