Local Motion

This week on Local Motion, we hear highlights from a panel on election systems led by the League of Women Voters of the Uncompahgre Valley. Montrose County Clerk Tressa Guynes talks about how exactly mail ballots are counted and Ouray County Clerk Michelle Nauer shares everything you need to know about voter registration. Learn more about the League here.

This week is Sunshine Week, the annual nationwide celebration of access to public information and the right to know. On Tuesday, March 15 at the Denver Press Club, the nonprofit Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition held a panel called Schooled in Secrecy, exploring the recent trend among some school boards in Colorado to disregard or evade Colorado Open Meetings Law by discussing public busin...

This week we listen to highlights from the Forum in Montrose on March 2nd. Candidates for City Council in the April 5th election talked about why they’re running for office. Comments from Doug Glaspell, Anthony Russo, Ed Ulibarri, J. David Reed, and Barbara Bynum are edited slightly for time considerations. Candidate Paul Arbogast was a no show.

This week on Local Motion, Kate Redmond interviews Fred Waldman, the Operator of Responsible Charge at Project 7 about how they treat the water for Montrose, Delta, Olathe, and rural residential and agricultural water users.

Stephanie Maltarich has covered climate action through creative entrepreneurship and net-zero affordable housing for KVNF and the Rocky Mountain Community Radio coalition. She’s covered the summer sockeye run for Alaska Public Radio and reported on ski safety for NPR's Weekend Edition. Her latest article on safer backcountry travel is out now in The Colorado Sun. Next, she's launching a new radio...

This week on Local Motion we get updates from Indian Country thanks to our Rocky Mountain Community Radio partners at KSUT Tribal Radio in the Four Corners. Poet Laureate and musician Joy Harjo speaks with host Crystal Ashike and reporter Sarah Flower interviews Dr. Loretta Christensen, chief medical officer of the Indian Health Service, about the impacts of coronavirus on Native families, and how...

KVNF's Kate Redmond has an in-depth interview with pulmonologist Anuj Mehta, critical care physician at Denver Health, about the vaccines: what they are, how they work, and how the science has developed over the past year.

This week on Local Motion Kate Redmond speaks with Addie Cranson and Rand Kokernot on Post Notes, a unique system of gifting and exchanging in the North Fork Valley.

This week on Local Motion, host Gavin Dahl speaks with San Miguel County resident Glenn Steckler about the new book he edited with his father Larry Steckler, called Stories from the Age of COVID. The book features dozens of personal stories and poems from a diverse group of writers, with book proceeds benefiting food banks like Angel Baskets in Telluride.

This week on Local Motion Bart Eller of Paonia Soil Company and Don Lareau of Zephyros Farm and Garden speak on a granular level on what is meant by good healthy soil for growing, and how to get it.

This week on Local Motion, Paul Paladino and Sara Rinne from the Montrose Library joined Gavin Dahl for a live call-in show to discuss their Big Read campaign, supported by a grant from the NEA. The focus of the community literacy project is Jack London's novel Call of the Wild, as well as sharing wildlife and outdoor recreation information. Callers from around KVNF's listening area also shared th...

This week on Local Motion, we hear from candidates running for the Delta County School Board. There are two candidates in District 1, Shannon Crespin and Kristina Hines. There are four candidates in District 5, Brian Kopko, Luke McCrain, Jennifer McGavin, and Nicole Milner. This audio is composed of highlights from the candidate forum hosted by Delta High School teacher Scott Siettmann on October...

This week on Local Motion, we hear from six of the candidates running for Montrose County School Board. There are two candidates for District C, Alice Murphy and Andrew Neal, two candidates for District E, incumbent Sarah Fishering and challenger Cortney Loyd, and two candidates for District F, incumbent Eric Kelley and challenger Dawn Schieldt. This audio is composed of highlights from The Forum...

This week on Local Motion, Gavin Dahl interviews three candidates for two seats on the KVNF board of directors. They are current board vice president Christie Aschwanden, current board treasurer Kim Besel, and former board member John Wendt. Ballots are available or call 970-527-4868 for help.

This week, listen in on a conversation between news director Gavin Dahl and Delta County Independent staff writer Lisa Young from KVNF's Happy News Hour on September 9th. They talk about news deserts and the challenges of providing comprehensive coverage in rural communities.

This week on Local Motion, Kate Redmond interviews Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold and political reporter for the Grand Junction Sentinel, Charles Ashby, on events surrounding Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters.

This week Gavin Dahl speaks with KVNF host and mindfulness coach Erin Easton and Montrose Recreation Center fitness leader John Wagner about the Whole Being Health and Wellness Expo happening Saturday, September 11th and Sunday, September 12th at Montrose Rec Center. We also hear one of Erin's Mindful Moments on stress. Mindful Moments air at 11am on Sundays.

This week on Local Motion, Gavin Dahl speaks to author Julian Rubinstein. The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save An American Neighborhood examines the role of law enforcement informants as gang violence continues in 'invisible Denver' and corrects the record on anti-gang activist Terrance Roberts.

Biologist David Inouye On Effects Of Climate Change

This week on Local Motion, news director Gavin Dahl speaks with two journalists. Guardian reporter Chris McGreal's latest article is on lawsuits filed by local Colorado governments seeking climate mitigation funds from energy companies based on accusations of deceptive practices, consumer fraud, and suppressing their own scientific evidence. High Country News climate justice reporter Sarah Sax tal...

Colorado's 38th Governor Richard Lamm died on July 29, 2021. This week on Local Motion, we listen back to a conversation from May 2019 with Dr. Will Evans on Shifting Gears from KDNK in Carbondale. Lamm reflects on the human relationship with Mother Nature and the Law of Unintended Consequences.

On this week's edition of Local Motion, Kate Redmond has a conversation with North Fork farmers Scott Horner and Mike Straub on the effects, both good and deleterious, of Bureau of Reclamation projects to place area irrigation ditches into pipes. She also taps Jake Hartter, Watershed Program Director for the Western Slope Conservation Center; and Ralph D'Alessandro, a long-time member of the Board...

This week on Local Motion, we get to know Steve Metheny, the new director of the Montrose campus of Colorado Mesa University. Metheny has been teaching computer science, business, and math classes at CMU since 1991. He retired from DMEA in 2018, where he was VP of power supply and management services.

On this week's Local Motion Kate Redmond interviews Paonia author Cara Judea Alhadeff about her book "Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle."

This week on Local Motion, we hear part 2 of a series produced by KDNK and Carbondale Arts in anticipation of the 50th annual Carbondale Mountain Fair happening July 23-July 25. Hear the voices, stories, and sounds of 5 decades celebrating art, music, and community.