Each Tuesday and Thursday, KUNC’s Samantha Coetzee speaks with our colleagues over on the Colorado Solar in regards to the native tales they’re following.
As we speak she spoke with editor Larry Ryckman.
Interview Highlights:
These interview highlights have been flippantly edited for size and readability.
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Samantha Coetzee: There’s an enormous land rush for renewable power choices within the Jap Plains. Are you able to inform us extra about that?
Larry Ryckman: Our complete workers continues to be speaking about this story from reporter Mark Jaffe. Anybody who’s pushed out of the Jap Plains recently can inform you the panorama has modified dramatically, and much more change is on the best way. Mark stories that clear power is being added to the crops that farmers produce. Greater than a dozen wind and photo voltaic builders have turned up in Yuma and Kiowa counties alone. They’re locking up acreage for potential tasks and leases with farmers and ranchers.
It is all a part of a push by Xcel Power and its $1.7 billion energy pathway transmission venture. That is going to create 560 miles of high-tension transmission strains throughout japanese Colorado that may join with new windmills and photo voltaic panels. Then Xcel goes to take that power and transfer it to Entrance Vary cities and suburbs. Some are welcoming the additional money from leasing their land, however others are complaining in regards to the modified panorama and what they are saying is their lack of management over the event. Xcel is planning to close down the state’s final coal fired models that produce electrical energy someday within the subsequent decade. It says photo voltaic and wind energy wanted to attach or moderately to transform Colorado to scrub power.
There’s controversy about whether or not PFAS, or “ceaselessly chemical compounds” in biosolids used on farms are harmful. However that additionally results in the broader dialog of PFAS usually. Discuss to us about that?
Reporter Michael Sales space has been digging into check outcomes on a specific patch of Colorado farmland. And the check outcomes present that Metro Denver’s wastewater remedy system is spreading these sewage biosolids laced with poisonous ceaselessly chemical compounds. These chemical compounds have been discovered at its farm in japanese Arapahoe County and on personal farms that purchase the fabric as fertilizer. The biosolids are being unfold by metro water in additional than 100 different municipal waste businesses within the area.
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Mike stories that the presence of those harmful chemical compounds on farmland provides to a rising listing of potential well being threats. Researchers and watchdog teams say it additionally underscores the necessity for widespread testing. What we do not know proper now could be whether or not these chemical compounds discovered within the farmland are creating the form of human well being threats which have been routinely documented by native and nationwide researchers. These ceaselessly chemical compounds are generally used to make issues like nonstick pans and waterproof mountain climbing garments. They’ve additionally been utilized in firefighting foam, and plenty of research have discovered detectable ranges of those ceaselessly chemical compounds in practically all people. Researchers even discovered them in each single fish they captured right here in Colorado in a single check.
What in regards to the mail state of affairs in Buena Vista?
Reporter Shannon Najmabadi has a unusual story out of Buena Vista. Everybody likes to complain about their mail service. However the 3,000 residents of the Arkansas River mountain city have a specific bone to select with the U.S. Postal Service. They do not get mail delivered to their properties, do not have cluster containers, and they do not get the no-fee submit workplace containers that the submit advertises. For many years, they have been paying for submit workplace containers whereas individuals dwelling simply outdoors of city limits get mail delivered to their properties without spending a dime. Now they’re being instructed that their annual charges might be practically doubled to $134 for the smallest field.
Shannon stories that lately individuals are extra more likely to speak in regards to the submit workplace than even politics. They’ve began a Fb group to complain in regards to the state of affairs. Individuals are upset about lengthy strains. Prescription orders that get misplaced. Payments that arrive late. Or mail that will get returned to the sender. Shannon tracked down a spokesman for the Postal Service. He says it is contending with quite a lot of the identical points we have all heard about, together with rising costs, labor scarcity and better well being care prices. Now, the spokesman says they’re reviewing the resident’s complaints. We will certainly maintain watching this one.
You’ll find extra native reporting at ColoradoSun.com
ORLANDO, Fla. — Shedeur Sanders threw for 290 yards and three touchdowns Saturday to help Colorado match its victory total for all of last season with a 48-21 rout of UCF.
Two-way star Travis Hunter had a TD catch and interception for the Buffaloes (4-1, 2-0 Big 12), who have won three straight games following a lopsided road loss to Nebraska.
Hunter scored on a 23-yard reception in the first quarter, struck a Heisman pose after his second-half inteception, and finished with nine catches on nine targets for 89 yards.
Sanders. son of coach Deion Sanders, also had TD throws of 47 yards to Will Sheppard and 10 yards to LaJohntay Wester on the way to completing 28 of 35 passes with one interception.
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Colorado’s improved defense stood tall, too, slowing down an offense that entered game averaging a nation-leading 375.7 yards per game rushing. The Buffaloes forced four turnovers — intercepting KJ Jefferson twice, once in the end zone — and also denying UCF points on one drive that stalled inside the Colorado 1.
Cam’Ron Silmon-Craig finished off the strong defensive performance by picking up a fumble in the closing minutes and returning it 95 yards for Colorado’s final touchdown.
Both teams were coming off exciting comeback wins in their conference openers, with Colordao beating Baylor after forcing overtime on Sanders’ 43-yard Hail Mary TD to Wester on the last play of regulation and UCF wiping out a 21-point deficit on the road to defeat TCU 35-34.
Colorado head coach Deion Sanders walks along the sideline during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Central Florida, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in Orlando, Fla. Credit: AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack
Welcoming the Buffaloes to Orlando for the first meeting between the teams capped a day in which UCF hosted the FOX Big Noon Kickoff pregame show on campus, giving coach Gus Malzahn’s program the most national exposure the Knights have received since entering the Big 12 last season.
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Jefferson completed 20 of 35 passes for 284 yards, including TDs of 75 yards to RJ Harvey and 15 yards to Xavier Townsend. The quarterback also scored on a 7-yard run.
THE TAKEAWAY
Colorado: Shedeur Sanders had another big day passing, but the Buffaloes ran the ball well, too, finishing with 128 yards rushing on 28 attempts.
Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders (2) is sacked by Central Florida defensive end Nyjalik Kelly, right, during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in Orlando, Fla. Credit: AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack
UCF: The Knights secondary was exposed in their narrow victory over TCU. Sanders was sacked twice, but on far too many occasions when the quarterback escaped pressure he was able to find receivers running wide open.
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Ranked as the sixth most beautiful golf course in the U.S. in The Golf Book of Lists, The Estes Park 18-Hole Golf Course is set in a wide mountain valley and offers breathtaking panoramic views of Meeker and Longs Peaks. It also is home to some of the 3,200 elk roam that freely roam the surrounding area.
The vast majority golfers who come in contact with the resident elk will simply pick up or wait it out until they have a clear shot but there are some who blatantly disregard Section 33-6-128 of Colorado State Law that expressly prohibits harassment of any wildlife.
The following video was taken at the driving range and shows man purposely hitting a golf ball at group of elk. The person shooting the video threatens to send the video to the cops if the golfer continued to hit balls at the elk and comments that this is not the first time he has witnessed this type of heinous behavior.
Estes Park 18-Hole Golf Course does not have any specific wildlife guidelines for golfers on their website but they really should. The USGA does have rule 16.2 for Dangerous Animal Condition whereby a golfer is granted relief when a dangerous animal is near a ball as it lies.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed they are investigating this incident as wildlife harassment.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – A Colorado Springs man was recently the victim of a murder, but not in Colorado.
Authorities in Mississippi are working the case of 23-year-old Elias Trudell who was found shot and left inside of a burning car at Luxapalila Park; just south of Columbus, Mississippi.
The Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office says it all stems from a drug deal gone bad.
On September 2nd, authorities were called to the scene of a burning car at an abandoned park. To their surprise, the body of a Colorado Springs man, Elias Trudell, was inside.
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According to the sheriff’s office, Trudell and Malachi Salus drove from Colorado Springs to Columbus, Mississippi to transport drugs.
Investigators say the pair then devised a plan to rip off one of the people they were meeting.
Trudell’s family says they had no idea why he was going to Mississippi, “My cousin just told me it was like an easy way to get money, and that’s all he told me. He never mentioned anything about drugs,” Micaela Pritchard said.
Things didn’t go as planned and Trudell was shot before being placed into a car and set to flames.
His family tells KRDO13 that he was a good person at heart, but he hung around the wrong crowd, “Nobody deserves to die like that viciously…you guys didn’t even give us a chance for him to be buried properly and he was ashes, like, that is not okay,” Pritchard said.
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The Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office has made 7 arrests in connection to Trudell’s death.
They are Malachi Salus, 22, Jaleen Young, 24, and Kenneth Jones, 20, Issac Harris, 19, Treveon Little, 23, Makye Butler, 19, and David Hall, 25.
Charges they are facing range from conspiracy to traffic a controlled substance to accessory after the fact of murder.
