Traffic backs up on Interstate 25 south of downtown Denver.
On today’s episode of Colorado Edition, we’ll talk about the $5.4 billion transportation package state lawmakers passed this week. Then, we’ll hear from new entrepreneurs who started their businesses in the midst of the pandemic. We’ll also listen back to a conversation about the Granby Killdozer rampage on the 17th anniversary of the incident. And, we’ll get a review of the 2021 film
Today’s guests include: Capitol Coverage reporter Scott Franz; and Patrick Brower, Granby resident and the author of
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Capitol Coverage
A portrait of former Colorado Gov. Julius Caldeen Gunter hangs in the state Capitol. A historian says Gunter had a halfhearted response to the 1918 pandemic and did little to encourage social distancing.
You have to go back more than a century to find another time Coloradans faced a statewide crisis as big and deadly as the current COVID-19 pandemic. But experts who studied the state’s response to the Spanish flu of 1918 say history is not repeating itself when it comes to how state lawmakers are responding to the latest outbreak.
Today, visitors to the Capitol building must wear masks and have their temperatures taken, and lawmakers sit between plexiglass dividers.
Is it possible to know how your state representative will vote on a bill before it gets debated? What started off as a casual bet between two reporters has shed light on a little-known tool that can pretty accurately predict such outcomes.
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News Series
In the News Series category, KUNC was honored for a collaborative series that was reported and produced by KUNC reporter Luke Runyon, Aspen Journalism s Heather Sackett, KJZZ s Bret Jaspers and the Nevada Independent s Daniel Rothberg.
Cash Flows: How Investors Are Banking On the West’s Water Scarcity, looked at how the tightening water supply has attracted the attention of a new actor in some water-stressed pockets of the West: the private investor. The broadcast stories were edited by Runyon and Larson. Jackie Hai designed and edited the online multimedia presentation.
Cash Flows also received a first place award in the Top of the Rockies contest for best Multimedia Story and a third place for Enterprise Reporting. The regional contest includes journalists in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. It’s sponsored by the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Published April 29, 2021 at 5:59 PM MDT
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/ Visitors come to pay their respects outside the Boulder King Soopers where 10 people were killed in a mass shooting.
Today on Colorado Edition, we take a look at three gun bills that Colorado state Democrats unveiled Thursday. Plus, we hear how communities that experienced mass shootings manage the physical spaces where they happened. We also get a temperature check on the pandemic as Colorado cases continue to rise and health officials warn of a fifth wave. As we head into the weekend, we talk about Bereaved Mothers Day, a holiday this Sunday for mothers who have lost their children. And, we get a review of the award-winning film Minari.