Today - we’re speaking with Colorado Sun photographer Olivia Sun who came to The Sun as a Report for America corps member.

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Today - we’re speaking with Linda Shapley, the publisher of Colorado Community Media, about their 26 hyper-local newspapers and their relationship to The Colorado Sun.

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Reporter Kevin Simpson speaks with Colorado author Eric Maikranz about his novel "The Reincarnationist Papers”, which was adapted into the 2021 movie “Infinite” starring Mark Wahlberg.

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Today - Colorado Sun Politics reporters Sandra Fish and Jesse Aaron Paul discuss the recent tax revenue forecast and what this means for the 2023 - 24 fiscal budget. 

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Today - Colorado Sun reporters Michael Booth and Tamara Chuang discuss their recent coverage of how Coloradans are coping with inflation, what’s happened with housing prices and … fish.

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Keeping with yesterday’s podcast on filling dangerous mine shafts, today we are visiting with freelance photographer and journalist William Woody (williamwoody.us/about/) of Montrose who recently covered a hard-rock mining competition in Ouray.

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Today - we’re talking to The Colorado Sun’s outdoor reporter, Jason Blevins, about officials using foam to fill dangerous abandoned mine shafts in the Colorado Rockies. 

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Today - we’re talking to The Colorado Sun’s marketing and events director Kristina Pritchett about recent events and what’s in store for future virtual and in-person events.

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Today - As we get closer to the election, Colorado Sun political reporters Jesse Aaron Paul and Sandra Fish discuss spending - or lack thereof - in the senate race.

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Today - We’re talking to The Colorado Sun’s business reporter Tamara Chuang about Denver Startup Week.

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Now, let’s go back in time with some Colorado History.

More than 1,000 years ago, a culture known as Chacoan dominated the Four Corners region from a cluster of cities in Chaco Canyon in today's northwestern New Mexico. Satellite communities with allegiance to the canyon extended for a hundred miles in every direction. On the northern Chacoan frontier stood a community known today as Chimney Rock, named for one of two stone spires that towered above it, in present-day Archuleta County.

Starting around 900 AD, Chacoans colonized the region, erecting towns in the shadow of Chimney and Companion Rocks. Higher in elevation than any other Ancestral Puebloan settlement, archaeologists believe Chacoans used the Chimney Rock site as an astronomical calendar, with important buildings aligned with both the stones and celestial bodies at important times of the year, including solstices, equinoxes, and phases of the moon. For two and a half centuries, several hundred Chacoans inhabited eight communities clustered below the pinnacles.

For reasons unknown, around 1150 AD the residents burned and abandoned the site, although competition from groups to the west (such as Mesa Verde) might have contributed to its decline.

Archaeological work at Chimney Rock, now located in the San Juan National Forest, occurred sporadically in the twentieth century. Although surveys are still made, American Indian descendants of the community's inhabitants have requested that no further excavations disturb the site. In 1970, Chimney Rock earned a listing in the National Register of Historic Places, spurring further attempts to protect and recognize it. To better preserve and interpret the historic landmark, President Barack Obama used his authority under the Antiquities Act to declare Chimney Rock National Monument in 2012.

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