- Ryan Warner talks to Dave Newport, director of CU Boulder’s Environmental Center, about the university’s pledge to reduce and ultimately eliminate greenhouse gas emissions on campus.
- Ryan Warner talks to veteran political strategist Mike Dino about plans now under way for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, which will be held in Denver.
- Lawmakers are considering legislation to address concerns that oil and gas drilling activities in Colorado are making people sick. Ryan Warner talks to Rep. Kathleen Curry, a Democrat from Gunnison, and Doug Hock, spokesman for EnCana Oil and Gas, based in Denver.
- The cost of living in Aspen is three times the national average. For a long time, that’s meant people who work there have either had to compete for the community’s limited affordable housing or have opted to live somewhere else.
- Ryan Warner talks to former Aurora middle-school teacher Ayal Korczak, founder of LaTeen magazine, for Hispanic teenagers. The locally published magazine is going national. By June, it’ll be on newsstands across the country.
- Ryan Warner talks to Colorado State University Professor Michael De Miranda about a new program that aims to prepare engineering and technology graduates for junior and high school teaching.
- Ryan Warner talks to Josh Green, a senior editor of the Atlantic Monthly, about his profile of Denver software millionaire and political activist Tim Gill. Gill is targeting state legislatures with stealth campaigns that have put many gay-friendly candidates in office.
- State lawmakers are halfway through the session. Ryan Warner gets a progress report from Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald and House Minority Leader Mike May.
- Ryan Warner talks to Ginger Maloney, dean of the University of Denver’s College of Education, about DU’s new Institute for Early Learning and Literacy. It’s first effort is to reach out to daycare workers who spend long days with kids but aren’t trained to prepare them to read.
- Ryan Warner talks to Tom Potter of the Golden-based National Renewable Energy Lab about Colorado’s Wind for Schools Program. It’s the first of its kind in the country and could get a boost if state lawmakers approve new grants.
- Ryan Warner talks to Colorado’s First Lady, Jeannie Ritter, who will use her background as a teacher of emotionally disturbed children – and some family history – to focus on improvements in mental health. Colorado has limited funds and a high suicide rate.
- The town of Vail has commissioned its biggest public arts project, a display of nearly 3,000 windmills meant to draw attention to alternative energy sources. Critics say the project is expensive and silly. Ryan Warner talks to Leslie Fordham, Vail’s public-art coordinator.
- There’s a national move toward lifelong learning for seniors and the baby boomers right behind them.
- Ryan Warner talks to Ron Binz, the new chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. He’ll play a big role in implementing Gov. Bill Ritter’s “new energy economy” strategy. It’s part of a series of conversations with new Ritter appointees.
- Ryan Warner talks to Paul Hudnut, director of Colorado State University’s new master’s degree program in Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise. The program trains business school students for work in developing countries.
- State lawmakers are deciding what to do about Amendment 41. That’s the new Ethics in Government law, which limits gifts to lawmakers and government workers. They’ve introduced new legislation that would clarify its reach.
