- 34 minutes 39 secondsWhat's the Denver-est Halloween Costume of 2026? Plus, Your Takes on Compost, Pizza, and Denver's Unwritten Rules
Host Bree Davies and producer Olivia Jewell Love are opening up the mailbag to hear from you, our dear listeners. We’re sharing your ideas for a new name for Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, what Colorado rules of thumb you live by, and a very specific listener recommendation for a Casa Bonita-like pizza experience in Colorado Springs. Plus, Olivia shares her top five most Denver halloween costume ideas to give you some inspiration!
Bree mentioned a list of the best local stores to find a great halloween costume, from City Cast Denver’s recent Keep It Local newsletter.
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14 October 2026, 9:00 am - 45 minutes 50 secondsCoCo Ballot Blame Game, Victor Marx's Scandal Streak, and the Viral Punch at DIA
There’s a measure on this November’s ballot that would create a sales tax to support the proposed Front Range Passenger Rail, but around 800,000 ballots featuring 7A were sent out this week to Coloradans that don’t technically have a say in the matter. Now everyone is asking: Who messed up, and how will they fix it? City Cast producer Jason Paton has been reporting on the snafu in our newsletter, and he joins contributor Miriam Moreno and producer Olivia Jewell Love to break down the details. Then, the crew takes a tour of Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx’s string of recent scandals, including some pretty sizable campaign finance violations. Plus, they watch a video about an altercation in the Frontier corridor at DIA.
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13 October 2026, 9:00 am - 24 minutes 24 seconds‘Your City Could Be Better’: A St. Paul Cell Phone Ban Teens Might Actually Like — Presented By City Cast Denver
Another Denver school year has begun — how are cell phones being handled? In Minnesota, one high school is demonstrating that a strict no-phone school day can work, and they’ve got the (mostly) positive feedback to show for it. City Cast Twin Cities host Sean McPherson joins David to talk about how St. Paul Central High School is succeeding at enforcing a phone-free school environment, the surprising ways that some students approach it, and how these kinds of bans can even affect adults like Sean.
Listeners, it’s that time again! Send us the dilemmas you’re facing living in a city, and we might debate them on our upcoming call-in show. Email us or submit using this Google Form.
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11 October 2026, 9:00 am - 34 minutes 3 secondsA Cheesy New Ethics Complaint at DIA, CoCo Vote Veers Off Course, and Denver's Best PSL
It might not feel like it, but we are, actually, in the fall season! Contributor Michelle Jackson joins producer Olivia Jewell Love to chat about their favorite fall bevs (don’t worry, they come iced!) and talk shop about Olivia’s hunt for the best PSL in Denver. Then, DIA officials are facing a new ethics complaint about a lavish retirement party, complete with a $3,000 budget for sausage and cheese. City Cast Denver Neighbors will get to hear a special segment with recommendations for great meals under $30, so make sure you sign up right now to hear it! Olivia and Michelle round out the week with a round of wins and fails.
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Olivia mentioned the CoCo vote oopsie, and the opening of Reclectic over by Colorado Mills. Michelle brought up the allegations at Lutheran High.
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9 October 2026, 9:00 am - 40 minutes 57 secondsHow This Election Could Change All Other Elections. Plus, ‘Love is Blind’: Where Are They Now?
It's election season, and those blue books are beefy this year! We’re going one by one through some of the thorniest ballot measures all month, and today creative producer Shane Franklin joins fellow producer Olivia Jewell Love to break down everything you need to know about Amendment 84, the proposal for new voter ID requirements. Then, contributor Molly Smith joins Olivia to talk about her experience riding the bus in the new BRT lanes on Colfax and mark the one-year anniversary of “Love is Blind.” What are the reality stars up to now, and do they still hang out in the Mile High?
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Molly brought up our episode reacting to Love is Blind’s Denver season when it came out last year.
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8 October 2026, 9:00 am - 33 minutes 49 secondsWhat Would You Name Dick’s Sporting Goods Park? Plus, Casa Bonita’s Wishing Well and Local Comedy Drama
Dick’s Sporting Goods Park may not be long for this world – well, the name anyway. For the first time in the Colorado Rapids soccer stadium’s 20-year history, the team is looking at new sponsors and a potential moniker change. Comedian and Casa Bonita performer Joshua Emerson joins host Bree Davies to share his top five picks for renaming Dick’s. Plus, they dig into the controversy involving a big-name comedian, Sirius XM, and Denver’s comedy scene and talk about Joshua’s AI concerns about the seasonal Halloween and Dia de los Muertos decor at the pink palace.
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7 October 2026, 9:00 am - 34 minutes 13 secondsHarsher Fentanyl Penalties, Voter ID Requirements, and More of the Conservative Agenda on Colorado Ballots
The conservative nonprofit Advance Colorado brought a whopping eight initiatives to the ballot this year – that’s more than half of the 14 amendments and propositions voters will decide. But after a record turnout by Democrats in this summer’s primaries, why is this Republican-leaning organization banking so much on the midterms? Logan M. Davis, who wrote “The Muckraker Official Ballot Guide” for the Colorado Times Recorder, joins host Bree Davies to discuss what he believes is motivating Advance Colorado’s latest lawmaking moves.
Bree mentioned her conversation on drug use in prison with Lisa Raville from the Harm Reduction Action Center and Logan’s last appearance on the show where he talked about his investigation into Advance Colorado.
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6 October 2026, 9:00 am - 38 minutes 59 secondsThe DPS Board’s Half-Decade of Drama, Meet Your Soulmate, and Will a Chatbot Replace Denver's 311 Operators?
Denver Public Schools board member DJ Torres resigned last week, his reasoning being “too much of my time and energy have been consumed by internal conflict.” But this is just the latest issue for a leadership entity seemingly plagued with drama over the last half-decade, including recent allegations against Torres himself that he has missed too many crucial meetings. Politics correspondent Adrian Felix joins host Bree Davies to lay out this latest round of infighting and what it means for kids and teachers in the system. Plus, they talk about the chatbot who could be answering your 311 calls and the photobooth promising to help you find your soulmate.
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5 October 2026, 9:00 am - 23 minutes 38 seconds‘Your City Could Be Better’: This Basketball Court Is Saving Residents From Floods — Presented By City Cast Denver
When Denver looks for inspiration for the future, does it look to the Netherlands? That’s what designers and officials in New York City did in order to integrate flood mitigation into public housing. Inspired by places like Rotterdam, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) collaborated with other groups to give Queens a state-of-the-art, climate-resilient amenity — in this case, a basketball court. David talks with Katy Burgio from NYCHA and Runit Chhaya of Grain Collective, one of the involved design firms, about the larger infrastructure the court is a part of and how it’s setting up NYC for climate resilience.
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- Water Square and its creative facilitators: https://www.dezeen.com/2025/11/25/grain-collective-basketball-courts-flood-prevention/
- Rotterdam’s own “water square”: https://landezine.com/water-square-benthemplein-by-de-urbanisten/
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4 October 2026, 9:00 am - 30 minutes 47 secondsPrivatizing the Trash, Drones Delivering Pasta, and How to PorchFest
Denverites already pay for trash pick-up, but what if that money went to a private company instead of the city? The city’s waste services are costing more cash than they bring in, and two city council members have proposed exploring privatizing the system. Green chile correspondent and democratic candidate for house district 5 Justine Sandoval joins host Bree Davies to dig into the trash cost dilemma and share their wins and fails of the week. Producer Shane Franklin shares the latest on PorchFest, a brand new festival happening in front yards across Baker this weekend, and if you’re a City Cast Denver Neighbor, you’ll also get a bonus segment on delivery drones potentially coming to a Denver suburb near you.
Check out Shane’s article on navigating this weekend’s PorchFest. Bree talked about the Lakewood student suing his charter school over racial bullying and Dave Herrera returning as Westword’s music editor. Justine mentioned the melting of St. Mary’s Glacier and Nikola Jokić re-signing with the Nuggets.
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2 October 2026, 9:00 am - 34 minutes 5 secondsWill Denver Ever Say Yes to the Duplex? Plus, the Ethics Investigation Costing the City $800,000
A proposal to make sweeping changes to the zoning code was sent back to the drawing board by city council – signalling the end of a push by Denver planners to make it easier to build duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes citywide. Will the Mile High ever get closer to housing advocates’ dream of a denser, more affordable city? Denver Post city government reporter Elliott Wenzler and political correspondent Adrian Felix join host Bree Davies to talk about the density drama, plus dig into an ethics investigation of city attorney Miko Brown that is costing Denver more than $800,000 in legal fees.
Elliott shouted out Brian Maass at CBS Colorado, who has been covering the ethics investigation from the beginning. Bree mentioned a poll from the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project and Housing Forward Colorado showing Denverites’ support of housing density, and the episode we did on the poll results.
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