- Colorado's wildfire season is now a wildfire year. Members of CPR's climate team provide context about the outlook. Plus, how new leadership in the Interior Department might impact Colorado's land. Also, celebrating hospitality workers who've helped made the pandemic more bearable. And reflecting on the legacy of Selena.
- Tracking the pandemic’s impact on STIs in Colorado. Also, Purplish explores the public health option. Then, retired judge Gary Jackson remembers his friend and trailblazer, Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory Kellam Scott. And, opening a comedy club during a pandemic is no joke. Finally, a Westminster teen finds a T-Rex tooth on a walk.
- Brains and a bow tie. Those are two things that stood out about state supreme court justice Gregory Kellam Scott. The first and only African-American to sit on Colorado's high court died at age 72 at the end of March. His friend and colleague, Judge Gary Jackson, will remember Scott's smarts and his panache. He joined us to reflect on Scott's passing.
- Dr. Ken Lyn-Kew from National Jewish in Denver explains the halt of Johnson & Johnson vaccines and why it's still possible to catch coronavirus even if vaccinated. Then, the future of a railway connecting the Front Range. Plus, how muons are rewriting physics and our understanding of the universe. And, remembering Colorado Peaches coach Gail Klock.
- We explore the data and research into gun violence that inform gun policy with Dan Gorenstein and the podcast, “Tradeoffs.” Then, two teachers talk about how they’ll get through the school year after the pandemic’s extreme toll on their mental health. And, we remember Stephen Scott, a pioneer of the bowed piano.
- Gov. Jared Polis joins us for our regular conversation. We ask about masks, vaccines, gun policy, transit, and more. Then, the Farley family remembers their patriarch, Mike, one of the first Coloradans to die of COVID-19. Plus, the economic revitalization of the area around Coors Field with continued construction and the return of pedicabs.
- CPR investigative reporter Ben Markus answers questions about gun laws in Colorado. Then, Rep. Iman Jodeh on her priorities and on being the state's first Muslim lawmaker. Plus, preserving the memorial in Boulder and a special poem. Also, voting on marijuana in Grand Junction. And the other time masks and social distancing were part of life in Colorado.
- Among the people who've placed flowers at the memorial outside a Boulder grocery store is poet Valerie Szarek of Boulder. She lost a friend in the shooting, Suzanne Fountain. Szarek was thinking about the tulips she placed. About the job she was asking them to do. The weight they'd carry. And she wrote a short poem about them -- in three parts.
- Tom Vilsack on agricultural issues facing Colorado, including broadband access and wildfire support. Then, business leaders are optimistic about the future. Also, a Colorado woman honors her nephew with a name change. Plus, we remember former Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey. And, some country to round out your pandemic escape playlist.
- The discussion about the pandemic's economic impact continues today, with perspectives from Makisha Boothe, founder of Sistahbiz Global Network in Denver, which supports Black women entrepreneurs, and from the owner of an Aurora wellness center. Plus, Michael Querio from Rocky Mountain Repertory Theater and Colorado tourism director Cathy Ritter.