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Four Corners USA Barry Smith
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News from Four Corners communities in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, as well as random bits of journalism from Barry Smith, former director of the Nevada Press Association who is now living in New Mexico. Older episodes are from the Nevada Press podcast.
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Visit from the new Interior secretary
Bears Ears gets a visit from Deb Haaland, and the conversation over land swaps with Utah begins anew. Also, Oljato Trading Post is one of 'most endangered' in the country. And we find out just how many BLM employees moved to Grand Junction. Four Corners Quiz #7.
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Talking trash
Investigative story about garbage. Also, a new temple for Farmington and more about Bears Ears.
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40 years of the D&SNG
How the Durango railroad became a tourist train and transformed the town. Also, Rep. Lauren Boebert invites Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to Grand Junction, and San Juan County, NM, achieves turquoise level. And Four Corners Quiz #5.
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Language of landscapes
What’s missing from debate over oil and gas leading moratorium. Also, what is hidden in museums.
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Dine engineer for Mars rover
Also, rushing toward nuclear waste, the Dullest Man and Four Corners Quiz #3.
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COVID-19 and the Four Corners
News from newspapers in Farmington, Durango, Pagosa Springs. Blanding and Quiz #2
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Nevada News is fun
Barry Smith, executive director of the N.C. Press Association, shares tidbits of Nevada news while also bestowing his decades of newspaper wisdom on his listeners.
This isn’t This American Life (yet), but it’s a fun few minutes of entertainment.