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Welcome to The Colorado Sun's daily podcast, The Daily Sun-Up. Every day we’re sharing an in-depth look at one of our top stories, followed by a quick summary of important things happening in our state. For more visit us at https://coloradosun.com/.
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The Colorado Sun is embarking on a yearlong project to take a hard look at child care issues in Colorado. Today, Sun education reporter Erica Breunlin talks about what she and other reporters will dive into and who they are wanting to hear from.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has sued the Trump administration more than 40 times since January. Colorado Sun political reporter Taylor Dolven has been tracking the cases and Weiser's win-loss record. She joined fellow political reporter Jesse Paul to talk about what she's found. Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/08/04/colorado-attorney-general-phil-weiser-lawsuits-trump/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today Colorado Sun business reporter Tamara Chuang about the evolution of Colorado Gives Day, why it’s more than a day and how it went from $8 million in 2010 to nearly $55 million last year. Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/11/01/colorado-gives-day-lasts-39-days-food-bank-snap/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The mountain town of Nederland is regrouping after a major fire destroyed about 30% of the town’s businesses last month. Today, Colorado Sun rural reporter Tracy Ross has updates from the community west of Boulder. Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/29/businesses-rebuild-after-nederland-fire/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today: Author Allyson Reedy chats with Colorado Sun reporter Kevin Simpson about her new F. Scott Fitzgerald-inspired book, "Mrs. Wilson's Affair".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today - Sun reporter Tracy Ross talks to award-winning journalist, Nate Schweber, about his new book “This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis Devoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild”.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today: our health and environment reporters talk about shockingly high costs for people buying health insurance on Colorado's exchange, and whether climate change is disrupting the schedules of the buds and the bees on Pikes Peak.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today Colorado Sun business reporter Tamara Chuang breaks down why rent is dropping in the Denver metro area, and what to expect in the next few months. Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/22/rent-fall-concessions-denver/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins looks into recent developments in public land access and how river users, landowners and lawmakers are reviving a contentious, decades-long debate over river access in Colorado. cosun.com/mobile-appSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode, G. Brown, director of the Colorado Music Experience, joins The Colorado Sun’s Kevin Simpson to talk about the legacy of KBCO’s Studio C—how it began, the artists who helped define it, and its lasting impact on Colorado’s music scene.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today we're talking to early childhood reporter Ann Schimke from Chalkbeat Colorado about a slew of local ballot measures focused on raising local dollars for child care.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Politics reporters Jesse Paul and Taylor Dolven discuss their recent reporting on a retreat in Vail where a group of Democratic state lawmakers mingled with lobbyists. Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/17/colorado-opportunity-caucus-one-main-street/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/16/colorado-digitize-analog-records-historic/ Today, Colorado Sun business and tech reporter Tamara Chuang discusses the $21 million project across the state to digitize public records dating back to the 1800s.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/17/measuring-14ers-crestone/ Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins discusses the ever-changing dynamic of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks and the push by a group of mountaineering scientists to reclassify a southern Colorado 14er.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Co-authors Christina Holbrook and Jane Flynn talk about their new book, "Antiphon: A Call and Response in a Year of Grief and Renewal".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/14/rain-southwestern-colorado-san-juan-river-vallecito/ Today, Sun water reporter Shannon Mullane checks in from southern Colorado following a tour Wednesday of the flood-damaged areas near Vallecito Reservoir where nearly 100 homes were damaged at two destroyed on purpose.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today, Michael Booth talks about a massive biology experiment in the big fishbowl called Shadow Mountain, and John Ingold describes some spooky hospital instruments that had to be cleaned up.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/11/federal-workers-colorado-unemployment-government-shutdown/ The federal government shutdown is entering Week 3, and now layoffs are starting to happen. Today, Colorado Sun business reporter Tamara Chuang looks at how federal workers in Colorado are navigating the unemployment line.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins breaks down the incredible feat just accomplished by ultra-runner Kilian Jornet, who started on Longs Peak in Colorado and went on to summit 72 14,000-foot mountains across the West in only 31 days. Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/08/29/kilian-jornet-14ers https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/09/kilian-jornet-14ers-2 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today: Author Joel Morris talks with the Sun's Kevin Simpson about his historical novel "All Our Yesterdays" https://coloradosun.com/colorados-best email: sunevents@coloradosun.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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