We pick things up right where we left off with Purplish live: “The Great Colorado Ballot-O-Rama.”

This episode of Purplish features part one of “The Great Colorado Ballot-O-Rama.

On this week’s Regional Roundup, we’ll hear about the reopening of a lawsuit challenging the shrinking of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, followed by a report on challenges facing Native American voters. Then we'll hear about a court ruling against a group that claimed ownership of nearly 1,500 acres of public land in southwest Colorado. We then hear a selection of voices from No Kings rallies in the region, followed by a look at efforts to save fish in Wyoming’s Snake River. After a story about a new pump track in southwest Colorado offering recreational opportunities for young people in a small mountain town, we round out the show with a look at the challenges of distilling whiskey at high altitude.

The Sopris Sun sits down with former Carbondale Mayor Dan Richardson to discuss the upcoming general election ballot.

This episode of The Ripple Effect was taped live at the Crystal Theatre in August. This is the second half of the live event, featuring a conversation with Emily Fifer and Meagan Shapiro on local community arts education.

Angeles (on-ha-lace) came to the United States over twenty years ago, when she was seven. Tune in as she describes the challenges she encounteredadjusting to a country she now calls home.

Your favorite geeks Matt McBrayer and Louie Girardot keep listeners up to date on contemporary tech topics and take calls from listeners.

In Part II of Vanessa's interview with Maddy Harland, Co-founder and Senior Editor of Permaculture magazine and Permanent Publications, they discuss permaculture design's pertinence in modern cultural and social sytems.

We hear live music from Megan Burtt and Martin Gilmore and chat with Jackson Emmer, before their "Songwriters in the Round" performance at TACAW; then learn all about your favorite Bonedale Flash Mob performing Michael Jackson's Thriller; and we'll wrap up with the Carbondale Education Foundation's Oktoberfest event, coming up this Saturday.

On this week’s Regional Roundup, we'll hear a report on a new program that seeks to expand access to birth control, then a report on a new program that gives out free trees to residents and businesses in southwest Colorado. After that we head to a historic ranch in Wyoming, the site where the Wilderness Act of 1964 was first drafted. After that we'll hear how communities in Utah are pushing back against data centers, then we visit an orchard in Colorado which is cultivating historic apple varieties. We round out the show at the public library in Longmont, that recently hosted an event featuring performances of excerpts from banned books, part of the library's Banned Books Week celebrations.