Tag: Colorado Public Radio
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Colorado is a blue island in a red wave | Vince Bzdek
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More than 90% of all the counties in the United States shifted in favor of former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, according to several new analyses of election results. An extraordinary map created by The New York Times shows a sea of red arrows indicating movement toward Trump, with Trump improving on…
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‘Instruments are a huge need’: How this organization brings music to students throughout Colorado
When Melanie Hawthorne Long started teaching at Horizon Middle School nine years ago, there were about 50 students in the band program. Over the next few years, that number rose to over 200. As the band grew, so did the need for instruments. “All of a sudden, we needed a lot more instruments, and for…
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Adams County coroner declines to answer questions about Elijah McClain’s amended autopsy report
Coroner Monica Broncucia-Jordan cites status as potential witness in criminal cases
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Forensic pathologist: Elijah McClain died from ketamine injection, but manner of death undetermined
An amended autopsy report released Friday for Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died in 2019 after an encounter with Aurora police, confirms a forensic pathologist’s opinion that McClain died from “complications of ketamine administration following forcible restraint.” But the new report did not change his original determination that the manner of death —…