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Election Day is fast approaching, and many Coloradans are still wondering about Proposition HH, a complex ballot measure with implications for TABOR refunds and property tax bills. The ballot measure has been the subject of much discussion — and some confusion.For Rocky Mountain Community Radio, K-O-T-O’s Gavin McGough (Mc-GOFF) spoke with state Senate President Steve Fenberg to parse the details.

Election Day is today. Drop off your ballot by 7 p.m. It is too late to mail in your ballot, but you can find more 2023 Election Information and reporting on the KVNF Election page. Montrose County Human Services is accepting applications for the Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP) until April 30. Delta Health has appointed Jonathan Cohee as its Chief Operating Officer, with 27 years of healthcare experience. Drowsy driving contributes to about 100,000 crashes annually, with an estimated 16% to 21% of fatal crashes involving driver fatigue.

Betsy Gaines Quammen discusses her new book with Taya Jae, on The Pen and The Sword.

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.

Unofficial election results are in from the Secretary of State’s office. Open enrollment began last week on Colorado’s health insurance marketplace. The National Park Service has completed a $126,000 project to improve the Elk Creek Marina boat ramp at Curecanti National Recreation Area (CURE) in Gunnison. Our nation’s veterans will be receiving a big “thank you” from the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Services. Theater can be a source of entertainment, humor and connection, but it can also be an opportunity to address difficult conversations. A commission has released recommendations to help respond to the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people.

Olathe looks to be the next small town in our area to allow the sale of retail and medical marijuana. Measures 2B and 2C — which respectively impose a 5% excise tax on the sale of retail marijuana products, and allow retail and medical shops to be established are poised to pass pending certification. Language in Measure 2B requires “pot” revenue to go to the Olathe Police Department, transportation infrastructure and parks and recreation.

You may fondly remember the classic Eighties science program Cosmos, narrated by the late great astrophysicist Carl Sagan. In the episode “The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean”, he famously uttered “we’re made of star stuff”. We are the products of nucleosynthesis, a set of processes that created the chemical elements, the building blocks of all we see and are.

The Black Canyon Boys & Girls Club in Montrose is set to begin the remodel of its first permanent facility, located in the former San Juan Cinema on East Main Street. The recent poisoning of a prairie dog colony at Top of the Pines has sparked controversy and concerns from neighboring residents and Ouray County leaders. In their last gesture of giving, members of the Delta Emblem Club, an auxiliary order of the Elks, presented a $2,500 check to the Delta Food Pantry. Montrose Community Dinners has served Thanksgiving dinner free of charge to the Montrose community for over two decades, expanding steadily with its growing patronage. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says long-term federal spending will be a big part of bringing down water use on farms and ranches in the face of climate change.

KVNF's weekly call in gardening show.