The edition of Thursday, August 6, 2026

The Ranch Next Door Just Sold To A Nine-Day-Old Company

There Is A Railway Station Under Denver Airport

Nineteen sheets of 1992 drawings show six floors under Concourse D. The record says three. Sheet 11 has platform edges, tactile strips and two tunnel bores — and we have never been below level three.

Your Index Has Told Me Nothing For Nine Years

A reader writes to say the Sky Desk's signature measure is meaningless, that she checks it every morning anyway, and that this is the newspaper's fault rather than hers.

The Briefing

Twenty-Two Per Cent Of Our Income Comes From Someone We Cannot Name.

Twenty-two per cent of this newspaper's income arrives from a donor we have never identified. The board has voted three times on returning it and the margin narrows every time. This is the reasoning, including both dissents, printed at the dissenters' insistence.