Resort Communities

The Regional Roundup, a production of the Rocky Mountain Community Radio Coalition. This week's edition features a discussion with High Country News journalist Nick Bowlin about how western resort towns risk being loved to death. Also, John Burg speaks about his experience of being lost, trapped, and eventually rescued from Zion National Park. And, we go inside public libraries in Moab, UT and Boulder, CO.

Steamboat Springs, Colo., has been making headlines this summer for its crackdown on short-term rentals. Listing properties on sites such as Airbnb and VRBO has been banned in most of town, and voters will decide this November if they want to further tax vacation property owners.

KDNK's News Director Morgan Neely has Wednesday's news, including details on another wildlife encounter that ended in a bear's death this morning in New Castle.

Nutrition advocates say the nationwide ‘free meals for all’ program helped address food insecurity and childhood hunger for millions during the first two years of the pandemic. But that’s gone away this school year. Now families who are above certain federal income thresholds will once again have to pay for their children’s lunches. Experts say that can be tricky in communities like Moab, where these income thresholds don’t necessarily reflect the cost of living here.