Today: Montrose County and five others are urging the Interior Department to finalize a forty million dollar grant to secure Shoshone water rights, which they say are vital to the Western Slope’s agriculture, energy, and rural communities.

And later: We're remembering Andrea Gibson, Colorado's poet laureate and a fierce advocate for LGBTQ rights, who passed away on July 14th at forty-nine.

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