Gunshot Wounds Get Deadlier; Water Crisis In Towns; Puerto Ricans Find Homes In Colorado; Artists With Disabilities Challenge Assumptions
A study of Denver Health Medical Center patients shows gun wounds are getting larger and penetrate more deeply. Three towns south of Colorado Springs are dealing with water contamination. Faced with economic declines in Puerto Rico, some of the territory’s residents have moved to Colorado. The director of a Denver gallery that teaches art to the disabled will speak at an upcoming TEDxMileHigh event.
Denver Murders Trend Down, Open Primaries Proposed, Cool Colorado Waterfalls, Book ‘Vanishing Messiah’ Chronicles Faith Healer, Pianist Vies For Cliburn
While mass shootings are up, murders are down nationally and locally compared to a peak in the 1990s. Author Susan Joy Paul’s “Hiking Waterfalls In Colorado” is a guide to state waterfalls. Healer Francis Schlatter drew crowds in 19th Century Denver. His story is told in “The Vanishing Messiah.” And, returning to his first love after decades, pianist Bob Biber competes in the Van Cliburn competition.
Living At The Crossroads Of Gay And Hispanic Cultures, A Look At Payday Lending in Colorado, and bassist Edgar Meyer
In the wake of the Orlando shootings, a Colorado activist reflects on being Latino, and gay. A look at Colorado’s payday lending law as the feds consider reform. And, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival is a summer reunion for bassist Edgar Meyer and friends.
Gay Blood Donations, Denver Museum’s Million Dead Animals, New Worm Species, Play Crawl Is Theater Sampler
U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, says a policy limiting gay blood donations is “morally bankrupt,” but others argue for caution. Colorado’s Bonfils Blood Center responds to the Orlando shootings. Denver Museum of Nature & Science uses dead animals to analyze the ecological past. A Steamboat Springs cave is home to a new species of worm. The Denver Play Crawl stages play snippets in shops and galleries.
Denver PrideFest To Have More Security, DA’s Race in Denver Moves Forward, Children Of Katrina Book, Grateful Dead At Red Rocks
Organizers of Denver’s PrideFest are talking to police about increased security for this weekend’s events. District attorney candidates have collected a record amount for Denver’s June 28 Democratic primary. A Colorado State University sociologist’s decade-long study of childern impacted by Katrina. A Denver records store owner attended every Grateful Dead concert at Red Rocks.
Denver PrideFest To Go On As Planned This Weekend
“We’re not going to be scared back into the closet,” said Rex Fuller, a spokesman for event organizers.
Dad’s PTSD Shakes Colorado Family, Boulder’s Latino History, Equal Pay For Equal Race Prizes, A New Way To Pay For Water, Last Tour Of Historic Mine
A Fountain teen’s film shows the toll PTSD takes on families. A group is documenting Latino history in Boulder County and pushing for its inclusion in schools. A local bike race offers the same prize money to men and women. A historic gold mine closes to public tours.
Political Newcomers On The Campaign Trail, Boulder Singer-Composer Connects His Farm and His Music, Extreme Athletes Inspire A New Medical Field
New to the political system, two candidates learn by doing. A tour of singer-composer Gregory Alan Isakov’s Boulder farm as he debuts an album with the Colorado Symphony. A Boulder conference focuses on the special medical needs of extreme sports athletes.
A Teacher’s Letters To Her Students, High Suicide Rates In The Mountains, Writing Through Grief
After a student’s suicide attempt, a Colorado Springs teacher wrote all 130 of her students notes about what made them unique. Suicide rates are unusually high in Colorado’s mountain towns. A Denver writer uses personal tragedy to inspire her fiction.
Previewing Colorado Ballot Issues, Collecting Ballot Signatures, Ali In Denver, School As Smart Village, Sweet And Lucky
November voters could decide some familiar issues. Stories from a ballot signature collector. Muhammad Ali’s Denver Fight. Interactive theater is “Sweet and Lucky.”
Mixed Bag On Colorado’s Medicaid Expansion, Summer Reading Recommendations, Classical Music Festival Preview
New research on the costs and benefits of Colorado’s Medicaid expansion shows more low-income residents are getting health insurance, but it’s come with more than a few surprises. Then, the buyer for the Tattered Cover Book Stores says a kind, young writer from Colorado has written the most terrifying book in recent memory, set in a swanky hotel where, “one by one, the staff is getting murdered.” We get that and other summer reading recommendations — and a few musical ones as well, with a preview of classical concerts and festivals in Colorado this summer.
Madeleine Albright Remembers Denver
This interview first aired in 2008. Ryan Warner speaks with Madeleine Albright about her father and her time in Denver.
Colorado Resorts Not Liable For Avalanches, Denver’s Experiment With Cash For Poor, Novel Explores Schizophrenia, Denver’s Own Omelet
Resort skiers need to step up avalanche awareness after a court ruling. A Boulder novelist looks at schizophrenia through a child’s eyes. Denver’s signature omelet may have started as a sandwich. A Denver experiment that aided the poor could have international impact . Revisiting a conversation with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Order Up: Cracking Open The History Of The Denver Omelet
The omelet may have started as a sandwich, according to Matt Masich of Colorado Life Magazine.
Hemp May Yield Record Crop, Wyoming Author’s Ghost Story, Cotopaxi’s Jewish Colony, Nabokov In The West
Four years after hemp became legal in Colorado, farmers may produce the state’s first industrial crop. A Wyoming writer’s latest Walt Longmire mystery is a ghost story. A man wants help proving his relative didn’t swindle residents of a Jewish immigrant colony near Pueblo. And, Russian novelist Vladmir Nabokov’s love of the West helped inspire “Lolita.”
A Colorado Medal Of Honor Winner, Churches Welcome Soldiers Home, A Denver Writer’s Korean War Tale, Idaho Springs Statue
A former Fort Carson soldier who tackled a suicide bomber in Afghanistan says he doesn’t deserve his Medal of Honor because he just did what any soldier would. A military chaplain offers advice for ministering to veterans and their families. Then, Denver author Adam Makos tells the story of a Korean War plane crash that brought military men of different races together. And, a sculpture in Idaho Springs depicts an adventurer who never lived.
