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Apr 15, 2024 • 50min

April 15, 2024: Young people face growing risk of colorectal cancer; GOP candidates in the 5th district

Young people face an increased risk for colorectal cancer; cases are expected to grow 90% by 2030. Now there’s an effort to improve early detection.
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Apr 15, 2024 • 12min

Mysteriously, colorectal cancer hits more young people. Congress takes on the issue

Young people are developing colon and rectal cancer more often. Cases in 20- and 30-somethings are expected to grow a whopping 90% before the decade’s end.
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Apr 12, 2024 • 51min

April 12, 2024: On the moguls with 14-year-old Olympic hopeful; What type of thinker are you?

We’re going skiing today with one of the best mogul skiers in the world. 14-year-old Ava Keenan, of Vail, hopes to be the first Black gold medalist in the sport.
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Apr 11, 2024 • 52min

April 11, 2024: State lawmakers debate child tax credit; Exploring family, connection, and cultural identity

It’s a big tax surplus that could help nearly 300,000 families in Colorado get out of poverty, and give the state one of the lowest child poverty rates in the nation.
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Apr 10, 2024 • 52min

April 10, 2024: Griswold impeachment attempt fails; Author inspires incarcerated readers and writers

An attempt to impeach Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold failed at the state Capitol. We get perspective from public affairs reporter Bente Birkeland.
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Apr 9, 2024 • 50min

April 9, 2024: Assessing Xcel’s wind response; A harrowing rescue in Haiti

Rather than risk sparking a wildfire in high winds, Xcel Energy opted to cut power to tens of thousands of people. But the decision caused other problems.
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Apr 9, 2024 • 2min

Fort Lewis football player among Osage dancers at Academy Awards

Joseph Goodfox Jr., a sophomore long snapper for the Fort Lewis Skyhawks football team, was among the Osage performers at March’s Academy Awards ceremony.
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Apr 8, 2024 • 50min

April 8, 2024: A Columbine survivor on being ‘safer together’; Women of Colorado’s mines

Krista Hanley survived the Columbine shooting. 25 years later, she helps people feel safer together even as she navigates her own recovery.
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Apr 8, 2024 • 22min

25 years after the attack, a Columbine survivor dedicates herself to making others feel safer

Krista Hanley, co-founder of Safer Together, survived the attack on Columbine High School 25 years ago this month.
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Apr 8, 2024 • 15min

In ‘Women of the Colorado Mines,’ a legacy of entrepreneurialism and grit

The term ‘motherlode’ is synonymous with the Gold Rush, yet women weren’t welcome to wield pickaxes or pan for flakes.

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