According to the Denver Gazette’s Chris Tomasson, the Denver Broncos officially interviewed pass game coordinator/quarterbacks coach Davis Webb for their vacant offensive coordinator position. Tomasson adds that sources have told him that Webb is the leading candidate for the job.

The Broncos surprisingly fired offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi last week after head coach Sean Payton expressed some displeasure about the offense during the team’s end-of-the-year press conference. He is a longtime assistant coach for Payton, so this was a surprising and significant change to his coaching staff. The leading candidate from the start to replace Lombardi was pass game coordinator/quarterbacks coach Davis Webb, who is viewed as an up-and-coming coach in the NFL. However, at the time, Webb was in the running to be the Las Vegas Raiders head coach and had multiple other teams interested in him to be their offensive coordinator.

So, the Broncos had some competition for Webb’s services. However, Webb would later withdraw from the Raiders head coaching search, and many of the teams interested in Webb as an offensive coordinator would go on to hire other coaches to fill their vacancies. While nothing is official, all signs do point to Webb returning to the Broncos, but this time as their offensive coordinator.

If/when the Broncos do announce that they have hired Webb to be their OC, the big question will be about play-calling. Will head coach Sean Payton hand over play-calling duties to Davis Webb in some capacity, or will Webb have the same role that Lombardi held previously? Even if he doesn’t get play-calling duties, having more responsibilities and a bigger voice in the week-to-week game planning should be beneficial for Webb and the Broncos moving forward.

With Webb’s interview officially done and the Broncos fulfilling their Rooney Rule obligations, we should have an official announcement sooner rather than later.

The Seattle metro area is the nation’s leading builder of affordable housing, a new analysis by RentCafe showed.

Greater Seattle saw more than 14,200 fully affordable apartments go up between 2020 and 2024, meaning nearly one in four apartments built in the area in the past five years were affordable, according to RentCafe.

Income-restricted rentals accounted for 24.2% of all new apartment construction in Seattle.

Affordable housing surged nearly 40% post-pandemic.

“The metro is building about the same number of apartments as before the pandemic — but far more of them are affordable,” RentCafe spokesperson Maurie Irimia stated in an email to MyNorthwest.

The number of completed apartments remained steady at around 59,000 units before and after the pandemic. But the share of income-restricted housing jumped from under 17% a decade ago to 24% in 2024 — rising from 10,229 units to 14,290.

Everett development helped extend affordable housing

RentCafe highlighted Four Corners, a 430-unit development in Everett.

“Backed by a $1 million grant from the Connecting Housing to Infrastructure Program (CHIP), the project stands out not only for its scale, but for extending affordable housing beyond Seattle’s limits into Snohomish County,” RentCafe stated in the analysis.

Other cities that saw a rise in affordable housing were New York City, New York; Austin, Texas; Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota; and Atlanta, Georgia.

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Grabbing a bite to eat with family or friends is not only a great way to socialize, it can be a good way to experience a community and support local restaurants.

But dining out can start to feel more like a luxury when the cost drains your budget. Inflation has forced restaurants to significantly raise prices in San Diego County and nationwide over the past few years. The increase has been particularly acute since the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this Price of San Diego story, we dig into what’s causing the spike in dining costs at restaurants, and how locals are adapting.

Sticker shock

San Diego ended 2025 with the second highest overall inflation in the US among major metros. Specifically the “prices of food away from home” index rose 2.9% from November 2024. The “prices of food away from home” data includes restaurant, cafeteria, and vending purchases.

While the 2025 increase may not sound like a lot, it adds to a trend over the past five years of significant cost increases at restaurants in the region. In 2024, the cost of going to a restaurant skyrocketed 11.7%. In 2023, it rose 4%. The last year the cost of dining out in San Diego decreased was 2022.

There was a spike of over over 10% in 2021. And in 2020, prices of food away from home went up over 4%.

The breakdown

All of those data points show that eating at restaurants in the county has gotten a lot more expensive in the past five years. If you tally those numbers it gets you to over a 30% price increase during that time for the San Diego region. For example, if a single cheeseburger cost you $10 in 2020, that same single cheeseburger now costs you about $13.00 — like this one now costs at Hodad’s.

So why is this happening? Food and labor costs for the average restaurant have gone up 35% in the last five years, according to the National Restaurant Association.

Locally, the rise in retail rent over that same time has added to tighter margins.

The National Restaurant Association says the only way most restaurant operators can cover their higher costs is to increase menu prices.

By the numbers

Money isn’t going as far as it used to, faster compared to the past couple decades.

Nationwide, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator shows $100,000 in November, 2025, has the same buying power as about $80,000 in 2020 — a nearly $20,000 loss in just five years. It took 13 years, going all the way back to 2007, to make that same $20,000 change in purchasing power before 2020.

How are locals adapting?

While it’s expensive to dine out and some San Diegans say they’re going to restaurants less overall, other locals have been discussing the best restaurant meals for the price on Reddit.

Restaurants and food items that got frequent mentions include: IKEA Restaurant, the fish tacos at El Pueblo Mexican Food (they’re no longer $1 — they’re now $1.39), Costco Food Court (this now requires Costco membership), In-N-Out, Chicago Fire Grill and Sprouts Farmers Market sandwiches.

What to watch

The USDA expects food away from home prices to increase roughly 3.3% in 2026 nationwide.

The National Restaurant Association says declining tourism spending is making business conditions more challenging for restaurants. They also say higher-income households are driving restaurant sales.