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'Recovery Summer' Ends With Economic Pothole
September 3, 2010 | NPR · This was supposed to be the season the economy heated up, thanks to a wave of public works projects funded by the government's stimulus program. But summer is coming to an end and the recovery has not taken root. Forecasters are expecting another gloomy employment report on Friday.
 
Health Law Myths: Outside The Realm Of Reality
September 3, 2010 | NPR · Are you really going to have to have a computer chip implanted in your head as part of the new health law? Will the law allow President Obama to create his own private army? While there are outrageous rumors circulating about the health law, some claims are grounded in truth.
 
Study: Cash For Clunkers Was A Wash
September 3, 2010 | NPR · The program didn't bring any new buyers into the market, a study found. But it encouraged people who would have bought a car anyway to make their purchase a few months sooner.
 
Consumers Still Gear Up, Camp Out In Recession
September 3, 2010 | CPR · Sales in the outdoor gear industry are up more than 8 percent this year, topping retail sales overall. The industry's strength may be due to its consumers' high incomes, but the recession also has more people heading out into the wilderness.
 
Bidding Farewell To The Congo's 'Mother And Father'
September 3, 2010 | NPR · As a long Congo River barge journey ends, so, too, does a unique glimpse into the heart of a poor but potentially rich nation grappling with conflict. Despite the hardship, the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo draw great inspiration from the inescapable and mighty river.
 

Art & Life from NPR

'The American': A Domestic Bond, Drawn In Miniature
September 3, 2010 | NPR · George Clooney's latest outing showcases a more internal performance -- as an assassin whose personal life threatens to further complicate an already hard-to-manage career. Kenneth Turan says Anton Corbijn's drama is impeccably composed and beautifully shot -- if a little lacking on the emotional urgency front.
 
'Machete': Out Of The 'Grindhouse,' Trailer First
September 2, 2010 | NPR · Robert Rodriguez directs Machete, featuring a character first introduced in a fake trailer that played during his 2007 exploitation flick Grindhouse..
 
'Public Enemy' Wraps Up A Criminally Good Saga
September 2, 2010 | NPR · Neither director Jean-Francois Richet's style nor star Vincent Cassel's swagger falters in Public Enemy Number One, the exhilarating follow-up to Mesrine: Killer Instinct. With its shootouts, prison breaks and wild flights of ego, the saga's second half was sure to be watchable. It's also smart, funny and incisive -- about the criminal and his era. (Recommended)
 
A Family Torn Asunder Takes The 'Last Train Home'
September 2, 2010 | NPR · Frequently moving and quietly enlightening, the documentary Last Train Home is about love and exploitation, sacrifice and endurance. Director Lixin Fan follows a single Chinese family from 2006 through the financial downturn of 2008. The parents work at garment factories in Guangzhou city; their teenage children live in an impoverished village and see their parents only once a year.
 
'Noodle Shop': A Coen Brothers Tale Goes East
September 2, 2010 | NPR · Director Zhang Yimou takes on the Coen brothers, remaking Blood Simple and setting it in the 17th-century "Chinese outback." Adultery, bloody mishaps and Chinese superstition are just the appetizers in this colorful film.
 

August 12, 2009

Round-Up

Environmental groups rally at the state capitol…Interior Secretary Ken Salazar dedicates a new national conservation and wilderness area in the state…and, more.

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Filed under: AP,Andrea Chalfin,Crime,Environment,Round-Up,Western Slope — Andrea Chalfin, News Dir. @ 5:32 pm
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November 27, 2008

Oil Shale Feasibility

The federal government recently finalized rules allowing commercial oil shale development in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming … but energy companies are still running tests to determine whether such development is feasible. KRCC’s Eryn Gable recently visited northwest Colorado and has more on the uncertainty and technological hurdles facing this alternative source of energy.

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Filed under: Business/Labor,Colorado,Energy,Environment,Eryn Gable,Utilities,Western Slope — Delaney Utterback @ 2:29 am
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October 7, 2008

Amendment 58

Governor Bill Ritter is putting his weight behind a ballot measure that would raise severance taxes on the oil and gas industry and use the money for higher education, wildlife and clean energy projects. It’s a costly campaign and oil and gas companies are spending millions of dollars trying to defeat the measure by attacking the Governor and his plan. Bente Birkeland reports from Denver.

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September 30, 2008

Oil Shale Moves Forward

When the fiscal year ends tonight, the ban on offshore oil drilling will be lifted, and another domestic energy source can also move forward, oil shale. Steve Zelaznik of RMCR member station KDNK explains.

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September 22, 2008

Colorado’s Water Bank

As the west continues to dry, municipalities in Colorado are sitting tight, and hoping never to see a compact call. That’s what happens when other states take Colorado to court to force us to use less water. The Colorado River is the only river in the state that’s been spared a call, but water planners are figuring out what to do if this changes. One option the state is looking at is something called a water bank. Steve Zelaznik of KDNK has details.

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September 9, 2008

Round-Up

The Colorado Supreme Court hears arguments on regulating mining laws in the state…Colorado’s Oil and Gas Conservation Commission meets again….and a crowded ballot in Colorado when it comes to voting for the President.

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