- Congress is expected to pass the new climate and health care bill. One way it's designed to fight climate change is by changing how we use energy in our homes. Nathan Iyer and Srinidhi Sampath Kumar have helped shape the legislation. They're with the Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Institute. It's a nonprofit that works to advance the world's transition to cleaner energy.
- The economy’s in a strange place: Prices are soaring but employment is at a record high. Some of the effects are obvious, others less visible.
- The Latino Entrepreneur Access Program, or LEAP, has implications for building generational wealth, equity, and the nation’s financial fortunes
- In Montrose, Colorado, educators meet with local mental health and law enforcement officials to evaluate any threats that rise to a certain level of concern and make plans to help students.
- Candidates from both parties will have to convince voters that their strategies to lessen the pain of inflation and bring down the cost of living will do the most to help.
- For Denver's Pride, Servicios de la Raza's float takes cues from Día de los Muertos and honors people who have departed.
- A new book explores the history of healers along the U.S./Mexico border known as curanderos. Historian Jennifer Koshatka Seman is a lecturer at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her book, "Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo" is nominated in the biography category for a Colorado Book Award. Winners will be announced Friday, June 24, 2022.
- Marissa Molina became the first DACA recipient appointed to a state board in Colorado in 2019. She spoke with CPR News host Andrea Dukakis about the DACA anniversary, and what’s still missing.
- Julia Walker started connecting food and supplies to people in need at the beginning of the pandemic. Now her work has extended to the national shortage of baby formula.
- Denver jury recently awarded $14 million to protesters who took to the streets after Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd. Constitutional law professor Gloria Browne-Marshall says the case could rewrite the playbook for demonstrators across the nation. Browne-Marshall teaches a course on Race and the Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
- "Usually we notice that our loved ones are changing in some way."
- The Hermits Peak fire and Calf Canyon fire are subsuming lands that were inhabited long before either Colorado or New Mexico was a U.S. state.
- But help exists to afford mortgages and down payments and build equity.
- Colorado Matters today is all about trying to buy a home. Prices have jumped astronomically this year and some buyers are using huge amounts of cash to compete. We'll talk about who can afford this market and what to do if you don't have the cash. Plus, why many Coloradans still want to buy, despite the mind-boggling prices.
- By some estimates, buildings account for about 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally. The biggest landlord in the U.S. is the federal government, and it’s making a new push for greener buildings, including here in Colorado. Robin Carnahan leads the General Services Administration, which oversees the buildings. She told Colorado Matters going green is a triple win, because it creates local jobs, reduces energy costs to save taxpayers money, and makes the planet a healthier place to live.
- There is now a sculpture of Denver's first Black mayor, Wellington Webb. It was unveiled this month. Webb began the job in in 1991. A foundation -- headed by his wife -- commissioned the bronze likeness – which is at the Webb municipal building downtown.
