- 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.
- Nearly 1,000 homes burned in the Marshall fire on December 30 around Boulder County, Colorado.
- CPR News is making more of our documentary news, investigations and special reporting available in one place in your podcast feed.
- CPR News spoke to public health experts in Colorado to learn how the state will know when the COVID-19 variant arrives, and what can be done to manage its spread.
- A 19-year-old man who was shot by police in Loveland last month has died of his injuries. Alex Domina had been in the hospital since the incident on Aug. 16, and underwent at least five surgeries to try to save his life.
- Nearly two weeks after the shooting, the 19-year-old man, Alex Domina, remains in the hospital.
- Despite vaccines being widely available for months, some Coloradans haven’t yet gotten themselves protected from COVID-19. Mobile clinics around the state are trying to reach some of those people. Denverite's Rebecca Spiess recently went to one in Aurora to hear about why people finally decided to get vaccinated.
- Concerns about water levels in the Colorado River are nothing new. David Owen traveled the river end-to-end, past farms and dams; power plants and cities. Then he wrote a book called "Where The Water Goes: Life and Death Along The Colorado River." Ryan's conversation from 2017 lends more perspective to what's at stake.
- Mesa County’s vaccination rate remains low, Colorado continues to try to increase the vaccination rate among Latinos, we've got a new $1 million vaccine winner and the Delta COVID-19 variant is now a "variant of concern." Here's a breakdown of where thing are at this week.
- Another Coloradan has been arrested for allegedly storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Timothy Wayne Williams, 38, of Trinidad was arrested Friday for being part of the mob that forcefully entered the Capitol as Congress was certifying the results of the presidential election. Williams is charged with several crimes, according to the U.S.
