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Local Motion
Tuesdays 6-6:30 PM, Saturdays 10-10:30 AM

In-depth local public affairs reporting and interviews from around the KVNF listening area.  Local Motion airs on Wednesdays from 6-6:30 pm and Saturdays from 10-10:30 am.  The program is hosted by members of the KVNF News Team.

Latest Episodes
  • We’re amidst the season of giving...and in that spirit, today we highlight one of KVNF's favorite episodes from this past year. Back in May, KVNF's Cassie Knust and Taya Jae teamed up to look into local and regional efforts in fighting food insecurity.
  • On this Local Motion, we’ll hear about why some people are choosing a living Christmas tree this holiday season. We also visit the Ute Mountain Ute Park in southwest Colorado. Maeve Conran shares a story on the pushback against efforts to ban children's books in Garfield County. Finally, we learn more about pedestrian dignity.
  • Local Motion Host Lisa Young speaks with Darnell Place-Wise, Executive Director for Delta Health Foundation, about the mission and upcoming Gala for the 21 year old nonprofit in Delta, County.
  • On this Local Motion, we visit Montrose, where we take a closer look at some efforts being made toward affordable housing. KVNF's Cassie Knust sits down with Jace Hochwalt, the Planning Services Manager for the City of Montrose. Jace delves into his definition of affordable housing as a city planner, some creative solutions he’s learned about, and what the city is doing to tackle this issue impacting communities across the country.
  • 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.
  • On Local Motion, we celebrate Native American Indian Heritage Month. We pay a visit to the Ute Indian Museum in Montrose where KVNF's Cassie Knust meets CJ Brafford, the museum's director and care keeper. We'll explore the history of the Ute tribe in our region and what efforts the museum is making to preserve that history. A high school in our region decided to create a Navajo language class. In a special report for the Mountain West News Bureau, a journalist in our region recently spoke with her 84-year-old grandmother about her experience in U.S.-supported boarding schools. Diné photographer and artist Eugene Tapahe shares about his Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project to bring awareness to Native American causes through the healing power of the traditional Ojibwe jingle dress dancers.
  • In this week’s edition we’ll learn about the latest on the Paonia Skate Park which includes a renovation of the skatepark with beautifully crafted concrete skate features. Host Lisa Young speaks with community members Jay Canode, Max Heepke and Taydin Pettit on what the new park means to the community.
  • 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.
  • This year’s school board elections in both Montrose and Delta County have major impacts on the respective communities. KVNF reached out to the candidates in both counties, however not all candidates were interviewed. Some candidates did not respond while others did not respond to our request. If we missed any candidates, we sincerely apologize.Delta County School Board President Dan Burke is running for re-election in newly drawn District 4. Burke is running against Hardy Hutto who lives in the Cedaredge area. KVNF did not hear back from Mr. Hutto at the time of this interview.This interview with Dan Burke is in addition to the interviews on our Local Motion: Meet the 2023 School Board Candidates.
  • In this Local Motion, we continue our coverage of the 2023 Coordinated Election taking place on November 7. We meet the 11 Montrose and Delta school board candidates…there are seven candidates in Montrose vying for four open seats, and four candidates in Delta running for three open seats.