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Today on Colorado Edition: We head to the Greeley Stampede to get an inside look at the Miss Rodeo Colorado pageant. We also hear the story of recent eagle drama at Standley Lake that brought global attention to the park last year. Plus, we explore a course at Colorado State University that’s weaving Indigenous perspectives into natural resource management, and we speak with the food editor of 5280 Magazine.

Today on Colorado Edition: We learn why vaccination rates in rural communities are lagging behind more populated areas. Plus, we hear the latest on an effort by Colorado State University and the NASA SnowEx campaign to figure out how much water comes from mountain snowpack. We also get an inside scoop on how the sale of the Boulder chocolate company Lily’s fits into a larger trend in the candy industry. And, we talk with residents of Hickory Village, a Fort Collins mobile home community, who are trying to gain ownership of their park.

Today on Colorado Edition: We look at the end of unemployment aid, learn about an increase in fentanyl use in the Mountain West, look back at past coverage of the 9/11 attacks, and get some updates on a mobile home park in Fort Collins.

When Hickory Village Mobile Home Park in Fort Collins went up for sale in May, the residents wanted to buy it. But after submitting and then resubmitting an offer, negotiations ultimately fell through. Colorado Edition spoke to Andy Kadlec, the program director for Thistle ROC, about what happened.

Enhanced federal unemployment benefits that were put in place during the pandemic came to an end over the weekend. Roughly 107,000 Coloradans will lose their eligibility, according to state labor officials. About 30,000 will no longer receive an extra $300 per week. Tamara Chuang has been reporting on this for the Colorado Sun. She joined Colorado Edition to talk about what the end of these benefits will mean for unemployed people.

In the months following the Sept. 11 attacks, several steel beams from the World Trade Center were sent to the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland and Colorado for testing to better understand why the towers came down. Nineteen years ago, not long before the first anniversary of 9/11 in 2002, KUNC's Brian Larson visited NIST's Boulder facility to hear from the engineers tasked with testing the steel.

Today on Colorado Edition: we look at the emerging market for law enforcement liability insurance in our state, hear how the legal system is responding to the growing use of the deadly opioid fentanyl, and learn about an annual event to honor the firefighters who lost their lives on 9/11.

U.S. Paralympian and Coloradan Adam Scaturro won a silver medal at this year's Paralympics in Tokyo. He joined us to discuss his athletic journey and the future of Paralympic games.

With the spread of the delta variant prolonging the end of the pandemic, the city of Boulder recently re-opened a center that provides people experiencing homelessness a place to recover from COVID-19.

Colorado Edition's Alana Schreiber meets up with Buck Adams, a veteran, entrepreneur and formerly incarcerated individual who founded the organization Art for Redemption, which aims to help inmates by promoting the artwork they make while in prison.