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In The NOCO

KUNC"s In The NOCO is a daily look at the stories, news, people and issues important to you. It"s a window to the communities along the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The show explores the big stories of the day, bringing context and insight to issues that matter. And because life in Northern Colorado is a balance of work and play, we explore the lighter side of news, highlighting what makes this state such an incredible place to live.

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What’s at stake as Boulder’s climate change lawsuit...

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2025/02/24

In 2018 the City of Boulder and Boulder County filed an unusual lawsuit: they sued Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy for contributing to climate change. Climate change, the lawsuit argued, has caused a plethora of problems like flooding, road damage, and an increase in wildfires. The city and county have spent millions of dollars reacting to these problems. And they wanted help paying for it. Since the case was filed, more communities around the country have followed Boulder’s lead and

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Why the nation’s nuclear waste may eventually be...

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2025/02/22

Nuclear Waste is piling up at power plants around the country, and we have no idea where to put it. Many states are aggressively fighting plans for new storage facilities. But northwest Colorado is quietly opening the door. KUNC’s investigative reporter Scott Franz recently traveled around rural Colorado talking with people about what nuclear waste storage could do for the local economy – and also interviewing folks who are dead set against that idea. On this special edition of In The

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An underground fire near Boulder that burned for...

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2025/02/21

Over the past few months, crews have worked on an unusual firefighting operation near Boulder. They extinguished a blaze that has burned underground for more than a century. The work happened at Marshall Mesa near an open area that's popular for hiking. A fire in a a coal seam there had smoldered beneath the surface for years. It was a remnant of a time when coal mining thrived in the area. And it was a hazard: Heat from underground blazes can sometimes set fire to grass and other brush

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Life inside a Colorado home inspired by Jimmy...

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2025/02/20

After the recent death of President Jimmy Carter, many of the tributes mentioned his environmental legacy and push for energy-efficient development. And one unusual part of his plan was focused here in Colorado. Carter’s administration had backed the design of some experimental homes along the Front Range. They were warmed by the sun and fueled by renewable sources – an exciting idea in the late 1970s. John Avenson was paying attention back then, and wanted to live in one of those homes

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A proposed law would let Coloradans freeze their own...

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2025/02/19

A note: Today’s episode deals with issues around suicide and firearm violence. Over the past decade, Colorado has seen more than 7,000 deaths by suicide that involved a firearm. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, guns are involved in more than half of Colorado’s deaths by suicide. A bill making its way through the state legislature could help reduce those numbers. The proposal would allow Coloradans to place a voluntary freeze on their own access to buy a gun.

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Hearing about students’ trauma takes a serious toll...

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2025/02/18

Ask a teacher about the hardest part of their job, and you might expect them to cite long hours or low pay. But there’s another, less visible challenge that educators face: exposure to student trauma. Students may confide in a teacher about not having enough to eat at home, or an abusive family member. And exposure to those problems takes a serious toll on teachers. According to a new study out of the University of Northern Colorado, about 9 in 10 teachers and other classroom educators

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Hunting for a new job? A CU researcher says your...

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2025/02/17

In 2025, many of us are on social media – and lots of us are hunting for a new job. If that sounds like your situation, a University of Colorado researcher says be thoughtful about what you post online. Because what you do on Facebook or Threads or BlueSky can change your odds of landing that new gig. Jason Thatcher has been studying how hiring managers use social media to make decisions about candidates. And he found 60 percent of hiring managers decide who to interview or who to hire, in

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Inside CSU’s new chocolate laboratory, and the...

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2025/02/14

Researcher Caitlin Clark has a job a lot of people would envy. Clark is a food scientist who oversees a new laboratory devoted to the study of chocolate – how it’s made, what makes it taste so good, and how to make new and better varieties of it. She and her team, based at the Colorado State University Food Innovation Center in Denver, work to dream up new confections that hopefully will end up on grocery store shelves or, maybe, in your box of Valentine’s Day chocolates. Clark talked with

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Writer Brandon Shimoda’s family was forced from their...

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2025/02/13

In February of 1942, not long after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military removed thousands of Americans of Japanese descent from their homes. Most of them were full citizens who had been born and raised in the United States. Families had just a few days to get their affairs in order before reporting to relocation centers, mostly in Western states. Roosevelt’s order affected about 120,000 Japanese Americans, including 17,000 children. Writer and poet Brandon Shimoda, who is

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Funk music deserves more respect, a CU professor...

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2025/02/12

In the late 1960s, a new movement of Black music grew out of the end of the civil rights era. Black artists declared their “Black power” and rocked the airwaves with the sound of funk. Funk music was more than just a genre with excellent grooves. It had deeper social and political meaning. Funk began as a reaction to tumultuous times and would ultimately lay the foundation for the hip0hop and R&B we listen to today. This is the argument in the new book by Reiland Rabaka, called The

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How long-term marijuana use could cause a reduction...

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2025/02/11

If you grew up in the 80s, you might remember a famous anti-drug public service announcement from TV. There was a frying pan, a sizzling egg and an ominous warning: “This is your brain on drugs.” Josh Gowin, a researcher with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, remembers that ad quite well. Anti-drug PSA's like that one inspired him to study the effects of marijuana use on the brain and find out if that fried egg analogy is accurate. Gowin, a neuroscientist, looked at more

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A vaccine to prevent weight gain could soon be a...

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2025/02/10

A vaccine against weight gain could be on the horizon, according to new research from the University of Colorado Boulder. The research shows that a particular strain of bacteria known as M. vaccae could help prevent obesity by reducing inflammation. Chris Lowry is a professor of integrative physiology at CU and led the research. His study found that he could prevent mice from becoming overweight even when they were raised on the equivalent of an all-McDonald’s diet. When his team injected

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At Denver International Airport, the artist Detour...

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2025/02/07

Travelers making their way through Denver International Airport can experience a colorful, distinctive new art exhibit. The project, called “It’s Not What You Take, It’s What You Bring Back,” was created from 183 pieces of used luggage, suspended over a walkway in Concourse B. They’re painted in the vibrant colors of the Colorado sky – turquoise, baby blue, ruby red – and they form a shape resembling the infinity symbol. That painted baggage is part of a new installation by Colorado

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How Boulder’s new ‘blue envelope’ program aims to...

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2025/02/06

For many people, being stopped by police can produce a wave of anxiety. But that sense of stress and uncertainty is even worse for people with conditions like autism spectrum disorder, hearing loss, Tourette’s syndrome, or dementia. Boulder’s Police Department recently rolled out a new initiative called the Blue Envelope Program to help people with disabilities communicate when they encounter an officer. It allows a person to get an official blue envelope and fill it out with information

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A new film explores the history of Rocky Flats, from...

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2025/02/05

If you visit the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge northwest of Denver, you see different types of wildlife, miles of hiking and biking trails and acres of rolling prairie. But you don’t see any trace of the astonishing history of what happened there during the Cold War: Rocky Flats was the site of a plant that made plutonium triggers for nuclear weapons until it was shuttered in the early 1990s. Officials removed later removed the buildings used in processing plutonium and cleaned up

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Washington is chaotic. Rep. Jason Crow says the House...

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2025/02/04

You likely haven’t heard the word ‘bipartisanship’ used much lately when it comes to news out of Washington. Republicans control the presidency and both chambers of Congress – and they’re making big policy moves. But Democratic Congressman Jason Crow still sees value in members of the two parties working together. Crow represents Colorado’s 6th District in the U.S. House of Representatives, which includes Aurora and parts of the Denver metro area. He has served for six years on the For

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How cloud seeding could make it rain (and snow) in...

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2025/02/03

Manipulating the clouds to make it rain or snow sounds like the stuff of science fiction. But the technology behind cloud seeding is nothing new: It dates back to the 1940s. That science got a new look recently when lawmakers ordered the Government Accountability Office to re-examine the possibilities of cloud seeding as water becomes a more precious resource in the U.S. The newly published report calls cloud seeding promising, but also says more research is needed. That got Alex Hager –

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A new report examines the lives of workers at a...

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2025/01/31

JBS is one of the largest meat producers in the world. The company – which is headquartered in Greeley – reportedly earned $76 billion last year. And the company relies on immigrant labor to keep their meatpacking plants, like the one in Greeley, operating. A new story from the Food and Environment Reporting Network and the investigative journalism show Reveal offers a look at the community of immigrant workers at the Greeley plant. Many of them are Haitian, and many of them are here

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As disasters roil the insurance market, can Colorado...

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2025/01/30

The recent news stories about wildfires in California seem all too familiar to Coloradans. We see homes destroyed by wildfires here every year. But we’ve also been hearing reports of a second, slower-moving disaster in news reports out of California: insurance companies pulling out of high-risk areas, leaving thousands of homeowners with no ability to get coverage. That kind of crisis is something Colorado lawmakers are working to avoid here. Democrat Kyle Brown represents House District

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For Coloradans struggling with eating disorders,...

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2025/01/29

Clinicians who treat patients with eating disorders have endured a perfect storm of challenges in recent years. Specialists say the pandemic, and the years that followed, saw more people developing eating disorders and often taking longer to seek help. On top of that, treatment for these conditions is expensive. At the same time, lawmakers have heard terrible stories of patients being mistreated at clinics in Colorado. Jennifer Brown has been covering this issue for the Colorado Sun. She

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