DENVER (KDVR) — Thursday night, Gov. Jared Polis, members of the state’s Congressional delegation, and other state and local officials and policy experts took part in a virtual statewide town hall meeting, “Rocky Mountain Recovery.”
You can watch a replay of the full hour that was broadcast on five Nexstar Broadcasting stations serving the state: KDVR (FOX) and KWGN (CW) in Denver, KREZ (CBS) in Durango, KXRM (FOX21) in Colorado Springs, and KREX (CBS) in Grand Junction.
Along with Polis, the town hall featured U.S. Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO); U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO); U.S. Representative Joe Neguse (D-2); U.S. Representative Scott Tipton (R-3); U.S. Representative Jason Crow (D-6); Susana Cordova, Denver Public Schools Superintendent; Jack Strauss, Professor of Finance at Daniels College of Business; and Dr. Stephen Cobb, Denver Chief Medical Officer, Centura Health who addressed the response to the coronavirus pandemic and took questions from viewers. Due to restrictions on large gatherings, all of the guests remotely joined the broadcast and livestream.
The town hall was hosted from the FOX31 and Channel 2 studios in Denver by anchors Jeremy Hubbard and Aristea Brady, bringing together millions of viewers across the entire state of Colorado.
The event covered the latest developments in the pandemic as well as the current state of the coronavirus in Colorado, unemployment, the phased reopening of the state, business recovery and education.