5280 Reasons to Love Denver 2021: Denverites Who Stepped Up Local heroes found ways to lend a helping hand amid a trying year. Adam Cayton-Holland, Patricia Kaowthumrong, Shane Monaghan • July 1, 2021 If All the President’s Men taught us anything, it’s that to get to the truth, you must follow the money. Were one to apply that journalistic maxim to my bank account over this past year, a reporter would learn far more went out than went in. (I kid! Sort of.) While things were indeed dire for most stand-up comics during the pandemic, I was flush enough to donate to some of my favorite struggling Denver businesses—and therein lies the evidence. You want to know what I love about this city? Follow my money.