The Daily Sun-Up

Today we're talking to Boulder writer Radha Marcum about her new writing process, the inspiration she gets from nature and her newest poetry collection, Pine Soot Tendon Bone, which was published in 2024 and won the esteemed Washington Prize a year priorSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

https://coloradosun.com/2025/03/19/nih-funding-cuts-cu-anschutz-hickenlooper/ Today, Parker Yamasaki and John Ingold talk about potential cuts to research funding in Colorado, as well as a possible return of nuclear power.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

https://coloradosun.com/2025/03/21/colorado-vegetable-csu-madness/ Today, Colorado Sun reporter Tamara Chuang gets you ready for the Colorado gardening season with her look at CSU’s Veggie Madness competition and her own gardening insights.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

https://coloradosun.com/2025/03/21/i70-closures-vail-fines/ Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins breaks down an especially rough winter along Interstate 70 and what local officials, state legislators and the trucking industry want to do to curtail the costly closures.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, Sun writer and editor Kevin Simpson chats with G. Brown, director of the Colorado Music Experience, about some icons of popular music.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

https://coloradosun.com/2025/02/28/northern-water-environmentalists-settlement-reservoir-project/ Today, Sun water reporter Shannon Mullane and Fresh Water News editor Jerd Smith talk about one of the largest environmental water settlements ever reached in Colorado and the story of a Navajo community receiving running water in their homes for the first time after decades of effort.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Colorado's 2025 legislative session is halfway over. The Sun's Jesse Paul joined KUNC's Lucas Brady Woods and Colorado Public Radio's Bente Birkeland to talk about what's happened, what's happening and what's to come on the latest episode of Purplish, the podcast from the Colorado Capitol News Alliance.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/03/17/restaurants-closing-opening-data-denver/ Today, Colorado Sun business reporter Tamara Chuang breaks down her latest deep data dive to try to figure out if there are more restaurants opening in Denver than closing.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins breaks down the simmer frustrations with the Telluride ski area owner and his pushback against the Town of Mountain Village, which may use eminent domain for some of his land.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Friday, SunLit editor Kevin Simpson talks with the author of a mystery novel that melds interests in Greek mythology and international politics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.