{"podcast":{"title":"Colorado Today","slug":"colorado-today-7218682","podcast_index_feed_id":7218682,"rss_url":"https://pod.cpr.org/ct/","website_url":"https://www.cpr.org/podcast/colorado-today/","image_url":"https://f.prxu.org/10290/images/1fb9557c-d4c9-4dae-9946-4166c1752ede/ColoradoToday-Cover-Final-1400x1400.jpg","author":"Colorado Public Radio (podcasts@cpr.org)","episode_count":325,"summary":"The Colorado news you need in 15 minutes a day, from Colorado Public Radio’s newsrooms. Get connected with your community and understand how the biggest stories in Colorado impact your life. Available each weekday morning at 6:00 a.m. with hosts Bazi Kanani and Arlo Pérez Esquivel. Follow this show, and consider donating to support future episodes at cpr.org .","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T00:19:36.753603+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/colorado-today-7218682"},"episode":{"title":"Denver homicides up; meatpackers locked out in Fort Morgan; a Colorado rover on the moon?","slug":"denver-homicides-up-meatpackers-locked-out-in-fort-morgan-a-colorado-rover-on-the-moon","published_at":"2026-05-29T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/colorado-today-7218682/denver-homicides-up-meatpackers-locked-out-in-fort-morgan-a-colorado-rover-on-the-moon","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/colorado-today-7218682","url":"https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_10290_27b980dc-5aa8-4d43-9a78-bf963d0313e9&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fpod.cpr.org%2Fct%2F","audio_url":"https://dovetail.prxu.org/10290/27b980dc-5aa8-4d43-9a78-bf963d0313e9/260529_CT_FINAL_REV1.mp3","summary":"Homicides are way up in Denver this year so far, compared to last year, and that has community members asking whether the city is doing enough to prevent youth violence in particular. Then, the Cargill meatpacking plant in Fort Morgan is sitting idle, while workers picket outside. Plus, NASA has picked a Colorado-built rover as part of its future lunar base. Email us at coloradotoday@cpr.org . Colorado Today is supported by CPR’s members . Read more on the stories in today’s show: Check out CPR’s primary election voter guide Denverite’s Kyle Harris on the shooting inside the Montbello Rec Center Colorado Sun’s Tracy Ross on the situation at the Cargill meatpacking plant CPR’s Dan Boyce got a ride in Lunar Outpost’s earlier rover prototype This episode of Colorado Today is hosted by Arlo Pérez Esquivel and Madilyn Rose. It’s edited and produced by Mateo Schimpf, Madilyn Rose, Megan Verlee and Tyler Bender. The executive producer is Megan Verlee. Theme music by Pedro Lumbraño.","meta_description":"Homicides are way up in Denver this year so far, compared to last year, and that has community members asking whether the city is doing enough to prevent…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":886,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/colorado-today-7218682/episodes/denver-homicides-up-meatpackers-locked-out-in-fort-morgan-a-colorado-rover-on-the-moon/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/colorado-today-7218682/denver-homicides-up-meatpackers-locked-out-in-fort-morgan-a-colorado-rover-on-the-moon.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}