Colorado Matters

After years of contentious negotiations, the Frontier Airlines pilots have cut a deal that includes a 53 percent average pay raise. Then, how to spot the migratory and nesting bald eagles that call Colorado home. Next, meet another new CPR show, Latino USA. Finally, composer Itzhak Perlman reflects on his career and music today.

Jena Griswold, the first Democrat elected to be Secretary of State in 60 years, plans to focus on voter rights and campaign finance reform. Then, why one voter changed to unaffiliated. Next, the Chinese rover on the Moon’s far side could mark a new space age. Also, meet another new CPR program, The Takeaway. Finally, you respond to our vaping story.

Rep. Diana DeGette returns to a Washington marked by greater Democratic control and a partial government shutdown. She talked about ending the shutdown, and why she believes President Donald Trump is racist. Then, how teen vaping became an epidemic and what to do now. Next, DPS teachers prepare to strike. Also, learn about a new CPR program, Snap Judgment.

How nonprofits are helping Rocky Mountain National Park as the federal shutdown enters its third week. Then, as rivers dry up and snowpack declines, cloud seeding goes up. Next, outgoing Gov. Hickenlooper’s marijuana policy strategy. Also, how Jared Polis went from dorm room coder to governor. Then, CPR’s new show, The Daily. Finally, drones go underground.

Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper leaves office Tuesday after eight years. For his final Colorado Matters interview as governor, we met Hickenlooper at the business that started it all for him: the Wynkoop brewpub. Then, ahead of Dana Crawford leading the National Western Stock Show parade, an encore of our interview about her historic preservation projects.

Colorado Democrats achieved political dominance in the 2018 election. What are their plans, and how are the Republicans responding? Then, as outgoing Gov. John Hickenlooper considers running for higher office, what we know about his leadership style from Colorado’s gun control debate. Next, we check back in with the tiny, marijuana boom town of DeBeque.

Inside the race to ready Colorado for legal sports betting. Then, how the state went from early Prohibition adopter to “Napa of Craft Beer.” Next, we look back on how Gov. Hickenlooper handled rural Colorado and the economy. Also, Colorado Wonders what’s up with all those geese. Finally, this artist can make a pinhole camera out of anything, even a truck.

In 2018, we looked back fifty years, to a defining moment for the United States: 1968. We spoke with Coloradans whose lives were touched by some of the most tumultuous moments of a trying year, from the March on Washington to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the at times-violent Democratic National Convention to Marlin Briscoe’s football legacy, even the rise of zombies in pop culture and Anthony Ruptak’s cover of the music of the time.