Young people around the county, including here in Colorado, have been plaintiffs in lawsuits aimed at combating climate change but, as KGNU’s Roz Brown reports, a decision by Congress last week may impact those legal challenges. Then, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we hear a poem by a Boulder-based poet. On Resistance Radio, two former graduate students from the University of Denver Josef Korbel School of International Studies explain a letter they’ve written to the dean of the school asking for debt reduction.

 

 

The Morning Magazine features local news headlines, stories and features and broadcasts on KGNU Monday through Friday 8.04-8.30am.

Get the scoop on the Womxn’s march happening tomorrow in Denver followed by a report from last night’s public meeting in Longmont on air quality. To round out the show, we’ll hear about the business of mental health, with a local psychotherapist who’ll speak later in the day in Boulder about the propagation of pharmaceuticals when it comes to mental health and some of the myths underlying their popularity.

 

 

The Morning Magazine features local news headlines, stories and features and broadcasts on KGNU Monday through Friday 8.04-8.30am.

One of the researchers monitoring air quality at Boulder Reservoir shares what they’ve found over the last three years and discusses the connection between air quality and climate. Then, two regular Thursday morning features, a cannabis news update with Leland Rucker and Radio Nibbles with John Lehndorff.

 

 

The Morning Magazine features local news headlines, stories and features and broadcasts on KGNU Monday through Friday 8.04-8.30am.

We speak with former state Representative and Executive Director of Colorado Rising, Joe Salazar, about an air quality panel he’ll participate in this week and the strategies groups like Colorado Rising are using address fracking in the state. Then, an interview with author Dana Fisher about her new book American Resistance: From the Women’s March to the Blue Wave and what will happen to the resistance movement after the 2020 elections.

 

 

The Morning Magazine features local news headlines, stories and features and broadcasts on KGNU Monday through Friday 8.04-8.30am.

We speak with the ACLU about their new Bring Our Neighbors Campaign focusing on criminal justice reform which highlights the large number who people who find themselves in jail, before they’ve been found guilty of a crime, because they can’t pay what are often small bonds. Then, we speak with a participant at last week’s decolonization event at CU about how colonial forces are still at work in North America.

 

 

The Morning Magazine features local news headlines, stories and features and broadcasts on KGNU Monday through Friday 8.04-8.30am.

We hear about an interfaith panel discussion happening in Denver aimed at addressing the bitter political, religious and cultural division nationwide and here in Colorado. Then, we learn about a series of upcoming performances highlighting the reality of day-to-day life for undocumented immigrants in our community.

 

 

The Morning Magazine features local news headlines, stories and features and broadcasts on KGNU Monday through Friday 8.04-8.30am.

We speak with the Audubon Rockies Habitat Hero coordinator in advance of their Bird-Friendly, Climate-Friendly Conference in Fort Collins that teaches participants about the connection between helping birds and helping combat climate change. We also hear from a professor from the University of Denver who teaches Islamic studies on why we need to be questioning the current rhetoric coming from the White House towards Iran.

 

 

The Morning Magazine features local news headlines, stories and features and broadcasts on KGNU Monday through Friday 8.04-8.30am.

We’ll hear from a cardiologist who has written a book trying to help the public become more informed about some of the most common heart surgeries and interventions. Then, we hear about an upcoming conference on decolonization at CU.

 

 

The Morning Magazine features local news headlines, stories and features and broadcasts on KGNU Monday through Friday 8.04-8.30am.

We get a report from last night’s Boulder City Council meeting where there was unanimous agreement that a comprehensive approach to homelessness is long overdue – but no concrete proposals were adopted.

 

 

The Morning Magazine features local news headlines, stories and features and broadcasts on KGNU Monday through Friday 8.04-8.30am.

This November Coloradoans will decide whether or not to allow the reintroduction of wolves to the state. We speak with one of the measure’s proponents. Then, we continue our look at the local news crisis with a discussion with one of the panelists speaking at tonight’s event at the Denver Public Library looking at the struggles professional journalism is facing.

 

 

The Morning Magazine features local news headlines, stories and features and broadcasts on KGNU Monday through Friday 8.04-8.30am.