🔎 Money missing for minority businesses

🛴 Are E-Scooters the Answer to a Greener Denver?

Denverites who hate electric scooters may have to learn to love them. New research from Colorado State University shows that those zippy two-wheelers are the “most effective” at limiting greenhouse gas emissions over their life cycle compared to all other modes of transportation, including … walking? 🤔 [CO Sun]

• Cue the debate: Are scooters a transportation godsend for Denver? Or an absolute menace? Maybe both. [City Cast Denver 🎧]

🏢 City Secures Funding for Former Denver Post Building

Denver City Council has OK’d $90 million in financing for the purchase of the empty 11-story Denver Post building across from Civic Center Park. Officials plan to convert the vacant space into courtrooms and meeting spaces for Denver County Courts. [Denver Post]

🚩 Money Missing for Minority-Owned Business Grants

The Domestic Emerging Market Investments (DEMI) Fund — the partnering entity charged with distributing money from the City’s $15 million fund to support minority-owned small businesses — is calling for an audit of the City and alleging “willful misconduct.” Danielle Shoots, managing director of the DEMI Fund, says officials only ever handed over $6.9 million of what was promised and are now claiming the money is all but gone. [9News]

🐾 Holding Out Hope for Ullr

It’s been one year since Ullr, a border collie-Rottweiler mix, disappeared in Colorado’s backcountry after being separated from his owner in an avalanche. Earlier this year, Ullr was spotted — in “survival mode,” but alive and apparently healthy — on a trail camera set up by his owner Jacob Dalbey in the area he went missing. Most recently, Dalbey found canine tracks he believes to be his pup’s. [Axios Denver]

Last week’s answer: Wonderyard Garden + Table ✨🦋

This brand new bar and restaurant opened earlier this month in Five Points. It offers sharable bites, Insta-worthy cocktails, and whimsical “Secret Garden” meets “Alice in Wonderland” vibes. Come for the spinning teacup tables, stay for the pork carnitas torta 😋

📣 A shoutout to all our correct guessers!

• Kristen F. was the first to write in with the correct answer!
• But Madison D., Keith A., Sophie S., Haley V., Jessica O., Lori W., Emily H., Liz P., Phoebe F., Anne O., Leila K., and Elizabeth M. weren’t far behind!

This Week’s Photo:

🕵️ Do YOU know where this majestic bust of a bull is located? 🐂 Here’s a hint: It’s somewhere delicious 🥩 Be among the first to respond with the right answer and you’ll get a special shoutout in next Friday’s newsletter!

📸 Want to submit a photo? Send me a snapshot of somewhere in Denver, and I’ll consider it for an upcoming photo trivia segment!

Buc-ee's vs. Johnson’s Corner, Widening Peña Blvd., and Elevator Crimes?

Is Denver still in the business of widening highways? After a contentious city council vote this week, the future of transit on Peña Boulevard is in question. In more transportation news, Colorado went nuts for the opening of a Texas chain gas station, and we taste tested its famous road snacks. All that, plus more news from the week.