On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you the story of Ron Stallworth. In the 1970s, he became the first black detective ever to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department.

PODCAST   In 1959, at the age of 15, Jim Bishop bought a plot of land in the Wet Mountains, west of Pueblo, Colorado. He started building a stone cottage on the land in the mid sixties, and never stopped.

(Many poems in the slideshow NSFW or young eyes.) In this episode of Wish We Were Here, we tell the story of Colorado Springs native Brian “Scoop” Nemeth, a man with high-functioning autism whose singular goal in life is to become “The Black Bill O’Reilly” — a national news and opinion anchor on the Fox News

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In 2002, retired FBI and CIA investigator Charlie Hess began writing letters Robert Charles Browne, a convicted murderer who claimed to have killed dozens of other people around the country. This episode of Wish We Were Here tells the story of their correspondence and the cold cases Hess would close with Browne’s help.

On this episode of Wish We Were Here, Producer Noel Black tells the story of a small community of kids who grew up in Colorado Springs with gay parents. Jessica: The argument was, which is more harmful, a lesbian mother or a junkie father? I was subpoenaed to testify about my mom’s relationship.

At an old prison in southeastern Colorado, an experimental new program is working to help chronically homeless people from around the state rebuild their lives.

This episode of Wish We Were Here was originally broadcast in November of 2014   On April 20th, 1914, just north of Trinidad, Colorado, one of the bloodiest, most overlooked events in the history of the American labor movement set the stage for creation of the 8-hour workday, the weekend, and the right of workers to

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In this pilot episode of Wish We Were Here, we critically examine the career of one of the 20th century’s most infamous con-artists, Storme Aerison.