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Local Motion

by Kori Stanton, Kate Redmond, Gavin Dahl

In-depth local public affairs reporting and interviews from around the KVNF listening area. Link for podcast subscription: https://www.kvnf.org/podcast/local-motion/rss.xml

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  1. Local Motion: Regional Roundup Episode 175.

    On this week’s Regional Roundup, we hear about efforts to restore beaver habitat in Rocky Mountain National Park, then we head to Western Colorado to hear how one rural community is dealing with electronic waste. After that we head to the Four Corners to the burn scar from the Ferris Fire to hear...

  2. Local Motion: the punks came out of the woodwork, and the ditch ran dry

    KVNF threw Montrose its first punk festival, but nobody knew if anyone would come. On this Local Motion, we hear from a few of the many people that showed up, and why they did. Plus, a Paonia seed grower on the year with no winter, no fall water, and a virus in seven crops.

  3. Local Motion LIVE: Montrose City Council Overview

    After a tumultuous few weeks in the Montrose City Council, the KVNF news team sits down to review our recent coverage and try to get the full picture of what's been happening in special live edition of Local Motion.

  4. Local Motion: Manufacturing on the Western Slope

    Most outdoor brands don't own a sewing machine. On this Local Motion, two Western Slope manufacturers on what it actually takes to make things here — from a local outdoor gear company hand-cutting every backpack in a Montrose shop, to another innovative company that rebuilt itself around a…

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  5. Local Motion: Stories from the Gold Mountain Fire

    KVNF's news team brings you a series of stories from the Gold Mountain Fire

  6. Local Motion: A novelist who worked inside big tech asks what AI is costing writers

    Jenny Williams spent nearly nine years inside Google and Microsoft before leaving for New Zealand. Her new thriller strands six writers on an island competing for a publishing prize. One of them is an AI. She talks with Brody Wilson about temptation, theft and transparency.

  7. Local Motion: From the Black Canyon to Redlands Mesa, the cost of a record-low Blue Mesa

    Blue Mesa Reservoir is at a record low, and federal managers have cut minimum flows on the lower Gunnison to hold what's left. On Local Motion, Colorado River District engineer Caleb Foy walks KVNF's Brody Wilson through how that decision was made — and who is paying for it downstream.

  8. Local Motion: Regional Roundup Episode 169

    On this week’s Regional Roundup, we head to the alpine tundra of Rocky Mountain National Park with naturalists searching for ptarmigan. We also learn about efforts to restore beaver habitat in other parts of the park.Then, we travel to the small Western Colorado town of Lake City, where three…

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  9. Local Motion: Regional Roundup Episode 165

    On this week's Regional Roundup, we'll hear about the recent awards given by Aspen nonprofit Climate Curve for innovative climate solutions. Then we'll hear how President Trump has reduced the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments, reducing protections for the iconic...

  10. Local Motion: Regional Roundup Episode 164

    On this week's Regional Roundup, we'll hear about some of the fires burning in the region, we'll hear from evacuees from the Aspen Acres fire, we pay a visit to the incident command post for the Gold Mountain Fire in Western Colorado to hear what it takes to support the hundreds of firefighters...

  11. Local Motion: Regional Roundup Episode 162

    On this week's Regional Roundup, we'll hear how rural communities are particularly impacted by extreme heat. We'll hear a report from Aspen Ideas: Health on how music can be used for therapy and rehabilitation. Then, we'll hear about the history of labor organizing done by janitors in Denver that...

  12. Local Motion: Women Decide: The Colorado Governor's Forum , hosted by Rocky Mountain PBS

    We bring you a condensed version of the full length forum you can watch here:https://www.youtube.com/live/_hhwp5eeMEk?si=Zpmm5pqvtbK_ggP0

  13. Local Motion: Working Families Party of Colorado AG Democratic candidate forum

    Four Democrats are running for their party's nomination in Colorado's attorney general race. At a forum hosted by the Colorado Working Families Party, they laid out their priorities — standing up to the Trump administration, immigration, housing and workers' rights. Local Motion brings you an...

  14. Local Motion: Regional Roundup Episode 159 from Rocky Mountain Community Radio

    On this week's Regional Roundup, we hear about a jazz festival in northern New Mexico that celebrates Indigenous jazz music. Then, we head to the Roaring Fork Valley on Colorado's Western Slope to hear about efforts to create safe passages for wildlife crossing highways. After that we head to...

  15. Local Motion: Walking Alongside - Death, Dying, and the People Who Help Us Through It

    Death is a subject most of us avoid — until we can't. In this episode of Local Motion, host Brody Wilson talks with KVNF's own Cynthia Hines, the team at HopeWest, and North Fork death midwife Moriah Melin about what it really means to show up at the end of life.

  16. Local Motion: The Politics of Public Education Take Center Stage in Montrose and Delta Counties

    Brad Miller, a conservative school board attorney recently hired by the Montrose School Board has drawn scrutiny across the Western Slope.

  17. Local Motion: Where the Sky Begins: Fighting for Dark Skies on Colorado’s Western Slope

    Eighty percent of the world’s population lives somewhere the Milky Way is no longer visible. On Colorado’s Western Slope, a retired atmospheric scientist, a new coalition leader, and author Craig Childs are working to make sure that number doesn’t grow. This week on Local Motion — dark skies, and...

  18. Local Motion: Regional Roundup Episode #153

    The city of Durango has proclaimed April 19, 2026 as Ross Anderson Day, marking twenty years since the Native American speed skier set a U.S. speed-skiing record of 154.06 miles per hour.We’ll also hear from a researcher working in Bears Ears who is turning to crowdfunding to continue his work...

  19. Local Motion: Regional Roundup Episode #150

    This week on the Regional Roundup, we look at concerns over a proposed move by the U.S. Forest Service from Washington, D.C. to Salt Lake City, and what that could mean for public lands management in the West. We’ll also visit a conserved organic orchard in Western Colorado, and we hear about new...

  20. Local Motion: ICE Activity and Legal Uncertainty on the Western Slope

    This week on Local Motion, we take a closer look at ICE activity on Colorado’s Western Slope, starting with the arrest of a local attorney’s client outside the Montrose County Courthouse.

  21. Local Motion: Western Slope Author Craig Childs and Filmmaker Ben Clark on Dark Skies, Restored Land, and Finding Hope in the Natural World

    Western Slope author Craig Childs joins Local Motion to discuss his new book The Wild Dark — an exploration of dark skies, light pollution, and what we lose when we can no longer see the Milky Way. Filmmaker Ben Clark also joins to discuss Preserved, his documentary about a half-million-acre...

  22. Local Motion: How Western Slope schools and Homegrown Pathways are helping students build futures close to home

    A new collaboration between Western Slope school districts and Homegrown Pathways is helping students explore careers, pitch ideas, and get real support while they are still in school — with the goal of helping more young people build futures close to home.

  23. Local Motion: Episode 145 of the Regional Roundup

    This week on the Regional Roundup, we hear about an animal sanctuary in Wyoming that looks after animals who used to spend their days in laboratories. We find out what happens to patients when a rural health facility closes. Then we meet a Navajo basket weaver who is keeping the tradition alive…

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  24. Local Motion: Quiet Prevention - How Local School Districts Are Leading The Way in Preventing Violence in Schools

    Our country's epidemic of school shootings left many families with real fear and uncertainty. Western Slope schools are working to prevent violence early—before a situation reaches a breaking point. In this episode, local educators explain the Salem-Keizer threat assessment model, how Safe2Tell...

  25. Local Motion: Tiny Desk Contest

    This week on Local Motion, you’ll hear interviews with Tiny Desk Radio hosts Anamaria Sayre and Robin Hilton as well as local musicians Logan Wise, Jason Coover and Rai Omri who have submitted to the Tiny Desk Contest in the past. You’ll also hear samples of their submissions. This years contest…

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  26. Local Motion: Regional Round-up Episode 140

    This week on Local Motion we feature a Regional Roundup from Rocky Mountain Community Radio

  27. Local Motion: Regional Round-up Episode 139

    This week on Local Motion we feature a Regional Roundup from Rocky Mountain Community Radio

  28. Local Motion: Derrick Dove & the Peacekeepers

    KVNF DJ Norm Simmer Interviews Derrick Dove & the Peacekeepers ahead of their performance at the 2025 Montrose Summer Music Series.

  29. Local Motion: KVNF Stories 2025 Part 2

    A collection of KVNF Stories that ran in our KVNF Regional Newscast in 2025

  30. Local Motion: Meeting Urgent Needs — From the Western Slope to War-Torn Ukraine

    This week on Local Motion, Randal Palmer of the Technical College of the Rockies explains how short-term credentials are meeting workforce needs on the Western Slope, followed by a conversation with physician’s assistant Bob Downs, who just completed his sixth medical mission delivering care in...

  31. Local Motion: KVNF Live Sessions Welcomes the Wood Brothers

    The Wood Brothers join KVNF’s Live Sessions for an intimate conversation on creativity, trust, and mindful music-making, plus live performances from their new album Puff of Smoke.

  32. Local Motion: Beauty, Books, and Belonging: Lupita McClanahan and the Paonia Literary Project

    Diné elder Lupita McClanahan shares stories from Canyon de Chelly, the Long Walk, and the “beauty way,” followed by a visit with Paonia Books’ nonprofit, the Paonia Literary Project, where we explore ho books, stories, and community events can, expand our perspectives, enrichen our lives, and…

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  33. Local Motion: Regional Roundup November 25th

    This week's Regional Roundup takes a look at how one Colorado family struggled with the loss of SNAP benefits during the recent government shutdown, the impact of immigrant detention on a Wyoming family, a Utah rancher shares her experiences of six decades of running cattle in her new memoir, and...

  34. Local Motion: Gloves Off on the Colorado River, Hands in the Soil in Gunnison

    This week’s Local Motion travels from a packed West Slope Water Summit in Montrose to a four-acre regenerative farm in Gunnison. Colorado River District GM Andy Mueller lays out a blunt case for protecting Western Slope water, and farmer Susan Wyman shows how Gunnison Gardens is training the next...

  35. LOCAL MOTION: Elevation Herbal Tea and Fields of Glory

    KVNF highlights two local farms during Mountain Harvest Festival

  36. LOCAL MOTION: Osito Farms and Western Culture Creamery

    KVNF highlights two local farms during Mountain Harvest Festival

  37. Local Motion: Candidate profiles for the Montrose Board of County Commissioners

    KVNF's Brody Wilson interviewed Montrose County Commissioner Scott Mijares and BOCC candidate Kirsten Copeland at Studio M in Montrose.Mijares will be on the Montrose County Election ballot this November. The Commissioner in his first year is facing a recall. If the recall effort is successful he...

  38. Local Motion: Gunnison Outdoor Resources Protection Act (GORP )

    Western Slope Conservation Center played a big part in drafting the conservation legislation that will impact Delta County

  39. Local Motion: Lights, Locals, Action: The Ridgway Independent Film Festival Turns Eleven

    The Ridgway Independent Film Festival returns for its 11th year, blending mountain-town creativity with global storytelling. Meet several filmmakers from this year's festivel and explore how a small town keeps its big-screen spirit alive.

  40. Local Motion: Western Colorado Community Foundation and Tri-County Health Network's Mental Health Scholarships

    The Western Colorado Community Foundation and Tri-County Health Network are building stronger communities on the Western Slope. From scholarships and outdoor education for youth to behavioral health funds that make counseling affordable, these local efforts show the power of neighbors helping...

  41. Local Motion: Telluride Jazz Festival

    This week on local motion KVNF’s Ashley Krest and Andrea Castillo take you into the heart of Telluride for the 48th Annual Telluride Jazz Festival. We feature interviews with musicians and the community members who keep the spirit of jazz alive.

  42. Local Motion: Public Lands, Public Voices

    This week on Local Motion, we hear from public lands expert Walt Dabney, who’s speaking in Ridgway and Montrose about the urgent need to protect federal lands. Then we sit down with local playwright and journalist Marty Durlin ahead of her upcoming community cabaret, 50 Years of Songs.

  43. LOCAL MOTION: Delta Health closes labor and delivery unit

    Public comments opposing the move and a candid interview with Delta Health CEO Jonathan Cohee on why the unit is closing

  44. Local Motion: Regional Round-up with Maeve Conran (Ep 116)

    Local Motion featuring a Regional Roundup from Rocky Mountain Community Radio's Maeve Conran.

  45. Local Motion: Americans Abroad - Why some are leaving and what it means for the communities they join

    This week on Local Motion we explore why some Americans choose to leave the U.S. for life abroad. Five guests share personal stories, from seeking safety, opportunity, and belonging to confronting the economic and cultural impacts of expatriation—a privilege often limited to those with financial...

  46. Local Motion: Exclusive Interview with Senator Michael Bennet

    Senator Michael Bennet joined KVNF in Montrose to discuss healthcare, immigration, water policy, and why he’s running for governor. He shared concerns about rising healthcare costs, Medicaid cuts, and rural hospital closures, while also calling for a universal public option. Bennet reflected on...

  47. Local Motion: Regional Round-up with Maeve Conran

    Local Motion featuring a Regional Roundup from Rocky Mountain Community Radio's Maeve Conran.

  48. Local Motion: Fraud Part 2 - Not So Fast: What Every Coloradan Should Know About Fraud

    Scammers are targeting Coloradans with increasingly sophisticated tactics — from fake emails to AI-generated voices. In Part 2 of our fraud series, KVNF talks with Attorney General Phil Weiser, cybersecurity experts, and local leaders about how to recognize red flags, protect yourself, and…

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  49. Local Motion: Regional Round-up with Maeve Conran

    Local Motion featuring a Regional Roundup from Rocky Mountain Community Radio's Maeve Conran.

  50. Local Motion: Exclusive Interview with Attorney General Phil Weiser

    During a recent visit to Montrose, Colorado Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Phil Weiser sat down with KVNF's Brody Wilson for a wide-ranging conversation on issues that matter to rural Western Colorado. From healthcare access to water rights, Weiser laid out his vision for serving…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

In-depth local public affairs reporting and interviews from around the KVNF listening area. Link for podcast subscription: https://www.kvnf.org/podcast/local-motion/rss.xml

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Kori Stanton, Kate Redmond, Gavin Dahl

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