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The regression to the mean couldn’t have been meaner. After three straight wins in which the Colorado Rapids beat their opponents by a combined score of 9-1, a trip to LAFC was straight in the other direction. While the Rapids’ defense looked solid and stood its ground for much of the game, Mateusz Bogusz and LAFC were just too much to handle.

The right to free speech, or the right to discriminate? Re: “Jack Phillips’ cakes are expression and should be protected,” June 23 commentary Krista Kafer’s Sunday editorial defending “Jack Phillip’s cakes” does make sense on the most superficial level. Should a hired singer have to sing a racist song for a Ku Klux Klan rally?

An anthology of Colorado writers and a study of the stuff created by man, by a former Denver Museum of Nature and Science archaeologist, are among the winners of the 2024 Colorado Book Awards. “So Much Stuff” is by Chip Colwell, whose bio on X declares him to be “owner of too much stuff,”  is now editor-in-chief of SAPIENS, a digital magazine about anthropological thinking and discoveries. “Reading Colorado,” by Peter Andersen, “underscores the diversity and richness of the state and its writers,” wrote our local book reviewer, Sandra Dallas soon after the book was published in 2023. Related Articles Books | The Book Club: “Up Home” and more short reviews from readers Books | The Book Club: “Kairos,” “Sipsworth” and more short reviews from readers Books | Walt Longmire character returns to his youth in 20th novel Books | “Double Exposure” sheds light on the life of Civil War-era Western photographer Books | Colorado guidebook for kids adds learning to the mix The awards were presented by the Colorado Humanities & Center for the Book on June 21.

People line up for the Merry Go Round at Lakeside Amusement Park in Lakeside, Colorado on Thursday, June 27, 2024. (Photo by Zachary Spindler-Krage/The Denver Post) Cheerful calliope music blared as the merry-go-round spun at Lakeside Amusement Park, harkening back to the sounds of an old-time carnival at this 116-year-old theme park just off the northwest side of Denver. Screams from teenage thrill-seekers riding the Spider, the Scrambler and the Wild Chipmunk punctuated the music as they whirled, flipped and raced on the same rides their parents and grandparents enjoyed when they were young. On this breezy late-June night, though, the park’s most famous attraction — the landmark wooden Cyclone roller coaster — sat idle.

Jefferson County officials have agreed to pay a former inmate $500,000 to settle a 2022 incident in which jail surveillance video shows deputies drop the handcuffed man on his face. On the night of Nov. 20, 2022, sheriff’s deputies at the Jefferson County jail were escorting then-53-year-old Fredrick Fisk, with his hands cuffed behind his back, to a medical observation unit because he was having a mental health episode, according to an incident report from the sheriff’s office. In surveillance footage from the jail, Fisk can be seen stopping in the hallway and refusing to walk forward. The video doesn’t have sound, but the incident report claims Fisk was verbally aggressive, threatening “to spit and saying he was going to kill all of them.” After approximately two minutes of Fisk refusing to move, the video shows deputies grab Fisk’s legs and sweep them out from under him, slamming him face-first into the floor. When deputies rolled Fisk onto his side, the video showed a pool of blood left behind on the floor where his face was. In the incident report, the deputies blamed Fisk for the fall.

Investment in commercial real estate is at its lowest levels since 2013, office buildings are selling at steep discounts, and commercial construction is slowing dramatically, aside from apartments. Lenders and the larger economy should be able to weather the real estate downturn, provided multi-family doesn’t follow down the same path that office space has, according to a leading commercial real estate economist. “It is a period of pause in real estate, but no doom loop is at play,” said Richard Barkham, global chief economist with CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, during a mid-year update for the National Association of Real Estate Editors in Austin on June 19. Tenants are now requiring only 60% to 70% of the office space that they needed in 2019 because of the shift toward remote work that accelerated during the pandemic.