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Ryan (Ry) Warner
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Sr. Host, Colorado Matters on CPR News & KRCC
Francophone • Jew • Sartorial • AvGeek
Whiskey drinker • Catdad • The Mountain Time Zone exists • You don’t have to keep up, just keep open (Maupin) • Gay AF • Insta: oddryhepburn
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20 years at Colorado Public Radio and all I got was a lousy mug. You can have one, too!

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[Dog named Tula not included]
Three out-of-the-ordinary, but accessible wines for your Thanksgiving table — courtesy of Boulder sommelier and restaurateur Bobby Stuckey of Frasca.
Three Thanksgiving wine recommendations from a celebrated Boulder sommelier
Award-winning Boulder restaurateur and oenophile Bobby Stuckey recommends three wines under $30.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The Cooper Lounge
Denver Union Station
Dessert: Paris-Brest
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
At 30 years, Air Canada is Denver’s longest-operating foreign carrier. Mexicana predates it, but folded.
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I love sharing the full original name of my birthplace:

El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
During a tour of Aurora’s new homelessness navigation center, I asked Mayor Mike Coffman about city council’s leftward shift.

“When one party has all the levers of power in DC, there tends to be pushback. I think with this president, there’s even greater pushback.”
November 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
"In downtown Golden, Coors once made hand-painted household china as well as glass bottles for everything from soda to pickles to its own beer. This site and the surrounding acreage are becoming the Clayworks district, which will include housing, retail, and office space."
Shards of Golden’s ceramic past come to the surface
Clayworks, a residential and commercial redevelopment project in the heart of Golden, stirs up history.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
What are your Thanksgiving traditions? Perhaps it’s a recipe or a board game or an outing… or a fight with Aunt Betty.

Send a voice memo to [email protected] and my colleagues at our daily podcast may share your ritual!
an elderly woman with curlers on her hair has a tattoo of an angry face on her arm
ALT: an elderly woman with curlers on her hair has a tattoo of an angry face on her arm
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November 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I have so many credit monitoring offers for data breaches that I could wallpaper the house.
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
On an e-bike, you’ll ride more and you’ll ride farther, they said.

They were right.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
A lotta people don't trust journalists any farther than they can throw them. (Please don't throw journalists). In a student-driven conversation at Front Range Community College, we ask "how did trust erode?" and "what can we do about it?"

Listen to TRUST MATTERS:
Trust Matters: A community conversation about record-low levels of trust in the press | Colorado Public Radio
According to Gallup, barely a third of Americans express a great deal or even fair amount of trust in newspapers, TV, and radio. In the 1970s, trust was as high as 72 percent. At Front Range Community...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Edmund Fitzgerald was transporting taconite
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“In a brief, unsigned order, the justices rejected Davis’ petition for review of a ruling by a federal appeals court upholding an award of $100,000 to a gay couple to whom she had refused to issue a marriage license.”
Supreme Court declines to hear case on constitutionality of same-sex marriage
The Supreme Court on Monday morning turned down a request from Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky, to reconsider its 2015 decision recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex […]
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November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Dreamy sopes at Tacos Selene on Santa Fe in Denver!

Anyone know if there’s a Yucatecan place in town that does panuchos or salbutes?
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The best part? They actually carded me
November 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Bury me in Cheesman Park… for old times’ sake
November 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Loveland artist Jane DeDecker has sculpted some of history’s most formidable women, including her current subject, Josephine Baker. But DeDecker tries to make them accessible.

“I call it tangible greatness, where these great women are on the level where you can relate to them.”
A century after fleeing the U.S. for France, Josephine Baker will be memorialized in bronze by a Loveland sculptor
A century after fleeing the U.S. for France, Josephine Baker will be memorialized in bronze by a Loveland sculptor.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I like how this turned out
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
JUST IN: "After the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday it would comply with a federal court ruling and issue full November federal food aid, Colorado announced some recipients could start seeing benefits on their EBT cards as soon as Saturday," reports @caitlynkim.bsky.social:
Coloradans on SNAP could get their November benefits in the next few days
That will come as welcome news to the 600,000 Coloradans, half of whom are children, who rely on SNAP funding to help buy groceries each month.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
"It was just a really cool opportunity, and I’m really glad our class got to experience that,” Taylah Gonzales said.

A lovely piece in The Rocky Mountain Collegian about this week's live show from a journalism class at CSU in Fort Collins:
CPR broadcasts 'Colorado Matters' live from CSU
The Rocky Mountain Collegian Articles
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November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Rep. Jason Crow (D-Aurora) on current foreign policy: “Donald Trump campaigned and spoke like an isolationist and he is acting like an imperialist.”

On domestic policy: ICE is “a law enforcement agency that will do whatever Donald Trump asks them to do.”

Our interview:
Rep. Jason Crow on airport disruptions, gerrymandering, and ICE arrests
Fresh off electoral victories for his party, the Aurora Democrat spoke with Colorado Matters.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I’m rewatching The Munsters and I’m just so moved by how the writers conveyed that the true monsters… were the ones who villainized people’s differences.
a statue of frankenstein and his wife lily munster
ALT: a statue of frankenstein and his wife lily munster
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November 7, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I’m seeing a photo in my feeds of President Trump awkwardly standing and facing cameras as a man faints in The Oval Office. Video shows him reacting, which I grabbed an image of.

Folks, bad information that confirms a viewpoint is still bad information.
November 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
JUST IN from Rep. Jason Crow:

*Air travel disruptions don't change his approach to shutdown.

*He supports changing CO law to allow for partisan redistricting to "defend democracy." Then he'd restore guardrails.

*He understands some US citizens from his district to have been swept up by ICE.
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I always thought the line was "take out the T C P." It's actually "take care, TCB," which means take care of business. Apologies to the Queen of Soul.
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Things Wordle could say besides “phew!”

* Have a nice day

* At least you’re pretty

* You got it!

* Showing up is half the battle

* Go read WaPo

* You did better than your cat
November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM