Nell London

The lastest mission to Mars roared off Thursday morning with a rover named Perseverance and a small drone helicopter called Ingenuity.

Policing in Denver has changed in part because a court intervened, and in part because of public pressure. What is the right role for police? When does the community need them? When does it not? A new program called STAR (Support Team Assisted Response now allows dispatchers to send a team of mental health experts, and not a police officer, to a mental health crisis they deem “low-risk.” It’s a pilot program that comes amid calls for the community to re-envision police departments.

Gov. Jared Polis will decide soon whether overnight camps can open. We speak to two camp owners: One says camp’s important for kids so if he gets the go-ahead he’ll open and keep them safe. The other says he doesn’t want to “experiment” with kids’ health.

Shutdown rules are being relaxed and business owners who’ve been closed for weeks can reopen now, or sometime soon, depending on where they operate. They’re struggling with how to keep their employees safe, protect their customers and follow a maze of state and local regulations.

We are living in historic times. When future generations ask what it was like during the coronavirus pandemic, History Colorado wants to be able to answer in Coloradans’ own words.

Today, we’ll hear from a doctor who was fired for help she gave a terminally ill patient. We’ll also hear from the health system that fired her. Here’s how this unfolded: a patient came to Dr. Barbara Morris, asking about Colorado’s End-of-Life Options Act. The doctor knew it wouldn’t be easy to proceed because her employer, Centura Health, considers aid-in-dying morally unacceptable. The Catholic and Adventist system laid that out in her employment agreement. She and her patient sued to challenge that position. And then, last month, she was fired. We’ll hear from the CEO of Centura, which has 15 hospitals in Colorado, but we begin the discussion with Dr. Barbara Morris.