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2 months ago | 
rmpbs.org | Alec Berg |Bente Birkeland |Lucas Brady Woods |Gabriela Resto-Montero
DENVER — As a transgender man who takes testosterone and has a full beard and a deep voice, Jacob knows an ID that matches his male presentation is crucial, both for his peace of mind and for his safety. Jacob, a 30-year-old freelance writer in Denver, began navigating the complex process of changing his gender marker on his IDs from female to male in November, shortly after the election of Donald Trump, and has successfully updated both his Social Security card and driver’s license.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
rmpbs.org | Bente Birkeland |Lucas Brady Woods |Gabriela Resto-Montero |Cormac McCrimmon
This story contains details of sexual assault that may be disturbing to readers. DENVER — Democratic State Rep. Jenny Willford of Northglenn is suing the ride share company Lyft in an effort to improve passenger safety after she said she was sexually assaulted by a Lyft driver last year. Wilford told the details of her story for the first time publicly during a press conference announcing the suit in the Capitol’s west foyer on Tuesday.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Alec Berg |Ziyi Xu |Joshua Vorse |Gabriela Resto-Montero
DENVER — Colorado voters are being asked if they want to repeal the state’s constitutional definition of marriage as “a union of one man and one woman.”If passed, Amendment J, a ballot measure brought forward by state lawmakers during the most recent legislative session, would remove the language and thus strengthen laws that protect the rights of LGBTQ+ Coloradans amid potential challenges post-election.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Ziyi Xu |Alec Berg |Joshua Vorse |Gabriela Resto-Montero
DURANGO, Colo. — Selected community members in La Plata County began training as election judges with less than a month before Election Day 2024. Election judges collect ballots from drop boxes, verify signatures, greet voters at service centers and work late into the night on Election Day tabulating votes.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Alec Berg |Joshua Vorse |Gabriela Resto-Montero |Tina Griego
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — In her first year as Mesa County’s clerk and recorder, Bobbie Gross has had to rebuild trust with 120,000 registered voters in the county after her predecessor, Tina Peters, was sentenced to nine years in prison for breaching secure voter data in the 2020 election. And just when she thought she’d regained the trust of those who elected her, Gross learned that about a dozen ballots in Mesa County were stolen from mailboxes and filled out fraudulently.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Gabriela Resto-Montero |Tina Griego |Kyle Cooke |Andrea Kramar
DENVER — On Election Day in Colorado, polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m.While it’s too late for Colorado voters to vote by mail, you may still drop your ballots off at polling locations around the state. You can also vote early in-person, or wait to vote on Election Day, which is Tuesday, November 5. If you choose to vote on Election Day, you can vote as long as you're in line by 7 p.m.Find your polling location here. Colorado offers registration all the way through Election Day.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Gabriela Resto-Montero
Rocky Mountain PBS: You have extensive experience fielding book challenges, which is when library patrons ask for materials to be removed or restricted, can you situate for us the state of book banning in the US at the moment? James LaRue: Well, we have seen the largest rise in attempts to remove or restrict library resources, not just books. So it's digital resources, it's programs, it's exhibits, it's speakers. It's almost everything a library does.
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May 23, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Gabriela Resto-Montero
So it's a prohibition on government, even though it says, “Congress shall make no law,” through the 14th amendment, it has been applied to lower governmental bodies, not just Congress, but state legislators, city councils. All forms of government are prohibited from interfering in the freedom of speech, which doesn't mean an absolute right. There are limitations on all rights that are granted in the Bill of Rights. And that's what the First Amendment does.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Gabriela Resto-Montero
DENVER — Cada puertorriqueño en Colorado piensa que es el único puertorriqueño en Colorado. Jonathan Marcantoni, dramaturgo y director de teatro se dió cuenta de esto cuando se mudo a Colorado Springs en el 2015 e intentó de colaborar con compatriotas artísticos en el estado. “Hay un sentido de que, ‘no hay nadie más aquí,’”” dijo Marcantoni de ser puertorriqueño en un estado no conocido por su población de caribeños.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Gabriela Resto-Montero
Rocky Mountain PBS: Thank you so much for taking the time to be with us. I wanted to establish a few of your guidelines and kind of your thoughts on misinformation for our audience who are also interested in all of this. So can we just start with you telling us a little bit about what MediaWise does and how you define misinformation versus disinformation?
