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REPUBLICANS’ TAX OVERHAUL PROPOSAL Big promises, big questions

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NEW MARIJUANA RULES ROBERT “RED” MILLER: Oct. 31, 1927 - Sept. 27, 2017 how $6 trillion plan would be paid for

By Marcy Gordon Edibles and Andrew Taylor The Associated Press

WASHINGTON» Promising big tax can’t cuts and a booming economy, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans un look like veiled the first major revamp of the nation’s tax code in a genera tion Wednesday — a sweeping, nearly $6 trillion tax cut that candy would deeply reduce levies for corporations, simplify everyone’s brackets and nearly double the By Alicia Wallace standard deduction used by most The Denver Post Americans. Trump declared repeatedly the Out with the gummy bears, in plan would provide badly needed with the squares … and circles, tri tax relief for the middle class. But angles and diamonds. there are too many gaps in the Starting Sunday, Colorado no proposal to know how it actually longer will allow marijuana edi would affect individual taxpayers bles shaped like humans, animals, Coach Red Miller gets a ride off the field on the shoulders of players Billy Thompson, and families, how it would be paid fruits or cartoons — forms that left, and Glenn Hyde on Jan. 1, 1978, after the Broncos beat the Oakland Raiders 2017 in for and how much it might add to could be confused with candy — the soaring $20 trillion national the AFC championship game at Mile High Stadium. The victory sent the Broncos to and the state also will require debt. more prominently displayed po the team’s first Super Bowl. Denver Post file There clearly would be seismic tency information on the labels of changes for businesses large and cannabis products. small, with implications for com The new rules, more than a year panies beyond U.S. borders. The in the making, are part of the on Miller guided Broncos American middleclass family of going evolution of Colorado’s pio neering foray into legalizing and TAXES » 8A regulating the sale of marijuana for medical and recreational pur to their ﬁrst Super Bowl poses. “We’ve seen areas where it’s im portant for us to focus,” said Mi By Nicki Jhabvala The Denver Post ganization became something different after FASTRACKS chael Hartman, executive director that.” of the Colorado Department of Robert “Red” Miller, who oversaw the Miller was hospitalized after suffering a Revenue, which regulates the Denver Broncos’ first Super Bowl appear stroke Sept. 11 during the Broncos’ season Regulators’ state’s marijuana industry. ance, died Wednesday morning from compli opening victory against the Los Angeles The tenets of ensuring public cations of a stroke. He was 89. Chargers. He is survived by his wife, Nan; his worries delay health and public safety include Miller took over for John Ralston as coach son, Steve; his stepson, Jeff; and five grand keeping marijuana out of the after the 1976 season and then led the Bron children. He was predeceased by his daugh hands of children, minors and ille cos to their most successful season to that ter, Lana. GLine again gal operations, and providing point, a 122 record in 1977, followed by an Miller was less than two months away from safeguards against potential harm AFC championship game victory over Oak being honored as the 32nd member of the By John Aguilar to consumers. land that put Denver in Super Bowl XII in Broncos’ Ring of Fame. On Nov. 17, Miller’s The Denver Post Edibles have come under some New Orleans, where it lost 2710 to Dallas. bronze pillar will be unveiled in the Ring of The enthusiasm surrounding the famed Or Fame plaza at the steps of Sports Authority Efforts to extend commuter rail EDIBLES » 4A ange Crush defense that season was a cata Field at Mile High. Two days later, when the service in the metro area hit an lyst to the Broncos becoming one of the Broncos host the Cincinnati Bengals, he will other roadblock Wednesday as NFL’s iconic franchises over the next 40 be inducted posthumously, with many of his skeptical state regulators raised years and helped put Denver on the map as a former players in attendance to commemo concerns about the risks new majorleague sports city. rate his legacy and the team’s 40th anniversa technology could pose to motor PLAYBOY’S HUGH “That’s the thing I take pride in with him: ry of its Super Bowl XII berth. ists. He knew it was important for us to be really “Our deepest sympathies go out to Red’s The Colorado Public Utilities HEFNER DIES AT 91 successful,” said Tom Jackson, a threetime entire family, especially his wife, Nan,” Bron Commission dealt twin blows to Hugh Hefner, who founded allpro linebacker on the Orange Crush. cos president and CEO Joe Ellis said. “Red the Regional Transportation Dis “That’s all. He understood that he had to be Playboy magazine in 1953, built a was a beloved member of the Broncos’ family. trict, which has spent millions of successful, so to go to that Super Bowl, it gave dollars to develop and deploy rail brand that defined the sexual him legitimacy, it gave us legitimacy. The or MILLER » 6A service to Denver International culture of the second half of the Airport and the asyetunopened 12A 20th century. » GLine that will connect Union “I don’t know about you guys, but we beat the dog out of the Station to Arvada and Wheat Towering over downtown. Raiders, and we’re going to do that here.” Ridge. A developer wants to put a Regulators ruled that safety 1,000foot, 90story skyscraper Former Broncos defensive back Steve Foley, recalling Red Miller’s instructions to the technology along RTD’s two op in downtown Denver. It would team after he arrived in 1977 from the New England Patriots erating commuter lines was too be the city’s tallest building. »9A GLINE » 7A