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Regional Roundup

The Regional Round Up is brought to you by Rocky Mountain Community Radio (RMCR) managing editor, Maeve Conran. RMCR is a coalition of non-commercial radio stations in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Member stations broadcast diverse news and music programming. This half hour show highlights the unique work being done by RMCR statoins.

Latest Episodes
  • On Episode 47 of the Rocky Mountain Regional Roundup we hear: A feature about the last train journey for the conductor of the Winter Park Express ski train; a two-way with the new superintendent of the Arches and Canyonlands national parks in SE Utah; and a two-way with Heather Cox Richardson, author of the daily e-newsletter and podcast Letters from an American, about the state of our democracy, why she's worried and what we can do.
  • Episode 46 of the Rocky Mountain Regional Roundup features:A two-way about the experimental forest in Fraser, Colorado; an interview with two Utah women (including a former Utah State Legislator and SLC mayor) and fighting for equal rights for same sex families; a poem from Colorado's new poet laureate; and a feature about, the "Friendship ball" a prom that promotes inclusivity.
  • Episode 45 of the Rocky Mountain Regional Roundup features: A two-way about women's history (and the challenges in researching women's history) in western Colorado; a new program at Fort Lewis College in Durango aims to increase diversity in nursing; a two way about supporting artists with disabilities in Utah; and a feature about a new anthology of poems about heartbreak, featuring poets from Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and other parts of the Rocky Mountain West.
  • Episode 44 of the Rocky Mountain Regional Roundup features: Skijoring in Leadville, Colorado, and how the sport is a big economic plus for many small towns in the Rocky Mountains; a feature on Garfield County's recent vote declaring itself to NOT be a sanctuary city; a two way with author Laura Pritchett about her new book Playing with (wild)fire, inspired by Colorado's largest wildfire; and a poem that was read out at the recent memorial event that took place in Boulder for the King Soopers mass shooting.
  • This episode of the Rocky Mountain Regional Roundup features:A feature on how over 3,000 homes on the Navajo Nation got new addresses recently, a two way with a teen mental health advocate from Chaffee County, and a two way with Daily Yonder on the Brain Gain, people moving back to rural America and how that's playing out in Colorado.
  • On this episode of the Regional Roundup we hear a feature on how an elementary school in Boulder is implementing programs to make newly arrived immigrant children feel welcome and safe; a feature on a new cannabis growing enterprise in the tiny Colorado town of Moffat; and a two-way with High Country News reporter Susan Shain about her new HCN article on building housing on public lands.
  • Episode 41 of the Rocky Mountain Regional Roundup features: An interview with Lou Dawson, one of the world's foremost experts on ski mountaineering; A feature about the mental health of those working in ag featuring Clinton Wilson, the Director of Strategic Initiatives, with Rocky Mountain Farmers Union; A feature on nesting bald eagles in Boulder County; and a feature on a water rights auction that happened recently in Longmont.
  • Episode 40 of the Rocky Mountain Regional Roundup features:A story on a recent film screening on an exhibit about Buffalo Soldiers, an interview about the history of Black soldiers in Utah, a feature on forest service workers getting trained on horseback, and a two way with John Ingold of the Colorado Sun on an investigation into medical debt and UC Health's practice of suing patients.
  • On this episode of the Rocky Mountain Regional Roundup, we hear a discussion on Black history in Colorado, in the context of an exhibit in Boulder; an audio postcard on Kino Benally a Diné musician who is trying to capture the sounds of the southwest; and a two-way with Andrew Black, Chief Public Affairs Officer with The American Association for the Advancement of Science which hosted its annual meeting in Denver February 15-17th on the work of AAAS, diversifying science and more.
  • On this weeks edition of the Rocky Mountain Regional Roundup we hear a feature on a weekly community dinner for seasonal workers in Snowmass, Colorado, an audio postcard on a creek that never freezes in winter and a two-way (with audio from the film) with the director of the new documentary In the Dirt about mountain biking on the Navajo Nation.