- The lead researcher wants to understand more about the nature of kids’ fears about safety.
- State rules require licensed health facilities to get nearly all their workers vaccinated. Many don't. But new state rules that go into effect today make it clear: You have health workers, they need to be vaccinated.
- Remember to walk like a penguin and hopefully you can survive Jan. 9.
- Jolene Park, a Denver nutritionist, coined the term gray area drinking in part to describe her only relationship with alcohol. Now she helps other women who are "in between" drinkers try sobriety.
- Nicole Magistro, owner of The Bookworm of Edwards, and Bethany Strout, buyer for the Tattered Cover Bookstores, share their top holiday book picks.
- When a 15-year old boy died by suicide last year, his parents decided to include the cause of death in his obituary. Now, his friends have put together a guide for parents with their perspectives. Then, the old way of marketing doesn't always work; now businesses are offering experiences to make the sale. Plus CNN honors a local hero.
- The suit follows a settlement in July between the Colorado Attorney General’s office and transgender inmate Lindsay Saunders-Velez.
- The lung disease cystic fibrosis used to be a death sentence for a child. Today, the average life span is 44 years old. For people like Kate Dankanich, living with the disease means frequent doctors visits, lots of medication, and home therapy. Dankanich is 17. She lives in Colorado Springs. She explains that one therapy involves putting on a respiratory vest, for an hour in the morning and again at night. Now, a new drug therapy, which some doctors call "revolutionary," has been approved. It gets to the genetic root of Cystic Fibrosis. Dankanich will be starting it in a few weeks. Dr. Edith Zamanick is a pediatric pulmonologist at Children's Hospital Colorado. She's also Kate Dankanich's doctor, and took part in the nationwide research that led to this new breakthrough therapy. Dr. Zamanick joined us on Colorado Matters to talk about its potential.
- There are increasing signs that younger workers want more than just a big paycheck and good benefits from their employers. Studies show many young employees expect to find job satisfaction and creativity at work. A crop of companies and consultants are growing around this idea of making people happier at work. Some, like Greenwood Village, Colo.-based Crankset Group and it's founder Chuck Blakeman advocate for restructuring the workplace altogether: eliminating the top-down hierarchy, making meetings optional and allowing workers a lot more flexibility to work and vacation when they want. Other companies, like Denver-based Helios, are developing technology to help facilitate satisfaction at work. Helios' CEO or Chief Energy Officer, Josh Allan Dykstra said they're marketing an app with messages to help nudge people in ways that improve their motivation and energy at work. Dykstra said it's also clear from research that helping employees find "the zone" increases their productivity exponentially.
- In our series, Breaking Bread, we get people of different political stripes together to eat a meal and share their views. The group often finds common ground but at our most recent gathering, one subject, immigration, highlighted a political fracture in American society.
- The attorney has also decided compensation for victims in 9/11, the Boston Marathon bombings and the Aurora Theater shooting.
- Ever since he became the head of the Colorado Department of Corrections in January, Dean Williams has insisted the system needs to do a better job of preparing former inmates for release and reducing the culture shock they face when they get out.
- Films by two Colorado teenagers tell the stories of children caught between two worlds. "Love Me," is about Josh Sun's upbringing as the son of Chinese immigrants, the pressure he felt to succeed in school and his desire to forge his own path. "Finding Home" by Yolande Morrison is about Morrison's journey from Jamaica to Colorado Springs with her mother. It focuses on her transition to a country she says offers more opportunity, and her longing for the culture of her native land. Both teens made the films with the Youth Documentary Academy in Colorado Springs. They're part of a series called "Our Time," airing through December on Rocky Mountain PBS.
- Extreme Sports: Beyond Human Limits is on exhibition at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science through April 12, 2020.
- Ever wonder what it's like to be an extreme athlete -- to jump off mountains or climb jagged rocks? An exhibition at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science allows visitors to get into the heads of these athletes. It also dispels some of the misconceptions about extreme sports and lets everyone determine their appetite for risk and new experiences.
- For inmates with artistic inclinations, there’s a lot of spare time in prison to paint, sketch, bead and write poetry. But the public doesn’t always get to see the artwork prisoners create. A few years ago, a group of defense attorneys and social workers started an event to showcase what they saw as the extraordinary talent of their clients. They collected inmates’ artwork from prisons across Colorado and in 2015, held the first "Chained Voices" exhibition in Denver. One of the inmates whose work has been featured at the event is Jeff Johnson, who was released from prison a year ago. Now that Johnson's out of prison, he'll be able to attend "Chained Voices" for the first time. The former inmate, who did a lot of beadwork while he was incarcerated, says making art was a way to escape from the prison environment and get lost in an activity. Ashley Ratliff, one of the defense attorneys who started the program says people make a lot of assumptions about prisoners, and she wanted to find a way to show the community how gifted many of them are. The exhibition takes place Friday and Saturday at the Denver Art Society.
