Aspen Public Radio Podcasts

This week we talk to Dixon Chibanda, a psychiatrist and researcher at the University of Zimbabwe. He focuses on community mental health and developed the "Friendship Bench" community mental health intervention. It's now been scaled up to over 70 primary care clinics in Zimbabwe.

The Aspen Institute continues its Community Forum for Transportation and Mobility with two events in the coming weeks.

Citizens looking to block a new city building say they gained the support they needed for a referendum vote.

Bryan Hannegan will begin as CEO of Holy Cross Energy in June. Holy Cross is an electric cooperative that serves more than 42,000 customers in Western Colorado.

Any full-time staff member of the Roaring Fork School District can now enter into the housing lottery that opened last week.

Today on Curated, we cover Colorado Creative Industries, from work-live space installation programs to the NEA keynote speech at this year's summit, to an interview with CCI's executive director Margaret Hunt.

Peter Heller is the author of the novels The Dog Stars, The Painter , and Celine . He is a longtime contributor to NPR, and a contributing editor at Outside Magazine , Men’s Journal , and National Geographic Adventure .

Aspen Skiing Co. officials are working on a new master plan for Aspen Mountain. Elizabeth Stewart-Severy has been reporting on how that document might shape the ski area for the next two decades, and she sat down with Aspen Public Radio producer Christin Kay to talk about plans for a new 1A lift and reopening of Ruthie’s Restaurant.

The Aspen City Council is looking seriously at changing the legal age to buy tobacco from 18 to 21, a move that could lead to voters deciding whether to increase taxes on tobacco sold in the city. Christin discusses what this might mean for both Aspen's city budget and local businesses with reporter Alycin Bektesh.

A petition is circulating for a referendum vote to stop the development of new city offices at Galena Plaza.