Westword

Let me get right to introducing you to this week's insider panel.

We start with Patty Calhoun, founder and editor emeritus at West Word.

Krista Kafer, columnist with the Denver Post.

Maryann Goodland, chief legislative reporter for Colorado Politics and the Colorado Springs and Denver Gazettes.

As of September first, City and County of Denver expects every apartment building with eight or more units, every restaurant and food business, every big permitted festival, and every construction crew in town to get that call right every single day, and they got to have a written plan on file explaining exactly how they're gonna do it.

Two weeks ago, Westword ran a column under the headline, "What Denver Businesses Need to Know About the New Waste Diversion Rules." The man that wrote it, Brian Loma, he's an advocate, not a reporter.

He's an advocate with an environmental group called Green Latinos Colorado.

In fact, he helped put the law on the ballot in the first place, he says so at the bottom of the column.

Right.

And back in the day, the Westword in Denver would be full of, uh, it ba- it was hooker ads.

Yeah.

Yeah, and now it's all been replaced by pot.

... we-- they know exactly what it was, and they look to the sky.

And so I will say too, another detail though, um, so this one comes from Westword, right?

Mm-hmm.

Uh, Westword reported that a US Forest Service ranger used a Geiger counter and found that the area around the carcass, carcass was highly radioactive.

Hmm.

Adding to the suspiciousness.

I know there's no L.A., another L.A., but to me, I think at the end of his run, his legacy will be something c-comparable to that for us as an identity in the city, so I love it.

My win this week? My old friend, my old editor, Dave Herrera, is back at Westword as music editor.

He wrote a great piece about coming back to the-- coming back to the city as well.

He's been back for a little while.

Um, but he was the music editor starting in 2003.

He brought me on to Westword as a freelance, uh, music writer in 2010, I believe.

Really shaped a lot of what I am today as a writer, and he's truly a champion for the music scene here.

I'm so excited for him to be back.

So who are they? They were formed in 2019 in Denver, Colorado.

An interesting story found on Westworld.

The name itself, which we both struggled, has an amusing origin.

Guitarist Bobby Malone was trying to think of names for the band when his then girlfriend suggested tachypnea, which is a medical term for rapid breathing.

... yes, I feel like I should know this, and I think that we are.

I think we do have, like, maybe we were, like, the birthplace of some, were we the birthplace of Christmas lights? Oh, I'm gonna be so mad that I can't remember this, but I know Patty Calhoun wrote a whole history of it for Westword.

We'll find it, but um, yes, this is a rule.

It's an unwritten rule.