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'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.
 
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.
 
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..
 

February 27, 2009

Rocky Mountain News Closes

Just two months shy of its 150th birthday, Colorado’s oldest newspaper has published its last edition today. The owners of the Rocky Mountain News say the newspaper lost 16 million dollars last year and can’t afford to stay open. Nearly 230 newsroom staffers are losing their jobs. Bente Birkeland caught up with some of them yesterday as they were completing their last assignments for the paper. She has this report.

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Round-Up

Raising vehicle registration fees…Dobson steps down…and Colorado Springs’ cemeteries set to begin spring cleaning.

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February 26, 2009

Round-Up

Colorado’s oldest newspaper shuts down…Colorado Springs’ most dangerous intersections…and climate change.

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Citizen Report: Vegetable Gardening

In today’s “Citizen Report,” Larry Stebbins of Pike’s Peak Urban Gardens suggests it’s never to early…or late…to start thinking about vegetables.

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February 25, 2009

Round-Up

Colorado lawmakers react to President Barack Obama’s speech, and a plan to pay for road and bridge repairs moves forward in the Colorado statehouse.

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February 24, 2009

Debating Domestic Partner Health Benefits

A bill that would extend insurance benefits to same sex partners of state employees initially cleared the senate on Monday and is awaiting a final vote. It also touched off a values debate at the state capital about the morality of homosexuality. Bente Birkeland reports from Denver.

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