NOTE: Due to staff
and budget limitations, beginning December 2005 we will no longer be
making transcripts of Western Skies available. Transcripts of
previous editions remain available online.
Show Summary – Western Skies #106– April 20, 2006
H.S. STUDENTS WALK OUT FOR IMMIGRATION RIGHTS
Voices of Latino students in Denver who want greater rights for immigrants.
[LISTEN]
CAPITAL COVERAGE
More than a dozen immigration-related bills have been introduced in the
state legislature this year. Republicans say the majority party is making
them impossible to pass. Democrats say look at the record. [LISTEN]
CAPITAL COVERAGE PART II
A bill that would require lobbyists to report a lot more about who they
work for and what they're doing has made it through the House, but faces
tough sledding in the Senate. [LISTEN]
ARKANSAS RIVER FORUM SCIENTISTS TALK ABOUT THE PRESENT AND FUTURE HEALTH OF THE BASIN
A climatologist says to expect less water in the Arkansas over the long
term, and a fisheries biologist says go ahead and take one home for the
frying pan. Both are panelists at the annual Arkansas River Basin Forum
being held this week in Poncha Springs.
[LISTEN]
CONSERVATION ADVICE: MONGOLIAN HERDERS VISIT EL PASO COUNTY
One of the nation's most well preserved shortgrass prairies lies just a
few miles east of Colorado Springs, at the Nature Conservancy's Bohart Ranch.
The Ranch draws local kids on school trips . . . and visitors from around
the world. Recently, a team of scientists traveled here from Mongolia, to
study how conservation methods used on the ranch might slow the expansion
of the Gobi Desert. Shelley Schlender reports. [LISTEN]
TEEN ATTITUDES FROM ALAMOSA
Recent immigration rallies and demonstrations across Colorado have put a
lot of teenagers in the news. The media isn't something we ask them to comment
on much, but producer Miles Eddy is doing just that in Alamosa, He offers
these teen voices on the media. [LISTEN]
DOWNLOAD THE ENTIRE SHOW: WESTERN
SKIES-4-20-06.mp3 (7 MB)
SEND YOUR THOUGHTS AND SUGGESTIONS ABOUT WESTERN SKIES TO: eric@krcc.org • COMMENTARY GUIDELINES (PDF)
