If there’s one word I love, it’s “cusp.” Here we are, on the cusp of fall. On the cusp of the Broncos season. Cusp o’ this, cuspy that. Cusp. This cusp-of-fall business has us up and writing pieces about and . As of yesterday we’re on the cusp .
We’re on the cusp of the weekend, and if you’re looking for our roundup of free and cheap things to do around Denver, . It’s corn maze season, and I love corn maze season, and if you’re interested in corn mazes, . If that’s not enough, this is , and this is our giant list of more .
Wouldn’t you know it, we’re on the cusp of today’s Roundup. Let’s go ride that pony.
The Big Stuff
Iiiiiiiiiiiit’s data time. That is, U.S. Census Bureau data time. I’m not sure how much joy those words bring to your heart, but let me tell you. It was ten years ago when the ol’ Bureau started publishing its yearly , which was a way for the Bureau to give us information about the places we live and how those place change a little more frequently than that every-ten-years Census report. (If you’re data-curious, , or )
Lo, we have another of its yearly reports to devour, and . In a nutshell: Coloradans are making more, but paying more rent, and poverty is down. Read the story for the details on — as well as a look at what’s going on with and its sky-high poverty rate.
Speaking of Pueblo, crime’s been pretty bad there. In 2015 it had Colorado’s , and an influx of heroin and an understaffed police force kept things bad. But then local police teamed up with the feds, focused on locking “priority offenders” up in federal prison and now . Reporter Jesse Paul .
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The Rundown
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By The Numbers
43 percent
That’s how many Denver-area workers spend 30 minutes or more commuting to work. Colorado has one of the nation’s worst levels of reliability in commute times, .
Quick Hits
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+ Reporter John Wenzel goes deep , who’s in Boulder today.
+ It’s a steady stream of good news from the . The latest: .
+ Dear Arapahoe County women, please .
+ Donald Trump outlined his vision for managing the nation’s economy as president Thursday, .
+ Thursday, U.S. regulators issued an official recall of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 phone .
+ U.S. factory output fell, consumers cut back at retailers and wholesale prices went nowhere in August, .
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+ R.I.P., .
+ R.I.P., Denver’s .
+ The Rockies’ misery, .
+ If you were hoping to get iPhone 7 today, .
+ Quiz: ?
+ In the seven years since an airline captain saved 155 lives by ditching his crippled airliner in the Hudson River, there’s been enough time to write a book and make a movie, but apparently .
+ Large animals wandering into Nederland in the coming months .
+ Rogue iguana .
+ Reporter Kirk Mitchell, who has written about more than 500 , just wrote about another one: , who was chased down and shot in Denver four years ago.
+ Happy .
+ One last hit: How many of you found the hidden message in ?
What We’re Reading
+ The opens next week. .
+ Maybe you’ve heard the story of the thrifty librarian who bequeathed his alma mater & lifelong workplace millions after his demise. Maybe you heard about the cool million of his going toward a fancy new video scoreboard for the university. I’m banking that you haven’t heard .
+ Bloomberg’s in-depth voters project is .
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+ Here’s a new way to .
Song of the Day
I’m at the “track-down-every-cover-of-this-song” level of obsessed with .
Head over to our , or, if you don’t have a Spotify account, .
Hat Tips and Corrections
From Eric: Today’s clarifications are brought to by “word choice” and how it affects meaning. A couple days ago I told you about , but I used the word “fees.” Reader (and attorney) Amy Hunt wrote me to point out that “fees” are for attorneys, and generally not recoverable by the winning party. “Costs” on the other hand, are things like deposition fees, filing fees, witness expenses, etc., which in a case as large as this, is how the large $700,000 number came about.
The second very subtle word choice was when, yesterday, . But this is a misnomer, because like many pro stadiums, “Sports Authority” Field at Mile High was constructed with millions of dollars of public money. The Brookings Institute . Thanks all, and keep them coming.
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