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Dec 4, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Chase McCleary |Paralympic Museum |Cormac McCrimmon |Ziyi Xu
STRATTON, Colo. — “Different.”That’s how Stratton’s four-year head coach described 6-man football, the sport that defines much of small-town Colorado. A variation on traditional, 11-man football, the sport rallies entire communities with half the players and makes fierce the names Stratton, Cheyenne Wells, Idalia and Otis, places “most people couldn’t find [if you] gave them a road map and circled it,” according to the prolific Colorado 6-man sports writer and radio broadcaster, Kerry Sherman.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Chase McCleary |Paralympic Museum |Carly Rose |Alec Berg
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. –– Although nearly all votes on the Springs’ two marijuana-related ballot measures have been counted, the future of recreational marijuana sales in the city remains unclear. If passed, Ballot Question 300 and Question 2D would allow existing medicinal marijuana shops to apply for retail licenses (Question 300) while concurrently strengthening the city’s existing ban on recreational marijuana sales (Issue 2D).
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Chase McCleary |Paralympic Museum |Alec Berg |Bram Sable-Smith
DENVER –– Whether you’re a parlay prognosticator, or your hunch on hitting the over has put you deep in the under, some of those sports betting dollars may now help support water projects seeking funding across Colorado. Proposition JJ, or the “Retain Sports Betting Tax Revenue for Water Projects Measure,” passed with a resounding 71.5% of the vote in November, one of the largest margins in the 2024 Colorado state election.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Chase McCleary |Paralympic Museum |Bram Sable-Smith |Joshua Vorse
DENVER — Colorado voters approved Proposition KK on Election Day, adding a 6.5% excise tax on gun and ammunition sales. Colorado is not the first state to impose such a tax, but it is the first one to do so via a citizen’s vote. California, the only other state with an excise tax on gun sales, passed a similar 11% excise tax through Assembly Bill 28 which Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Chase McCleary |Paralympic Museum |Andrea Kramar |Joshua Vorse
BOULDER, Colo. — Wildfire, and wildfire control and prevention, has become an increasingly hot-button issue in recent decades. While the total number of fires occurring annually today is less than it was in the 1990s, fires since 2000 have burned more than double the average annual acreage burned in the 90s, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service last year.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Chase McCleary |Paralympic Museum |Cormac McCrimmon |Joshua Vorse
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Tucked in the back of a small fabric store lodged between a bridal gown shop and what used to be a Burlingtons, the members of Ballet Folklórico de la Raza break the silence of the Citadel Mall with their rhythmic tapping as they rehearse a new number. The Ballet Folklórico, a nonprofit dance group specializing in the traditional Mexican ballet folklórico, turned 30 this year. It has about 20 members.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Chase McCleary |Paralympic Museum |Cormac McCrimmon |Joshua Vorse
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Eva Saunders, 68, is ready for almost anything. If she’s tapped for a mission to the moon, she’s got a spacesuit; if a fleet of leather aliens invade, she’ll fit right in; and if she’s re-enacting stomping on Yokohama while battling an enormous moth, she’s made the giant lizard suit to fill the role.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Chase McCleary |Paralympic Museum |Megan Verlee |Caitlyn Kim
DENVER — Everything from ballot measures — of which Colorado has 14 on the ballot this year — to congressional seats to Regional Transportation District (RTD) offices will be left up to the Colorado electorate come November 5th. Many Colorado voters have already received their ballots in the mail, as Colorado is one of 38 states that offers early voting and mail-in ballots to all voters.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Chase McCleary |Paralympic Museum |Joshua Vorse |Carly Rose
KIT CARSON, Colo. — Things move quickly in the town of Kit Carson. Each day, the number of semi-truck tires roaring down Highway 287 greatly exceeds Kit Carson’s approximately 250-person population. Trucks typically pass through the mile-long town in about a minute before returning to the expansive plains, after which it will be another 20 miles or more before the next town appears. Residents of Kit Carson believe there is more to their town than what truckers might see each day.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
rmpbs.org | Chase McCleary |Paralympic Museum |Jeremy Moore |Jason Gonzales
GOLDEN, Colo. — Fiona had never operated a bulldozer before, but she managed to maneuver a crowded obstacle course nearly perfectly, well-enough that she may have walked away from the Jefferson County Fairgrounds with a promising job prospect if it weren’t for the fact that she was six and that she had class the next day.
