Good morning, Colorado.
With my mother in town last weekend, we headed down to Colorado Springs for some touristy fun. Saw the Garden of the Gods, ate at the school-turned-food hall Ivywild and hiked up to James Turrell’s Skyspace.
To our Springs readers, my mother was quite impressed with your home. She did accidentally call it Colorado City at one point but hey, a win’s a win.
Now, the news.
Presentation Editor
THE NEWS
DOGS WITH JOBS
Meet Colorado’s hardest-working investigator trained to sniff out suspicious fires
A 16-month-old Labrador retriever is Colorado’s newest — and cutest — tool to sniff out accelerants to help investigators pinpoint the cause of suspicious fires. Meet Ash, who loves her stuffed alligator, weighs only 43 pounds and knows how to sniff out arson. Olivia Prentzel has more.
SPACE
Two Coloradans join first-ever commercial spacewalk to research ways for people to live on Mars
So people want to live on Mars or the moon, but how are they going to do it? Two Coloradans are joining a four-person commercial flight to space to help figure it out. Their focus: Running nearly 40 experiments that could help regular people with regular health problems live in outer space, Jennifer Brown reports.
EQUITY
History Colorado is once again researching abuses at Native American boarding schools. This time with tribal help.
History Colorado will begin its second wave of research into Native American boarding schools next month — this time with help from Indigenous people whose family members survived the horrifying experience, Tatiana Flowers writes.
Section by Danika Worthington | Presentation Editor
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COLUMNS
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SunLit
BOOKS
Explore Booksellers
Each week as part of SunLit — The Sun’s literature section — we feature staff recommendations from bookstores across Colorado. This week, the staff from Explore Booksellers in Aspen recommends:
Read what the bookstore staff had to say about each. Pick up a copy and support your local bookstores at the same time.
Section by Kevin Simpson | Writer
Catch you all back here tomorrow.
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