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2 weeks ago | 
rmpbs.org | Cormac McCrimmon |Peter D. Vo |Chase McCleary |Alec Berg
FRISCO, Colo. — When Erwin Germain moved from Paris to Denver in 2015, it wasn’t the croissants or world-class museums he missed — it was public transportation and carpooling. Germain grew up at the foot of the Alps in Grenoble, France. Buses and trains provided easy access to skiing, and carpool apps offered affordable city-to-city transportation. What makes carpooling special is its “freedom and flexibility,” said Germain, who moved to the U.S. to live with his partner.
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1 month ago | 
rmpbs.org | Chase McCleary |Cormac McCrimmon |Carly Rose |Alec Berg
KARVAL, Colo. –– Driving through the plains of eastern Colorado, you might notice a winding path of stones snaking through the grass, or a clump of rocks tucked in a dry riverbed resembling a small amphitheater. These are called Zeedyk structures. Stonehenge or Red Rocks they are not, but these skillfully sculpted stone formations play an impactful role in the hydrologic and ecological sustainability of natural areas, particularly in places with limited water flow, like Colorado’s eastern plains.
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1 month ago | 
rmpbs.org | Carly Rose |Melanie Asmar |Cormac McCrimmon
DENVER — Eighteen-year-old Jazmine Juarez-Gonzalez became a mom almost two years ago. Despite the challenges of being a teenage parent, she is on track to graduate from Florence Crittenton High School this semester. Juarez-Gonzalez comes to school every day and drops off her daughter, Eliana Isabella, at Florence Crittenton Services’ Early Childhood Education Center, which is on the same campus as the high school and free to student parents.
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1 month ago | 
rmpbs.org | Cormac McCrimmon |Carly Rose |Alec Berg |Kyle Cooke
GOLDEN, Colo. — The first time Maggie Martin pointed her camera towards the night sky, she captured a meteor. It was 2011, and Martin — a special education teacher at the time — had decided to take an astrophotography class at Rocky Mountain National Park. “My focus was off, but I had this blurry picture that I was infatuated with. It blew my mind,” said Martin. For the 25 seconds she exposed her camera, Martin felt fully present. “I was a school teacher doing 6,000 things a minute.
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1 month ago | 
rmpbs.org | Alec Berg |Chase McCleary |Emma Vanden Einde |Cormac McCrimmon
DENVER — How do you preserve the authenticity of one of Denver’s oldest and most cherished gathering spaces while making it the new home for the city’s only lesbian bar? That’s a challenge Ashlee Cassity and Dom Garcia feel ready for. “We are two people who are very committed to our community,” said Cassity.
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1 month ago | 
rmpbs.org | Melanie Asmar |Carly Rose |Cormac McCrimmon |Joshua Vorse
DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday criticized the U.S. Department of Agriculture for eliminating more than $13.1 million in funding for programs that help Colorado schools and food banks buy food from local farmers. “By cutting this funding, the Trump Administration is taking away healthy meals from school children and slashing contracts Colorado farmers depend on to support their businesses and workers,” Polis, a Democrat, said in a statement.
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1 month ago | 
rmpbs.org | Alec Berg |Chase McCleary |Emma Vanden Einde |Cormac McCrimmon
DENVER — After 50 years in Denver’s most densely populated neighborhood, Life on Capitol Hill is closing its printing press. Brooke Warner, executive director of Colorado Community Media, who published the paper, said the closure came after years of a changing media ecosystem, in which social media and digital news replaced the free newspaper, which relied entirely on dwindling ad revenue. “As news consumption habits evolve, so must the products we create to deliver local news.
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1 month ago | 
rmpbs.org | Kyle Cooke |Andrea Kramar |Cormac McCrimmon
BOULDER, Colo. — Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) campus in Boulder, Colorado, Monday to protest the sudden firing of hundreds of workers at the federal agency, which includes the National Weather Service. President Donald Trump’s administration began the mass layoffs of probationary employees Thursday, Feb.
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1 month ago | 
rmpbs.org | Andrea Kramar |Kyle Cooke |Cormac McCrimmon
DENVER — Colorado has a trashy scorecard when it comes to recycling. In 2023, the state recycled less than 16% of its waste, half the national average. By comparison, California recycles 41% of its waste and Oregon recycles 39% of its waste. But Colorado isn’t lagging behind simply because some residents are careless or unsure about where to place their litter — the state has some significant barriers that makes recycling difficult.
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1 month ago | 
rmpbs.org | Kyle Cooke |Cormac McCrimmon |Andrea Kramar |Chase McCleary
DENVER — Eggs are hard to find at grocery stores these days. But in the backyard of a split-level home in Northglenn, Janelle McCarthy has more eggs than she knows what to do with. “It’s not the most aesthetically pleasing [set-up], but our chickens are healthy and our chickens give us eggs,” McCarthy said of her family’s coop. McCarthy is one of thousands of Coloradans who raise chickens in their backyards.
