Crime & Cops
CDale Police Chief Gene Schilling on the Valley's Recent Bank Robberies
May 8, 2012On May 4th, the Roaring Fork Valley saw a third bank robbery in as many months.
Following the robbery of US Bank in Glenwood Springs on April 27th, and the robbery of Vectra Bank in El Jebel in March, area police are adding Carbondale's Wells Fargo Bank to the list.
The suspect is described as a white male, approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall, 150 pounds... wearing dark sunglasses, a long sleeve gray shirt, gray pants, black shoes, and possibly a long straight black wig and fake mustache.
According to Carbondale Police, the suspect entered the bank just before closing time at 4 p.m. when five employees and one customer were present. The suspect used a handgun to threaten the customer and employees and forced them behind the counter and onto their knees. The suspect then tied their hands behind their backs, before leaving the bank in a vehicle stolen from an employee.
KDNK's Eric Skalac spoke to Carbondale police chief Gene Schilling Monday for an update on the robbery and to ask about the recent spate of bank robberies up and down the Valley.
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NRG with MG
Clean Energy Action's RJ Harrington on How Energy Policy and Politics Affect Electric Utilities
May 15, 2012RJ Harrington is the new head of Clean Energy Action, a Boulder-based nonprofit that opposes coal-based energy and uses research and science to affect policy. The group recently stopped in Glenwood Springs to talk about "Energy Policy and Politics" as part of a statewide series of meetings. Marilyn Gleason took the chance to discuss how electric utilities really work with the former policy director for Colorado's solar energy trade group, Clean Energy Action's RJ Harrington.
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Energy in the West
GarCo's New Way to Spend Oil and Gas Money
May 15, 2012Garfield County commissioners met with Carbondale town trustees this week in part to talk about a funding program set up by the county to distribute money contributed to the county by the oil and gas industry.
KDNK's Eric Skalac spoke with commissioner Mike Samson after the meeting to find out what kind of projects these funds are meant for and about why they moved to this new system for spending oil and gas money.
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Water in the West
Crystal River "Endangered" says National Enviros
May 15, 2012The Crystal River was named one of the most endangered rivers in America this week. KDNK's Amy Hadden Marsh brings this report.
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The Weekly News Brief
KDNK Weekly News Brief: Prosecutorial Discretion in Basalt
May 11, 2012Last week, the Colorado Immigrant Right's Coalition, or CIRC held a rally in front of the Garfield County courthouse, to protest the deportation of a Basalt woman. The group is claiming that this case contradicts the Obama Administration's discretion policy, which encouraged ICE field offices to focus on deportations of dangerous criminals and national security risks. For this week's news brief, KDNK's Eric Skalac and Ed Williams spoke about this most recent case, and how it compares to the case of Juana Linares, which Williams wrote about earlier this year.
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Environment
CDale Adjusts to Bag Ban
May 10, 2012The ban on plastic grocery bags at Carbondale's City Market has entered its second week but some shoppers are still adjusting. KDNK's Amy Hadden Marsh has more.
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Energy in the West
Jeff Dickinson of CLEER on Mandated Mitigation and Community Solar Gardens
May 9, 2012Here in Carbondale, houses over 5000 square feet are required to mitigate the impact that their energy consumption has on the climate. Many homeowners do that by installing photovoltaic panels on the roof of their house. But Tuesday night, the Carbondale trustees were presented with another option: community solar arrays, or solar gardens.
A representative from the Carbondale clean energy company, the Clean Energy Collective gave a brief presentation to the board on the benefits of community arrays. By their model, a home-owner buys part of the array, which is installed off-site in a field of panels.
For context, the board asked local energy consultant Jeff Dickinson to do some research on rooftop panels versus community arrays. Dickinson is part of the renewable energy team for local energy consultant group CLEER and KDNK's Eric Skalac caught up with him after his presentation to find out about how solar works in Carbondale and about why the prospect of a new option for homeowners is a complicated proposal.
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NRG with MG
Dan Bihn, the Biomass Hitman
May 8, 2012We're back today with our series Energy with MG– It's our continuing series on energy, and today the topic is biomass. KDNK's Marilyn Gleason met in Boulder recently with Dan Bihn. As an advisor and consultant, the Fort Collins resident is active in developing - and sometimes scuttling – biomass projects in Colorado. He sat on the board of the Roaring Fork biomass consortium. Dan Bihn calls himself the Biomass Hit Man.
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The Weekly News Brief
KDNK Weekly News Brief: North Fork Gas Leases
May 4, 2012This week, the Bureau of Land Management deferred oil and gas leases in the North Fork Valley near Paonia, after residents mobilized to object to the potential impact on agricultural and tourism operations nearby. For this week's news brief, KDNK's Eric Skalac spoke with Ariana Brocious of KVNF about the decision and its implications.
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Local News
CMC Trustees Blow Compressor Deadline
May 4, 2012A hot debate over a proposed compressor station on CMC's Spring Valley campus has gotten even hotter. KDNK's Eric Skalac has more.
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