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Health Law Myths: Outside The Realm Of Reality
September 3, 2010 | NPR · Are you really going to have to have a computer chip implanted in your head as part of the new health law? Will the law allow President Obama to create his own private army? While there are outrageous rumors circulating about the health law, some claims are grounded in truth.
 
'Recovery Summer' Ends With Economic Pothole
September 3, 2010 | NPR · This was supposed to be the season the economy heated up, thanks to a wave of public works projects funded by the government's stimulus program. But summer is coming to an end and the recovery has not taken root. Forecasters are expecting another gloomy employment report on Friday.
 
Bidding Farewell To The Congo's 'Mother And Father'
September 3, 2010 | NPR · As a long Congo River barge journey ends, so, too, does a unique glimpse into the heart of a poor but potentially rich nation grappling with conflict. Despite the hardship, the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo draw great inspiration from the inescapable and mighty river.
 
Study: Cash For Clunkers Was A Wash
September 3, 2010 | NPR · The program didn't bring any new buyers into the market, a study found. But it encouraged people who would have bought a car anyway to make their purchase a few months sooner.
 
Consumers Still Gear Up, Camp Out In Recession
September 3, 2010 | CPR · Sales in the outdoor gear industry are up more than 8 percent this year, topping retail sales overall. The industry's strength may be due to its consumers' high incomes, but the recession also has more people heading out into the wilderness.
 

Art & Life from NPR

'The American': A Domestic Bond, Drawn In Miniature
September 3, 2010 | NPR · George Clooney's latest outing showcases a more internal performance -- as an assassin whose personal life threatens to further complicate an already hard-to-manage career. Kenneth Turan says Anton Corbijn's drama is impeccably composed and beautifully shot -- if a little lacking on the emotional urgency front.
 
'Public Enemy' Wraps Up A Criminally Good Saga
September 2, 2010 | NPR · Neither director Jean-Francois Richet's style nor star Vincent Cassel's swagger falters in Public Enemy Number One, the exhilarating follow-up to Mesrine: Killer Instinct. With its shootouts, prison breaks and wild flights of ego, the saga's second half was sure to be watchable. It's also smart, funny and incisive -- about the criminal and his era. (Recommended)
 
A Family Torn Asunder Takes The 'Last Train Home'
September 2, 2010 | NPR · Frequently moving and quietly enlightening, the documentary Last Train Home is about love and exploitation, sacrifice and endurance. Director Lixin Fan follows a single Chinese family from 2006 through the financial downturn of 2008. The parents work at garment factories in Guangzhou city; their teenage children live in an impoverished village and see their parents only once a year.
 
'Noodle Shop': A Coen Brothers Tale Goes East
September 2, 2010 | NPR · Director Zhang Yimou takes on the Coen brothers, remaking Blood Simple and setting it in the 17th-century "Chinese outback." Adultery, bloody mishaps and Chinese superstition are just the appetizers in this colorful film.
 
'Machete': Out Of The 'Grindhouse,' Trailer First
September 2, 2010 | NPR · Robert Rodriguez directs Machete, featuring a character first introduced in a fake trailer that played during his 2007 exploitation flick Grindhouse..
 

March 31, 2008

Capitol Conversation

State representatives have passed Colorado’s 17.6 billion dollar budget… now senators will debate the bill. We’re likely see many of the same arguments for and against the budget from both parties. Bente Birkeland discusses the budget as part of our ongoing capitol conversation series.

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Interstate 70 Toll

A senate transportation committee has backed a Republican proposal to use tolls on a portion of interstate 70, while rejecting a Democratic measure. Bente Birkeland reports from Denver.

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Lawmakers Debate State Budget

Passing a budget is the only thing the state constitution requires lawmakers to do during their 120 day legislative session. It funds everything from roads to preschool programs. Legislators in the house spent hours debating changes to the 616 page bill on Wednesday. Next week the senate will take up the measure. Bente Birkeland reports from Denver.

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March 26, 2008

Unsafe Water in Alamosa

It was exactly a week ago that public health officials declared Alamosa’s tap water unsafe to drink. That meant telling about 10,000 people they’d have have to get their water elsewhere – It’s not the kind of call that’s made hastily, and health investigators made it before they were 100% certain that Alamosa’s tap water was carrying the potentially deadly Salmonella bacteria now believed to have sickened more than 250 people. KCFR Health Reporter Eric Whitney has the story of how Colorado’s disease detectives zeroed in on the water and were eventually proven right.

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Alan Gottlieb: Visiting Writers Series

Colorado College alumnus Alan Gottlieb will read from his novel, “Ultimate Excursions,” a novel featuring Tim Lake, a Peace Corps worker. Seeking a respite from the stresses of Peace Corps life in rural Ecuador, Lake embarks on a vacation to Peru that starts as an innocent journey that devolves into chaos. Sponsored by the Visiting Writers Series.

Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Location: Gates Common Room, third floor of Palmer Hall, 1025 N. Cascade Ave. (east of Tutt Library) (map)

Tickets: free

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Conservation Easements

In western Colorado’s Garfield County, ranchers are banding together to conserve thousands of acres of prized agricultural land, as pressures for development rise. But fraud surrounding a state tax credit that’s helping protect land like this has lawmakers pushing for reforms–and many who legitimately used the tax credit, worried about the future of the program. From KUNC, Kirk Siegler reports.

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