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Show Summary – Western Skies #95– March 14, 2006
DONKEY VS. ELEPHANT
Eric Whitney has updates on some of Colorado's 2006 elections. [LISTEN]
CAPITAL COVERAGE
State legislators debate ethics complaints and the budget. Eric Whitney
and Dan Costello report. [LISTEN]
BRIDGING WILDLIFE'S "BERLIN WALL"
Development along Interstate 70 has exploded since the late seventies, isolating
once healthy populations of moose, elk, bear and other animals like the
endangered lynx. Aspen Public Radio's Kirk Siegler reports. [LISTEN]
GALE NORTON RESIGNS
Last Friday Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton resigned. Norton, who
served as Colorado's Attorney General for most of the 1990s, was the first
woman to serve as Interior Secretary, a cabinet position with great influence
of western states. To get some perspective on Norton's tenure and departure
we talked to Walt Hecox, a professor in the economics and environmental
science programs at Colorado College. [LISTEN]
THE COLONEL WHO TAMED TALL AFAR
Eric Whitney interviews Colonel H.R. McMaster, of Fort Carson's Third Armored
Cavalry Regiment (Third ACR) about the troops' experience in the city of
Tall Afar, Iraq. McMaster says the Third ACR made great progress taming
Tall Afar. [LISTEN]
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