News

Headlines:

Rock slide closes McClure Pass at Paonia Reservoir

News from the Legislature as the session winds down:

• Elections bill passes, heads to Governor Hickenlooper
• Medicaid Expansion passes both Houses  
• Gray water bill passes

Other News:

• Local farmer Jere Lowe on how marijuana should be regulated
• ISeeChange: Carrots, tulips, cherries, kestrals, the First Red Flag Warning and other signs of spring
  

Aired Sunday, May 5th, 2013 Watching the congregation of birds in the back yard, I celebrate these creatures as talismans, blessings and messengers.

Headlines:

• Renewable Energy bills for rural electrical associations awaits governor’s signature
• Small plane crash-lands on Highway 50 in North Delta
• Williams cited for leak by state
• NASA and CU invite you to send your name to Mars (find web link below)
• Migratory Bird Day is May 11 (find web link below)
• Legislature to end on a High Note
  

Headlines:

• Chicken Farm Redux: Delta County Commissioners hear more evidence in Western Slope Layers case
• Uranium mines get license from state
• Chesnik pleads guilty to $400,000 theft from Town of Paonia
• Crawford resident Craig Childs wins Orion Book Award
• Cockers choose Teacher of the Year in North Fork

Headlines:

• Marijuana tax becomes a sticking point in the Legislature
• Billionaire land swap proposal  – but it’s not from Bill Koch
• No charges for Delta cops accused of excessive force
• High Country News’ Emily Guerin on training ranchers to be firefighters
  

Headlines:

• Governor signs ASSET bill into law
• Battlement Mesa meeting addresses Parachute Creek Leak
• New EPA figures say emissions control has reduced the impact of natural gas industry on climate change
• Dominguez-Escalante conservation area council needs members
• Jim Elder announces for DMEA District 4
• Telluride residents say no to uranium mines at BLM meeting
  

Headlines:

• Parachute Creek hydrocarbon leak containment efforts continue
• Avalanche Center report on Loveland slide suggests human error
• iSeeChange: What IS a normal spring?
  

Saturn…The ringed planet. The sixth planet from the Sun; second largest in the Solar System behind Jupiter; and the one that evokes the most vivid images in our thoughts. It is an unforgettable sight, even in a small telescope.

From now until early May, Saturn will be the brightest it has been for more than 5 years. It rises in the east as the Sun sets and will be visible all night long.

Headlines:

• Pinon Ridge approved by state; first new uranium mill in the U.S. in more than three decades
• Authorities tie Grand Junction drug ring to Mexico kingpin
• Court upholds firing of medical marijuana patient for off-the-job use
• CU President won’t honor student wishes to divest fossil fuels companies
• Western Slope Skies: Viewing Saturn will be a treat in the next few weeks