On Monday, July 21, Mayor Mike Johnston will offer his annual State of the City speech.
In the meantime, I have one word for the current state of the Mile High City: deflated.
It’s not because the pace of people moving here has slowed lately (although a few media outlets have been trumpeting that stat like prophets of doom); this is nothing like the late ’80s, when more moving vans left Colorado than pulled in. People are still coming to Colorado; they’re just not coming as fast as they used to. And wasn’t that something we prayed for in the boom years, when we cursed all that traffic (particularly as we tried to head to the mountains on Friday afternoon) and the wait for reservations at Denver’s increasingly impressive restaurants and transplants in general?…