The yearly growth in home prices across the U.S. slowed sharply to a single-digit pace in May, according to a home-price report.
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The yearly growth in home prices across the U.S. slowed sharply to a single-digit pace in May, according to a home-price report.
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An important notice for Colorado drivers: Starting in August motorcycles will be allowed to pass stopped vehicles by squeezing between lanes of traffic – a practice called lane filtering. Motorcyclists ride in a single file between traffic lanes June 21 in Caracas, Venezuela. Colorado just joined California, Utah, Montana and Arizona in allowing the traffic skipping practice.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share“Downtown is far from being dead” Re: “Cherry Creek is thriving while other commercial districts are struggling,” April 8 business story I have shopped and lived in Downtown — BCC and ACC [before and after the Cherry Creek shopping area]. The reopening of Cherry Creek eviscerated the downtown retail clothing and housewares market and replaced it with the generic “high-end” mall experience.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWhen the first cannabis dispensary, bar and restaurant under one roof opened last February near Chicago, it was but a whiff of what was to come. The business was still in bud by patio season despite the big local names behind it. The space became fully lit when a full-service consumption lounge finally opened in late July. OKAY Cannabis and West Town Bakery in Wheeling is the first and only consumption lounge where you can have your cake balls and smoke cannabis too, all with a focus on craft. Curiously, you can’t consume cannabis edibles from the dispensary in the lounge.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareJontay Porter, the younger brother of Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr., has been banned from the NBA after a league investigation found he disclosed confidential information to sports bettors about his health, limiting his own participation in one or more games for betting purposes. Porter, 24, was on a two-way contract with the Toronto Raptors, splitting time between the NBA team and its G League affiliate. The league investigation found that Porter also placed at least 13 bets on NBA games using an associate’s online betting account, according to a news release.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareLeBron James is going back to the Olympics for the first time in 12 years. Stephen Curry is headed to the games for the first time. Kevin Durant will go there with his eyes on history. And they’re just part of a star-studded roster the Americans have assembled for the Paris Games. USA Basketball announced its men’s Olympic team for Paris on Wednesday — James, Curry, Durant, Bam Adebayo, Devin Booker, Joel Embiid, Jayson Tatum, Anthony Davis, Jrue Holiday, Tyrese Haliburton, Anthony Edwards and Kawhi Leonard the 12 names on the current roster. “We’re giving ourselves a chance to win with the talent we have,” USA Basketball managing director Grant Hill said on NBC’s “Today” show.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWhen a group of investors announced they’d be opening Longmont’s first food hall this year, a flood of more than 100 applications from local food vendors came rushing in. They’ve since narrowed it down to eight food stalls at Parkway Food Hall, set to open Memorial Day weekend at 700 Ken Pratt Blvd., including Baa Hachi, a Japanese street food concept from Patrick and Lisa Balcom, owners of farm-to-table restaurant Farow in Niwot, and Pie Dog, their thin-crust Neapolitan-style pizza pop-up. “Longmont is hungry for this,” said Patrick Garza, CEO of Dallas-based National Food Hall Solutions, which manages Parkway Food Hall. Pie Dog will be one of eight food vendors in Parkway Food Hall.
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