The Mountain Minute: A Year in Review 🎊

🎧 Mountain Minute – December 31, 2025
2025 was a year that reshaped politics, tested institutions, and forced hard questions into the open. In this special year-end episode, we reflect on the stories RMV readers didn’t scroll past — and what those choices reveal about trust, accountability, and independent journalism in Colorado.

A Year in Review:
📍 The RMV stories readers didn’t scroll past in 2025
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/12/29/the-rmv-stories-readers-didnt-scroll-past-in-2025/

📍 The top 25 RMV team commentaries of 2025: Where we chose to stand
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/12/31/the-top-25-rmv-team-commentaries-of-2025-where-we-chose-to-stand/

📍 Voices from the Frontlines: Guest pieces that shaped the year
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/12/30/voices-from-the-frontlines-the-2025-guest-pieces-that-shook-colorado-readers/

📍 If 2025 had a playlist, these songs would be on it
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/12/30/if-2025-had-a-playlist-these-songs-would-be-on-it/

📍 Boots on the Ground, Uncovering Colorado’s Hidden Truths
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/12/28/rocky-mountain-voice-boots-on-the-ground-uncovering-colorados-hidden-truths/

Why these stories mattered:
RMV published more than 800 original stories in 2025, written by 98 independent writers across Colorado. More than 12.5 million people saw this reporting, with nearly 1.6 million engagements and over 46,000 new followers joining the community — not because of outrage, but because readers rewarded documentation, proximity, and persistence.

This episode breaks down the common thread behind RMV’s most-read stories: receipts over rhetoric, real consequences over abstractions, and trust built slowly through follow-through.

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