Neonicotinoids are widely used pesticides, but they kill bees and harm ecosystems. New rules would treat them more like controlled drugs, requiring something akin to a prescription for their use. My story aired on @npr.org's Morning Edition today. www.npr.org/2026/02/25/n...

To farmers it's a breakthrough: seeds treated with tiny amounts of neonicotinoid insecticides. But the chemicals still cause major ecosystem damage. CO's lawmakers try to strike a balance between protecting crops and protecting bees. My latest for @cprnews.bsky.social www.cpr.org/2026/02/19/f...

Colorado's newest Supreme Court justice Susan Blanco is the daughter of Iranian asylum seekers who wants to give everyone has equal access to justice. My latest story for @cprnews.bsky.social www.cpr.org/2026/02/17/s...

Statehouse reporters @bentebirkeland.bsky.social and @raedear1.bsky.social look at a suite of bills CO Dems have filed to push back against federal policies. www.cpr.org/2026/02/11/s...

On today's episode of @cprnews.bsky.social's Colorado Today podcast, you can hear me and the great @bentebirkeland.bsky.social discuss what state legislators are doing to push back against Trump Administration policies here in Colorado. www.cpr.org/podcast-epis... open.spotify.com/episode/0JDb...

Democrats in the Colorado state legislature are standing up a defense in the statehouse against the hostile federal policies of the Trump administration. My latest story for @cprnews.bsky.social is a collab with the great @bentebirkeland.bsky.social www.cpr.org/2026/02/11/s...

A proposal to bolster state vaccination recommendations passed its 1st hearing in the Colorado Senate this week. It’s meant to fill the gap left since federal guidelines diverged from vaccine science earlier this month. My latest story for @cprnews.bsky.social. www.cpr.org/2026/01/30/c...

🚨 Personal announcement alert! 🚨 This week I started a new job with Colorado Public Radio covering the state legislative session. You catch me down at the statehouse everyday until mid-May. And you can catch my work on the airwaves and at CPR.org.

It's official: Crisosto Apache is Colorado's first indigenous Poet Laureate. My latest for @cprnews.bsky.social Hat tip to the lovely @ryanhasaquestion.bsky.social for this collaboration. www.cpr.org/2026/01/28/c...

Colorado needs the right workforce to meet our climate goals. Part of the plan: climate career ed in the K-12 schools. My latest story for @cprnews.bsky.social follows students in one of the state's first climate literacy classes on a field trip to the thrift store. www.cpr.org/2026/01/19/h...

Exciting news! I'll be on a panel discussion for CSU's Soil Carbon Solutions Center THIS WEDNESDAY for a talk about all things climate workforce! Join this zoom discussion at noon on 12/10. Registration to attend the talk is open: lnkd.in/eEap3Ez2 I hope to see you there!

Happy December! My adventures in freelance & job searching continue. Exciting news this week: I spoke w/ @cprnews.bsky.social's @hayleemay.bsky.social for the most recent ep of Colorado Today about the state's first ever accounting of our climate workforce needs. www.cpr.org/podcast-epis...

Hitting Colorado's ambitious climate goals is going to take a lot of work over the next decade-plus... and it's going to take a lot of workers, too. My latest story, reported for @cprnews.bsky.social unpacks a new state report on this emerging climate workforce. www.cpr.org/2025/11/19/c...

My latest story is about Colorado's newly released Climate Workforce study, reported for @coloradopublic.bsky.social. An interesting follow up to my recent series on the rural climate workforce. Check it out! www.cpr.org/2025/11/19/c...

My story on the growing interest in geothermal energy networks – and the workforce we’ll need to build them - is on marketplace tech today! www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

Greener Pastures is my 3-part series about building the climate workforce in rural Colorado. This project is my very last set of stories for KUNC. www.kunc.org/greener-past...

The third and final story in my series about building the climate workforce in rural Colorado explores growing interest in geothermal energy networks and whether we have a ready workforce capable of building them. www.kunc.org/news/2025-11...

The 2nd story in my series on building the climate workforce in rural Colorado zooms in on an apprenticeship teaching aspiring ranchers to work in a hotter drier climate, and explores how climate adaptation is taught in agricultural education across the country. www.kunc.org/news/2025-11...

Greener Pastures, my 3-part series about building the climate workforce in rural Colorado, is out now. The first story explains why skilled tradespeople are some of the most vital and in-demand climate workers in Colorado's mountain towns. www.kunc.org/news/2025-11...

My 2nd story on educating the rural climate workforce aired on @marketplace.org Morning Report today. It looks at how we're preparing future ag producers to farm and ranch in a hotter, drier climate. Regenerative ranching apprenticeship? Indeed! www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

Hi! 👋 My latest story digs into the high demand for skilled tradespeople in the rural mountain towns of Colorado... and why these jobs are a crucial part of the climate workforce of the future. It aired on Marketplace by APM yesterday afternoon. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

Wow. I can't believe it's over. Yesterday I was told that my job as rural and small communities reporter at KUNC is being eliminated because of the federal government's cuts to the CPB.

Last month the USDA ended all efforts to level the playing field for minorities & women in agriculture, declaring they've already "sufficiently addressed" discrimination. Mission accomplished. BIPOC farmers in Colorado might have a bone to pick. My latest for KUNC. www.kunc.org/news/2025-08...

The EPA under President Trump wants to scrap the $7 billion Solar For All program that makes solar accessible for moderate-to-low-income families. In Colorado, the $156 million grant would have expanded solar to 20K families in the next 5 years. My latest for KUNC. www.kunc.org/news/2025-08...

We often think of extreme heat as a problem in our cities - seethe "urban heat island effect." But a new study points out the risks are just as relevant - maybe just a little different - in rural areas. My latest story for KUNC. www.kunc.org/news/2025-08...

Burn scar mushrooms cause a craze among foragers in the mountains of the West. They're prolific. They're delicious. And they only pop up after wildfires burn through a forest. My latest story for KUNC: www.kunc.org/news/2025-07...

KGNU, Boulder’s flagship public radio station for more than 40 years, expects to lose 15.5% of its operating budget after Congressional Republicans eliminated federal funding for public media for the next two years // Story by @bamesjurky.bsky.social

Public Media will thrive despite the rescission vote because we provide a unique, beloved and vital public service. To wit: My story about federal cuts to sustainable ag research airs on @npr.org this afternoon. Take time to love on your local public media today! www.npr.org/2025/07/21/n...

Farmers and ranchers are feeling the cuts to federal climate spending. One of the most long-reaching impacts might be the cancelation of funding for ag science research into how producers can most effectively adapt to the changing climate. My latest story for KUNC. www.kunc.org/news/2025-07...

Almost 3 months since a major blowout at a Chevron well in Galeton, Colorado. The company has finished investigating the root cause of the accident. But questions linger about the public health impact and how the company will be held accountable. My latest for KUNC. www.kunc.org/news/2025-06...

Why are summer reading lists a thing? As if we don't read any other time? But... since it is a thing, KUNC has one! Our lovingly hand-crafted Summer Reading List has all the non-AI generated book recs you'll need for, uh, reading season? (seriously, it's a great list) www.kunc.org/news/summerr...

My story on @npr.org Morning Edition today: Rural water systems are scrambling to get PFAS out of the water supply. The Trump admin just softened some PFAS regs, but fed funding for decontamination is under threat. Rural water users could be left holding the bag. www.npr.org/2025/06/17/n...

Here it is! My #climatesolutionsweek story for @npr.org Don’t touch that wrecking ball! Dismantling buildings piece by piece and reusing the parts can shrink the bloated carbon footprint of the built environment www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...

My latest story for KUNC is part of @npr.org 's #Climatesolutionsweek! It's about how taking buildings apart piece by piece is a climate solution that's happening here in Colorado. Local version of this story here: www.kunc.org/news/2025-06...

My latest story for @marketplace.org Morning Report is out - on the impact of Trump energy policies on the rural solar industry. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

I co-hosted this episode of Knowledge Unbound with the inimitable @dewsbury.bsky.social About an extraordinary educational collab btwn descendants of the Sand Creek Massacre & Amache, the Japanese incarceration camp in SE Colorado. Thanks for letting me share the host seat, Bry!

We talk to Indigenous Studies teacher Greg Spottedbird Lamebull and Mariko Rooks. I cohosted this episode with Rae Solomon of KUNC, NPR's affiliate in Northern Colorado. You can catch all our episodes at knowledgeunbound.transistor.fm, youtube.com/@SEASProgam, and Spotify.

🐑 My story on the sheep industry's optimistic, tentative embrace of tariffs aired on @npr.org yesterday morning. 🐑 Were you were too busy eating hot dogs to tune into public radio? Psshh I got you 😉: www.npr.org/2025/05/26/n...

My story on rural entrepreneurship aired on @marketplace.org yesterday. Fun stuff! Definitely not one of those bummer stories. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

Braggadocio alert! The KUNC newsroom won 6 regional Murrows! I got the nod for work on a youth homelessness series. My work was also part of our awards for continuing coverage (wildfires) and the biggie: overall newsroom excellence! So damn proud of this newsroom! www.kunc.org/station-news...

Got my steel-toed boots on this morning to go on location at a deconstruction site in Boulder

I visited the Library of Congress recently. It is a cathedral to free thought and scholarship. Incredibly moved that our country, at one point, valued those things so much that it built this incredible, beautiful, ornate monument to knowledge. We are losing so much. apnews.com/article/dona...

“The economy is in pretty uncertain shape right now,” Weiler said. “I'd like to believe that rural entrepreneurs can be a bright spot again in pulling us out of a potential downturn.” The high drama of a rural pitch competition: my latest story for KUNC: www.kunc.org/news/2025-05...

The tariff situation has been chaotic, and for most farmers, economically frustrating. But there's a sector of the industry that's pretty pleased. Hint: it's small, white and wooly. My latest story for KUNC. www.kunc.org/news/2025-04...

The tariff situation has been chaotic, and for most farmers, economically frustrating. But there's a sector of the industry that's pretty pleased. Hint: it's small, white and wooly. My latest story for KUNC. www.kunc.org/news/2025-04...

Great reporting by Natalie Skowlund here on the mental health impacts of deportations and deportation rhetoric.

My colleague KUNC Emma VandenEinde took to the open skies in an actual *helicopter* (😳) to bring you this story on preparations for wildfire season. 🚁⛑️👨‍🚒 www.kunc.org/news/2025-04...

Just stumbled on a stash of my mom’s old love letters from the 1970’s… before she met my dad. And the blend of emotions I’ve got right now…! 🤭 🤫😱🥲 🧐🫨

Respectfully, who are these people who have *75 minutes* to absorb a NYT columnist chat podcast? 😳 And in what world is that an improvement on a tight 800 words?