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A new report shows the overrepresentation of Native Americans and Alaska Natives in state prison systems, and some of the greatest disparities are in the Mountain West.
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Last October, concerns about racial intolerance among Durango administrative staff led to the resignation of four members of the commission.
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KDNK's Morgan Neely wraps up the work week with Friday's news, including corporations in the Mountain West failing to disclose their wildfire risks. Also, with legal marijuana widely available, more children are inadvertently consuming edibles containing THC.
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Colorado’s trails, campgrounds and parks are getting more crowded. But surveys show the droves of visitors are overwhelmingly white and wealthy. A new initiative launching this summer hopes to change that.
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KDNK's News Director Morgan Neely has Wednesday's news, including details on Tuesday's deadly car accident near the top of Independence Pass, and the fatal shooting of a bear that had gotten into someone's unlocked house in Steamboat Springs.
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Imprisonment rates are markedly higher in communities of color across the U.S., according to the Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit group that advocates for criminal justice reform. And its work to spotlight what it calls “the geography of mass incarceration” has recently focused on parts of the Mountain West.
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KDNK's News Director Morgan Neely has Tuesday's news, including a possible mid-year pay boost to help Town of Carbondale employees weather high inflation.
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Amid America’s racial reckoning spurred by the killing of George Floyd, a number of controversial historical monuments were torn down by protesters or removed by authorities this year, including some in the Mountain West.