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Every Friday night at 6, KVNF highlights writers. This week Aspen Daily News editor-in-chief Megan Tackett talks with Gavin Dahl about her piece on local Ukrainians, Dave Marston of Writers on the Range shares his latest column A Tale of Two Western Counties, Art Goodtimes shares his poem Avalanche, and comedian Brent Gill chats with Gavin ahead of his gig in Montrose at Healthy Rhythm Gallery.

There were loud calls for gun reform in Colorado after the mass shooting at a Boulder supermarket. Lawmakers delivered on some requests. Other new laws are still in the works a year later. For Capitol Coverage, Scott Franz reports on the ongoing recovery from that tragedy, as well as some new efforts launching this year to tackle gun violence. Plus, are old cans of paint accumulating in your basement or shed? Kate Redmond reports there is a Colorado State program that can help you with that.

Bracken Creek joins Taya Jae live in the Paonia studio to share where they find inspiration and invite everyone to join them for some porch jams.

1-hr Pledge Drive edition of KVNF's live call-in gardening show

Today we continue our 4-part series on Fear.

Do you remember the last time you heard a helicopter’s whirring rotors in the distance, so distinct from its other flying cousins? Once the machine appears in the sky, you have to wonder: “Where is it going? Where did it come from? What happened?”

For our next story in our Rocky Mountain Community Radio reporting collaboration on affordable housing, KSJD’s Sofia Stuart-Rasi reports on how the only shelter in Montezuma County for people experiencing homelessness fits into the complicated housing crisis in southwest Colorado.

State Senator Chris Hansen (D-Denver) shares an update on the state’s Joint Budget Committee and talks about his bipartisan legislation modernizing electric transmission infrastructure to meet clean energy goals in Colorado. Plus KVNF's Gavin Dahl asks him what he wants voters in the Third Congressional District to know about working across the aisle with State Senator Don Coram (R-Montrose), who is expected to challenge Lauren Boebert in the 2022 Congressional election.

This week on Local Motion, KGNU news director Shannon Young looks into the growing problem of drug overdoses. More than a dozen overdose deaths this year in Boulder County were caused by fentanyl. She speaks to Colorado Sun journalists Jennifer Brown and Olivia Prentzel who published an investigative series about the drug in November. Plus CU-Denver professor Marty Otanez is project coordinator of Naloxone Champions.

Six months have passed since Delta County Commissioners began the project to refurbish a building they bought, to turn into a new library in Delta. Kate Redmond reports the project just got more expensive. Plus, climate change is having an impact on the state’s agricultural sector, including the fruit grown here on the Western Slope. KUNC's Rae Solomon has the story.