- If a registered voter failed to vote in the last election he or she is counted as “inactive.” There are tens of thousands of inactive voters in Denver. And a battle is playing out over whether or not to mail them ballots for the upcoming election. CPR’s Ben Markus has more. Reporter Ben Markus: There
- With Colorado Public Radio, I’m Mike Lamp. Two years ago this month Xcel flipped the switch on Boulder’s Smart Grid City. The project was sold as a way of giving customers greater control of their energy usage and limiting blackouts. Eventually it would help facilitate a green energy future. But some are now calling the
- The most popular beers in the world are lager beers, think Budweiser and Coors. Now, 500 years after German monks first brewed lager beer scientists have discovered the origin of a key ingredient. Researchers at the CU School of Medicine traced a strain of yeast, used in lager brewing, back to South America.
- 343 firefighters died on 9/11. And firefighters here in Denver were the first to honor them by hiking up 110 stories — dressed in full gear. Now, there are 55 similar climbs all over the world involving almost 15,000 firefighters. Colorado Public Radio’s Ben Markus was at the climb yesterday and filed this report.
- The newsrooms of big city papers have either shrunk or disappeared altogether. But it’s a different story for many small, often rural, papers. They continue to break stories and provide vital information to their communities. Journalism professor and part-time Coloradan Judy Muller has written a book about this.
- Work began Friday on one of the state’s biggest and most expensive water projects. The Southern Delivery System is a pipeline that will supply water from Pueblo to the fast-growing Colorado Springs area. But it’s not been universally embraced. A small group of officials and citizens have fought the project, saying it’s too big and
- There is no cure for Parkinson’s. The disease eventually robs people of control over their own movements. Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have found a drug that halts Parkinson’s in mice. The next step is an extensive human trial. Dr. Curt Freed is part of the research team.