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In our continuing series on journalistic challenges in a digital environment saturated with disinformation, we profile The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel's Dan West, the paper's newly-minted editorial page editor.  In addition to exploring Dan's past history in the industry, we examine the important role of the paper's dedicated Opinion section in a media climate where the line between reporting facts and expressing opinion has become increasingly blurred.Visit https://www.gjsentinel.com/podcasts/the_daily_rewind/ every Friday to access Dan's and my weekly wrap-up of the biggest local headlines!

An interview with Citizens for Clean Air members Karen Sjoberg and Jerry Nelson about their organization's ongoing study into the potential use of biochar as an alternative to agricultural burning.

A conversation with 37-year Grand Junction Daily Sentinel photojournalist Christopher Tomlinson on the eve of his retirement from full time working life.

Part 2 of my conversation with Wayne Hare, founder of The Civil Conversations Project.  Where Part 1 focused on Wayne's personal history and racial awakening, Part 2 focuses on some of the more over-arching themes and consequences of racial division, such as the physical and emotional toll it takes on the human body and how to reconcile the history of a country not always as noble in deed as in word.  We also discuss his work through the Civil Conversations Project:  what prompted its founding and what he hope to achieve.

Part 1 of a conversation of being black in America with Wayne Hare, founder of the Civil Conversations Project.  Wayne's story is living proof that no group of people - black, white or otherwise - is monolithic and that eradicating racial inequality involves a process of recognizing the almost undetectable socialization that prolongs it.  

Travel the culinary world from the comfort of home with one of The Daily Sentinel's newest additions, Christine Gallagher, columnist of All Things Food.  In addition to reflecting on the bounty offered by Grand Valley growers, vintners and brewers, Christine shares her personal relationship to food and its ability to nourish the body and soul; gives guidance on how to manage the daily burden of the age-old chore of cooking; and provides a sneak peek of her cookbook, a decades-long pursuit that just recently bore fruit.  

The 3rd installment in this podcast collaboration between the Crossing the Divide media project and The Daily Sentinel, which provides an inside look at life behind the scenes at your local newspaper.  This episode, a Reader Feature, is a conversation with Sentinel reader Keith Vogt.  Not a local resident, Keith reached out to the Sentinel to reconnect with his childhood memories of spending summers in the Grand Valley with his father and uncle, picking peaches at Fred Harbert's Peach Ranch back in the late 1940s.  His reflections provide a window into life in the area from a bygone era.

This promo show, featuring excerpts from the full-length Pine Gulch Fire episode, focuses specifically on the role of human behavior in preventing wildfire outbreaks, protecting property from encroaching blazes and aiding firefighting efforts once crews are on the ground. This show originally aired on KAFM Community Radio in Grand Junction.

On July 31st of 2020, a lightning strike in a remote area north of Grand Junction, CO sparked what would later come to be called The Pine Gulch Fire. It would eventually blow up into the largest wildfire in Colorado history until The Cameron Peak fire on Colorado's Front Range exceeded it in October of the same year. Eric Coulter, Public Affairs Specialist for the Upper Colorado River District, and Jeremy Spetter, West Zone Fire Management Officer on the Upper Colorado Interagency Fire Management Unit, join me for an in-depth discussion of battling this historic wildfire and the logistics of fighting a blaze in the midst of a global pandemic.

The 2nd installment of Crossing the Divide's Season 4 feature, The Daily Direct, introduces Daily Sentinel Managing Editor Dale Shrull. Dale takes you inside the newsroom, tracing the journey of a local news tip as it transforms into a full-fledged news story and discusses the challenge of properly vetting facts before publication in a culture where audiences are predisposed to on-demand information.

Targeted Disinformation.Social Media.Section 230. Just a few of the threats facing traditional print media outlets in the 21st century. Crossing the Divide takes you behind the scenes at a small town newspaper, The Daily Sentinel, with frank and open discussions about the difficulties and importance of keeping local journalism alive in an age of digital propaganda. The 1st edition of this new monthly addition features Publisher Jay Seaton.

Transpersonal Counseling. Alchemical Hypnotherapy. Astrology. Radical Living. Part reflection, part projection. You've embarked on Season 4 of Crossing the Divide via Astrologer Dulce Bell-Bulley.

The Daily Sentinel Publisher Jay Seaton joins me for a sneak preview of a new feature for Season 4, The Daily Direct, an intimate look inside a newspaper industry in flux as it adapts to the pressures and realities of a digital DISinformation age. Look for the full podcast end of March.

If your wanderlust has been stifled during our Year of Covid, take a trip down Memory Lane as we recap all the amazing conversations we managed to eke out of an otherwise dismal period. If you need a reminder that despite the upheaval of 2020 good people were still busy doing good things, this one's for you. Season 4 coming soon!

An in-depth discussion about climate change in the Western Slope region with former National Weather Service forecaster, Joe Ramey. Roughly a decade ago, as the Climate Liaison at the Grand Junction office, Joe undertook his own regional climate study to better understand potential changes in climate occurring here on the ground and to inform the local community of the impacts of global warming in relation to its effects on their daily lives.

Crossing the Divide CMU Intern Lohgan McClung joins me at the KAFM studio to discuss her internship project, Deep Roots, available on our social media accounts in January. Deep Roots is an in-depth profile of Parachute, CO as told through several of its residents.

8 months into the year 2020 a global pandemic of COVID-19 continues to rage here at home and around the world. The United States, struggling to adopt a coherent national plan to combat the disease, faces another rise in cases and surmounting death toll as we enter our yearly flu season with the potential for a twindemic that could cripple our health care system. Mesa County Public Health Epidemiologist Andrew Tyler joins me for a deeper look at SARS-COV-2 and the illness known as COVID-19, the reasons behind our comparatively mild local outbreak, and how we must proceed to keep this disease in check and usher in a return normalcy.

Mesa County Public Health Epidemiologist Andrew Tyler joins me at the KAFM studio for a preview of our upcoming podcast, Pandemic! with a focus on proper cleaning and hygiene to help prevent the spread of illness during a pandemic.

Former National Weather Service Meteorologist Joe Ramey joins me in the KAFM studio to preview our upcoming podcast, "Climate Talks," detailing the process and results of a Western Slope climate study he undertook analyzing 100 years of weather data in Western Colorado and Eastern Utah. In this preview, we discuss the potential impact of climate change on the region's critical winter outdoor recreation industry. Joe is an avid alpine and nordic ski enthusiast and currently serves as President of the Grand Mesa Nordic Council.

A conversation with best-selling author and Colorado Mesa University Assistant Professor of History, Timothy Winegard, whose latest book, The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator examines the dramatic impact of a pesky but seemingly unassuming creature on the course of human existence. The release of this podcast coincides with the release of the book in paperback format.