Public Affairs Shows

On this week’s Regional Roundup, we hear about efforts to restore beaver habitat in Rocky Mountain National Park, then we head to Western Colorado to hear how one rural community is dealing with electronic waste. After that we head to the Four Corners to the burn scar from the Ferris Fire to hear how wildfire impacts soil. We round out the show hearing about what El Niño might bring to the drought-stricken Rocky Mountain West.

The Sopris Sun staff talks with Carbondale Parks & Recreation Director, Eric Brendlinger and Events Coordinator, Kat Hardy about Carbondale's Potato Day, past and present. Carbondale's 117th annual Potato Day is Saturday, October 3rd.

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

Maddy Harland, Editor of Permaculture magazine, shares her journey of discovering permaculture design, and applying permaculture principles in an ancient woodland in north Devon, England.

This week on Express Yourself, hear all about the Schubert MiniFest coming up at the Thompson Ranch at the RVR Barn next week; plus a conversation with Terry Glasenapp (GLASS-nap) about an exhibition he's putting together at CMC Carbondale of memorabilia from the past 40+ years; and we'll wrap up with a visit from Thunder River Theatre Company and their current production of Every Brilliant Thing running through September 27.

On this week’s Regional Roundup, we hear how officials in Teton County, Wyoming, are considering a resolution to recognize the role of immigrants in the community. Then we'll hear about an excavation for Ice Age fossils happening near Aspen next summer. After that, a report on how the record-breaking drought is impacting fall foliage this year. We'll then hear how the drought is impacting bears and why there have been more human bear conflicts this year. We'll then hear about the tiny town of Garfield, near Salida, in Colorado, which has been under a boil advisory for more than a month due to issues with their water system. We round out the show at 13,000 feet in the Rocky Mountains as we tag along on the Imogene Pass Run that took place in the San Juan mountains in southwest Colorado on September 12.

The Sopris Sun staff talks with writer, Jake Skardon about his monthly opinion column, "Amateur Eats".

Alex Harvey is spokesman for the ReMemberers, a ritual theater and storytelling trio comprised of Violet Southard, John de Kadt and Alex coming to Carbondale with a mythic story, The Firebird. Story telling is a form of changing time. Emotional time and event time operate very differently than clock time. When we slow down, the soul starts to wake up and can light up an entire organism.

On this month's episode of Soul Connection, hosts Adele Craft and Zenobia Todd talk about the transition from high school to college and share insights on maintaining wellbeing and routines in college.Soul Connection is generously sponsored by Colorado Mountain College Human Services and Opportunity Now.

This year, drought and starving bears are taking some of the sweetness out of cultivating a traditional agricultural product. Colorado Mountain Honey owner and beekeeper Derrick Maness talks to KDNK's Marilyn Gleason.

Tetiana Sherman was enjoying her career as a successful chef and running her culinary school in Ukraine, until one frigid morning in February of 2022 when the Russians stormed her country. Join us as she describes her journey.

Rock and roll has been asking the deepest questions of human life for seventy-five years — about love, loss, justice, identity, death, and the hunger for something more. Tune in today at 4 for a new public affairs show, Something Larger, a show that listens to that conversation with open ears and a generous spirit, welcoming every tradition and none.