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Airport noise group on verge of cancellation after Louisville ejects over lack of trust and progress
Citing frustrations with airport-owner Jefferson County over a lack of progress in reducing or addressing airport noise, the Louisville City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to join a growing effort to dissolve the roundtable.
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New Era Colorado
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Chalkbeat Colorado
KUNC’s In The NoCo is a daily window to the communities along the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
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!["Part of my job [as a barback] was to kind of hang out until they actually needed me," says Eric Turner, pictured on the left. "And the way they kept me there was to keep feeding me alcohol." Turner, now a certified addiction technician, was featured in journalist Ryan Spencer's in-depth reporting on the drug and alcohol epidemic plaguing Colorado's mountain communities.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d012b5a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1873x1054+0+0/resize/480x270!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F4a%2F39%2F70d80f87473e9603f9196979d532%2Feric-and-ryan.jpeg)
Courtesy of Ryan Spencer and Eric TurnerColorado may rank at the top with regard to physical fitness. But when it comes to mental health, Coloradans are struggling. On today’s In The NoCo we discuss how a culture of drug and alcohol use in mountain resort communities can negatively affect the mental health of those who live and work there. -
Tanya Paquet/UnsplashGreeley farmer Sean Short has created a sustainable chicken farm with a mixture of fish farming and hydroponics. And he’s bringing at-risk young people into the fold to learn how. On today’s In the NoCo we listen back to a conversation about aquaponic chicken farming.
!["Part of my job [as a barback] was to kind of hang out until they actually needed me," says Eric Turner, pictured on the left. "And the way they kept me there was to keep feeding me alcohol." Turner, now a certified addiction technician, was featured in journalist Ryan Spencer's in-depth reporting on the drug and alcohol epidemic plaguing Colorado's mountain communities.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ba2121f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1873x1054+0+0/resize/960x540!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F4a%2F39%2F70d80f87473e9603f9196979d532%2Feric-and-ryan.jpeg)
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Last year, lawmakers handed Gov. Jared Polis a major defeat when they rejected his controversial plan to tackle Colorado’s housing crisis. Now, a similar set of proposals is advancing in the legislature despite bipartisan opposition. Polis signed one proposal into law Monday that will ban occupancy limits statewide, but the rest of his housing proposals face an uncertain future. -
Earth Day is fast approaching and no Coloradan can forget it. There are a staggering number of opportunities across Northern Colorado to get involved with and learn more about the local environment. Choose your own eco-adventure—or a few—from our handpicked list! -
Federal authorities have indicted the owners of a Colorado funeral home on criminal charges for fraudulently obtaining pandemic relief funds from the U.S. government. The husband and wife already face state charges of corpse abuse after 190 decaying bodies were discovered in their funeral home's storage building last year. The new charges Monday against Jon and Carie Hallford underscore their alleged lies, money laundering, forgery and manipulation over the past four years that devastated grieving family members. -
Reporting on underrepresented communities requires care and nuance. Journalists who come from those communities are often best suited to cover them – but sometimes that comes with a cost. Today on In The NoCo, we listen back to our conversation with Lori Lizarraga, co-host of NPR's Code Switch.
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Vice President Kamala Harris made an appearance in Las Vegas on Monday, touting President Joe Biden's record in preserving reproductive rights and framing Donald Trump's choices for Supreme Court justices as the reason Roe v. Wade was overturned. -
Vision Zero is a European-inspired program which aims to eliminate traffic accidents by 2050. Las Vegas a few other cities in our region that are participating in the program. -
For the first time, the federal government is putting limits on “forever chemicals” called PFAS in the nation’s drinking water – a move that will protect communities across the Mountain West. -
A federal judge in the Mountain West recently ruled in favor of wild horse advocates who sued federal land managers for failing to stick to their own rules. -
Solar and wind power is surging in the Mountain West but there’s plenty of room to grow, study findsA new report shows wind and solar power account for more of America’s energy than ever before. Some states in the Mountain West are helping lead the charge.
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