Post News: Trader Joe's likely to hit ground running in Colorado

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Today's Front Page News

Trader Joe's likely to hit ground running in Colorado
The prospect of Trader Joe's coming to Colorado is not nearly as surprising as why it has taken the grocer so long, food retail analysts say.  

• Denver school board approves school-start date of late August
• Former Colo. DA Myrl Serra's sentence disappoints victims
• Colorado firms got $619 million in venture capital in 2011
• Jensen Farms owner fined for renting unclean motel rooms to migrants
• Triumph in tragedy: Twin horses are born of eggs from mom killed in Windsor twister, thanks to CSU

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Today's Local Politics

Colorado secretary of state orders review of petitions for pot legalization
The petition signatures of a campaign to legalize limited possession of marijuana in Colorado need a line-by-line review, the secretary of state's office announced Thursday.  

• GOP resolution in Colorado House to repeal federal health care reforms angers Dems
• Colorado Springs Democrat John Morse decides against run for Congress
• Circumcision funding targeted by Colorado lawmakers
• Pricey school board races prompt CO bill
• DeGette announcing re-election campaign

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Today's Business

Trader Joe's likely to hit ground running in Colorado
The prospect of Trader Joe's coming to Colorado is not nearly as surprising as why it has taken the grocer so long, food retail analysts say.  

• Colorado firms got $619 million in venture capital in 2011
• Parker: Goodwill goes upscale with Deja Blue boutique in Denver
• Apple launches iPad textbooks for high schools
• Colorado telecom IP5280 sold to Megapath of California
• Pueblo, Fort Collins lead economic comeback in Colorado

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Today's Sports Headlines

Avs Mailbag: With Giguere and O'Reilly, Colorado could surge
The Post's NHL reporter answers your questions in Adrian Dater's Avs Mailbag. In this installment, Adrian takes six questions, including one wondering if they picked Avs captains again tomorrow, would Ryan O'Reilly wear the "C"?  

• Valor Christian gets kicked out of Pioneer League
• 7-foot Australian fits in fine with Lincoln basketball team
• Rockies reliever Betancourt is rewarded with extension
• Rockies pitcher Juan Nicasio says he'll be good to go by spring training
• Dave Logan says he believes he wasn't named in Mullen's report on possible violations

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Today's Entertainment

Movie review: Protagonist in "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" goes on search for dad's last embrace
Oskar Schell, protagonist of Jonathan Safran Foer's 9-11 novel "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," is bright and amazing in ways precocious and exhausting. The 9-year-old inventor, tambourine player and only child of Thomas and Linda Schell had been tested for Asperger's syndrome.  

• A more human, tender "Phantom"
• Theater review: Curious' "9 Circles" questions U.S. involvement in Iraq
• This weekend's theater openings
• Theater review: "Bring it On" is airy, aerial action
• Hot Tix: "The Book of Mormon"; Big Head Todd and more

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Today's Style

A perfect shirt: It's all in the details, and more makers are getting them right
It should be so easy to find the perfect button-down shirt. All you're asking for is good fabric, a nice fit, seams that are pucker-free and buttons that don't fall off before you even get home from the store, right?  

• Charity events buck tradition to draw young crowds
• Style File: In the bag; Hide and seek; All American

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Today's Opinion

Editorial: School trans fat ban not needed
When we first heard of the school trans fat ban being proposed by Colorado lawmakers, we wondered: Are schools really still serving that stuff?  

• Dionne: So much for a populist GOP
• Dvorak: Diversity comes to the National Mall
• Harsanyi: Super PACs and free will
• Guest Commentary: Buying democracy
• Sirota: Denver school district not fit for its king