Comment on Palin visit to Iowa prompts 2012 talk

Metro Denver developers pushed out more than 5,000 new apartments in the third quarter, and rents barely moved despite that high volume, according to a quarterly update from the Apartment Association of Metro Denver. For the past several quarters, developers have added as many apartments in three months as they would average across an entire year before 2011. “I have been concerned about this for some time that we would flood the market with lots of apartments and vacancies would shoot up,” said Cary Bruteig, author of the quarterly report during a press call Wednesday. Rising vacancies would in turn force landlords to slash rents.

Everything in Aurora Highlands looks big. A yawning sky and oatmeal-colored fields sprawl around the densely arranged, master-planned community, located about 30 minutes southeast of Denver near Buckley Air Force Base.  Flocks of birds take flight over oil wells as construction trucks rumble down long gravel roads. Aircraft crisscross the sky almost constantly, with Denver International Airport about 17 miles to the north.

A kangaroo gave three Durango police officers a late-night workout after wandering away from home and taking an evening hop through the southern Colorado city’s streets, according to a video shared by the Durango Police Department on Wednesday. The small red kangaroo easily hopped away from the police officers who tried to beckon it with whistles and tongue clicks, according to the video timestamped just after 11 p.m.

Opening up a pie shop is hard enough. Throw in an abrupt closure from your crowdfunder, and that might make you crazy. That’s exactly what happened to Elias Lehnert, a fourth-generation piemaker who owns Legacy Pie Co., when Mainvest, a Massachusetts-based equity crowdfunding site, announced it was closing. At the end of May, Mainvest sent an email to Lehnert and all his investors to announce its shuttering, he said.

Over the past five years, the Indy Pass for skiers and snowboarders has grown as an affordable alternative to the twin titans of season passes, Epic and Ikon, featuring mostly small and medium-sized independent ski areas that leave the luxury to the megaresorts. Indy Pass evolved without fanfare while Epic and Ikon dueled for dominance, but this year it’s adding the Loveland ski area, a move Indy Pass managing director Erik Mogensen calls one of the biggest additions to Indy Pass since its inception. “It’s a complete game-changer,” Mogensen said. Having begun modestly in 2019 with 34 members, Indy Pass this year will include 230 no-frills ski areas in the U.

Repetitive campaign ads — often lacking in accuracy or bloated with hyperbole — are a staple of any high-stakes campaign season. Front and center in the ad wars for this election is Colorado’s battleground 8th Congressional District race. U. S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo, the Democratic incumbent, is running against Republican challenger Gabe Evans, a state lawmaker, and a poll this month showed the race in a deadlock. Ad spending in the district, which runs from Greeley and Berthoud down to Denver’s northern suburbs, accounts for more than 75% of expenditures of this type across Colorado’s eight congressional contests, according to Axios Denver.