A new book puts the Gold King Mine spill within the long history of mining and pollution in Southwest Colorado. An inner-city youth program near the Denver-Aurora border aims to change the lives of young men. Then, one quarter of rural households in the state go without high speed internet. A new subsidy aims to change that. And preview of a moving new violin concerto by Colorado composer Jeffrey Nytch about a violinist hero in an Italian cruise ship disaster called "Costa Concordia."
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