Public Affairs

Cindy Suplizio is a Western Slope native and skied for CU Boulder before turning her talents to coaching. She and Marilyn Gleason discuss all the local talent and who to watch this year.

For author Michael Bourne, a stint writing for a daily newspaper in Aspen served as a sort of boot camp. His new book, “We Bring You an Hour of Darkness,” harkens back to his days at the Aspen Daily News. It’s a mystery inspired in part by a real-life 1998 arson at the Vail ski resort starring eco-terrorists, greedy developers and intrepid reporters. Marilyn Gleason talks to the author.

It's been a big year for Carbondale and the Roaring Fork Valley, between the new Forest Service building, pool construction, and mobile home parks up and down the valley organizing to buy their homes. KDNK's Lily Jones interviews Carbondale Mayor Ben Bohmfalk about 2025's biggest moments and the RFV's unique economic situation.

KDNK's News Team brings you part two of last week's two-part episode of Purplish on the possibility of redistricting in Colorado, and our own morning news host, Mike Lemmer, spoke with CLEER about the City of Rifle's efforts to promote sustainability.

Host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners the first half of a brand new episode of Purplish from CPR on the attempts to redraw Colorado's Congressional Districts in the middle of the decade. Later in the hour, one reporter from KHOL in Jackson Hole traveled to Poland to see how volunteer emergency drivers are aiding the war effort in Ukraine.

On this month's Municipal Matters we're exploring housing and affordability in the City of Rifle and checking in with Leadville after the election.

Recovery Resources operates the only homeless shelter in the Roaring Fork Valley; River Bridge in Glenwood supports interventions with abused children; Mountain Valley Developmental Services gives meaning and community to the region’s developmentally disabled. Valley Voices learns more about all three, with host Marilyn Gleason.

Welcome to Municipal Matters on KDNK, your public affairs show to get in the know about what’s going on in your town, county, and across the state. Today we have an episode of Purplish from CPR News and the Colorado Capitol News Alliance on election results and the 2026 midterms which will decide control of Congress and the next leader of our state.

Kirk Siegler is NPR's go-to guy when stories of the West rise to national attention. He got his start in public radio in Colorado, as a reporter for two years in the Roaring Fork Valley at Aspen Public Radio, and 7 years reporting from Colorado stations including KUNC.Kirk Siegler talked to KDNK’s Amy Hadden Marsh about life as a roving reporter for NPR covering the vast Western landscape and the stories behind the stories you hear on NPR.

The Bureau of Land Management has cancelled its contract with the Department of Corrections, effectively shutting down the Wild Horse Inmate Program by the end of November. Amy Hadden Marsh speaks with Carol Walker, a longtime wild horse advocate, on what this means for the far and immediate future.