KOA Colorado’s Morning News 08 13 24 8AM

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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one pin point Weather. We'll have some sun this morning,
but making way for clouds and some showers. Thunderstorms possible
as well. Heis today will be in the mid to
upper eighties right now, we have those clouds.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
It is sixty eight in Denver.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Today's the deadline for residents of a condemned a or
apartment complex to move out of their homes. Kway's Chad
Bower joins us Live with how the city is planning
to help them.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
The city says the residents of the building on Nome
Street had to have been out by seven this morning.
Base sites repeated code violations and an unwillingness of the
property management to do anything about the issues as to
why the building was condemned. The property management claims that
venezuelanangs have made the building a dangerous place to live.
The city is offering hotel vouchers while residents look for

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a new place to live, and also help with a
security deposit once they find a place. But many residents
say they are afraid they won't be eligible for city assistants.

Speaker 5 (01:15):
As them for contracts, asking for you know this, receipts.
They never gave us contracts.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
They never gave us receipts. They just took cash.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
The City of Aurora tells Fox thirty one they have
been going door to door in an attempt to help
residents who don't have that proper paperwork, Reporting Live Chadauer
Kowa News.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
It's the first prosecution of a local official over election tampering.
In the twenty twenty election, Mesa County clerk found guilty
on seven of ten felony counsel.

Speaker 6 (01:44):
Accused of using someone else's security badge to give a
person affiliated with My Pillows Mike Lindell access to the
Mesa County, Colorado election system in twenty twenty one. Now
former county clerk Tina Peters accused also of making copies
of hard drives and pictures of passwords, misconduct, and other charges,
facing up to twenty two years in prison. Believe the
first prosecution of a local election official over a suspected

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security breach, and the twenty twenty election conspiracy theories Chuck
sievertson ABC News.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Denver voters may still have a chance to vote on
a sales tax hikes to provide affordable housing that in
spite of serious objections from some of the city council members.

Speaker 7 (02:21):
A third of a percent sales tax hike to help
Denver Health is already on the ballot, and Councilman Daryl
Watson supports both hikes.

Speaker 8 (02:28):
I'm wearing a Denver Health pin and I've worn it
pretty much every day since i received it from Donald Linn.
And I wear that pin because I see no conflict.

Speaker 7 (02:39):
But the voters said yes to both. The sales tax
will go up by zero point eighty four percent. Council
Member Chris Signs is concerned voters will think this.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
I don't really understand why we need a half percent
tax and a third of percent tax at the same time.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
I'm just going to say no both of them.

Speaker 7 (02:55):
Heines voted yes for now, but he's unsure about next week.

Speaker 9 (02:58):
Rob DAWs at Kawait.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
News, an anti violent advocate, has been arrested in connection
with a deadly weekend shooting in Commerce City. Investigators say
it happens Saturday at Pioneer Park and the investigation led
to the arrest of forty six year old Lumamba Sayers Senior.
Sayers founded the Aurora based nonprofit Heavy Hands, Heavy Heart,
which helps young people in the community. The shooting was
part of a wave of deadly gun violence and Commerce

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City over the weekend.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Se DOT warning that rock blasting scheduled near Evergreen will
likely cause some delays on I seventy over the next
two weeks. The rock blasting is part of a plan
to build a new Pegasus busting stop in Evergreen. CRUs
planned to remove thousands of feet of rock before wrapping
things up on August twenty third. No detours will be
in place and drivers will be warned by a series
of airhorn blasts before each blasting session starts.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Sarani an attack on Israel could be imminent to the
US and other world leaders are trying to intervened, hoping
to quell tensions.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
ABC's Tom Sophie Burridge.

Speaker 10 (03:50):
This morning the White House saying an attack by Iran
and its proxies on Israel could come this week. That
assessment amid a flurry of US diplomacy, with the US
sending Bank Channel messages to Iran. According to one official,
with other US officials quote cautiously optimistic, Iran will limit
the scope of an attack.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
The US has mobilized an aircraft carrier and a nuclear
submarine to the region for discouraging Iran and any other
groups looking to target Israel. Ukrainian forces continue their offensive,
capturing several towns and villages in more than three hundred
square miles of Russian territory.

Speaker 11 (04:22):
It is clearly a grave moment for Vladimir Putin, certainly
a very serious one of the most seriously faced since
the start of the war. Don't think anyone quite anticipated
that the Ukrainians would be so audacious to launch this
kind of attack.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
That is abcz and Panel.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
In a two hour interview on social media platform x
former President Trump and foreign said foreign relations would be
much better if he were in the White House. Here's
ABC's Rachel Scott.

Speaker 12 (04:45):
I'm praising his relationships with authoritarian leaders.

Speaker 13 (04:48):
And I got along with Kim Jonga and we had dinner,
we had everything, and he really like me, and I
got along with him.

Speaker 12 (04:56):
Trump also describing a conversation he had with Putman about
invading Ukraine, saying he told him not to invade.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
The live interview got off to a late start, delayed
by about forty minutes by a technical problem. Another state
getting ready to put the issue of abortion on the ballot.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
Right now, Arizona law bands abortions after fifteen weeks except
in medical emergencies, and in many state lawmakers they're narrowly repealed,
a near total band dating back to the Civil War.
Arizona is now one of six states with a confirmed
ballot measure asking voters to protect or expand abortion rights.
Four other states are still considering adding similar measures.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
ABC's Elizabeth Scholsey Australian researchers reporting that cancer cases and
deaths among men will nearly double by the year twenty fifty.

Speaker 14 (05:39):
Biological reasons also where men are more likely to engage
in high risk behaviors, for example smoking alcohol. And there's
also an occupational exposure men more likely to be factory
workers exposed to toxins. But I think most importantly there
are fewer guidelines and screening options that are male specific.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
I think there's a social aspect.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Too, a feeling weak ABC's medical correspondent, doctor Darien Sting.
That report appears in today's edition of Journal Cancer.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
However, cigarette smoking is a record lows in the US.

Speaker 15 (06:06):
Only eleven percent of Americans admit to lighting up a
cigarette in the past week. That matches the historic low
in eighty years of polling by Gallup.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
When first asking the question.

Speaker 15 (06:16):
In nineteen forty four, forty one percent of American adults
said they smoked. The big drop off has been measured
among young adults under thirty, only six percent of them smoked,
but eighteen percent use e cigarettes.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
I'm rory O'Neil.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
The inflation numbers are in. The inflation numbers are in.
All right, Powell, explain business money. Who's coming up in
sixty seconds?

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Jonathan Steele joining us now with the check of her
drive in the KWA traffic Center.

Speaker 16 (06:40):
Yeah, it's been an active drive for us this morning,
getting weired up on Highway eighty five southbound near about
one hundred and twentieth on a crash. I'm looking for
that right now. I'm not really actually seeing a big
delay there. It looks like actually one hundred twenty if
maybe affected more so than the freeway itself. Two seventy
and I seventy six still a little bus evil or
turnpike heading into Broomfield and ice the east bout at

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Paco's wrapping up on a crash on the right side,
but I've had a hefty backup in there extending back
towards our vada at Wadsworth I seventy six coming west
of I twenty five and hooking up also with I
seventy has been pretty slow. Seeing traffic in and out
of downtown sluggish as well as to and from the
Tech Center and two two five bowl directions out of
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Speaker 3 (07:37):
Patwitard has the latest business in money news as new
numbers on inflation are in.

Speaker 17 (07:42):
But this may just be the appetizer ahead of tomorrow's
main course. Still today's report on wholesale prices in July,
as financial markets on the upswing.

Speaker 18 (07:50):
The producer Price Index rose just one tenth of a
percent last month and up two point two percent for
the year ending in July. Core inflation for the month
excluding food and energy was flat, and the core reading
on an annual basis was up two point four percent.
All the readings are cooler than expected. The Consumer Price
Index is released on Wednesday. Jinny Kosoda Bucks News.

Speaker 17 (08:13):
Stocks when from mixed to positive after that PPI report
came out. Right now, the DOW is up eighty five,
that AAAC is up two hundred and forty five, and
the SMP is up forty five. Google launches its new
line of Pixel nine smartphones today. The Pixel Watch also
will likely get an update. Company is expected to delve
into how its Gemini AI is going to integrate it

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into all the new devices. After filing for Chapter eleven
bankruptcy protection, the company that used to be called Lumber
Liquidators says it will liquidate nearly a third of its
stores nationwide. That includes three in Colorado. LL Flooring as
it's now called, as three hundred stores. It'll close ninety
three the Colorado locations closing are in Longmont, Loveland.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
And Thornton. A trip to the airport today good Land
You a.

Speaker 19 (08:58):
New Giga is hosting an in person job fare to
fill more than three hundred positions across the airport. Employers
are looking for full time and part time rules to
be filled with a lot of skills needed in food
and customer service. Employers include airlines, concessions, rental car companies,
and government. It's from eleven until one o'clock in the

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plaza near the South Security checkpoint. Cynthia veil koween News.

Speaker 17 (09:23):
Are you ready for some football? Advertisers are? At least
when it comes to the Super Bowl? Add swats for
the twenty twenty five game are already almost sold out.
Variety reports that Fox, where the game is being broadcast,
is leveraging the high demand to price thirty second commercials
at more than seven million dollars. We're also pushing buyers

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to commit to an advertising package that includes other Fox properties.
This update brought to you Buy that Enver Metro Chamber
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Speaker 20 (09:57):
BK A lot of love for Boneix Yeah, after what
we saw Sunday in the Broncos preseason opener, it's hard
not to feel the enthusiasm in Broncos country for rookie
QB bow Knicks based on how we played in Indy Whiteout.
Tim Patrick, playing in his first game action in more
than two years, said he wasn't surprised with what he
saw from the first rounder.

Speaker 15 (10:16):
The same thing he's been doing in practice, just making plays,
taking charge of the huddle, and just being Bone.

Speaker 20 (10:21):
Nicks in typical Tim Patrick fashion. Despite coming off a
knee injury followed by an achilles tear, he downplayed his
return to the gridiron.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
I just felt good to go to War of my brothers. Man.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
It was a cool experience.

Speaker 21 (10:34):
I got that first catch out to the West, so now
I could just focus on making sure we win games.

Speaker 20 (10:38):
Players off today, Broncos on the practice field tomorrow for
the first of their three final training camp workouts, all
open to the fans. They'll culminate Friday in a joint
practice with the Packers before Sunday Night's preseason game against
Green Bay.

Speaker 22 (10:50):
And when the fitch to Rod Rivers and Brennan will
hit that to center field, it's pretty deep.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Thomas is going back. He's at the wall and it
is gone. Just kept carrying to center field.

Speaker 22 (11:03):
It's a high wall out there, and Brendan Rodgers deposited
right over that yellow stripe for a solo home run
four to one Rockies.

Speaker 9 (11:12):
Jasehim's calling KA last night.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
The Rockies couldn't hold onto that four to one lead.

Speaker 20 (11:17):
They gave him two and the six, and then two
and the seventh. They'd going to lose five to fourth.
Game two of three tonight in az First pitch on
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way at seven forty Rockies on date pregame at seven.
The AP Top twenty five preseason College Football Poll is out.
Five Big twelve teams are in it, but the seed
Buffs aren't one of them. Currently, Utah coming in at twelve,

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k State seventeen, Okie State eighteen, Arizona twenty one, My
Jayhawks twenty two.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
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Speaker 8 (11:54):
Colorado's Morning News KA News Time eight sixteen.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
The Denver sales tax height proposal for more affordable housing
moving forward.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
To another city council hearing.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
It passed last night's hearing eight to five, with some amendments.
Those amendments are designed to provide more guardrails on the
half percent tax increase.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
I fully approved.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
It'll be put on the November ballot for voters to decide.

Speaker 9 (12:18):
Minnesota governor.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Wall is going to be
in Denver tomorrow. He's going to speak at a local
campaign reception and then mixed stops in La New York, Boston,
Rhode Island as part of a week long fundraising blitz.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
It's Walls's first solo campaigning events.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Biden administration believes Israel could be attacked by Iran and
its proxies as soon as this week.

Speaker 23 (12:36):
Commational Security Council spokesman John Kirby spoke with reporters on Monday.

Speaker 13 (12:40):
It's increasingly likely that there will be an attack by
Iran and its proxies.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
And perhaps in the coming days. I would tell you
that we share those concerns.

Speaker 23 (12:50):
Iran has threatened to retaliate against Israel following the recent
assassinations of Hamas and Hezbo law leaders. The US has
sent more military resources to the region and is monitoring
rising tensions in the Middle East.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
I'm Marknefield, Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont, Wisconsin. They're holding primary elections
today in Minnesota, Progressive Congress froman ilhan Omar defending her
seat against former Minneapolis City council member Don Samuels. Two
other members of the so called squad, Jamaal Brown, Bowman
and Corey Bush, lost their Democratic primaries this cycle.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
They also announced the first group of VMA performers for
the show, including chapel Ron, Sabrina Carpenter, and Comilla Cabello.
Taylor Swift leads with ten VMA nominations, including for Video
of the Year.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Coming up here in Colorado's morning news, it's been floated
the idea about not taxing tips. Well, what would that
look like if that was the case. We're going to
shock talk with an accounting professor from MSU Denver.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Next, let's take a look at your Tuesday morning drive.
Now we go to the KOA Traffic Center with Jonathan Steel.

Speaker 16 (13:45):
Yeah, we're looking better. We're past the peak of the
drive for sure. I could see where things are kind
of picking up the pace a little bit.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Most areas anyway.

Speaker 16 (13:52):
Bowler Turnpike's been slow from Federal up to Wadsworth there
into Broomfield.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
The head of that looks better towards Boulder North end
I twenty five.

Speaker 16 (13:59):
It's a little sluggish down from one hundred and fourth
and it stays that way to get into downtown.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
It kind of tightens up a little bit through Spear.

Speaker 16 (14:05):
Still dealing with delays on I seventy where an accident
occurred earlier at Peiko's. It looks like the right side
still blocked up with backups two about Wadsworth I seventy
six and two seventy's still jamming up quite a bit,
and I got a lot of traffic heading down too
in front of the Tech Center coming up from Castle
Pines though does look better also after that earlier.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Incident that occurred, but all lanes are open.

Speaker 16 (14:24):
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Speaker 3 (14:43):
FM KOA News Time A nineteen. The idea must be
landing with a certain suspect of voters. As now both
presidential candidates are advocating for tax free income for tipped employees.

Speaker 13 (14:57):
When I get to office, we are going to not
charge taxes on tips.

Speaker 19 (15:02):
People making tips can eliminate taxes on tips for service and.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Hospitality worker, an idea that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump
seemed to agree on. Probably for those relying on that
can come The idea sounds great, but how realistic is it?
On with us now to talk about it in greater
detail on the KOA Comma Spirit Health Hotline MSU Denver
Accounting Professor Robert Purshetti and Professor, we appreciate you coming on.

Speaker 9 (15:25):
With us this morning.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
I just want to start first simply, is something like
this doable?

Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (15:31):
So I like to call this really the auto tune
of policies. It sounds really good, but when you look
at it under the hood, it's not actually doing that much.
It's not that consequential. Most of the taxes that you're
going to pay on tips are not income taxes, but
they're either payroll or self employment taxes. In fact, a

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third of tip makers don't pay any income taxes at all,
and all of the proposed legislation is only removing income taxes,
so it's presented in a way that's a little bit misleading.
We have about fifteen billion dollars in total taxes, but
most of that is coming from payroll taxes, which would

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not be affected at all by this legislation. If you've
ever driven for uber or rebhub, when you fill out
your tax return, you can see this because you see
the amount from your self employment taxes goes way up,
and usually the amount from income taxes is very very small,
so it doesn't really touch the biggest chunk of those taxes,
which is Social Security, Medicare, unemployment.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Would there be a gray line or would there be
align drawn.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
Of what could be if this did pass taxable or
non taxable, or would it just be across the board.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
If you give a tip, it would not be taxed.
So this is a.

Speaker 24 (16:53):
Very common issue when we are looking at new legislation.
The law itself doesn't specify this, and so we have
to wait for IRS guidance in court cases to clarify
it for us. So what we're not expecting is you
have your banker or your financial analyst who is now
working off of tips from the corporation. There's probably going

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to be some type of guidance, but we all receive
that guidance until years after the legislation has passed or
the law has passed.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Would I be conflating though?

Speaker 2 (17:25):
How is this any different than say somebody comes to
your home and you offer to pay them cash for
their service because you may get a discount because they
take cash, and because of how they may report it.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
On their end.

Speaker 24 (17:35):
Yeah, so the reporting element is a little bit different.
And I always say that one of the best tax
strategies is just lie on your taxes. Right, Not only
do you not have to pay any taxes, you can
also get a free room and board in a nice
little jail cell. The reality of the situation is some
things are going to be harder to enforce than others.

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And so if you do have that motivation to lie
or obfuscate what's in there and there's not an enforcement mechanism,
that's never going to change, and having more enforcement from
the IRS is really the only way to change that.
This is something that's legal, So this is something where
you have big corporations like gardens going through and doing it.

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You're not going to be able to go into an
olive garden and have them hide the tips from you.
There's going to be policies and procedures in there because
they're afraid to get in trouble to the tune of
billions of dollars. That's what's really going to change under this.
The mom and pop places that are hiding it then
shouldn't be hiding it. That's never going to be different.

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There's not a lot of data on how much that's occurring,
but IRS estimates show that it's been steadily going down
over the years unreported tips and they're under about one
point six billion dollars, which sounds like a lot of money,
but in reality is not a huge chunk of the
federal budget.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
And this may dive a little bit more into the
legislative realm of this than really the accounting realm.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
But do you know if our presidential candidate.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Did say, Okay, we're eliminating taxing tips, would it be instant,
does it have to go through multiple hoops or really
what would happen next?

Speaker 24 (19:12):
The most permanent way for it to happen is legislation,
and there's already bipartisan support for it and some legislation
that's been proposed, so it's most likely going to be
a law change. Theoretically, they could do it through IRS
enforcement mechanisms, kind of a very strong executive action, but

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that probably won't happen. Just because it's really popular.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
It doesn't have to be sneaky the.

Speaker 24 (19:38):
Way that they're doing it, And again, it sounds great,
but it's fairly inconsequential, so I don't think there's going
to be many pushback from either side. Really.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
We always hear that those that are able to keep more,
that get tax benefits, whatever they are, always pump that
extra money into the economy.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Is that necessarily always the case?

Speaker 24 (19:59):
In fact, for this is probably going to be more
relevant here, and people with lower money have a higher
tendency to spend it. Meaning if you give a tax
break to somebody who's making forty thousand dollars a year,
they're much more likely to spend that to somebody who is,
say making a million dollars a year. So the impact

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of this in terms of the multiplier and people spending
that money is probably going to be fairly high. It's
just the amount of taxes that it eliminates is fairly low,
So from that perspective, it's a pretty good bang for
your buck.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
At EMISU, Denver accounting professor Robert Persecute checking the.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Drive ahead of the newscast Jonathan Steel the KOA Traffic Center.

Speaker 16 (20:42):
Yeah, the one delay we've had working for quite some time.
I seventy eastbound pass Federal towards Peiko's with a crash
in there on the right side, but we're still looking
at a backup extending to Wadsworth. Now we're starting to
see jamming from Wadsworth heading west through Kipling.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
That's construction kind of cranking up for US.

Speaker 16 (20:59):
I seventy six is a little busy coming in from
eighty eighth and all the way out to I seventy
pull Or Turnpike.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Still sluggish into Broomfield.

Speaker 16 (21:06):
Two seventy got some volume there to contend with out
of commerce City.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
I twenty five's a little sluggish.

Speaker 16 (21:10):
Through downtown to and from the Tech Center as well
as two two five, But things are really starting to
pick up the pace now starting to see less volume
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Speaker 3 (21:36):
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thirty one. Pinpoint Weather. We could see another round of
afternoons thunderstorms today. High temperature in the upper eighties, little
cooler tomorrow, but that scattered storm forecast still sticks around.

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Partly cloudyekskies. Right now, we're at sixty five in Denver.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
A former county clerk in Mason County is the first
election official to be convicted on charges of election interference.

Speaker 9 (22:08):
We get more on the story with kaoe's Chadbauer.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
Prosecutors say Tina Peters stole an employee security badge to
help someone associated with my Pillow CEO Mike Lindell accessed
the county's voting equipment in twenty twenty one and make
a copy of hard drives and take pictures of passwords,
all to help Lindell's false conspiracies about the twenty twenty election.
Peters was found guilty of seven of ten charges, including

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official misconduct, violation of duty, attempt to influence a public servant,
and conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation. Four of the charges
are felonies. Colorado Secretary of State Jenna Griswold.

Speaker 25 (22:44):
Election denialism disinformation truly is dangerous, and that's why it's
so important we speak out and speak up to any
type of election disinformation.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
Attorney General Phil Wiser says Peters was held accountable for
her criminal acts, which put the safety of our elections
and the freedom and safety of others at risk. Peters
faces up to twenty two years in prison when she
is sentenced. October third, Reporting live Chad Bauer KOA News.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
The proposal asking Denver voters to increase the sales tax
is moving forward at the City Council. A final vote
scheduled next week, and despite concerns from some council members,
several non profit leaders were able to persuade enough of
the council to vote yes to keep that measure alive,
including Rocky Mountain Community CEO Mark Marshall.

Speaker 24 (23:28):
We simply just don't have enough housing, and the only
way to address that is we need to build more housing,
and to build that, we need the funding mechanisms.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Some voice strong opposition to that idea, saying so much
money has been thrown at the issue with little success
to show for it. The proposal calls for a half
percent sales tax hike. Five council members voted against putting
the measure on the November ballot.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
People living in a condemned apartment complex and Aurora had
the deadline of seven o'clock to move out of their apartments.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
The city says, help me.

Speaker 26 (24:00):
More than eighty five families here at this apartment building
on Nome Street and Aurora find temporary hotel rooms well
looking for another place, a more permanent place to live.
The building is considered uninhabitable and the city says the
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Many outgoing residents say they simply have not had enough
time to find more permanent housing.

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Even getting a city.

Speaker 26 (24:22):
Hotel voucher has become challenging, they say. The building's management
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Fox thirty one feature the executive director of the Heavy
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At Pioneer Parking Commerce City over the weekend. Sayers is
being held on a one million dollar bond.

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surrounding January sixth. Former president describing what his immigration policy
would include if he were re elected.

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We're going to have the largest deportation in history of
this country.

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ABC's Rachel Scott has more on the conversation between Trump
and Elon Musk.

Speaker 12 (26:00):
I'm praising his relationships with authoritarian leaders.

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And I got along with Kim Jong Lun. We had dinner,
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Trump also describing a conversation he had with Putman about
invading Ukraine, saying he told him not to invade.

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Ukraine expanding it's daring offensive video circulating online showing troops
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miles of Russian territory. Some analysts are estimating they could
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Speaker 3 (26:42):
The Bar Trail and manage To Incline are closed today
and tomorrow while forest service workers are clearing a large
boulder that's blocking the trail. The big Rock landed on
Bar Trail during a rock slide in April, and neighbors
of the new Ford Amphitheater near Colorado Springs are bracing
for another loud weekend. Chris Francis, is less than a
mile from the venue, says he tried calling police.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
They said that they had an overwhelming number of nowise
complaints and they weren't taking them anymore, so just to
go online and report it.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
Local Banded One Republic played three shows for the grand
opening over the weekend, leading to one hundred and forty
four noise complaints.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
The Amphitheater manager says.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
They followed rules for noise levels outlined by the city,
but officials are still checking data for any violations. The
Beach Boys take the stage on Friday, followed by Walker
Hayes Saturday, and Erasian and Pepper on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
This reminds me of when Fiddler's Green opened back in
the day, because it's in Greenwood Village by places of residence,
and they were having issues with the noise complaints there
as well, and then they kind of subsided. There may
be one here or there. They stop concerts at what
ten or eleven o'clock, But that sounds familiar that they're
going to go through some of these growing pains until
they figured out Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
And when I toured the Ford Amphitheater, it didn't feel
like it was super residential except far on the opposite
side of the street. When we were driving in, I went, oh, man,
I know those houses are over there and not going
to be happy with this. But the one thing that
I thought was actually really cool was when I was
in the venue looking at the stage, I turned to
my left and I said, I'm going to buy that
condo right there, And.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
There's one condo with.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
A balcony that has a perfect.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
View of the main stage. I was like, man, you
can make that an Airbnb and you could just sell
it for all the shows.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
But there is a big residential area right across the
street that I'm surprised that the sound would actually carry
that far.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
But yes, so.

Speaker 9 (28:27):
Yeah, you like the venue, right, you thought it was
decent when you went.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
It's different, it's unique. It's different.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
It's not like any other venue I've ever been in
because it definitely tries to go for more of a
luxury VIP feel with all these little fire pits that
like companies can have like pretty much a timeshare with
so you can have it for the entire uh for
every show, and then you can similar to the boxes
that they have a Fidler's green, I know they do
it this same way. So it's different, but it's really

(28:54):
beautiful to backdrop of it. It's just a unique way
of seeing music with a bunch of intimate fire pits.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
I guess I'm just.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
Curious that people owning those fire pits will actually stand
up for a show, because I'm a sure show is
just fire pits.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Will you will you You'll go see a show there?

Speaker 9 (29:12):
Then right, you'll check one out.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
Well, a lot of the artists that are coming there
are going to Red Rocks.

Speaker 9 (29:17):
Oh so why make the true exactly?

Speaker 2 (29:18):
I gotcha all right, Day thirty eight here Colorado's morning News.
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Speaker 16 (29:24):
Yeah, it's been our first real busy drive of play on.
Nothing new year but for a while. Anyway, we've got
about a forty minute commute right now from Capsule Pines
all the way up into downtown and then coming in
out of North London and Thornton. You're about thirty minutes
from one hundred and twentieth heading into downtown to Colefax
two seventy and a little busy. They're still out of
Commerce City. That crash I seventy span of Pekos is

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definitely out of the way now, but we're still pretty
slow from Wadsworth. I mean it's picking up, but it's
a pretty crowded I seventy six west by twenty five
leading out towards Ice seventy.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Is going to be slow for you two to five.

Speaker 16 (29:57):
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What is it August in the games not till February sometime,
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even though, let's be honest, super Bowl ads don't kind
of collect in the consciousness of our culture the way
some of them have.

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Consumer inflation expectations had a record low in July.

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According to the New York Federal Reserve, the three year
consumer outlook fell to just two point three percent last month.
That's the lowest since the data collection began in twenty thirteen. Meanwhile,
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which is a slight drop from June. The results come
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Speaker 2 (32:30):
BK and Bonnicks getting a lot of love and a
lot of people excited that he could be the starter.

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Yeah, Marty and Gina. The bo Nicks excitement is palpable
all across Broncos country. His teammates are certainly excited about
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Here's tight end Greg Gulsit's post game in Indy, the
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Speaker 21 (32:48):
He did well, handled things great, great command of the
huddle is the maturity that we've already seen.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
So nothing surprising. You know, he's going to go in
there be in control.

Speaker 29 (32:57):
Yeah.

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And fellow rookie running back Adrick Estimated, who scored in
Sunday's preseason opener, not surprised at all by what bow
Knicks did.

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Oh yeah, he's a really good guy.

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He's a game manager, he's a guy that played a
lot of football in his career, so he knows what
he's doing. He's a guy that always wants to get better.
He's never a complace send. He always wants to get better.
And he's just a great leader for us and I'm
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Bay on Friday, and then Sunday night they'll host the
packet of Powerfield at Mile High.

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For the folks up north that are coming into the
city out of Longmont, I'm just noticing we've got to
crash near one nineteen. This is going to be southbound.
It is beginning to back up. It's already in a
delay mode there, so be prepared if you're heading that way.
Let's see here in town, we've got some slowing still
from the turnpike to downtown. I'm still a little bit
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(36:03):
and from the Tech Center. This well, it's two two five,
especially around Parker Road. Two seventy still kind of jamming
up a little bit nice seventy six west from I
twenty five out towards I seventy, even the turnpike just
a little bit of volume. But everything else is really
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Is Colorado's morning news.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Marty Lens, Gina Gondeck, executive producer Cole Peterson.

Speaker 9 (36:43):
We were talking about this software. I'll bring it on here.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
I was never so fortunate enough to work as a
server in a restaurant and a good response and edited,
Why so you need to save your best stuff, you
save off to you bring it on the air.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Come on, if I can't laugh at myself, I can't
laugh at anybody. So you've never worked in the restaurant industry,
and yeah it was, it was good. So you both
worked for tips.

Speaker 21 (37:08):
We did, so we both have had that experience in
our lives. And we bring this up because we.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Talked about the the idea of president former president Donald
Trump's idea and then Kamala Harris latching onto it about
not tipping or not or charging taxes for what.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Our tips you have wages exactly exactly.

Speaker 21 (37:24):
So we did have a tax expert and accounting professor
from MSU Denver, Robert Persecchiti, on with us earlier this
morning to talk about that more in detail, kind of
the logistics of it. He kind of it sounds like
it's not really logistical at all, basically, that's what he's saying.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Yeah, it sounds almost too good to be true, which
I guess it is because he was saying a lot
of it is the payroll and self employment taxes, which
you wouldn't even see if they took the taxable part
off of your tipped wages. So now it's kind of
seems like it's not helping really anybody in the situation.
And then he explained that it would have to really

(38:02):
specify who is able for this because nowadays you tip
for everything. You tip for coffee, you tip for a restaurant,
you tip for I mean I bought merchandise at a
concert once and they flipped it over. They just grabbed
a T shirt off a table and said here you go.
And T shirts aren't cheap, so the tip wasn't cheap,
you know. So they said they would have to first
specify who is even qualified for this. Then it would

(38:24):
have to go through some type of executive action or
legislative process, which he said, wouldn't it be really behind
closed doors because they want it to be open because
they want it to look like it is something positive
for the service industry workers and then go from there.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
But both sides are going for it, which is pretty
unique to seething.

Speaker 9 (38:44):
Yeah, I was Can I be server adjacent?

Speaker 1 (38:47):
My wife, she reminds me in a text.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
She says she worked in a restaurant for tips as
an hourly wage because it was about two bucks an
hour back in the day when she yeah, it was.

Speaker 21 (38:54):
Five bucks for me yeah night time, yeah yep, or
like five twenty five or something.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
Yeah, with her because she's much more patient.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
And likely the professor, I was glad he made the
joke that everyone does of like, well, you could just
not claim them, because that's what he was like, is
usually what happens, because it is just such a balancing
act to see, Okay, well you have the credit card tips,
you have the cash tips. Well you can't figure out
how many cash tips. Then if you're splitting them, if
you're at a restaurant or a business that splits it
amongst everybody else, it gets even more convoluted. So really

(39:26):
fascinating conversation. You could check it out on our podcast
page and learn a little bit more about it, because
I was surprised.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
Everyone thinks it sounds like a great thing.

Speaker 3 (39:33):
I thought it sounded like a great thing at the
time because those service workers would love to make more money.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
But it sounds like it's the tax portion of it
is a little more convoluted. Yeh, it's murky for sure.

Speaker 21 (39:44):
Yeah, but it does kind of break into that conversation
about the culture of tipping. And I know, and you
just said a T shirt at a concert some ask
for tip. That's a line too far. But I will say,
as a former server restaurant worker, I tip on everything,
and I don't care.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
I feel bad for anybody working by the counter or certainly.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
Funny because to me, I will always tip like twenty percent,
like good service twenty percent, and then if it's horrible service,
I'll be.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Like, you get eight eighteen, right, I will. I will
say this too.

Speaker 21 (40:12):
Any lower than that.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
I would like to think I'm a fair and generous
tipper in some instances, So I like to think that.
But I notice folks that have worked in the service industry,
even those that maybe still do it that aren't making
a lot, they're very generous with their tips because to
your point, they're empathetic, sympathetic to people in that space,
saying I know what it's like to be you because
that's what I do. So it's maybe their way of
paying it forward or saying I get it. I kind

(40:35):
of from the psychology. I'm all in this together, so
I get that somehow may come back to you by
being generous to somebody else, you hope. So yeah, but
to your point when you say you are generous to people,
because you know.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
What that's like.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
I do cool you and I haven't been in the
service industry in quite some time.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
I'm curious how old are you guys quite some time?

Speaker 3 (40:51):
If restaurant bar workers if they have seen fewer tips
now because the tipping industry has just inflated so much
that are people almost starting to cut back on those
people that do rely on it and those other places
that actually some never even see the tips, Like I
guarantee when I tipped to that random worker who gave
me a shirt, that probably went to the artist or

(41:14):
the company or whatever. So I'm really curious to see
if they're also having a struggle with just not tipping
as well too.

Speaker 21 (41:20):
Oh, I wouldn't be surprised. I mean there is that culture.
So but I'll make up for it.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
I'll try to. You can make for it.

Speaker 9 (41:26):
Now, what have we got coming up for tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (41:28):
Great question, Marty, I had something I can't remember, and
to ask you a quick question, real quick, if you
you can just click the one of these boxes.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Oh yeah, great, yeah, I get it now, for sure,
it's cool tip what.

Speaker 21 (41:43):
I don't know, We'll see I forgot to make notes,
so we will see who something will later?

Speaker 9 (41:47):
All right, eight fifty five, it's Colorader's Morning News.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
Portions of the following program were prerecorded. Okay, me time
eight fifty nine. Wrapping up the show here on Colorado's
Morning News, Rob Kaminski joining us, do I have to
show you my ID?

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Because a Rod said I have to make fun of
your club shirts today.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
Mandy told me to wear.

Speaker 31 (42:05):
Old clothes, So I'm wearing a shirt from when I
used to like own a nightclub and go and try
to meet the girls in my nightclub, which I was never,
never very successful at even though I own. Sir, let
me run something by you on tipping. If people know
that the people who are receiving the tips will not

(42:27):
pay tax on it, will they tip less?

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Oh right, Yeah?

Speaker 11 (42:34):
I might.

Speaker 31 (42:34):
In fact, I might be a little pissed off. Hey
you're not paying tax on your income and I'm paying
tax on mine.

Speaker 29 (42:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
There's it's a it's a really.

Speaker 31 (42:41):
You guys touched a lot of aspects, but it's a
it's a really interesting conversation.

Speaker 18 (42:46):
Uh.

Speaker 31 (42:46):
We're gonna have Jimmy Singenberger on to tell us about
the Tina Peters trial, which I'm sure you.

Speaker 9 (42:51):
Guys talked about quite a bit.

Speaker 31 (42:52):
And we're gonna have Roger Pilka on, who's just a
brilliant professor from CU and we're going to talk about
scandals within climate science, like things you have been told
about data that are not just wrong, their outright lies
and actually very very interesting stuff.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
So, yeah, we've got a ton to do today.

Speaker 9 (43:09):
Ross and his clubbing's they're coming up.

Speaker 3 (43:10):
NeXT's go now to the Koit Traffic Center.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
But the tack of your Tuesday morning drive with Jonathan Steel.

Speaker 16 (43:16):
Yep, Ben, that looks like the last of the volume
kind of training off for us, which is good news.
I twenty five down south coming up from Castle Pines.
Is still a little sluggish taking up towards Colorado and
then the north end. I twenty five down for the
turnpike through downtown, a little busy there. Two seventies still
jamming up through Vasquez Bolt directions and it looks like
west On I seventy coming into Apple within the Golden area.

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I think we've got some construction cranking up around thirty
second and Young Field, because it is backed up right
now up north, I think they're clearing off that crash
we mentioned near one nineteen out of Longmont. It was southbound,
but still looking at about a mile and a half
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