Jackie Sedley
Jackie Sedley is KGNU's Report for America Corps Member where she covers all things environment and climate. Before moving to Mountain Time, she lived in sunny California working as the Internal News Director for KCSB-FM in Santa Barbara. Sedley's journalism career thus far has also included freelancing for the New York Times, producing and reporting for KCRW, and working as Editor-in-Chief for her community college newspaper. Sedley was introduced to journalism during her sophomore year of high school, when she joined her high school newspaper as a novice staff writer. After working her way up to News Editor and eventually Editor-in-Chief, she realized her thirst for reporting was truly unquenchable. Over the past 10 years Sedley has covered raging fires, housing crises, local elections, protests and more. Journalism is both the reason Jackie Sedley wakes up in the morning, and the reason she does not sleep enough at night.
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The longest-running gay rodeo in the United States comes to Denver this weekend. It began in 1981 as a space for gay people to celebrate each other and practice this western sport. -
A new bill signed into law last month will establish a commission for specific historical research on racial equity in Colorado. -
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed that cattle herds in nine states are infected with H5N1. Four of those herds are in Colorado, where the first infection was detected in the northeastern part of the state in April. -
Rocky Mountain states have some of the highest suicide rates in the country, and those working in agriculture are even more susceptible. In Colorado specifically, farmers and ranchers are dying at higher rates than the general population. -
A Colorado Sun politics reporter was kicked out of the Colorado GOP Assembly which took place in Pueblo over the weekend. Sandra Fish has been covering politics since 1982. She was escorted out of the state GOP assembly on Saturday by a sheriff’s deputy, after being told that party Chair Dave Williams thinks her current reporting is “very unfair.” -
The Healthy School Meals for All program provides free breakfast and lunch to all of Colorado’s public school students. However, it has created an unforeseen gap in funding. -
Democratic lawmakers at the Colorado State House have passed legislation that creates exemptions to existing open meetings laws. The bill was passed and signed into law by Governor Polis during Sunshine Week which runs March 10-16. -
The Denver Basic Income Project project differs from other Universal Basic Income programs across the country in that it specifically works with those who are unhoused. -
Glenda Strong Robinson is an associate minister and historian for the Second Baptist Church in Boulder. In 1968, as a 19-year-old student, she marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 55 years later, she honors his legacy by continuing to work for civil rights. -
Thrifting is all the rage these days. But when it comes to the donating side, there are a lot of things you may not know including the fact that the majority of unsellable-donated clothes aren't going back to the community; instead, they’re exported out of the country.
