Ryan Warner

According to Gallup, barely a third of Americans express a great deal or even fair amount of trust in newspapers, TV, and radio. In the 1970s, trust was as high as 72 percent. At Front Range Community College, students meet the press.

We ask Aurora Democrat Jason Crow, who represents Colorado's 6th Congressional District, if flight reductions will force an end to the government shutdown. Plus, his views on ICE crackdowns and gerrymandering. Then, Jefferson County's sheriff lobbies for changes she hopes will prevent future mass shootings. Plus, we explore a redevelopment site in Golden that's unearthing Colorado history.

Who gets into public service these days? We're at Colorado State University to find out from students in a leadership program. Then, it's been a century since performer and civil rights champion Joséphine Baker left the U.S. for France. In Loveland, a sculptor lovingly captures her in clay. And later, one part ska, one part punk, one part pirate?! Music from the Fort Collins band, "The Swashbuckling Doctors."

All Things Considered Host Ari Shapiro, who has just left NPR after 25 years, came to Denver to receive a prestigious award. We spoke at this year's Damon Runyon dinner. Then, the disproportionate toll domestic violence takes on children. Plus, how your Google search affects the air you breathe. And Denver band BRŪHA is a family affair.

There are two statewide ballot issues in the November election. Voters will decide the future of Colorado's "Healthy School Meals for All" program; Purplish explains both related measures. Then, Colorado authors respond to a massive settlement with an A.I. company that's been using their work. Plus, the "Wired, Wired West" explores the power needed to support Artificial Intelligence. Then, Coloradans join in the "No Kings" protest, and music from Littleton's Conrad Mata.

Eighty percent of the world's population can't see the Milky Way. Light pollution interferes. Author and adventurer Craig Childs, of Norwood, Colorado, writes about a trek from light to dark in his new book. "The Wild Dark" takes readers from the incandescence of Las Vegas to the spangled skies of rural Nevada. Childs spoke with Sr. Host Ryan Warner at the Mountain Words Festival in Crested Butte in May.

The popcorn is pillowside at Best Western Movie Manor in Monte Vista, CO

Hurd supports an extension of health care tax credits, but not the use of shutdown to get them.

The designated Hispanic Serving Institution regroups after federal funds are cut.

It may come as no surprise that Adams State University in the San Luis Valley would be the first in Colorado to be designated a "Hispanic Serving Institution," given how deep the valley's Hispanic heritage runs. But the school is now losing the money that came with the title. Then, how the Trump administration's crackdown on student visa holders is impacting international students in Colorado. Plus, answering questions about fall and winter gardening, the state's little-known apple crop, and Colorado Springs' underground music scene.