Colorado Matters

Troy Riggs, Denver’s new director of public safety, talks about issues including police shootings, and abuse cases that have occurred in the Denver Jail. Then, Greeley reporter Mike Peters tells Colorado Matters there’s one story that’s haunted him for the past 40 years: The murder of a 7-Eleven clerk that’s only recently been solved.

Are Colorado’s schools safer after lessons learned from Columbine and Arapahoe high schools? Ecologist and climate scientist Jane Zelikova talks about her new documentary, “The End of Snow.” For poet Andrea Gibson, thinking about gender used to be painful, but now it’s become celebratory. And Henry Sakaguchi remembers the prejudice against Japanese-Americans in World War II and want to fight for his country any.

The chairman of the House Veterans Affairs oversight committee has more questions about the VA hospital under construction in Aurora. Then, a Boulder company’s app lets workers award small bonuses to their peers. We’re launching a cooking tour of Colorado. First stop: Denver’s Hop Alley. And, ‘We’ll Meet Again’ on PBS reunites a civil rights activist with her former colleague’s family.

Amid all the political noise about immigrants and refugees, in-state tuition is being proposed for those who have aided Americans in war zones and moved to the U.S. Then, Team USA’s gloves make news. Jim Thorpe, ‘America’s Greatest Olympian Of All Time,’ is featured on a new dollar coin minted in Denver. ​We meet a CU grad who tells LGBTQ coming-out stories in webcomics. And, ever heard an Electone? You can at the Denver International Electronic Music Festival this weekend.

After the gymnast sex abuse scandal, we talk with Nancy Hogshead-Makar, a gold medalist in swimming who is now a lawyer, and the founder of Champion Women, a legal advocacy group for girls and women in sports. Then, we thought that since it’s Valentine’s Day today, the timing was perfect for a chat about dinosaur sex.

Colorado elections director Judd Choate tells Colorado Matters the state’s voting system is well protected against hackers, but there are vulnerabilities here. Then, DU historian Jeanne Abrams talks about the lives of the first, first ladies who lived in a time women couldn’t vote and largely stayed out of politics.

Some after-market tickets for the hit musical “Hamilton” were going for more than $2,000. Blame scalpers? Sure. But fan demand plays a huge role too. Then, a new documentary from two Boulder filmmakers at Denver’s Jewish Film Festival, “Cuba’s Forgotten Jewels,” explores the little-known history of Jewish refugees in Cuba.

This could be the year of the electric car. At least that’s what people are saying in the Economist, Wired, and on CNN. Are we there yet? Then, a $50 million dollar adult funhouse from Santa Fe called Meow Wolf is coming to Denver in the next couple years. What’s it all about? And, We’ll talk to the band Lost Walks about their gothic concept album that started as a Disney-type musical.