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Local property tax relief? Governor’s plea is finding few takers — as state rebuffs Douglas County’s own attempt.

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:30 GMT

After a bruising, losing battle over Proposition HH, a breakneck special session and a public plea from Gov. Jared Polis for local governments to lower their property tax rates, further relief appears to be a trickle more than a torrent for Coloradans.Few local officials have taken up Polis’ request so far, including in metro Denver. And Douglas County, which separately had pursued a 4% across-the-board cut to residential property values, was rebuffed Monday when a unanimous state board rejected the move, citing fairness and the impact on other taxing entities, including schools.The decision added a crosscurrent to the larger suggestion by Polis: That the state’s hundreds of taxing districts voluntarily take a smaller piece of the property tax pie by temporarily reducing their mill levies. Those are the tax rates used to calculate tax bills, and they will be finalized as the budget season wraps up in coming weeks. The mill levies don’t need to be certified until ea...

Broncos Mailbag: Can Sean Payton’s offense generate enough production to finish season 3-0?

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:30 GMT

Denver Post Broncos writer Parker Gabriel posts his Broncos Mailbag weekly during the season and periodically during the offseason. Click here to submit a question.No question, just a thank you. Always grateful. Love your coverage of all things Broncos. Really appreciate everyone in the Post sports department. Go Broncos!— Dennis, Mt. Laurel, N.J.Hey Dennis, thanks for the note! A good way to kick things off today. There’s a lot of folks at The Post that make it go. Many of them don’t have their name on stories every day, like Matt, Sarah, Lori, Joe and Jeff, but we appreciate them all the same! And we appreciate everybody who reads and supports our work.Whatever happened to Greg Dulcich? Is he still on IR? I was looking forward to him returning to the field to give our offense a boost. What’s up?— Lou Hanebury, Billings, Mont.Hey Lou, good question, it’s been sort of a developing situation. Dulcich has been on injured reserve since Week 6 with the latest in a seri...

Rapids Notebook: Previewing Colorado’s vital 2024 SuperDraft

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:30 GMT

The Colorado Rapids’ front office will be looking to put the word ‘super’ in SuperDraft on Tuesday.Colorado has a total of six 2024 MLS SuperDraft picks, with four in the first round, three in the top 15 and two in the top five, creating one stellar opportunity to add depth to a roster that needs it. Halfway to the 12 days of ‘Pidsmas’ or not, the mood around Colorado’s front office is one of intrigue.“We’re full steam ahead on the SuperDraft,” Rapids sporting director Fran Taylor told The Denver Post last week. “That’s a particularly exciting draft pool considering it’s the first time you can take underclassmen outside of the (Generation Adidas) process. It’s just a ton of interesting underclassmen that are gonna be involved this time around.”The stakes are high on Colorado, which has the Nos. 2, 4, 12 and 21 picks in the the first round. It’s the first time Colorado has at least three first-round picks since 2000, t...

What you should know about the deadly outbreak tied to cantaloupes

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:30 GMT

Hundreds of people in the U.S. and Canada have been sickened and at least 10 people have died in a growing outbreak of salmonella poisoning linked to contaminated whole and pre-cut cantaloupe.Health officials are warning consumers, retailers and restaurants not to buy, eat or serve cantaloupe if they don’t know the source.That’s especially important for individuals who are vulnerable to serious illness from salmonella infection and those who care for them. High-risk groups include young children, people older than 65 and those with weakened immune systems.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is especially concerned because many of the illnesses have been severe and because victims include people who ate cantaloupe served in childcare centers and long-term care facilities.Here’s what we know about this outbreak:How many people have been sickened in the cantaloupe salmonella outbreak?Overall, at least 302 people in the U.S. and 153 in Canada have been sickened in this o...

Skelton: Most California Democrats don’t want U.S. siding with Israel

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:30 GMT

This just seems startling to me: California Democrats think overwhelmingly that America should not take sides in the horrific war in Gaza. But Republicans side strongly with Israel.That’s based on a statewide poll conducted by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California.It’s startling because for most of my life, the Democratic Party has emphatically backed Israel and has been solidly supported by Jewish voters and campaign donors. Democrats and Israel have been closely tied.“Democratic candidates get support from Jews because of social issues and their advocacy on behalf of people of color and those struggling financially. That’s the Jewish culture,” says longtime Democratic strategist Darry Sragow, who is Jewish.Bob Shrum, a former Democratic strategist who now is director of the Center for the Political Future at USC, points out that “the Democratic leadership still firmly supports Israel. Some people are outliers, but they don’...

East Bay boyfriend eyed in Capitola woman’s disappearance

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:30 GMT

Theobald “Theo” Brooks Lengyel. (El Cerrito Police Department — Contributed) CAPITOLA — Bay Area police are investigating a missing Capitola woman’s case as a potential homicide.The El Cerrito Police Department, which is leading the investigation, said that the family of Alice “Alyx” Kamakaokalani Herrmann, 61, reported her missing Dec. 12. The family had not heard from Herrmann for more than a week and she was last seen on Dec. 3 in Santa Cruz, according to police.Hermann had missed her flight to Hawaii, scheduled for Dec. 12, according to Capitola police.Police are treating Herrmann’s boyfriend, Theobald “Theo” Brooks Lengyel, of El Cerrito, as a person of interest in their investigation. Lengyel, who also goes by the name of Mylo Stone, allegedly drove his blue 1989 Ford pickup to Portland, Oregon, in the days after Herrmann’s disappearance and has “not cooperated with the police investigation,” according to El Cerrito police. Hermann’s red 2007 Toyota Highlander SUV was fou...

Vans, North Face owner VF Corp. says a hack is disrupting holiday orders

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:30 GMT

By Tonya Garcia | BloombergStruggling apparel and footwear maker VF Corp. said it’s working to restore its ability to fulfill orders following a cyberattack, though the company hasn’t yet determined the full scope of the incident.“Unauthorized occurrences” were detected on a portion of the company’s information technology system on Dec. 13, the North Face, Timberland and Vans parent said in a filing. The “threat actor” also stole personal and other data. The company is working with external cybersecurity experts and has shut down some systems.Also see: Apple to halt Apple Watch 9, Ultra 2 sales in US over patent dispute with Irvine’s MasimoRelated ArticlesBusiness | Apple to halt sales of some Apple Watches in US over patent dispute Business | Move over rotisserie chicken, Costco’s hottest item is a $2,000 gold bar Business | Milpitas police arrest five at Great Mall in anti-shoplifting operation Business | S.J.’s Berr...

First look inside Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Disneyland

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:30 GMT

Walt Disney Imagineering offered the first look inside the new Tiana’s Bayou Adventure attractions coming to Disneyland and Walt Disney World as the former Splash Mountain rides continue to undergo extensive “Princess and the Frog” makeovers.The brief peek inside the attraction showed Imagineers working in a scene with an old cabin framed by a magnolia tree and waving fields of tall grass set against a night sky in the background.The sneak peek of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure appeared during “Disney 100: A Century of Dreams” on Disney-owned ABC as part of a special edition of the “20/20” news magazine show.And here are the photos from inside Tiana’s Bayou Adventure: pic.twitter.com/q9VH7NqTQ4— Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) December 18, 2023The preview scene from Tiana’s Bayou Adventure was reminiscent of the swamp shacks that sit on stilts in the water across from the Blue Bayou restaurant at the beginning of the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction in Disneyland, according to Twitter...

How, at 85, Anthony Hopkins brought his A-game to filming ‘Freud’s Last Session’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:30 GMT

When director Matthew Brown was ready to cast “Freud’s Last Session,” a film that imagines a conversation between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis, it was Anthony Hopkins he thought of first to play the father of psychoanalysis.“Anthony Hopkins, that was always the No. 1 you could ever dream of getting,” Brown says. “I wasn’t surprised when he said no at first. I think he was in the midst of [the film] ‘The Father.’”But Brown didn’t give up on the dream. He worked on the script that he co-wrote with Mark St. Germain, who had written the stage play upon which the movie was adapted, and found a way to get it back in front of Hopkins once more.“When he said yes, it was basically ‘game on’ at that point,” Brown says.Matthew Goode as C.S. Lewis and Anthony Hopkins as Sigmund Freud in “Freud’s Last Session,” a new film from director and cowriter Matthew Brown which opens Friday, Dec. 22, 2023. (Photo by Sabrina Lantos, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)Matthew Goode as C.S....

Torso found in dumpster identified as missing California mother of 3

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:02:30 GMT

A woman’s torso found in a garbage bin in Encino last month has been identified as a mother of three from Tarzana believed killed along with her parents, the coroner’s office said Monday, Dec. 18.Mei Haskell, 37, her mother Yanxiang Wang, 64, and her stepfather Gaoshan Li, 71, had all been missing from their Tarzana home since early November.After the torso was found in a bag inside the bin behind an Encino strip mall on Nov. 8, police said they found surveillance camera footage showing Haskell’s husband, 35-year-old Samuel Bond Haskell, dumping the bag. They arrested him at the Westfield Topanga mall the same day.Coroner’s office records now show investigators have identified the remains as Mei Haskell. Wang and Li remain missing.Samuel Haskell has remained in jail since his arrest at the mall. He made his first court appearance on Dec. 8, but still has not been arraigned on murder charges for his wife and in-laws. He is due back in court in January.Related ArticlesCrime and Public...