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KVNF's weekly public affairs show with in-depth local public affairs reporting and interviews from around the Western Slope of Colocado Link for podcast subscription: https://www.kvnf.org/podcast/local-motion/rss.xml

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    Local Motion: Regional Roundup Episode 159 from Rocky Mountain Community Radio

    On this week's Regional Roundup, we hear about a jazz festival in northern New Mexico that celebrates Indigenous jazz music. Then, we head to the Roaring Fork Valley on Colorado's Western Slope to hear about efforts to create safe passages for wildlife crossing highways. After that we head to Wyoming to hear how goats are being used for fire mitigations. We round out the show hearing how Western Colorado University is working with Tribes to repatriate the remains of Native Americans that have been held by a museum.

    30 min

  2. May 26

    Local Motion: Walking Alongside - Death, Dying, and the People Who Help Us Through It

    Death is a subject most of us avoid — until we can't. In this episode of Local Motion, host Brody Wilson talks with KVNF's own Cynthia Hines, the team at HopeWest, and North Fork death midwife Moriah Melin about what it really means to show up at the end of life.

    30 min

  3. May 20

    Local Motion: The Politics of Public Education Take Center Stage in Montrose and Delta Counties

    Brad Miller, a conservative school board attorney recently hired by the Montrose School Board has drawn scrutiny across the Western Slope.

    30 min

  4. May 5

    Local Motion: Where the Sky Begins: Fighting for Dark Skies on Colorado’s Western Slope

    Eighty percent of the world’s population lives somewhere the Milky Way is no longer visible. On Colorado’s Western Slope, a retired atmospheric scientist, a new coalition leader, and author Craig Childs are working to make sure that number doesn’t grow. This week on Local Motion — dark skies, and the people fighting to preserve them.

    30 min

  5. Apr 30

    Local Motion: Regional Roundup Episode #153

    The city of Durango has proclaimed April 19, 2026 as Ross Anderson Day, marking twenty years since the Native American speed skier set a U.S. speed-skiing record of 154.06 miles per hour.We’ll also hear from a researcher working in Bears Ears who is turning to crowdfunding to continue his work after losing a federal grant. Then, we head to Utah, where students at the University of Utah are building community through the student Drag Club. And we close the show with a conversation with Aspen Public Radio Executive Director Breeze Anderson who talks about a recent lawsuit involving Aspen Public Radio, KSUT, and CPR. The stations challenged an executive order from President Trump that cut funding to NPR and PBS. In March, a federal judge ruled in favor of the stations.

    30 min

  6. Apr 15

    Local Motion: Regional Roundup Episode #150

    This week on the Regional Roundup, we look at concerns over a proposed move by the U.S. Forest Service from Washington, D.C. to Salt Lake City, and what that could mean for public lands management in the West. We’ll also visit a conserved organic orchard in Western Colorado, and we hear about new composting efforts in Aspen aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from food waste. Plus, a longtime avalanche rescue dog in Telluride retires after years of service, and a conversation with Denis Moynihan of Democracy Now! about the new documentary Steal This Story Please! and the importance of independent journalism.

    29 min

  7. Apr 7

    Local Motion: ICE Activity and Legal Uncertainty on the Western Slope

    This week on Local Motion, we take a closer look at ICE activity on Colorado’s Western Slope, starting with the arrest of a local attorney’s client outside the Montrose County Courthouse.

    30 min

  8. Mar 31

    Local Motion: Western Slope Author Craig Childs and Filmmaker Ben Clark on Dark Skies, Restored Land, and Finding Hope in the Natural World

    Western Slope author Craig Childs joins Local Motion to discuss his new book The Wild Dark — an exploration of dark skies, light pollution, and what we lose when we can no longer see the Milky Way. Filmmaker Ben Clark also joins to discuss Preserved, his documentary about a half-million-acre conservation landmark in northern New Mexico.

    30 min
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