Leigh Paterson
Interim Senior Managing EditorAs KUNC's Interim Senior Managing Editor, my job is to find out what’s important to northern Colorado residents and why. I seek to create a deeper sense of urgency and understanding around these issues through in-depth, character driven daily reporting and series work.
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A new play being staged in Longmont and Boulder tells a powerful story about the displacement of Black families to make way for the expansion of a university. It’s based on real events in Indianapolis in the 1950s. We hear from the Boulder resident who wrote the play about why he wanted to tell this story. -
State lawmakers asked every school district in Colorado to create a policy around student cell phone use. And some have responded by banning mobile devices for the entire school day to cut down on distractions in the classroom and promote better mental health for kids. -
We dig into the amount of energy that large data centers consume, and why Longmont leaders passed the new ordinance. -
Early in the Iraq War, Tom Mowle was a political science professor at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. He answered a call from military leaders for strategic advice – and found himself living on a base in Iraq in 2004. Tom talks about the hard lessons from Iraq that he writes about in his new book – and how leaders might apply those lessons to the current conflict with Iran. -
Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder have faced months of uncertainty. That’s because the Trump administration has worked to dismantle NCAR, a hub of climate and weather research. But last week, a federal judge handed NCAR supporters a big victory – though it’s a temporary one. We dig into the judge’s decision. -
The residents of a large mobile home park in Boulder County are racing to buy the property before someone else does. KUNC’s Leigh Paterson has more on what a sale could mean. -
Artificial intelligence is quickly moving into our lives and classrooms. A majority of Colorado teachers report using it. Without mandates or policies, many teachers are figuring it out as they go along. -
More than half of Colorado teachers report using AI tools. Many say this technology helps them vary their teaching methods to meet student needs, according to new survey data from the Colorado Department of Education. -
Boulder City Council passed a new ordinance to allow ADUs, corporate housing, vacant apartments and more to be eligible for rental licenses during the Sundance Film Festival. -
Five years after a gunman killed ten people at a Boulder King Soopers, residents gathered to grieve, but also celebrate the loved ones and neighbors they lost.
