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Show Summary – Western Skies #148–
September 19, 2006
NEWSCAST
EPA LIKES NEW NAVAJO COAL PLANT - STATE SAYS NO TO S. PLATTE WATER AUDIT
[LISTEN]
CAMPAIGN ANALYSIS WITH JASON BAIN
Jason Bain, political writer for 5280 Magazine talks over the governor's
race with KGNU's Sam Fuqua. He says the Beauprez campaign has “hit the wall.”
[LISTEN]
SCIENCE OR POLITICS? MUSGRAVE HOLDS ENDANGERED SPECIES HEARING
Two of the Congress' fiercest critics of the federal endangered species
act held a committee hearing on it in Greeley Monday. California Representative
Richard Pombo, and Marilyn Musgrave, of Colorado's 4th congressional district
invited mostly people they agree with to call for the act to be rewritten.
[LISTEN]
ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH IN COLORADO
Alzheimer's disease affects some 63,000 people in Colorado, and 4 million
nationwide. Last weekend the state Alzheimer's association held three so-called
“Memory Walks” in Denver, Loveland and Greeley to raise money for research.
Brian Larson of KUNC in Greeley has this report on what that research is
yielding here in Colorado. [LISTEN]
GREENS MAKE PLEA FOR ORGANIC CEMETERIES
As the latest scare over E. Coli contamination in the food supply illustrates,
even things labeled “orgainic” can be bad for you. But there's a new organic
trend that has nothing to do with you personal health, although it should
be beneficial for the environment. It's green cemeteries. The “Traditional”
cemetery is filled with expensive, unnecessarily preserving caskets, which
house bodies pickled in toxic embalming chemicals. Shelly Schlender takes
a look at a less expensive and more eco-friendly way to go. [LISTEN]
COMMENTARY: HOMAGE TO STEVE IRWIN
As conflicts over the endangered species act prove, animals, even tiny mice,
can provoke strong emotions in humans. The recently deceased Steve Irwin
personified that passion, and commentator Sandra Knauf is feeling the sting
of his loss. [LISTEN]
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