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Changing Denver

The show about our city, how we make it and how it makes us. Each month, we highlight one of Denver's most interesting people or places, telling their story through a relevant political or cultural lens. Our fourth season is a series all on one topic. We're calling it Unclear Danger: The Colorado Story of Rocky Flats. Start with Chapter 1: Project Apple and the Wind.
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Apr 16, 2018

Welcome to the first supplemental, side episode in our Rocky Flats series. Herein you’ll find a recording of the panel we put on at the Denver Public Library on April 7, as well as an unprecedented plea.

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You can now support Changing Denver with a monthly pledge on our Patreon! A monthly pledge of $3 or more will get you access to transcripts of each episode of Unclear Danger and three Changing Denver stickers. A pledge of $10 or more will get you a shout out in the end credits of each Rocky Flats episode. Learn more about our new, limited-time crowdfunding campaign at www.patreon.com/changingdenver.

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Meet the Panelists:

Len Ackland is an independent journalist and retired journalism professor. During his time as editor, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists won a National Magazine Award in 1987, and he went on to serve as the founding director of the Center for Environmental Journalism at CU Boulder. Of particular interest, Len is also the author of Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West.

Murph Widdowfield has the unique distinction among our panelists of having spent time working at the Rocky Flats plant. Like many other former workers, Murph remained involved in issues surrounding the site. He is currently the president of the board of the Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, a museum that you cannot physical visit, despite years of effort from Murph and the rest of the board.

Dorothy Ciarlo is a PhD and retired clinical psychologist. In the late 90s and early 2000s, she worked with the Boulder Public Library’s Maria Rogers Oral History Program to conduct more than a hundred interviews with former workers, activists, politicians, scientists, and contractors, some of which you heard in the first episode of our Rocky Flats series. Dorothy went on to publish a paper based on these interviews in the Journal of Peace Psychology. That paper is titled ”Secrecy and Its Fallout at a Nuclear Weapons Plant: A study of Rocky Flats Oral Histories

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Nov 26, 2017

In this installment of Changing Denver Bit By Bit, we revisit our episode about Five Points, “The Five Points and the Six.” In that piece, we shared the story of a local business, Rosenberg’s Bagels and Delicatessen, that got caught proudly advertising the fact that it was changing the culture of one of Denver’s most important, traditionally Black neighborhoods.

Well, as you may have seen on social media last week, all that happened again. This time the business was Ink! Coffee and the incident has already made national news.

This CDBBB features Paul’s report from a protest against Ink! and gentrification, as well as a rebroadcast of our Five Points episode from a couple years ago.

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Changing Denver is a proud member of the Denver Podcast Network.

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Our theme song is "Minnow" by Felix Fast4ward.

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Nov 2, 2017

Earlier this week, we brought you the story of Tay Anderson, 19-year-old candidate for the Denver Public School Board. In this installment of Changing Denver Bit By Bit, we bring you the audio of a candidates' forum that aired on Channel 8 back in October. This was Tay's first televised debate, and it offers the chance to delve deeper into the politics of local education.

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Our theme song is "Minnow" by Felix Fast4ward.

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Oct 9, 2017

In this installment of Changing Denver Bit By Bit, Paul offers a personal report on his experience at a fancy cannabis pairing dinner put on by Mason Jar Events Group.

In some ways, Mason Jar is following in the footsteps of Jane West, the subject of last week’s episode. It’s a woman-led company on the vanguard of public consumption, and they are constantly trying out new ways to normalize and maximize the experience of getting high.

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Former Cannabist editor Ricardo Baca, who you heard on last week’s episode about Jane West, interviewed Mason Jar’s founder Kendal Norris back in January. Check it out here for a very different perspective on these events.

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Our theme song is "Minnow" by Felix Fast4ward.

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Apr 10, 2017

On this installment of Changing Denver Bit By Bit, we bring you the story of Denver mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton and his relationship with the Ku Klux Klan. 

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Our theme song is "Minnow" by Felix Fast4ward.

The other song heard in this episode is "Dekalb Station" by Shady Elders. You can hear it on their new LP, Inside Voices

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Mar 13, 2017

In this installment of Changing Denver Bit By Bit, we check back in with historian Phil Goodstein to learn about one of Civic Center's most storied structures, the McNichols Building.

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Our theme song is “Minnow” by Felix Fast4ward. You can listen to more of his music on Soundcloud.

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Feb 20, 2017

In this installment of Changing Denver Bit By Bit, we sit down with Courtland Hyser, Denver's principal city planner, to talk about neighborhood plans.

Our Arapahoe Square episode specifically highlighted the lasting impact of two of these plans, so we thought it was fitting to further explore why neighborhood plans are so important in general, especially in light of Denver's new Neighborhood Planning Initiative.

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Our theme song is “Minnow” by Felix Fast4ward. You can listen to more of his music on Soundcloud.

Follow us on Twitter at @ChangingDenver and sign up for our newsletter at www.changingdenver.com/about

 

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Feb 13, 2017

In this installment of Changing Denver Bit By Bit, we revisit an episode from season one, How to Climb Stoner Hill. Our partner on that show, local journalist Andy Kenney, gives us an update on what's been happening on the ground at Stoner Hill. Then, we talk to some people at Civitas, the landscape architecture and urban design firm that's been contracted to work on the park now. 

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If you like the show and think we deserve it, head over to Westword and write in Changing Denver for Best Denver Podcast in their readers' choice poll!

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Here's a few stories that Andy's written about the situation in Commons Park since our episode came out: 

Denver police have been banning alleged drug users — mostly pot — from individual parks — mostly Commons Park

Denver will try to liven up Commons Park with free activities

Commons Park’s future might start with an “unorthodox” private process

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Our theme song is “Minnow” by Felix Fast4ward. You can listen to more of his music on Soundcloud.

Follow us on Twitter at @ChangingDenver and sign up for our newsletter at www.changingdenver.com/about

 

If you like this episode, think about writing us a review on iTunes or Stitcher. It's the best way for you to support Changing Denver.

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Jan 9, 2017

In this installment of Changing Denver Bit By Bit, historian David Forsyth tells us a little about what it's like to research the history of Lakeside Amusement Park. Turns out, he's more than the authority on Lakeside history; he's the park's biggest fan!

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Our theme song is “Minnow” by Felix Fast4ward. You can listen to more of his music on Soundcloud.

Follow us on Twitter at @ChangingDenver and sign up for our newsletter at www.changingdenver.com/about

 

If you like this episode, think about writing us a review on iTunes or Stitcher. It's the best way for you to support Changing Denver.

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Aug 5, 2016

In this installment of Changing Denver Bit By Bit, we feature an interview Paul did with CU Boulder history professor William Wei for KGNU. It's all about Wei's new book "Asians in Colorado," and excerpts of it were featured on our recent season finale, on Hop Alley.

The interview touches on Denver's old Chinatown, but also explores how the discrimination facing Asians in Colorado morphed from Sinophobia into Japanophobia in the 20th Century. Yes, that means there is discussion of Japanese internment in concentration camps, as Wei calls them, as well as former governor Ralph Carr.

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