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KVNF's Local Motion
KVNF's weekly public affairs show with in-depth local public affairs reporting and interviews from around the Western Slope of Colocado Link for podcast subscription: https://www.kvnf.org/podcast/local-motion/rss.xml
Episodes
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: North Fork High Students Share Their Words and Voices
North Fork Creative Writers (Marty Durlin, KVNF) This week on Local Motion, KVNF’s Marty Durlin visits North Fork High School to hear directly from students in…
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Local Motion: Regional Roundup
A BLM sign indicates public lands in Howard, CO.(Stefanie Sere/Rocky Mountain Community Radio) This week on Local Motion we're bringing you a Regional Roundup…
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Local Motion: Keeping up with electrical demand; soil health
On this episode of Local Motion, KVNF's weekly public affairs program, we cover two topics: How Colorado’s electricity supply is keeping up with increasing…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Protecting and Conserving West Slope Water
A full Sherbino Theater for the State of the River meeting with the Colorado River District(Brody Wilson) Whether you live in a town, on a farm, or up in the…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Delta County health officials prep for measles spread with education, vaccine clinics
On this episode of Local Motion, KVNF's weekly public affairs program, we talk about the measles outbreak in the U.S. and how Delta County is preparing for…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Preserving the Land, One Easement at a Time: How Colorado Families Are Protecting Open Space for the Future
As open land across Colorado's Western Slope disappears at a record pace, a growing number of landowners are turning to a legal tool to keep their property…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Delta County Emergency Management
In this edition of Local Motion, we talk with Kris Stewart, Delta County's Emergency Manager. Stewart provides an overview of the county's emergency management…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Local Solar and Agrivoltaics in Delta County
Solar Innovation in Delta County: How Two Projects Are Powering Agriculture’s Future In this episode of Local Motion, KVNF’s Brody Wilson explores two…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Grant Houston discusses owning newspaper in tiny Lake City for nearly 50 years
Grant Houston at the office of the <i>Lake City Silver World</i>. (Laura Palmisano) Hinsdale County in southwest Colorado is the most remote county in the…
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Local Motion: Short Term Rentals in the Town of Paonia - Ballot Question 2B
Paonia residents will vote on April 1st to decide the fate of a newly passed short-term rental (STR) ordinance. The ordinance, which limits STR licenses to 30…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: The 'Dirt Whisperer.' Bart Eller with Paonia Soil on soil health and supporting small farms
Bart Eller, Executive Director of Paonia Soil(Lisa Young / KVNF) On this week's Local Motion, KVNF's public affairs show, we talk with Bart Eller, the…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Delta County Public Health officials on flu shots, measles, and Narcan
L-r ) Leah Rawson, public health nurse, and Shirley Tatto, emergency preparedness and communications with Delta County Public Health.(Lisa Young / KVNF) In…
KVNF's Local MotionLOCAL MOTION: Legal Psychedelics in Colorado (Part 2 of 2)
(Brody Wilson) In 2022 Colorado voters approved Proposition 122 legalizing the use and possession of 5 different psychedelics. Just this January it became…
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LOCAL MOTION: Legal Psychedelics in Colorado (Part 1 of 2)
( artlist.io) In 2022 Colorado voters approved Proposition 122 legalizing the use and possession of 5 different psychedelics. Just this January it became legal…
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Local Motion: Delta Health
(L-R): Lisa Young of KVNF, Jonathan L. Cohee, Delta Health CEO, and Reuben Farnsworth of the Delta County Ambulance District(Delta Health) In this edition of…
KVNF's Local MotionLOCAL MOTION: Mental health and land management in agriculture. Plus, sled dogs!
Episode One We discuss mental health, respect for the land, and land management with attendees and presenters at the Western Colorado Soil Health, Food, and…
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Local Motion: Alex Hager of the Western Water Reporting Project
Alex Hager covers water issues for the Western Water Reporting Project(Alex Hager) Alex Hager is a reporter at KUNC in Greeley, Colorado, who has been covering…
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LOCAL MOTION: Protecting biodiversity in western Colorado
In this episode of Local Motion, KVNF's weekly public affairs program, we originally intended to produce a program about seasonal closures on Bureau of Land…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Delta County 2024 in review
(L-R) Lindsay Mitchell, Delta County Public Information Officer, and Robbie LeValley, Delta County Administrator(Lisa Young / KVNF) On this edition of Local…
KVNF's Local MotionLOCAL MOTION: Learning to Live with Fire in the West
For the last 25 years, our society in people the West has undergone a cultural transformation around wildfire. We shifted from a “suppression at all costs”…
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Local Motion: Julia Butterfly Hill reflects on her 2 year long tree-sit and the future of our planet
(Taya Jae) In December of 1997, Julia Hill climbed a thousand-year-old sequoia tree with the intent of doing a 2 week tree-sit in an effort to protect Northern…
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Western Slope Skies: The Exotic Afterlife of Stars
The Helix Nebula, concealing a white dwarf(NASA/Spitzer/GALEX) In a Western Slope Skies feature last fall, we discussed the cosmic origins of the chemical…
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Local Motion: Upper Gunnison River Restoration Project
A one rock dam Zeedyk meadow restoration structure on USFS managed public lands in the Gunnison Basin.(USFS/Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District /…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Regional Roundup with Maeve Conran
On this week’s Local Motion, we join Maeve Conran, the Rocky Mountain Community Radio coalition’s managing editor, for our regional news roundup. We’ll hear a…
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Local Motion: Regional Roundup
On this Local Motion, we’ll hear about why some people are choosing a living Christmas tree this holiday season. We also visit the Ute Mountain Ute Park in…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Delta Health Foundation
Our guest on this week’s edition of Local Motion is Darnell Place-Wise, Executive Director for Delta Health Foundation. Delta Health Foundation is a 501(c)(3)…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: "We're still here": Celebrating National American Indian Heritage Month
On Local Motion, we celebrate Native American Indian Heritage Month. We first pay a visit to the Ute Indian Museum in Montrose where KVNF's Cassie Knust meets…
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Local Motion: Paonia Skatepark
Concrete work on the Paonia Skatepark(Jay Canode / KVNF) On this week's Local Motion we’ll learn about the latest on the Paonia Skate Park which includes a…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Latiné stories by KVNF
Today, in recognition of Latiné Heritage Month, KVNF's Cassie Knust takes a look at some of my favorite KVNF stories highlighting members of our Latiné…
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Local Motion: Water conservation and infrustructure
The Gunnison Dolores Watershed Meeting was hosted in Crawford this year by the Delta Conservation District. The tour highlighted CWCD’s water monitoring…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Delta County Jail Based Behavioral Health Services
Joel Watts, owner/founder of Integrated Insight Community Care, and Jackie Felix, administrator of the Delta County Detention Center Jail Based Behavioral…
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Local Motion: Strong, Smart, Women having fun, 100 miles at a time
The Western States Trail Ride, popularly known as the Tevis Cup, is a 24-hour, 100 mile ride, beginning in Soda Springs and ending in Auburn, California. It is…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Dr. Nathan Perry - Q2 2023 Economic Update
Dr. Nathan Perry presents at One Delta(Lisa Young / KVNF) On this edition of Local Motion, KVNF's Lisa Young talks with Dr. Nathan Perry, Associate Professor…
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Local Motion: Ecoflight dedicated to protecting our natural resources
KVNF's Lisa Young interviews Natasha Leger, Executive Director for Citizens for a Healthy Community located in Paonia, Colorado about recent Ecoflights in the…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: A look into modern library culture
In this Local Motion, we will peek inside a couple of our region’s libraries to hear about the social backlash that has visited their doorsteps in recent…
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Local Motion: Connecting with the Environment through Permaculture
The seed library is a partnership between the Basalt Public Library and the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute. Seed packets encourage gardeners to…
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Local Motion: A Regional Roundup for the Stars
(Courtesy of Greg Owens) On this Local Motion, Rocky Mountain Radio's Managing Editor, Maeve Conran looks to the skies. This regional roundup report looks at a…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Colorado's LGBTQ History
(Laura Palmisano) Colorado LGBTQ Historian David Duffield(David Duffield) June is Pride Month. It commemorates the Stonewall riots in 1969. The riots are…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: A peek into nontraditional classrooms
On this Local Motion, we'll take a peek into a few nontraditional classrooms in Montrose, Colorado. You’ll hear from Suzy Conty of Miss Suzy’s Educational…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Mothers
(Laura Palmisano) What does it mean to be a mother? That answer varies. There are birth mothers, adoptive mothers, stepmothers, grandmothers, and godmothers…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Two local non-profits offer creative solutions to Food Insecurity in Colorado.
According to statistics from Feeding America, in the state of Colorado, 533,650 people are facing hunger - and of them 129,900 are children. This means that 1…
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Local Motion: Destination Imagination
KVNF's Lisa Young interviews Jill Jurca, Western Slope Regional Director Destination Imagination, and Alisa Johnson, Instructional Coach at Garnet Mesa…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Climate Change with Natasha Leger and Pete Kolbenschlag
On this edition of Local Motion we take a hard look at Climate Change and what that means for Western Colorado. Today's guest are Natasha Leger, executive…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Equity in Latino Health Care, Cinco de Mayo and the history of labor in Colorado
Julissa Soto, consultant on Latino health care(Photo courtesy of Julissa Soto) What does equity in healthcare look like for Latinos? The question may seem big…
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Local Motion: Regional Roundup with Maeve Conran
It’s time for Local Motion here on KVNF. In this Local Motion, you’ll hear from Rocky Mountain Community Radio’s Maeve Conran for another regional roundup dive…
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Local Motion: Animator Bronwen Berry and Executive Director of Citizens for a Healthy Community, Natasha Leger, discuss climate, art and the impacts of the 1992 animated film, FernGully.
FernGully will show at the Paradise Theater in Paonia on Thursday April 27th. Proceeds will be donated to Citizens for a Healthy Community. Tickets and more…
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Local Motion: Paonia Players gives community a medley of “Happiness” in new production
(Laura Palmisano / KVNF) In this Local Motion, you’ll hear from Merrily Talbott, director of the Paonia Players theater group and KVNF board member. Merrily…
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Local Motion: Regional Roundup with Maeve Conran
Rocky Mountain Radio's Managing Editor, Maeve Conran, highlights the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic that took place in Snowmass Village, a…
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Local Motion: The Western Slope Refugee Way Station: Local nonprofit 'Friends of Ukraine' is helping refugees find shelter and community
A field of sunflowers in Ukraine.(Eleanor Beardsley / NPR) Today on the show, you’ll hear a conversation between KVNF's Cassie Knust and Michelle Leslie…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: The Nature Connection and Grand Mesa Nordic Council
The Nature Connection in Delta County(Lisa Young / KVNF) KVNF's Lisa Young speaks with The Nature Connection’s Executive Director Jess Finnigan and Director of…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Meet a Male Midwife
Adrian Medina is St. Mary's only male nurse midwife in Grand Junction.(St. Mary's Hospital) Last year, there were more than 13,000 midwives in the United…
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Local Motion: Mishe Skenderova is destigmatizing the conversation around Death and Dying.
Mishe Skenderova is an Oncology acupuncturist and student of Death and Dying. KVNF's Taya Jae visits Mishe at her home in Marble, CO where she shares how she…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: North Fork and Knife explores BEER
Today on the North Fork and Knife we’re talking about Beer. Adam Smith relaxes with two home brewers. Ashley Krest visits a local brewery owner. Taya Jae chats…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: The Vagina Monologues hopes to bring Education and Resources to the North Fork Valley
The Vagina Monologues Tech Rehearsal(Tony Soto) Today on Local Motion host Taya Jae is joined by Natalie Haines and Jen Ramsey, co-producers of this year's The…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Silent Taps - Paonia's Ongoing Water Moratorium
Inside Paonia's Two Million Gallon Water Plant(TAMIE MECK / KVNF) For decades the town of Paonia struggled to maintain its complex water system. In February…
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Local Motion: Mountainfilm on Tour
Join seven directors, filmmakers and subjects as they talk about the documentary films featured in this years Mountainfilm on Tour. Featuring interviews with…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: The cast of The Lady In The Van talk about their upcoming production, opening Friday January 13th at 7:30 pm
Today on Local Motion we talk about two upcoming Magic Circle Player shows, The Lady In The Van and My Funny Valentine on Route 66. Taya Jae is joined by…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: Death and Dying
Free Deadvlei image, public domain landscape CC0 photo.(rawpixel.com) Today, a conversation about death in three parts. We visit a young woman who hosts…
KVNF's Local MotionLocal Motion: A Celebration of Western Colorado Musicians
Western Colorado is fortunate to be surrounded by a variety of talented musicians. Today on the show we highlight some of those local voices both in…
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Local Motion: Craig Childs hosts the 14th Annual Dark Night performance at the Paradise Theater in Paonia and The Livery in Norwood
Author Craig Childs joins Taya Jae on Local Motion to share how he navigates ancestral lands, the lessons geology has taught him about the passage of time and…