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Morning Magazine Podcast Monday September 16, 2019

Hemp is taking the Colorado agriculture industry by storm and gaining a reputation as a highly valuable, supposedly drought tolerant cash crop. But is the plant really as ideal for a state facing severe water scarcity as it’s being made out to be? Or is the outside-the-box thinking hemp is […]

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Morning Magazine Podcast Thursday September 12, 2019

Next week communities around the country will be celebrating electric vehicles as part of National Drive Electric Vehicle Week. We speak with Shoshana Lew, Director of the Colorado Department of Transportation, who says EV usage is on the rise in the state due to recent legislation. The Morning Magazine features […]

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Morning Magazine Podcast Monday September 9, 2019

Fifty years ago this week a nuclear explosion was detonated deep underground in Garfield County Colorado. It was Project Rulison and it was part of an effort to find peaceful uses for nuclear weaponry and it was trying to unlock natural gas. Ultimately that gas was unusable due to radiation […]

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Morning Magazine Podcast Friday September 6, 2019

Over a two-day span in May 1974, six former and current University of Colorado students were killed in two Boulder car bombings. They became known as Los Seis de Boulder. All six had been involved in Chicano activism on campus which culminated in students staging a sit-in in one of […]

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Morning Magazine Podcast Thursday September 5, 2019

A new report from the Colorado Health Institute and 18 other state wide organization shows that our housing situation and our health are very closely connected.  The report says that many Coloradans living in unstable and unaffordable housing are facing major health obstacles.     The Morning Magazine features local […]

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Morning Magazine Podcast Wednesday September 4, 2019

Last week Maplight, a non partisan group that looks at money in politics, released a report looking at spending in the Democratic primary race in the US senate race in Colorado and particularly the role of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in that race. Last week’s report coincided with another […]

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Morning Magazine Podcast Tuesday September 3, 2019

In the Guardian US edition published on August 21st, journalist Will Parrish wrote about how county commissioners from Colorado traveled to Washington DC in March to meet with Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and a lobbyist for the Jordan Cove Project. The proposed Jordan Cove Energy Project links Colorado to the […]

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