🤑 Is Denver rent getting cheaper?

🛣️ Broncos, Bridges, and the Bond

Are the Broncos getting a “secret subsidy” in the mayor’s Vibrant Denver bond package? Some transportation activists think so. With City Council set to vote on the final list of projects that will be on our ballots in November, we’re taking a look at the hottest bond debates. [City Cast Denver 🎧]

🤑 Denver Rents Continue to Drop

A new report released yesterday by the Apartment Association of Metro Denver shows that the average rent price in the area has dropped about $71 since this time last year. While national rents continue to rise, this is the third quarter in a row that Metro Denver has seen a decrease. [AAMD]

👮‍♂️ Police Watchdog Blasts DPD

Lisabeth Castle, Denver’s independent monitor for law enforcement, publicly rebuked the department’s attempt at a disciplinary overhaul. Under the proposed changes, the department would opt for training over punishment of officers in most disciplinary cases. Castle called the proposal an attempt to shirk responsibility for officer misconduct. [Axios Denver]

🚨 ICE Arrests Hundreds in Denver Sweep

Immigration authorities arrested at least 243 people in the Denver area as part of an eight-day operation last week. The agency said of those 243, all of them had varying degrees of criminal records, from DUIs and theft to homicide and human trafficking. [Denver Post 🔒]

📡 Apple Satellites Send Fake 911 Texts

911 dispatchers across rural Colorado have been receiving bogus emergency texts saying things like, "multiple people on fire” or “stranded and lost.” An investigation into the matter revealed all of the fake texts came from iPhones using Apple’s new satellite texting feature. [CO Sun]

Last week’s answer: You can catch a glimpse of these mysterious doors while waiting for your ride at Union Station’s underground bus boarding area.

Before the transit hub’s massive 2012 renovation, this subterranean bus lane was an underground pedestrian tunnel connecting Wynkoop and Wewatta streets. And before that, it was a below ground boarding area for passenger trains throughout the 1900s — these doors were the train platforms.

“With platform signs still emblazoned with the names of trains that have long since steamed away for good, it's a living reminder of Union Station's golden years as the gateway to the city,” Westword’s Joel Warner wrote of the tunnel in 2011. Today, the now-defunct doors are merely a relic of the station’s storied history.

📣 A special shoutout for this week’s correct guessers:

• Tiffany O. was the first to write in with the correct answer!
• But Tim R. was a close second!

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