- A memorial service took place Thursday for Joe Bell. He was hit by a truck and killed last week while walking across Eastern Colorado, when he was less than halfway through a cross-country journey to honor the death of his teenage son. Jadin Bell took his own life in February.
- Last year, Clint Irwin considered quitting soccer. He was playing for a minor league team in his home state of North Carolina, and had been trying to go pro for years, but just couldn’t break through. He worked two part-time jobs in addition to playing soccer just to get by.
- On the 16th day of the government shutdown, we get some historical perspective. Former U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell was a member of Colorado’s congressional delegation during the last shutdown, in 1995 and ’96. Today, he lobbies Congress on behalf of Native American tribes.
- Like a lot of places in Colorado, flammable plant material has built up here. This effort to cut it back is just the kind of thing the Governor’s task force on wildfire recently recommended, that neighbors take responsibility for reducing the risk.
- Colorado is known as a hotbed of entrepreneurship. There are more new businesses created on the Front Range per capita than in most other parts of the country. But the news isn’t all good.
- [Photo: Denver Post] Joe Nacchio is out of prison after serving four and a half years for insider trading. Nacchio is the former CEO of the Denver telecom company Qwest, now part of CenturyLink. He was found guilty of selling of his own stock while misleading the public about Qwest’s finances.
- [Photo: 23rd Studios/Paul Talbot] The recent flood created a lot of suffering, but it led to something else, too. CPR talked to people around the state, and several expressed a sense of togetherness in the wake of the disaster.
- The Longmont Museum & Cultural Center has transformed into a graveyard. It’s part a month-long exhibit, starting Oct. 4, which leads up to a big Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, celebration on Saturday, Nov. 2.
- [Photos: Colorado Dept of Transportation] The recent flood wiped out 200 miles of state roads; that’s roughly the distance between Fort Collins and Pueblo. The person in charge of rebuilding those roads–quickly–is Tim Harris, chief engineer at the Colorado Department of Transportation.
- [Photo: Colorado State University Library] Before this latest flood, there was the Big Thompson flood of 1976. As it did this year, water poured down at an alarming rate.
- One Colorado farmer says his cattle drowned and his pet mule disappeared. Other farmers say they, too, will feel the affects of flooding for years to come.
