On today’s A Public Affair, News Director Shannon Young speaks with Katherine Corcoran, former Associated Press Mexico bureau chief and author of the recently published book, In The Mouth of the Wolf: a murder, a cover-up and the true cost of […]
Denver City Council Passes Measure To Protect Against Wage Theft
Denver’s City Council unanimously passed a new measure last night to increase worker protections against wage theft. News Director Shannon Young got the details from Pamela Reséndiz Trujano, Executive Director of Colorado Jobs with Justice. Listen: (Download Audio)
A Recipe For Participatory Budgeting
The civic engagement group known as Warm Cookies of the Revolution celebrated its 10th birthday yesterday with an event in downtown Denver. Warm Cookies – as it’s known for short – seeks to demystify the civic engagement process by breaking […]
Author Anand Giridharadas on Creating On-Ramps for the Highway to Progress
On Today’s A Public Affair, KGNU News Director Shannon Young speaks with award-winning author Anand Giridharadas about his new book, The Persuaders; At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy. Giridharadas is on-air political analyst for […]
Rewire News Group Editors on Reproductive Rights, SCOTUS and Twitter
On today’s edition of A Public Affair, News Director Shannon Young speaks with Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo. The women are co-hosts of the “Boom! Lawyered” podcast and senior editors at Rewire News Group. The discussion ranges from […]
A Public Affair: Author Jon Bassoff and Musician Wendy Woo
The first half of A Public Affair for November 9, 2022 features Longmont-based author Jon Bassoff and Loveland-based musician Wendy Woo. Bassoff recently released his latest book, Beneath Cruel Waters and childhood friend Woo created music inspired by the […]
How Geek Culture Wins in the End
Comic conventions are a subculture of their own and now there’s a new book out documenting its past and present. Mathew Klickstein is the author of See You at San Diego; an Oral History of Comic-Con, Fandom and the Triumph of […]
Air Pollution Can Be Bad For Your Gut Microbiome: CU Scientist
The Environmental Protection Agency – or EPA – has issued a final determination to downgrade air quality in the Denver Metro and Northern Front Range area to “severe” non-attainment for ground level ozone. The area was one of five nationwide […]