Strange Times · Election Edition 2026

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Page 1. Strange Times front page: Broke! City asks for $400M bailout; How we got here: $366M the price of new city offices.
Page 2. Rents are falling in Boulder. Families are leaving anyway.
Page 3. $366M the price of new city offices, continued; Op-ed: Boulder’s values deserve follow-through, by Aquiles La Grave.
Page 4. A $65 million rec center with no plans and a 100-year-old pool with no money.
Page 5. Commercial vacancy rates graphic; Empty offices, slow permits, new fees: Boulder’s hard road for business.
Page 6. Boulder restaurateur calls on community to vote Aquiles for mayor; The city passed on Iris Fields. The neighborhood did not.
Page 7. The wrong kind of infrastructure; Stan Garnett issues open letter supporting Aquiles La Grave for mayor.
Page 8. How two college towns made economic vitality their business; Boulder doubled its debt in five years. 2K would nearly double it again.