- Rolling Stone music writer Steve Knopper previews Colorado’s summer rock and pop concerts.
- Telluride Bluegrass and RockyGrass are sold out, but there are plenty of other great Americana festivals happening around the state this summer.
- Traditional, smooth, Latin-style or funk – Colorado jazz aficionados can find a festival to fit every taste. Here are picks from DJ and music columnist Bret Saunders.
- Governor John Hickenlooper signed a bill in Pueblo today to create a commission aimed at keeping Amtrak’s Southwest Chief rolling through southern Colorado. KRCC’s Shanna Lewis reports from Pueblo. The train follows the historic Santa Fe Trail through Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico as it travels between Chicago and Los Angeles.
- Ron Cobb of Norman’s Memorials knows a lot about these fixtures of death. His family has been in the monuments and grave marker business for more than 100 years.
- Governor John Hickenlooper to sign a bill creating a commission to work with neighboring states on track repairs and other ways to prevent the line from being rerouted.
- The Environmental Protection Agency last week proposed adding a site in Pueblo to the Superfund priorities list -the federal program aimed at cleaning up hazardous waste sites. Elevated levels of lead and arsenic were found in soil samples taken from yards near the former Colorado Smelter.
- If approved, the site would become one of five properties in the federal program tasked with cleaning up hazardous waste.
- Got a question you are dying to ask about funerals or the afterlife? Just want to chat about death? Kindred spirits gather at Death Cafes.
- Amtrak’s Southwest Chief rolls through parts of Colorado, New Mexico and Kansas following the historic Santa Fe Trail as it travels between Los Angeles and Chicago. But unless needed repairs are made to the tracks, this section could be rerouted to neighboring states.
- Starting with handmade bandages during World War I, Colorado Red Cross volunteers have helped troops, disaster victims and others for the last century.
- Musical ensembles compete for coveted spots in this year’s Colorado State Fair Fiesta Day in Pueblo.
- Descendants of people who were at Ludlow share their family memories.
- This Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most deadly days in labor history — the Ludlow Massacre. Southern Colorado coal miners went on strike for safer working conditions in September of 1913. It ultimately led to violent conflict between the miners and the companies they worked for.
- The massacre, which took place on April 20, 1914, was just one event in the Colorado Coal Field Wars which comprised a longer conflict over dangerous working conditions and unfair labor practices.
- Colorado’s climate puts it among the top 10 states for sunflower production, but many of the state’s farmers have cut back on planting sunflowers. Last year Colorado’s sunflower production dropped to a fraction of its high in 1999. Now, growers are considering how much they’re willing to pay to help reverse the trend.
