Colorado Public Radio Staff

Scott Vanloo, co-founder of Coloradans Against Ethnic Stereotyping in Colorado Schools at the University of Northern Colorado, about the national attention given the school’s intramural basketball team.

Susan Barnes-Gelt of the Denver City Council and Anne Warhover of the Downtown Denver Partnership on a controversial housing proposal to make a portion of large housing projects affordable to the working class.

Kathy Christie, vice president of information management with the Education Commission of the States, talks about determining consequences for schools whose students are not up to established standards.

Attorney Dan Recht on the Colorado Supreme Court ruling concerning the Tattered Cover Bookstore and the decision’s ramifications on the federal Patriot Act.

Meg Langfur, who teaches forensics at Denver’s Mullen High School, talks about a new teaching practice that utilizes the solving of a murder as part of the curriculum.

Ballet Nouveau Colorado Artistic Director William Starn and Jesse Manno, music director for the University of Colorado dance department, on their collaboration with the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory to create dances inspired by five Colorado birds.

Professor Ken Gall of the mechanical engineering department at the University of Colorado at Boulder on a recent collaboration with schools in England and Singapore to design a racecar.

Laura Carlson speaks with Pam Schnurr with the Colorado Division of Wildlife about the state’s river otter recovery program.

University of Denver Professor John Splaine on a Cable Center/CSPAN project to assess the effectiveness of distance learning.

Nancy McCallin, executive director of the Governor’s office of state planning and budgeting, talks about the increase in home foreclosures in Denver this year.

Mayor Ray Martinez of Fort Collins on the efforts he has made to use energy more efficiently and reduce air pollution in his city.

Professor Bruce Hutton, former dean of the University of Denver Daniels School of Business, on values-based business school curriculum and corporate ethics.

Laura Carlson speaks with Jude Sirota, Mesa County pest and weed inspector, on an incentive program for homeowners to replace backyard fruit trees with other varieties, allowing commercial growers to reduce their use of pesticides.

Mary Barry, physical activity and nutrition fellow at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, tells about the Colorado on the Move program, which distributes pedometers to encourage people to increase their activity level.

Russell George, director of the Colorado Division of Wildlife, on Governor Owens’ task force to review and oversee the state’s response to chronic wasting disease in deer and elk.

Colorado rancher and guide Ray Heid on how the discovery of chronic wasting disease in wild deer along the Western Slope impacts those who rely on hunting to earn a living.