Colorado Springs poet David Mason is adapting his award-winning book "Ludlow" into an opera. He speaks with Ryan Warner.

Democrats in Congress have introduced a number of bills this year aimed at overturning policies set up the Bush administration. Among them is a piece of legislation which could significantly change how all types of energy — from natural gas to wind to uranium — are developed on federal lands. CPR’s Megan Verlee reports.

Andrews, a historian at UC Denver, writes about the Ludlow Massacre and what he calls "America's deadliest labor war."

 

Los Angeles Times writer Scott Martelle speaks with Dan Meyers about his new book Blood Passion—The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West.

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Dean Saitta, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Denver and co-director of the Colorado Coal Field War Archeological Project, talks about the Ludlow Massacre of 1914.

Seawell, who died Sept. 30, spoke with with in 2004 about his colorful life, his vision for the arts, and his role at the Denver Post.

In May 2003, vandals damaged the Ludlow Massacre Memorial near Trinidad, erected in 1918 to commemorate striking miners and their families who were killed by National Guard militia.