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Valley Voices
by Marilyn Gleason
Valley Voices is one of KDNK's longest running public affairs shows featuring conversations about local, regional, national - and sometimes international - issues and events with host Marilyn Gleason.
Episodes
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Valley Voices | “In the Company of Wolves” invites community discussion
Local rancher Tony Vagneur and naturalist Delia Malone join Valley Voices host Marilyn Gleason and event producer Chip Comins for a lively talk about wolves and agriculture ahead of an event in Aspen.
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Valley Voices | Beekeeper Derrick Maness on a season of drought and bears
This year, drought and starving bears are taking some of the sweetness out of cultivating a traditional agricultural product. Colorado Mountain Honey owner and beekeeper Derrick Maness talks to KDNK's Marilyn Gleason.
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Valley Voices | Wildfire Collaborative reaches deeper into Garfield County
Sam Feuerborn joins Watershed Council's fire mitigation arm, discusses strategies.
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Valley Voices | Will Grandbois on small community movie theatres
On this episode of Valley Voices, Katalina Villarreal talks with Will Grandbois, the general manager of the Crystal Theatre Alliance, about the ever-changing film industry and what local community movie theatres have to offer.
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Valley Voices | Not Forgotten
On this episode of Valley Voices, we hear from a familiar voice on KDNK airwaves. Former news director Raleigh Burleigh shares a report from the U.S. border near Mexico, where he joined a volunteer search and rescue group in early June.
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Valley Voices | Domestic Violence Bill Reaches Legislature
On today's Valley Voices, we highlight a recent episode of Purplish from the Colorado Capital News Alliance on domestic violence. A bill advancing through Colorado's statehouse would require law enforcement officers to ask a set of 11 questions — 11 very specific questions, meant to measure...
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Valley Voices | Stephanie Soldner on music therapy for veterans
The Soldner Center for the Arts and Innovation was founded to honor Paul and Ginny Soldner, Stephanie's own parents. The center is comprised of five unique buildings, handcrafted by Paul and Ginny over forty years, and showcases a variety of works and practices. Later this month, the Soldner…
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Valley Voices | Breeze Richardson on NPR's historic free speech win
Last year, President Trump signed an executive order that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting stop allocating federal money to NPR, PBS, and their local member stations like KDNK. In response, NPR and several Colorado stations including Aspen Public Radio took the order to court, and last...
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Purplish: Colorado’s budget woes and the ballooning costs of Medicaid
The six lawmakers tasked with writing Colorado’s budget have an excruciating job this year — they must find about $1.5 billion in savings to keep the budget in balance, and understand that many of their cuts will have direct, human consequences. That’s because the state's Medicaid program, which...
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Valley Voices | Auden Schendler on climate change and his new book
Auden Schendler had a long career with the Aspen Skiing Company as the Environmental Affairs Director and recently published a book called Terrible Beauty. Schendler's long experience provided him razor sharp insight on climate change, corporate blame culture, and what it is to be a human being…
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Purplish: Honeybees and native pollinators under threat from insecticides
For a lot of farmers in Colorado, and across the country, insecticides known as neonicotinoids, or neonics, have been a game changer. But what’s been a breakthrough for some has been a nightmare for others. Neonics are being blamed for die-offs in domestic bees and native pollinators, and there’s...
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Valley Voices | America's Honey Queens know their bees-ness
The American Beekeeping Federation is a national organization that supports the interests of all beekeepers and the beekeeping industry in the United States. It also runs the American Honey Queen program, a national competition with the goal to promote beekeeping, increase national honey...
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Valley Voices| Hello from the Winter Olympics
KDNK's own Marilyn Gleason is abroad in Europe, enjoying the glamor and thrills of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. Come along with Marilyn as she meets friends and families of athletes, captures nail-biting races, and hops all over Europe.
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Valley Voices | Ski for SISU
News Director Marilyn Gleason speaks with Rachel Perkins of the Mt Sopris Nordic Council and John Armstrong, longtime board member. Ski for SISU is coming up this very weekend, and it's the Council's largest annual fundraiser. This episode is all about love of the great outdoors and humankinds...
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Valley Voices | Delia Malone with Colorado Wild
Delia Malone is an ecologist who works with Roaring Fork Audubon and Colorado Wild. She and Marilyn discuss Colorado Parks and Wildlife's plan for better coexistence with beavers, high rates of mortality among reintroduced gray wolves, and whether the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could take...
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Valley Voices | We Bring You An Hour Of Darkness
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...
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Valley Voices |Redistricting in Colorado and volunteer ambulance drivers in Ukraine
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...
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Valley Voices | Colorado Gives to local nonprofits
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...
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NPR reporter Kirk Siegler on the stories behind the stories
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…
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The Wild Horse Inmate Program is shutting down, leaving 100 of Colorado's wild horses in limbo
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.
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Valley Voices: Delia Malone of the Roaring Fork Audubon on Western Slope wildlife
Audubon chair Delia Malone discusses coexisting with wolves and bird migration.
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Valley Voices: Carter Neimeyer on wolf reintroduction in the Rockies
Carter Niemeyer is a wolf expert with more than 40 years of experience. He was part of the federal team that reintroduced wolves to Yellowstone National Park and Central Idaho in the '90s and was on the Technical Working Group that advised Colorado Parks and Wildlife during the Wolf Restoration…
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Valley Voices: Sheryl Barton and Smiling Goat Ranch
News Director Marilyn Gleason speaks with Sheryl Barton, the Executive Director of Smiling Goat Ranch, about the powers of equine therapy for those with PTSD and how connecting with nature can bring us back to ourselves.
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Valley Voices | Bret Adee, Beekeeper
Bret Adee, one of America’s biggest commercial beekeepers, talks about pesticides and bee health with Marilyn Gleason, just back from the American Beekeeping Federation conference.
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Valley Voices | Joe Van Wyk
Host Marilyn Gleason is joined by Joe Van Wyk ahead of his presentation and photo walk tomorrow in Carbondale. Joe's book is the The Mindful Photography Field Guide. In it he explores the connection between creativity and inner peace. We'll talk about smart phone photography techniques, chasing...
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Valley Voices | Paula Stepp and Kate Collins of the Middle Colorado Watershed Council
Paula Stepp and new executive director Kate Collins of the Middle Colorado Watershed Council talk to Marilyn Gleason about the region's pressing water issues.
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Valley Voices is one of KDNK's longest running public affairs shows featuring conversations about local, regional, national - and sometimes international - issues and events with host Marilyn Gleason.
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Valley Voices is one of KDNK's longest running public affairs shows featuring conversations about local, regional, national - and sometimes international - issues and events with host Marilyn Gleason.
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