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Six people died from toxic gas exposure while working at a dairy farm in Weld County last year.

One year later, families of four of the farm workers have filed a wrongful death lawsuit.

producer Rebecca Ibarra, with the podcast To Live and Die as a Colorado Farmworker from Latino USA.

When we come back, answering those questions about safety.

I'm Chandra Thomas-Whitfield.

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Dementia and caregiving are at the center of the new one-woman show called No Contract.

It opens Thursday at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder.

The show is about Wilson's role as a caregiver for her mother, who is struggling with dementia.

When we come back, finding new ways to communicate with someone who's no longer the same person and the guilt that comes with caregiving.

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And I'm Ryan Warner.

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They brought emotions to life in ways never seen before.

Whoa.

He developed the free emotional learning app Inside U, that's U with a capital U, based on the Pixar movie Inside Out.

We'll put a link, and you can read about this journey and see photos on our website, cpr.org. Our thanks to producer Ariel Lavery for this interview and reporting.

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And we're going to get into those twists and turns when we come back.

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This is Colorado Matters from CPR News and KRCC.

This is Colorado Matters from CPR News and KRCC.

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Buc-ee's wants to open a second travel plaza along I-25 at Monument Hill, but there's been a lot of pushback against the idea.

The project is now moving forward without public hearings after El Paso County commissioners voted 4-1 last week that it meets the criteria to be built there.

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When someone dies, what happens to their energy? It's something my colleague Andrea Dukakis has been exploring in our series, Searching for Joby.

And today, she turns to science.

I'm Andrea Dukakis, CPR News.

You may read all of Andrea's reporting on this monthly series at cpr.org slash searching for Joby.

And Joby is spelled J-O-B-I-E. I'm Chandra Thomas-Whitfield.

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Colorado has joined 23 other states in a lawsuit against the U.S.

Postal Service.

I'm John Daly, CPR News.

After the break, the debate over wild horse roundups.

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