Michelle Fulcher

President Biden is about to sign a law making the bald eagle the national bird. Eagles have been on the Great Seal of the United States since 1782, but somehow a formal distinction got overlooked. 

Colorado Matters spoke with a few local bookstore owners who suggested some good reads with Colorado connections.

“I am about what it represents. It’s one of my mother's favorite holidays. Where we come from, food is really important, community is really important. For us, it's incorporating our foods into what we do and really just having that time to eat in tradition, whatever definition that is for you and for us.”

Alice White, a senior instructor at the Colorado School of Public Health and leader of a team at the school’s Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence, discussed the recent outbreak of E. coli.

Amendment K would move deadlines for submission of citizen initiative petitions up by a week. The new timetable would also apply to referendum petitions and to the Declaration of Intent judges and justices must file to run for retention. 

Dr. Jay Lemery helps us understand the impact of extreme heat.

Kate McLachlan’s podcast “Dyketopia” laces humor through discussions with the LGBTQ community.

Colorado Matters spoke with the co-founder of Next Chapter, a program that goes beyond traditional mental health counseling to provide a range of services that keeps everyday challenges from morphing into crises.

Jacques Bailly was a Denver eighth grader when he won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 1980.

Polis describes a “kumbaya’’ legislative session that brought bipartisan support for some of his long-standing initiatives.