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Colorado In Depth

Colorado Public Radio

A podcast featuring documentary news, storytelling and special reporting from CPR News. Covering Colorado in depth from the plains to the mountains, the Western Slope to the Four Corners.

Colorado Public Radio

A podcast featuring documentary news, storytelling and special reporting from CPR News. Covering Colorado in depth from the plains to the mountains, the Western Slope to the Four Corners.

Colorado Public Radio
8hr 21min
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McClain’s story has brought about reforms to the rules for police in Colorado, and it has put law enforcement in Aurora under state oversight, to stop a pattern of racist policing. The incident has taught Colorado how to effectively oversee conduct by law enforcement – and what happens when we don’t.
September 21, 202353min 52sec
Thumbnail for "Psilocybin and the Future of Cancer Care".
June 4, 202447min 47sec
Thumbnail for "The Colorado clerk on trial for the big lie, and what it means for the 2024 election".
Tina Peters goes on trial in February. The former Mesa County clerk faces criminal charges for using her position overseeing local elections to empower a movement that falsely believes U.S. voting systems are rigged to steal elections.
January 22, 202448min 33sec
Thumbnail for "A year since Club Q".
Stories from four people in their own words remind us that there is no going back to “normal,” and that for each of us, survival has its own meaning.
November 22, 202331min 11sec
Thumbnail for "How our wastewater can help the West's water problems".
The idea of drinking recycled wastewater grossed people out for a long time. But increasingly, it's part of the answer for how we can live in the West.
June 2, 202334min 6sec
Thumbnail for "Ideas to save the Colorado River".
Check out the first episode of a new CPR News podcast about how we can continue to live in the American southwest as it dries out.
May 23, 202331min 44sec
Thumbnail for "Black History, Baseball History, and William 'Bay Bay' Richardson".
This is the never-before-told story of a Colorado family who uncovers their dad’s contributions to history while he played in the Negro Baseball League.
March 29, 202344min
Thumbnail for "How Colorado counts your ballot".
Go behind the scenes of Colorado’s elections, to meet the people and systems designed to prevent fraud and count every vote.
October 17, 202243min 26sec
Thumbnail for "How three Coloradans found solutions for chronic pain".
We talk with people who experience pain, and physicians, to uncover solutions and provide hope for pain sufferers and their loved ones who want to help.
September 1, 202235min 16sec
Thumbnail for "Embedded with Colorado National Guard troops in Europe".
Caitlyn Kim travels to Estonia to see Colorado National Guard troops conducting military training exercises with allies, just weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine.
July 12, 202222min 38sec
Thumbnail for "What the past tells us about the future of abortion in Colorado".
A look at how the legal landscape for and against abortion access has shifted in the years since Colorado became the first state to legalize abortion.
May 7, 202225min 48sec
Thumbnail for "How the Denver Area's Transit System Took Shape".
Today’s episode is a special preview of another CPR News podcast called Ghost Train.
February 25, 202234min 46sec
Thumbnail for "A Day in the Life of a Restaurant Trying to Survive the Pandemic".
For a long time, a common refrain has been that more than half of restaurants close before even making it a year. Now think of the chances of survival if you opened right before the pandemic. This is one restaurant’s story.
January 13, 202223min 33sec
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Some of the biggest wildfires in Colorado have cost lives and caused millions of dollars in damage. But without knowing how they started exactly, Coloradans can’t change policies to try to prevent new ones. And no one gets held accountable.
December 14, 202123min 29sec
Thumbnail for "Introducing 'Colorado In Depth'".
CPR News is making more of our documentary news, investigations and special reporting available in one place in your podcast feed. 
December 9, 20211min 1sec

The life and death of Elijah McClain: What have we learned?

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September 21, 202353min 52sec

Elijah McClain was a son, a brother, a healer and a musician. In 2019, police stopped him during a peaceful walk home. He hadn’t done anything wrong, but they violently subdued him. Now, officers and paramedics face criminal charges in his death.

McClain’s story has brought about reforms to the rules for police in Colorado, and it has put law enforcement in Aurora under state oversight, to stop a pattern of racist policing. The incident has taught Colorado how to effectively oversee conduct by law enforcement – and what happens when we don’t.

Colorado In Depth is a podcast of special reporting, documentary news and investigations from CPR News. Follow the podcast for reporting from the Front Range, the Four Corners, the Eastern Plains and the mountains.

Reported by Allison Sherry
Written by Allison Sherry and Rachel Estabrook
Produced and edited by Rachel Estabrook
Mixed by Emily Williams
Music by Blue Dot Sessions
Executive producers: Kevin Dale, Sherkiya Wedgeworth-Hollowell and Brad Turner
Thanks also to Alison Borden, Kibwe Cooper, Erin Jones and Rebekah Romberg