Colorado Matters

No one found the joke funny when a Denver coffee shop bragged about gentrifying the neighborhood. Protests erupted and local politicians faced criticism. What happens now? Then, the U.S. is leaving the global climate agreement, so why was there such a big American presence at a UN conference in Germany this month? And, since Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy came out of the closet, he says athletes have changed how they talk about gay people.

The new Sanderson Apartments in Denver were designed specifically for people coping with past trauma, particularly homelessness. One resident shares his story and offers a tour. Then, Emmy-winning television program “Top Chef” gets a taste of Colorado. And, guitarist and Denver native Bill Frisell gets inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame.

At least 14 candidates want to be Colorado’s next governor. We’ll learn what that means for voters. Then, as metro Denver courts a second Amazon headquarters, we to look to Seattle, which had Amazon’s first base of operations. And, one of Colorado’s most celebrated chefs offers up an idea for a Thanksgiving side dish and talks about what the holiday means to him.

“Slow down the growth!” That’s the message some voters in metro Denver sent in the election earlier this month. What’s driving the movement? And, at the Thanksgiving table, as you’re fighting over the white meat or the dark meat, others are fighting over the tail. Later, CAT scans helped Denver scientists make big new discoveries about mummies they thought they understood.

Annette Gonzales, of Pueblo​, equated Muslims with terrorists. But she agreed to visit a mosque, over the objections of her family. It’s the latest in our series that looks for common ground among Coloradans with very different political views. Then, revelations of sexual harassment at the state Capitol. Later in the show: how growing up in the mortuary business shaped a Colorado writer.

When reports of a mass shooting in a Texas church reached Carl Chinn, he went immediately. The Coloradan helps places of worship protect themselves from violence. Then a new documentary on Bill Nye the Science Guy, who admits he’s a lightning rod for conservatives, includes a University of Colorado climatologist. Plus, at age 70, Rocky Mountain Rescue is one of the country’s oldest search and rescue groups.

Colorado spends less on public schools than many other states and its roads are among the worst in the country. Some people blame a law that passed 25 years ago. In the final episode of our series on TABOR, how politicians have learned to live with the law, and how its author, Douglas Bruce, ended up under indictment by the government he tried to constrain. Also, how to get the perfect landscape photograph in Colorado.

In the early 2000s, Colorado was in trouble. The state government couldn’t recover after the dot-com bust. It was a pivotal moment for one of the state’s most unusual laws, a constitutional limit on taxing and spending known as TABOR. Today, the second part of CPR’s podcast “The Taxman” about TABOR and its author, Douglas Bruce. Also, was Magic Music Colorado’s first jam band?