Click here . Writer Most of the time, Denver is a city that walks with its chest puffed out. We may not always be convinced that we're equal to other big cities, but we're unwilling to admit deficiency. Denver's the city that wins Super Bowls and hoists Stanley Cups in the air, the city that builds libraries and airports and revitalizes a part of its downtown that had been left for dead. The cable TV industry grew to maturity here.
Housing prices are embarrassingly good, and, by all indications, still on the rise.
Those of us in the journalism business are always searching for defining moments, events that become touchstones. More than children died last week. Some of the city's innocence died along with them, throwing us into a state of sorrow and consternation. They played computer games. They had access to the abundance of the metropolitan area that sprawled around them.