Yeah, not idea. Especially since it was geared towards a journalist audience. Probably not what comes to mind for us.
I’m hoping this isn’t a case of, “hey, look, ecommerce and lifestyle blogs are doing this, we ought to as well!” Email is great, but it is also hard to use effectively without training. Hence why so many suffer from data smog (@tim and I have been adopting that term).
Having not really spent any time there, Colorado somehow made it on to my “okay to live there” list. Probably liberal enough for me, but I hear it is very white, and that is a turn off (same for Portland). One of the reasons I’ve got to make little vacation weeks when I travel for a conference. 