Colorado Matters

Sheldon Steinhauser, who lives in Denver, was part of the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1968. He looks back 50 years on the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Colorado Parks and Wildlife doesn’t have the money to pay for land it leases. As we head into wildfire season, we revisit an interview s journalist Michael Kodas, author of “Megafire.”

A study from CU Anschutz says police, fire and other workers are more likely to die from suicide than line-of-duty incidents. What’s being done to help? Researchers at the University of Colorado see a new business opportunity in technology they developed to detect methane leaks. We get a look inside the strapped-for-cash Saguache County Jail. And snowboarder Amy Purdy, of Silverthorne, won a silver in snowboard cross at the Paralympics last month in South Korea, so we’re revisiting an earlier conversation with her.

Immigrant Rene Lima-Martin’s robbery conviction led to a 20-year legal odyssey before his release last week. Hundreds of residents who bought homes through Denver’s affordable housing program recently learned they will have to sell. A Fort Collins photographer chronicles severe storms in a new book. A Denver artist tucks her tiny paintings inside mint tins.

CDOT is holding town hall-style “cannabis conversations” to wrap its head around marijuana’s effect on drivers. A new book by Kenneth Jessen explores how the state went from wild wild west to a civilized society. Colorado College archivist Jessy Randall unearths a #MeToo story behind a former campus president’s departure in 1917. And for Dragondeer, ‘The Other One’ by the Grateful Dead flashes back to 1968 best.

Molly Bloom talks about Aaron Sorkin directing “Molly’s Game,” about her journey from Olympic hopeful to running high-stakes poker games, and how she lost it all. In Pueblo, there’s a battle over how to get rid of a mustard gas stockpile. Handcuffed by voters, Pueblo jail officials can’t handle overcrowding. Colorado Mesa is home to the nation’s top-ranked NCAA Division II softball team. And a bus-sized space station is plummeting to Earth. Can you see it?

As soon as you come into the world, you are met with bacteria. “It’s like mom’s first gift, you know?” says Colorado author Eugenia Bone, who at 55 went back to college to study microbes. Bone spoke with Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner in front of an audience — and all their microbes — at The Newman Center in Denver. Also, internal disciplinary records obtained by CPR News show engineers have made dozens of serious mistakes in the last two years.

Statistically, people with mental illness are no more likely to become violent than people who don’t have a diagnosed mental illness. Climate scientists have news data that allows them to more closely link specific weather events to global warming. The story behind a photo of a young woman on horseback leaping from a tower in Pueblo in 1905. Colorado actor Mathenee Treco talks about his dual roles in “Hamilton” in tour.

Colorado Matters covered Saturday’s March For Our Lives protests around the state live, and over the course of an hour also wove in several very different views on gun ownership, rights and restrictions. We heard from reporters in Grand Junction, Colorado Springs and Denver — the site of the largest of the gatherings.