Kerry Leary

Several huge wildfires burning across Colorado tonight. Most of the state is covered in smoke thick smoke. Denver ranks among the top-10 worst air quality globally, per @IQAir. #COwx

Black. Educated. Unemployed. Over the past year, economists and civil rights leaders have observed the unemployment rate between Black and White Americans widening at a nearly unprecedented clip washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/06…

Wynola Wayne spent 58 years as a nurse with @nationwidekids before deciding to retire. Then, one of her very first patients walked through the door, giving her a new title. @SteveHartmanCBS is On the Road in Columbus, Ohio.

When you say MIZ and they don’t respond ZOU. Love you, @sophaller #MizzouMade

“I worry about how anyone, even in today’s world, could fail to respect the absolutely fundamental principle that whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave people’s kids out of it.”

This is such a a loss. Anyone can be on-air but it takes a special talent and heart to cultivate community and real, enduring connection with an audience - and that’s what Bret Saunders did in Colorado for decades.

Today, the Star Tribune will announce buyouts & layoffs that will shrink the newsroom by 15% Good stewardship of the Strib is a big reason the Twin Cities is a vibrant media market. The cuts are a reminder: There's no law that says we'll remain that way. axios.com/local/twin-cit…

the human spirit was not designed for this many passwords

New statement from Scott Pelley:   There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.   The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.   “60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.   The waste is heartbreaking.   Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.   For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.   At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.   I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.   Scott Pelley

"Netflix is taking another step toward becoming a live TV destination." "The Breakfast Club" will "stream live on Netflix every weekday starting June 1." "The move marks Netflix’s first daily live program..." cnn.com/2026/05/20/med…

The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

Tired: Denver snowstorm in May Wired: mid-80s next week #COwx

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Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe. nyti.ms/49dtF24

This week I had the privilege of showing our documentary on the Refuge at DU. We spent nearly a year documenting one of the very few hospice centers in the US dedicated to the unhoused Please consider sharing this with people who are in a position to help youtu.be/wLtDa_IwxYk

@mcguirereports That’s scary!!

My doctor’s office is now offering Klarna as a payment option…?

New: McClatchy journalists at newspapers in 4 states are now withholding their bylines from A.I.-generated content as tensions grow over a "content scaling agent" tool that the company rolled out nytimes.com/2026/05/01/bus…

With student A.I. use/abuse now ubiquitous, professors and teachers are killing off take-home essays and papers. Students are writing inside the classroom, often by hand. It's part of the big rethink happening on tech and learning. My new report here: nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/…

NEW: A federal lawsuit by state AGs to stop the acquisition of TEGNA (9NEWS) by Nexstar (FOX31) is expanding and newly bipartisan. Five new AGs have joined the effort today, including Republican AGs from Indiana, Kansas, and Pennsylvania.

NEW: Ohio's Republican AG announces a deal with Nexstar to preserve the independent newsrooms of two formerly TEGNA-owned TV stations in Cleveland and Columbus until 2031. Dem AGs are suing to stop fully block the Nexstar (Denver's FOX31) acquisition of TEGNA (Denver's 9NEWS).