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The best thing about rock bottom is the bottom part. It has no delusions of adequacy, and knows its friends are Antarctica, the 1997-98 Denver Nuggets and “Tiger Blood” Charlie Sheen.The worst thing is the rock. Or in this case, the Rockies. They are playing baseball so poorly that there is a growing suspicion that they might do it worse than any team in the modern history of the sport. For 62 years that honor has belonged to the 1962 Mets.With the Rockies, it is not some dramatic failure. They are mundane in their awfulness. They don’t pitch particularly well,…

Builders are finally making a dent in the state’s housing shortfall, especially for apartments. But home prices and mortgage rates continue to outpace income gains, and affordability is worsening rather than improving.“The story with interest rates is that they are only exacerbating the problem,” said Steven Byers, chief economist with the Common Sense Institute in Denver. “The fact is that wages aren’t keeping up with these huge jumps in home prices.”For the first time since July 2022, home prices in all major U.S. metros, including Denver, rose year-over-year, reports brokerage firm Redfin. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for Denver has…

Dear Amy: I am a divorced mom in my early-30s, with primary custody of my 8-year-old child.I have been dating “Ben” for the past two years. He is a great guy and he is very good with my son.We have been talking about getting married. He has never been married before (no kids) and I am gun-shy, to say the least.I own my home, my son is happy, and I am trying to be extremely careful about our future.Last week Ben took me out for a drink. He said he had something important to tell me. He confessed that he…

Limited housing supplies continue to dominate Colorado’s housing market.A new study from Point2 shows that the median home sale price doubled nationally in the past decade primarily due to a housing shortage. In Colorado, it took less than a decade for median home prices to double in nine cities.Research from Clever shows Denver ranks as the 11th-least affordable metro for homebuyers based on income-to-home-price ratios.Meanwhile, a Zillow analysis shows that listing a home in late May can result in a $17,000 higher sale price compared to other times of the year.How fast did home prices double?Limited supply, surging demand, the…

The Denver record company Vinyl Me, Please has ousted its top executives and sued them for allegedly funneling company funds to their pricy pet project in RiNo.Vinyl Me, Please was founded in 2012 and has become a popular record-of-the-month subscription service in the dozen years since, with 20,000 subscribers today, it said. CEO Cameron Schaefer and Chief Financial Officer Adam Block led the company in recent years.But the company’s board fired them, along with Chief Strategy Officer Rich Kylberg, in March. And on Wednesday, all three were sued by the company they led.The stated cause for their ouster is a…

Prosecutors this week levied 10 additional charges against a former Littleton Public Schools bus monitor who was accused of beating a non-verbal autistic child on a school bus in March.Kiarra Jones, 29, was arrested in April on a single charge of third-degree assault of an at-risk person, a low-level felony. On Wednesday, prosecutors with the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office moved to bring an additional 10 charges — related to two children — against Jones, including seven additional assault charges and two child abuse charges, according to a motion prosecutors filed with the court.The new charges involve alleged abuse of…

A service dog bit two people last week at Denver International Airport.The airport’s media team confirmed that an incident took place last week between an employee of American Airlines and a passenger with a service dog. Bella, a Belgian Malinois, bit the airline worker and a passenger waiting for a flight on the morning of April 26, said Denver Department of Public Health & Environment spokesperson Tammy Vigil.The airline staff member was bit in the face, and the bystander was bit in the forearm, Vigil said.The injuries are individually considered a level 4 out of 6 on Dr. Ian Dunbar’s…

Nuggets point guard Jamal Murray has been “in and out” of Denver’s two practices this week leading up to the second round of the NBA playoffs, coach Michael Malone said Friday.Murray is dealing with a left calf strain, which he played through Monday night in Denver’s first-round series finale against the Los Angeles Lakers. Murray scored 32 points, including a late game-winning shot with 3.6 seconds remaining. Game 1 against the third-seeded Minnesota Timberwolves tips off at 5 p.m. MT Saturday at Ball Arena.Murray downplayed the injury when asked about it Thursday, acknowledging that the days off between rounds were…

There’s no question who a couple of the Colorado Avalanche players were rooting for Friday night when the Dallas Stars and Vegas Golden Knights met in Game 6 of their opening-round series.The Avs made it out of a first-round win against the Winnipeg Jets relatively healthy. Jonathan Drouin did not play in the series because of a skate-cut on his leg during Game 82 of the regular season against Edmonton. Joel Kiviranta was the only player who began the series but missed games, sitting out Games 4 and 5 with a lower-body injury.Both players could use as much time as…

Denver restaurateur Kelly Whitaker is getting back to his roots.The Oklahoma native announced this week that he has purchased Nonesuch, a 22-seat chef’s counter restaurant in Oklahoma City. Bon Appétit named the fine-dining spot the No. 1 best new restaurant in America in 2018.“If this restaurant were in New York or anywhere else, it would hold up on its own,” Whitaker said.Whitaker founded Denver-based Id Est Hospitality Group, which owns Michelin-starred BRUTØ and The Wolf’s Tailor among other concepts. His restaurants are known for their emphasis on sustainability through fermentation, in-house grain milling and hyper-local sourcing.Nonesuch sources and forages hyperlocal ingredients…