Maeve Conran

On this Local Motion, we join Maeve Conran, the Rocky Mountain Community Radio coalition’s managing editor, for our regional news roundup. We hear today from KVNF’s Taya Jae and her recent conversation with author and naturalist Craig Childs about Chaos Theory, the theme of his latest Dark Night event. We also hear an audio postcard on an American flag that's been flying above Palisade for a century, thanks to a group of volunteers. A Navajo musician is channeling John Cage and his Navajo ancestors to honor those lost in the Long Walk. Finally, we learn about a world record-setting skiing-in-jeans event in Wyoming.

On this Local Motion, we’ll hear about the prominence of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado politics in the 1920s, a collaboration between a Colorado printmaker and a Texas musician on the children's book “Who Built the Moon? (KSJD)” and spoken word poetry from a world poetry slam champion, a poet laureate of Dallas, Texas.

This week on Local Motion, we join Maeve Conran, the Rocky Mountain Community Radio coalition’s managing editor, for a regional news roundup on the Colorado River Compact and the Colorado River Drought Taskforce, as well as a feature on naturalist Steve Jones, who won a Nebraska Book Award for writing about the sandhills.

On this Local Motion, Rocky Mountain Radio's Managing Editor, Maeve Conran looks at how book banning and censorship are on the rise in our region.

On this Local Motion, Rocky Mountain Radio's Managing Editor, Maeve Conran looks at Colorado’s labor history, veterans’ stories and silent movies.

On this Local Motion, Maeve Conran, the Rocky Mountain Radio Coalition’s managing editor, returns to look at the pressure high school students feel to succeed academically. Among this episode's features, Conran shares a report on why the family of a teen, killed in Parkland, FL in 2018, is touring the country with an anti-gun violence message, as well as a report on how a teen production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee persevered.

This regional roundup with Maeve Conran takes a look at dryland farming and indigenous crops.

On this Local Motion, Rocky Mountain Radio's Managing Editor, Maeve Conran looks to the skies. This regional roundup report looks at a recent AstroFest in southeast Utah, as well as discussions around trauma from school shootings, COVID and climate change. Later, hear from DACA recipients as they read excerpts of their monologues from the Motus Theater troupe.

Today you’ll hear from Maeve Conran, managing editor for the Rocky Mountain Community Radio Coalition. Maeve will discuss a variety of topics hitting the region, from legislation around gender affirming surgery for trans youth, to how students marched on the Colorado state legislature demanding action around gun violence.