Maeve Conran
RMCR Managing EditorMaeve Conran has been working in public and community radio in Colorado for more than 15 years. She served as the news director at KGNU in Boulder/Denver until 2020 and has since been working as the Program Director at Free Speech TV based in Denver, as well as host/producer of the Radio Bookclub podcast and radio show which is a collaboration with the Boulder Bookstore.
As the Managing Editor of Rocky Mountain Community Radio, she coordinates news journalism collaboration and content distribution through the Rocky Mountain region. Originally from Ireland, she lives in Longmont with her two daughters, her husband and a very cute dog called Ginny. She teaches audio production at CU Boulder.
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The Christmas Bird Count is one of the biggest citizen science projects in the country and it invites members of the public to join a birding group, also known as a circle, between December 14 and January 5.
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The Audubon Society's annual Christmas Bird Count takes flight on December 14th, and local bird watchers are hoping to spot species that are facing population declines, including the pinyon jay and the evening grosbeak.
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'Gangbuster: One Man's Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan' dives into history of the KKKAlan Prendergast writes about Denver District Attorney Philip Van Cise, who in the 1920s, busted a crime ring that had been thriving in the city. He then turned his attention to an even greater threat—the Ku Klux Klan, which was in the process of taking over state government.
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Community members in Carbondale and the Roaring Fork Valley have been rallying around a group of migrants who arrived in recent weeks. The majority of them are from Venezuela and they're being helped by local community groups and individuals as they apply for work permits and temporary protected status.
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School board elections happen every other year in Colorado, and they're opportunities for communities to select people who will make important decisions about their local schools. However, in many school district elections, less than a third of eligible voters vote.
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Author Jon Waterman has been exploring and advocating for wild spaces throughout the U.S. for several decades. He writes about his favorite ones in his new book 'Atlas of Wild America'.
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Over the Labor Day weekend, the Historic Theater in Estes Park will play host to the annual Silent Comedy Movie Festival.
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The family of Joaquin Oliver, one of 17 people killed in the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, are on a national anti-gun violence tour. In Colorado they visited several mass-shooting sites including King Soopers in Boulder, Columbine and Aurora.
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Three formerly incarcerated women from Texas attended a conference organized by the University of Colorado, Boulder, advocating for better treatment of prisoners in the face of rising temperatures.
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Cowboy Brad Fitch has entertained tourists and locals in Estes Park for nearly three decades