Marilyn Gleason
News Director & Public Affairs HostKDNK welcomes back Marilyn Gleason to serve as the station's News Director. To longtime listeners, Marilyn's voice will be familiar. The graduate of CU Boulder's journalism school started her radio career in the Roaring Fork Valley at KAJX in Aspen, then came to KDNK in 2000 as the station was in the early stages of forming a local news program. She also pitched in as technical director for the Andy Zanca youth radio program, then continued on as a freelancer and Mountain Fair host for more than a decade. Marilyn returns to direct a growing news team at KDNK. She looks forward to expanding collaborations with regional news producers and strengthening the station's commitment to lively conversations and fostering an informed public in our local communities.
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News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Tuesday's news, including the relationship of bison to public lands, and a proliferation of songbirds in the canyons near Boulder. -
News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Friday's news, including the race for Colorado's third congressional district going to incumbent Jeff Hurd, now the lone Republican member of Colorado's Washington delegation, Democrat Jennifer Bacon becomes the first Black woman to be Speaker of the House in Colorado, transgender kids are left out of the blue wave, and a reflection on more than 50 years of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. -
KDNK reporters speak with political players on Election night as Democrats replace some, but not all, Republicans this November 2026. -
News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Wednesday's news, including a tragic plane crash that claimed an Aspen family, wildly successful midterm elections for Democrats including local candidates, whom we hear from on Election Day watch parties, and fall weather preps a potentially dangerous avalanche season ahead. -
News host Marilyn Gleason brings Tuesday's news, including pushback from Colorado against federal election monitors, Tina Peter's travel and election hazing while on probation, and Drag Time Storytime, an annual happening in Gunnison.
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News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Friday's news, including a look at a ballot measure aimed at funding local libraries at current levels into the future, and what supporters and opponents of a measure to enshrine hunting in the state constitution say.
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News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Wednesday's news, including political response to the flooding in southwest Colorado, tactics to limit Native American participation in decisions about gas leasing in ancestral lands, and another look at the ballot question aimed at creating a graduated tax.
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News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Tuesday's news, including a visit with both sides of a rally and counter-protest with a patch of common ground, and the work of rehabilitating orphaned bear cubs in a year of record drought and conflict.
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News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Friday's news, including DOJ plans to monitor some election sites in Colorado, flash floods in Southwestern Colorado, why hikers should leash dogs in bear country, and a pleasant nature walk through the ashes of the most destructive wildfire on the books.
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News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Wednesday's news, including Voter Ed at the Crystal Theatre, 98-year-old former Governor Roy Romer joins a stump tour of Colorado, and the Good Seed Garden's final harvest.
