Denver Rising: The City’s Growth Is No Accident
At a New York Times event, leaders in government, technology, arts and preservation talked about Denver’s blessings and its curses.
Before Oprah, Colorado’s Tami Simon Was Bringing Spiritual Thinkers To A Broad Audience
Three decades ago, Simon founded the spiritual publishing house Sounds True. The Louisville-based company is on track to do $24 million in business this year.
Why People Are Drawn To Fictional Sheriff Walt Longmire, Good-Bye To Cascade Cottages At RMNP
As 2016 comes to a close, we’re listening back to some favorite conversations from the year. This includes a fictional character who’s loved on the page and on the screen: Western sheriff Walt Longmire. He’s the creation of Wyoming author Craig Johnson. Then, after decades of hosting guests from around the world, the Cascade Cottages at Rocky Mountain National Park are no more.
A Denver Church For All Sinners And Saints, The Lumineers On Hitting The Big Time
As the year winds down, we’re listening to captivating conversations from 2016 — like the one with the swearing, tattooed pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber, founder of the House For All Sinners and Saints in Denver. Her latest book is about finding God in all the wrong people. Then, the Lumineers discuss sudden fame and the creative process.
Being Hunter S. Thompson’s Son, AIDS Stories, The Journalist And The Cop, Remembering Glenn Frey
As Denver takes steps to eradicate AIDS by the year 2030, women who have been affected by AIDS and HIV tell their stories as part of a new project from StoryCenter. According to the state’s Department of Public Safety, Blacks in Colorado are arrested at much higher rates than whites; earlier this year, we brought you the anatomy of a police stop involving an Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Deputy, who’s white, and an African-American civilian. Then, another conversation from earlier this year — Juan Thompson talks about what it was like being the son of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. And, remembering former Eagles founder Glenn Frey.
Dianne Reeves, Clare Dunn, The Lost Tribe And More On Inaugural Colorado Matters Holiday Music Special
The first-ever “Colorado Matters Holiday Music Special” broadcast live Wednesday morning from the CPR Performance Studio. Hosted by Ryan Warner, the show featured Colorado musicians and their holiday stories, including Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves, rising country star Clare Dunn, Christmas carols recorded in an old water tank on the Western Slope and a Denver trio who got their start as singing caterers.
State Of Working Colorado, Homeless Exhibit, Antibiotic Animal Feed, Colorado Prohibition Anniversary
By many measures, Colorado has recovered from the great recession but a smaller proportion of people here have jobs. We’ll talk about that and other trends in the state’s economy. Then, feeding antibiotics to livestock is controversial and 2017 brings new restrictions on everyone from the kid in 4-H raising a cow to the largest feedlots. An infectious disease expert at CSU discusses what these new restrictions could mean for animal and human health. Also, an art exhibit asks Denver’s mayor: “What are you going to do about homelessness?” Plus, we’ll learn about Colorado’s strange prohibition history and we remember a former host of this program, Dan Meyers.
Learning About ‘The Sixth Extinction,’ Time To Pay Online Taxes, Highlights In Indie Music
Some scientists believe a 6th mass extinction is underway. We hear from New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert who’s the author of “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.” We also found a high school class in Jefferson County that’s reading the book. Then, a state tax you didn’t know you had to pay: The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a Colorado law that requires online retailers like Amazon to tell customers how much they owe in state sales tax. Plus, Colorado bands that had a good year and are poised to break out in 2017.
Governor Hickenlooper On Trump And Transporation, Boulder’s Yonder Mountain String Band, Holiday Books
Colorado’s governor says the state needs more money for transportation, so he’s looking for options that would be acceptable to Republican lawmakers. One possibility is a sales tax; another is a device in your car that keeps track of your driving and charges you accordingly. Also, we ask the governor what he would say if he got some time with President-elect Donald Trump. Then, we hear from Boulder’s Yonder Mountain String Band which is hard at work on a new album. And, it’s time to curl up with a good book or give one as a gift. Two Colorado booksellers offer their holiday picks.
Hamilton Electors in Colorado, A Farming Family’s 40-Year Fight For Water
The voters have spoken, but the Electoral College hasn’t yet. Electors choose the next president on Monday and some of them have a plan to stop Donald Trump. However, a court in Colorado just dealt their movement a blow. Then, what a Colorado family learned when they quit the city and bought a farm near Greeley. The property came with water, but it didn’t mean they could always use it. Tershia D’Elgin’s new book about her father is called “The Man Who Thought He Owned Water.”
Scientists Implore Trump On Climate Change, Sisters Face Alzheimer’s, Craftbrewers Help Italy’s Beer Makers
Hundreds of scientists, including roughly 70 from Colorado, have signed a letter to President-Elect Donald Trump asking him to “…take immediate and sustained action against human-caused climate change.” We ask a CU-Boulder ecologist — is it a quixotic move? Then sisters Jessica and Robin McIntyre are dealing with the prospect of early-onset Alzheimer’s. One sister has inherited the genetic mutation, the other has not. Plus, how Colorado jump started craft brewing in Italy.
A New Colorado Water Fight, Wrapping Up The 2016 Election, ‘Treason In The Rockies’ During WWII
The water in the Fraser River, which winds through Grand County, is in demand. Native species and recreationists want water to stay in the river, but Denver Water plans to bring more of it to its customers on the Front Range. CPR’s Nathaniel Minor found environmentalists disagree on what to do. Then, we take stock of how Coloradans voted in 2016. And, German, Japanese and Italian prisoners of war were kept in camps throughout the US — including in Colorado — during World War II. At one, Camp Hale near Leadville, an American soldier who sympathized with the Nazis tried to help two German soldiers escape.
How A Nazi Sympathizer Helped German Soldiers Escape From A Colorado POW Camp
Dale Maple was stationed at Camp Hale and hoped to cross the Mexican border with two German POWs. Author Paul N. Herbert writes about Maple in his new book “Treason In The Rockies.”
Investigating Online Schools, Colorado ISIS Roots, Cannabis Research, And A Pearl Harbor Survivor
At Colorado’s largest online school, GOAL Academy, only a fraction of students logged on consistently, according to an investigation by Education Week. Now the school’s founder is involved with the opening of two new online schools. Then, a father of modern radical Islamism lived in Northern Colorado briefly in 1949. He later went home to Egypt and authored writings popular with today’s jihadists. Also, Colorado State University-Pueblo recently launched the country’s first center for cannabis research. And on the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, we hear from a survivor who was on the USS Arizona that day.
Islam cannot fulfill its role, except by taking concrete role in a society, rather in a nation.
Later… what’s billed as the country’s FIRST cannabis research center… opens at Colorado State University – Pueblo. Then… it’s the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. We hear from a Colorado survivor –nearly burned alive in the depths of the sinking USS Arizona…
“We were no escape there from down the hatch, and down the ladder, since everything was so hot, and I tried to close the hatch and got burned pretty bad.”
I-70 Expansion Lawsuit, An Ocean On Pluto, Tailoring Education To Student Needs
The small house in north Denver near Interstate 70 where Candi CdeBaca lives has been in her family for generations. She thinks a plan to expand the interstate is a civil rights violation. She provides her thoughts and we hear the state’s viewpoint. Then, is there an ocean on Pluto? And, in 1966 two nuns founded one of the first schools in Colorado for kids with learning differences.
Supreme Court Contenders From Colorado, Fracking And Drinking Water, School Vouchers, The Lumineers’ New Holiday Song
Donald Trump’s list of potential nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court includes three Coloradans. A former state Supreme Court justice, Rebecca Love Kourlis, explains who they are and what their legal careers indicate about how they would rule on the bench. Plus, an investigation into why — at almost the last minute — language changed in an EPA report on fracking and drinking water. And, the future of voucher programs in U.S. schools. We also share a new holiday song from The Lumineers, and profile a Denver muralist.
