Matt Bloom

Matt Bloom is a general assignment reporter and fill-in host for Colorado Public Radio. He joined CPR in 2021 after spending four years at NPR member station KUNC, covering breaking news, COVID-19 and the economy in Northern Colorado.

A barn-shaped Starbucks on East Colfax Avenue, just south of City Park. Jan. 27, 2022.

Starbucks workers file petition to form Denver’s first unionized shop

The East Colfax store is the second Colorado location to initiate unionization efforts with the NLRB. In December, workers at a Starbucks shop in Superior filed a petition to hold an election.

Chris Arceo protests with his King Soopers colleagues outside of the Sheridan Boulevard and Florida Avenue location in Denver's Mar Lee neighborhood. Jan. 12, 2022.

These 14 Denver King Soopers stores are striking. Here’s what we saw on the frontlines.

“I think a company as big as King Soopers can pay these people what they want.”

Members of Lakewood Sheriff's Department at Hyatt House, 7310 West Alaska Drive, Lakewood, on December 28, 2021, after a gunman was killed after fatally shooting five people and wounding several others including a police officer during a shooting spree in Denver and Lakewood.

‘Gunshot after gunshot’: Police, witnesses detail mass shooting that killed 5 at tattoo shops and a condo building in Denver, Lakewood

They said the suspect had previously been investigated by local law enforcement.

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Alicia Cardenas, owner of Sol Tribe Tattoo and Body Piercing, stands in her Broadway shop as her kid, Xochitl, plays on a silk behind her. April 22, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Beloved Denver tattoo artist Alicia Cardenas among the victims of metro area mass shooting

Five people have died and several more were injured after the rampage that spanned across Denver and Lakewood.

Jeanette Vizguerra, a local immigrant rights activist, addressed a crowd of reporters Monday at the Capitol during a rally supporting Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos, the driver of the semi-truck that crashed in 2019, killing four people.

Rallies planned in and around Denver for semi-truck driver sentenced to 110 years for fiery 2019 crash

Supporters of Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos argue the sentence is too long.

Snow blankets Denver's Central Park neighborhood. Nov, 24, 2020.

Denver snow is finally here, after breaking every modern-day snowless streak

The NWS expects less than an inch of snow to fall around the metro area.

CU Denver doctoral student Christina Sigala watches Aztec dancers during a celebration of new scholarship opportunities for decendants of people forced out of Auraria in the 1960s to make way for the shared campus that exists there today. Nov. 4, 2021.

Descendants of displaced Auraria residents to get free tuition ‘in perpetuity’ at CU Denver, MSU and CCD

Hundreds of neighborhood residents, mostly Hispanic and Indigenous people of color, were forced to sell their homes and move from the area in the early 1970s, during a city-led urban renewal campaign.

Passengers throng the Great Hall at Denver International Airport as they wait to pass through the south security checkpoint on Friday, October 22, 2021.

Flying out of DIA? The long security lines are real. And ‘the holiday season will be tough’

Denver International Airport CEO Phil Washington asked for patience during the passenger surge, saying the airport was struggling to meet demand due to capacity limits and labor shortages in almost every department.

Denver homicide numbers are still higher than pre-pandemic levels (like the rest of the country)

A Denver Police cruiser is parked at Argonaut Wine and Liquor on East Colfax Avenue. Sept. 30, 2021.

Denver settles for $2.5 million with unarmed man shot by police in 2013

A jury concluded last month that the officer involved, Sgt. Robert Motyka Jr., used excessive force, and that the department failed to appropriately train its officers.

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