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NPR's Shannon Bond talks with Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure, known as "the Hendrix of the Sahara," about his new album.

After two decades as a coal miner, Jesse Erickson started Valley High Dispensary in Paonia with his wife Micah. Boulder Weekly editor Caitlin Rockett talks about her article on greenlining, as licensees in Colorado’s cannabis industry social equity program say the playing field is far from level. It’s 420 on Local Motion tonight at 6 on KVNF.

RubyJoyful performes live at KVNF in the Bamboo Room.

The last two names of the six U.S. soldiers killed in a Kuwait attack have been released by the Pentagon, and they are from California and Iowa. They died Sunday when a drone hit a command center in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait.

The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is fighting to save his job. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to political commentator Rafael Behr about whether the U.K. is becoming ungovernable.

The committee, across eight hearings, has built a case — more political than legal — that Trump, who continues to lie about the election and teases he'll run in 2024, is not fit to hold the office.

KVNF's weekly call-in gardening show.

This week we continue our celebration of National Poetry Month, listening to a program called With Good Reason on Walt Whitman at war plus a conversation about Edgar Allan Poe. The Pen and The Sword spotlights authors, journalists, poets, and other writers each Friday night at 6 on KVNF.

Simone Popperl is an editor for NPR's Morning Edition and Up First. She joined the network in March 2019, and since then has pitched and edited stories on everything from the legacy of burn pits in Iraq, to never-ending "infrastructure week," to California towns grappling with climate change, to American alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin's ascendance to the top of her sport. She led Noel King's reporting on the early days of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Steve Inskeep's reporting from swing states in the lead up to the 2020 Presidential Election, and Leila Fadel's field reporting from Kentucky on the end of Roe v. Wade.

CDOT and Gunnison County have opened County Road 26 as a detour around the US 50 middle-bridge closure for local traffic. According to a CDOT press release, crews worked over the weekend to improve and open the Lake City Cutoff between Montrose and Gunnison. Pilot cars will lead passenger vehicles through the detour two times a day in each direction.