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KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

This week on Express Yourself, we talk summer music with Craig Ferguson, producer of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Rob Miller from Pickin' Productions and Josh Behrman and Amy Kimberly from Palisade Bluegrass and Roots Festival. Listen to Express Yourself on KDNK.org every Friday at 4pm.

For a lot of farmers in Colorado, and across the country, insecticides known as neonicotinoids, or neonics, have been a game changer. But what’s been a breakthrough for some has been a nightmare for others. Neonics are being blamed for die-offs in domestic bees and native pollinators, and there’s growing concern over their potential impacts on human health as well. This year, some Democratic lawmakers proposed a bold step to reduce the chemicals’ use in Colorado; they wanted farmers to get something like a prescription to be allowed to use neonic-treated seeds.CPR’s Bente Birkeland and Rae Solomon discuss what those lawmakers tried to do, and why they faced such fierce opposition from the get go.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

The Town of Basalt’s local election is rapidly approaching, and Town Council Candidates appeared at a forum in late February to answer some burning questions. The candidates are Angela Anderson, Benjamin Fierstein, Elyse Hottel, and Greg Shaffran.

This week on the Regional Roundup, we hear a report on the growing outdoor recreation economy, a look at an abortion doula program supporting patients in Western Colorado, and a feature on youth activists rallying at the Utah legislature in support of efforts to save the Great Salt Lake. The show also features a story about a new mobile food bank serving rural communities in Colorado, and explores free speech and censorship: from a Durango bookstore’s lawsuit to block police from accessing a customer’s book purchase records, to a conversation with a Colorado librarian featured in the documentary The Librarians, which examines the rise of book bans and challenges to libraries. Tune into the Regional Roundup on KDNK.org every Thursday at 4:30 pm.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

On this episode of The Tactile Traveler, join host Nick Isenberg to learn and hear from experts about what to do if you may going blind, or suddenly become blind. Listen to the Tactile Traveler on KDNK.org on the first Tuesday of each month, at 4:30pm.