Here are ten things that the good folks of Colorado can do to make 2018—and all the years that follow—even better.

Denver has had its share of eras — but every year seems to mark the coming and going of some element of local culture, and 2017 was no different. Sure, we had the restaurants that opened and closed, the sports seasons that are, frankly, better left to the dustbin of history, and news that confused and concerned us and then faded out of our attention span to make room for more news.

Residents and neighbors met this week at two facilitated discussions to talk over the possibilities of changing the name of Stapleton, the residential development that replaced the airport of the same name honoring five-term former Denver mayor Benjamin Stapleton…who just happens to have been a member of the Ku Klux…

The Great Love Debate will be at the Denver Improv at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 13, to further debate this subject — all in the spirit of entertainment. Regardless of its nature, the project raises an interesting possibility about dating in Denver: Is it as bad as Howie makes it sound? Probably, but not for the reasons Howie might think. Here are ten actual reasons dating sucks in Denver.

On October 11, RTD’s B-line was granted permission to “soon dismiss” its crossing guards—the flaggers, that is, that were hired to make redundant (and assure the effectiveness of) the mechanical gates that normally keep traffic away from the rails. But they’ll still be stationed along the A-line, and that got us thinking: man, that must be an isolating gig. Which led us to wonder what other lonely jobs exist in the Mile-High city?Please note that “lonely” is meant in no way as a pejorative. Chances are pretty good that you’ll read some of these job descriptions as you sit in your cubicle farm and think “actually, that sounds sort of nice.” To each their own, right? So here are the loneliest jobs in Denver—and if you think yours is more lonesome? Come down from your fences, desperado, and tell us about it in the comments.

The New Yorker gave Denver the thumbs-up in their Sept. 9 issue, writing in an article titled “Dear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters For You” that the second home base for the net-retail giant should be (imagine drumroll here)…right here at Mile High. They state as their reasons the usual stuff that we already know about good ol’ Denver: a young and smart population, ready to work; central location in the US, with an international airport; and a fantastic quality of life, complete with good mass transit options (shhh…don’t tell them that it sometimes doesn’t work). But as much as we appreciate the approval, with all due respect, we think that The New Yorker missed a few points in our elevated favor. Here are the top ten reasons they didn’t consider.

And so the monthly Tips for Transplants series comes full circle: In October of 2016, we ran the first monthly rules list, all about the unwritten suggestions for surviving and thriving in Denver like you had a NATIVE bumper sticker on your Outback. And we’ve kept it going, every thirty days or so, to the amusement of some and the extreme indifference of others. But still, we persisted.

August in general is the doldrums of the summer — the warm-weather holidays are pretty much over until Labor Day ushers out the season of fun, most people have already used up their vacation time, and the kids are bored with the video games you bought just a couple of months ago. We’re all just waiting for September to roll languidly around and start autumn, because seriously, this heat sucks.

Good news—Frontier Airlines is hiring. And not a moment too soon, it seems, based on the spectacular flame-out of Frontier’s recently departed Head of Corporate Communications Jim Faulkner, who lists “crisis communications” as one of his responsibilities on his LinkedIn profile. One has to wonder if he got a little mixed up as to what that term implies. We do not think that means what you think it means, Mr. Faulkner.Faulkner’s inadvisable attack on 9News’ Kyle Clark—after a clear misinterpretation of a snarky Frontier Airlines story on Clark’s newstastic show Next, ended his career at the airline at least one day early—opening the door for another equally gifted communications expert to grace Denver’s hometown airline. But what are the requirements for the gig? Here are ten suggestions.