Colorado's campaign season picked up a bit on Saturday at the Club 20 debates in Grand Junction, but Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx and U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper did no attend. Bente Birkeland from the Colorado Capitol News Alliance talked with Rocky Mountain Community Radio about who did show up, and what they said.

Montrose County Commissioner Sean Pond posted a list of local Democrats and Republicans that he believes have formed a "cross-party establishment" in Montrose.

Paonia farmer Laura Parker describes how an unseasonably warm March and subsequent summer drought disrupted her seed-growing operation.

When I was 18 and first worked as a river guide, I assumed I had to be as tough — or even tougher — than the guys I worked with.It was the early 2000s, when few women were guiding. Though I loved being on the river, I often felt isolated, thinking I had to work harder than anyone else to be taken seriously. I believed that in part because I didn’t know the stories of women who had come before me.Little by little, I began to hear about Georgie White, the first female guide on the Colorado River through Grand Canyon. She started Georgie’s Royal River Rats in the early 1950s and made a name for herself running huge motorboats — stocked with Coors and manned exclusively by Los Angeles firemen. Her trips were known to be raucous and so were her outfits, leopard prints preferred. But the stories sometimes made her seem more like a caricature, a wild and outrageous woman.

If you live in Ridgway you have seen Sue Husch everywhere: the Sherbino, the Second Chance thrift shop, Ridgway Rendezvous Arts & Craft Festival i. On Tuesday she was in Washington, D.C., receiving one of the National Park Service's highest partnership honors for a career most of her neighbors don't even know about.

In my classes and sessions I often get the question "Does this get easier?" I find that people are asking this about two different topics. One is about life - "Does mindfulness make life easier?" and two - "Does practicing mindfulness and being mindfully present, get easier?" The Answe to bor is yes, with explaination of course. We'll talk about the first topic today.

KVNF's weekly call-in gardening show. As the Worm Turns is now on Wednesday's @ 5 PM.

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“I feel like these two questions are at the heart of all creative process: What is here? What else is here?” In this episode, Rosemerry and Christie talk about Rosemerry’s new book, The Wonderment, and the four questions that are at the heart of it. How do questions drive a creative practice? We also talk about how to create art out of what is familiar and common, how paradox and metaphor work to create a larger lens for re-seeing the world, how sometimes we swing between loving and hating what we’ve written, and how to write poems about injustice and what is happening in the world without making them overtly polemic or divisively political.Poet and teacher Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is co-host of this podcast. She lives with her family on the banks of the wild San Miguel River in southwest Colorado. Her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, is on the Ritual app. Her poems have appeared on Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, Washington Post’s Book Club, and Carnegie Hall stage. Her recent collections: The Unfolding and The Wonderment. As poet laureate for Evermore, she helps others explore grief and love through poetry. Since 2006, she’s written a daily poem, sharing them on A Hundred Falling Veils.Rosemerry and Christie will be giving the closing keynote at the Grand Mesa Writer’s Symposium! Join them as they talk about how to nurture a creative practice in the midst of everyday chaos.The WondermentRosemerry’s Website