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| By Tamara Dunn, tdunn@denverpost.com Happy Saturday, Rounduppers! Today is National Roller Coaster Day, and with the news that Elitch Gardens will stick around for a while, you can check out two roller coasters that reopened this season. Celebrating birthdays are actor Julie Newmar (92), singer/author/TV personality Kathie Lee Gifford (72), singer J.T. Taylor (Kool and the Gang) (72), movie director James Cameron (71), singer Madonna (67), actor Angela Bassett (67), actor Steve Carell (63) actor/filmmaker Taika Waititi (50), singer Vanessa Carlton (45), actor Rumer Willis (37) and tennis player Jannik Sinner (24). And now, here are today's headlines: The RundownToday's Weather: Clouds and sunshine with a high of 85. From the Opinion pages: “Colorado’s AI law won’t work – but a smarter one can,” writes Jonathan Singer. Asking Eric: Fool Me Twice told her husband to end an emotional relationship with a co-worker. Months later, she found out he kept it going and was lying to her. Horoscope: For Cancer, "this is a feel-good day. Nevertheless, something unexpected might ruffle your feathers a bit," writes Georgia Nicols. Today in History: On Aug. 16, 2014, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, where police and protesters repeatedly clashed in the week since a Black 18-year-old, Michael Brown, was shot to death by a white police officer.
The closed Hudson Correctional Facility in Hudson, Colorado, photographed via drone on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post) ICE plans to open as many as three new detention centers in rural Colorado, report saysFederal immigration officials intend to triple Colorado’s immigrant detention capacity by opening as many as three new facilities in the state in the coming months, according to recent planning documents obtained by the Washington Post. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was already moving to reopen a closed correctional facility in Hudson, northeast of metro Denver. The Denver Post reported on the Hudson plan earlier this week based on what members of the state’s congressional delegation were told. But the new documents indicate the agency is also targeting the reopening of another private prison in Walsenburg, in southern Colorado, and the addition of another 28 beds at the Southern Ute Detention Center in Ignacio, which is on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation, southeast of Durango. Seth Klamann writes.
Suncor Energy’s oil refinery in Commerce City, Colorado, on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post) Suncor plans to spend $57 million to upgrade emissions, but will still fail to meet Colorado’s climate goalsSuncor Energy is planning to spend more than $57 million to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions at its Commerce City oil refinery, but still expects to miss its 2030 deadline to eliminate enough pollution to meet Colorado’s benchmark for industrial polluters. As Noelle Phillips reports, not only will the company miss its 2030 greenhouse-gas emissions deadline, which is required by state law, but Suncor says its Commerce City refinery never will meet Colorado’s reduction demands unless the state creates a fund to help companies finance projects that would lower emissions, according to a new report the company filed with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. “Despite this major capital investment, onsite reductions will be insufficient to meet Suncor’s GHG emissions requirements,” the company’s report states.
The University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus on April 24, 2020, in Aurora. (Kathryn Scott, Special to The Denver Post) Most Colorado health research grants canceled by Trump have been reinstated — but impacts are still being feltAt least 70% of the federal health research grants terminated in Colorado earlier this year are officially back on, though some scientists say the delay has thrown off their ability to test out their ideas and train new researchers. The National Institutes of Health canceled 53 grants to Colorado institutions earlier this year, representing more than $2 million in lost funding, according to the volunteer tracking group Grant Witness. The Trump administration prioritized ending funding for projects related to diversity, equity and inclusion, with an emphasis on research about health disparities affecting people of color and LGBTQ people. Of the grants terminated in Colorado, only two are still definitively over: one at Denver Health to study vaccine hesitancy and one at the University of Denver examining how same-sex couples’ health changes when they get married. Meg Wingerter reports.
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