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All guts and no glory

5 days ago | rmpbs.org | Cormac McCrimmon |Joshua Vorse |Alec Berg

BYERS, Colo. — Mason Reine worked a gob of rosin into his riding rope. Friction warms the rosin, giving it a molasses-like consistency that helps him hold on. Reine, 18, began riding bulls five years ago. He is one of 9 bull riders competing through the Colorado High School Rodeo Association. “My mom’s still a little terrified,” said Reine, whose injury history includes numerous concussions, cracked ribs, broken fingers, a cracked vertebrae, dislocated shoulder and a broken shoulder blade.
After years of planning, a small sidewalk becomes a reality in Grand Junction

6 days ago | rmpbs.org | Joshua Vorse |Alec Berg |Cormac McCrimmon

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — At a quiet city council meeting in April, council members voted unanimously to spend $400,000 on a mile-long dirt patch along the side of Patterson Road. The city bought the right to use the land from the Grand Valley Irrigation Company, and is currently designing a 10-foot-wide path that will be installed next spring. That south side of Patterson currently has no sidewalk, though footprints, tire tracks and trash cover the dirt for a mile between 24 ½ Road and 25 ½ Road.
Relief on hold: Downtown Colorado Springs pleads for a public restroom

1 week ago | rmpbs.org | Alec Berg |Cormac McCrimmon |Peter D. Vo

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Unhoused residents, business owners and parents of young children are urging Colorado Springs officials to build a permanent, accessible public restroom in the city’s downtown. “This is a fundamental need — not just for people experiencing homelessness, but for grandparents, parents, kids and anyone who’s downtown,” said City Council member Nancy Henjum, who led recent council discussions on the issue. Downtown Colorado Springs currently has only one public restroom.
Inside the Denver warehouse filled with illegal wildlife products

1 week ago | rmpbs.org | Cormac McCrimmon |Joshua Vorse |Alec Berg |Kyle Cooke

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — Elisa Dahlberg sliced through packing tape and flung open a box the size of an Eastern Lowland Gorilla. Inside lay dozens of purses made from caiman, stingray and other protected species, each containing a tag and evidence sticker. Special agents seized the handbags from a South American smuggling operation, said Dahlberg, the lead biologist and collections manager at the National Wildlife Property Repository, located on the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.
Colorado scientists, lawmakers sound the alarm over proposed cuts to climate research

2 weeks ago | rmpbs.org | Kyle Cooke |Alec Berg |Cormac McCrimmon |Amanda Horvath

BOULDER, Colo. — In March, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency fired hundreds of workers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The firings included many Coloradans. Now, a leaked White House memo shows the Trump administration has more plans to gut federal climate research — cuts that will have a major impact in Colorado.
After decades of fire suppression, experts eye prescribed burns

2 weeks ago | rmpbs.org | Cormac McCrimmon |Alec Berg |Kyle Cooke |Amanda Horvath

GREELEY, Colo. — AJ Alvarado marched through the knee-high grass wearing eight-inch leather boots and fire-resistant pants. She sloshed fuel from a drip torch shaped like a tea kettle filled with diesel and gasoline. Tufts of grass crackled as they burned. A team of firefighters followed Alvarado, igniting additional rows of flames twenty feet apart at the Poudre Learning Center.
Southwest Colorado’s only Mexican grocery store offers flavors of home

2 weeks ago | rmpbs.org | Ziyi Xu |Chase McCleary |Cormac McCrimmon |Alec Berg

CORTEZ, Colo. — “Salsa, what kind? Green, red, or fire?” asked Esmeralda Estrada. The customers chose the fire salsa, and Estrada suggested they have it on the side — just to be safe. Esmeralda’s Ranchito is the only Mexican grocery store in southwest Colorado. Inside, customers find imported Mexican candies, a wall of spices, colorful paper decorations, piñatas hanging from the ceiling, and freshly made tamales.
Colorado's rural fire stations feel the heat from national, state funding challenges

3 weeks ago | rmpbs.org | Chase McCleary |Cormac McCrimmon |Alec Berg |Peter D. Vo

SALIDA, Colo. — The Salida Fire Department is almost as old as the state of Colorado, and its 15-person crew still wear shirts reading “Salida Hose Company No. 1” to honor the station’s earliest days. This year, that station turns 123 years old. The station housed the Salida Fire Department and the South Arkansas Fire Protection District (SAFPD). Chief Aaron Jonke, who stepped into the chief position after more than three decades of service in Denver, leads both agencies.
One solution to Denver's housing shortfall? Living with 18 roommates.

3 weeks ago | rmpbs.org | Alec Berg |Cormac McCrimmon |Peter D. Vo |Chase McCleary

DENVER — Tamika Cox has always wanted at least a dozen roommates. Soon, she’ll get her wish. Cox is one of five tenants approved by the Boulder Housing Coalition — which manages four affordable housing co-ops in Boulder — to join The People’s Mansion, a permanently affordable housing co-op in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. The house, formerly called the Starkey Mansion, was built in 1901 as a single-family home.
'We’re playing our own game': Meet the women lacing up for the Denver Bandits

3 weeks ago | rmpbs.org | Alec Berg |Joshua Vorse |Chase McCleary |Cormac McCrimmon

AURORA, Colo. — Ky Von Borries always wanted to play tackle football. Von Borries, who is six feet tall, was just as strong as boys her age growing up. She proved she could hold her own in the backyard football games she played in her St. Louis, Missouri neighborhood. “I played just about every sport under the sun, but my mom didn’t want me to play football because she claimed the boys would outgrow me,” Von Borries, 22, said.