The Daily Sun-Up

Dec 11 2024 100 ep. 19 mins 219
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Welcome to The Colorado Sun's daily podcast, The Daily Sun-Up. Every day we’re sharing an in-depth look at one of our top stories, followed by a quick summary of important things happening in our state. For more visit us at https://coloradosun.com/.

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Tensions remain as Colorado River takes center stage in Vegas

Dec 11 2024 14 mins  
https://coloradosun.com/2024/12/05/colorado-river-officials-future-water-use-barbs-water-conference/ Today – Sun water reporter Shannon Mullane discusses the recent Colorado River conference in Las Vegas as the deadline looms for Western officials to rewrite the water sharing rules.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hop on board the BRT movement

Dec 10 2024 27 mins  
https://coloradosun.com/2024/12/08/colorado-bus-rapid-transit-expansion/ Today - we're talking with Sun reporter Michael Booth about major public transportation projects popping up the next few years with bus rapid transit systems along some of metro Denver’s busiest corridors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What’s next for the beetle-kill burning plant?

Dec 09 2024 17 mins  
https://coloradosun.com/2024/12/04/gypsum-biomass-energy-plant-closed-wildfire-mitigation/ Today – Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins discusses the demise of the biomass plant, which turned forest waste into electricity in Eagle County, after it shut down and filed for bankruptcy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Author Logan Steiner talks about her book "After Anne: A Novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Life."

Dec 06 2024 21 mins  
Today - SunLit editor Kevin Simpson talks with the author of a new historical novel built around the life of Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of “Anne of Green Gables.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A moonshot search for a blindness cure & A solar-powered rail car

Dec 05 2024 19 mins  
Today, Michael Booth and John Ingold talk “Temperature stories”, including a moonshot search for a blindness cure and putting sunshine in batteries and shipping electricity to Denver by rail car. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jared Polis is headed for another showdown with unions, fellow Democrats

Dec 04 2024 13 mins  
Today – Gov. Jared Polis is once again on a collision course with fellow Democrats in the state legislature and the Colorado labor movement. Political reporters Jesse Paul and Brian Eason discuss why the conflict may be about more than just one bill. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Following the ebb and flow of holiday shopping trends

Dec 03 2024 21 mins  
Today - Sun business and tech reporter Tamara Chuang breaks down how retailers have morphed holiday shopping patterns from Black Friday to the creation of Cyber Monday. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Can a town of 1,500 people really buy a Colorado ski resort?

Dec 02 2024 17 mins  
Today – Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins breaks down the thinking behind the small town of Nederland wanting to purchase the nearby Eldora Mountain ski area.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For CMarie Fuhrman, accessing the wilderness, where she finds inspiration to write, is as simple as closing her eyes

Nov 29 2024 21 mins  
https://www.cmariefuhrman.com/ Today - Today, we're talking with indigenous poet, essayist and professor in the creative writing department at Western State University, CMarie (pronounced See-Marie) Fuhrman, about finding inspiration to write in the wilderness, be it in the physical world or the mind. Later, CMarie will read us "Let's Say Clark's Nutcracker Once More," which is p

The Colorado woman behind thousands of visits with Santa

Nov 28 2024 30 mins  
Today, we’re revisiting a conversation about holiday cheer, as Sun writer Kevin Simpson chats with the Colorado woman behind thousands of visits with that jolly old elf, Santa Claus. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.