Morning Magazine Podcast Archives - KGNU Community Radio

Local headlines, news interviews and features, broadcast weekday mornings on KGNU 8.04-8.30am. Today’s show features an interview with Lisa Cutter, the Democratic candidate in House District 25 and an interview with Michael Hobbes, a Huffington Post reporter who is in Boulder today as part of a HuffPo listening tour across America, hearing how communities are dealing with the housing crisis.

Local news and headlines heard on KGNU Monday through Friday 8.04-8.30am.     Today’s show features an interview with CU law professor Violeta Chapin on a Supreme Court hearing on an immigration detention case, Nielsen v. Preap.

Local headlines, news interviews and features, broadcast weekday mornings 8.04-8.30am.     Today’s show looks ahead to an event in Boulder this Sunday, Women of Resolution a performance where members of the Colorado State Legislature read the stories of women in Sanctuary in Colorado. The reading will be followed by a poetic response from national slam poet winner Dominique Christina and an interfaith panel of Sanctuary Movement leaders including Jeanette Vizguerra.

Local headlines, news interviews and features, broadcast weekday mornings 8.04-8.30am. Today’s show looks at a new survey of Colorado voters by the Colorado Health Foundation and Kaiser Family Foundation on issues they’re most concerned about in the mid-term elections. We also hear from Alison Macklin, VP of education and innovation at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains who has a new book that is being released this week. It’s called Making Sense of It: A Guide to Sex for Teens – and their parents.

Local headlines, news interviews and features, broadcast weekday mornings 8.04-8.30am.     Today’s show features a conversation with Boulder County sheriff Joe Pelle on Boulder ballot measure 1 A which would replace an existing .185 percent flood sales tax, expiring in 2019, with a tax of the same value. The $50 million in revenue over five years would fund the building of an alternative sentencing facility and pay for upgrades to the Boulder County Jail.

Local headlines, news interviews and features, broadcast weekday mornings 8.04-8.30am.   Today’s show features voices from Sunday’s event in Boulder welcoming home the Arapaho people as part of the city’s Indigenous People’s Day events. We also hear from Dusti Gurule of COLOR (Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights) about what’s next after the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation to the Supreme Court.  

Local headlines, news interviews and features, broadcast weekday mornings 8.04-8.30am.     Today’s show features an interview with Billie Sutton of the Southern Arapaho in Oklahoma who will participate in a welcome back ceremony at Boulder High on Sunday, honoring and recognizing Boulder as the traditional land of the Arapaho. We also hear about efforts to identify remains of migrants who died trying to cross the US Mexico border.

Local news, features and stories from KGNU’s Morning Magazine, which airs weekdays 8-8:30am.   Today’s show features an interview with Dr. Sandra Steingraber, a public health researcher who contributed to a body of research into the health impacts of fracking that ultimately lead New York State to ban fracking altogether. We also hear about burial practices past and present with historian Mary Reilly McNellan.

Local news, features and stories from KGNU’s Morning Magazine, which airs weekdays 8-8:30am.     Today’s show features a report from last night’s Boulder City Council meeting where concerns were raised about increased methamphetamine use in the city. We hear from environmental activists from Latin America who will discuss fracking at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights happening this week at CU Boulder. Make Them Hear You and Naturally round out this morning’s show.

Local news, features and stories from KGNU’s Morning Magazine, which airs weekdays 8-8:30am.     Today’s show features a DIA worker who is participating in a global day of action today calling for better working conditions and higher wages for airport workers. We hear about Boulder’s quality of life survey and concerns about the future of community access TV at Denver Open Media.