Melodie Edwards
Reporter at Wyoming Public Radio
Host and Producer at The Modern West Podcast
The Modern West podcast host/producer, Wyoming Public Radio reporter, co-owner of Night Heron Books & Coffeehouse. Mom to amazing twin teenage girls.
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6 days ago |
wyomingpublicmedia.org | Melodie Edwards
When you think about the main street in your hometown, or your parents’ hometown – about why it’s now all boarded up or why your classmates all moved away – what are your assumptions? Maybe that it was inevitable? Or that people didn’t try hard enough to save it? A new book called “Reviving Rural America: Towards Policies for Resilience” argues those assumptions are often based on old mythologies of ruralness.
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2 weeks ago |
wyomingpublicmedia.org | Melodie Edwards
According to a new book, it’s time to update our misconceptions about the depopulation of rural America as something natural or inevitable. In “Reviving Rural America: Toward Policies of Resilience,” Annie Eisenberg takes issue with the idea that small towns are hollowing out because of entrenched market trends. To the contrary, she said, urban wealth is tied directly to rural poverty because natural resources are funneled out.
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3 weeks ago |
wyomingpublicmedia.org | Caitlin Tan |Hannah Habermann |Kamila Kudelska |Melodie Edwards
About 2,000 people live in Kemmerer, which is in the corner of southwest Wyoming, where the mountains meet the desert. It is known for a few things – the original JCPenney store, ancient fossils and consequently, the fossil fuel industry. But, in late 2021, the company TerraPower, founded by Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, announced their plans to build a nuclear plant nearby. While there is some push back with the project, the hope is to create ‘greener’ energy and jobs for former coal workers.
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4 weeks ago |
891khol.org | Melodie Edwards
Make our newscast part of your daily listening routine. Subscribe on Spotify (or wherever you listen to podcasts). Wyoming parents are paying 47% more to raise their young children than they did two years ago. It’s the biggest increase of any state, according to a new report from the financial service company Lending Tree.
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1 month ago |
wyomingpublicmedia.org | Melodie Edwards
Wyoming Public Radio’s award winning podcast, The Modern West, has a new season coming out starting April 9, and we thought our listeners might want to get a sneak peak. The show’s host, Melodie Edwards, talked about what she’s been cooking up for the podcast’s tenth season, called The Gray In Between, with Kamila Kudelska. Kamila Kudelska: For those who don't know much about it, what's The Modern West podcast and why should people give it a listen?
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Last but not least...the final installment of our series The Burn Scar. Find out how one family chooses to face the realities of the climate crisis that ravaged their lives. You can even binge all five now!
Ariel makes the trip out to see the new construction of her family home. But it's nothing like the one that burned down in the Marshall Fire. Her feeling of solastalgia is long gone. It's the final episode of #TheBurnScar. Listen now: https://t.co/4QxLNoYJvR https://t.co/1Z3sjkboLu
A little extra Christmas cheer for your travels.
Listen to a conversation with The Burn Scar's producer Ariel Lavery and The Modern West host Melodie Edwards. "I just needed to record this," Ariel says. "I just needed to somehow remember the feelings of visiting the site, being there." Check it out now: https://t.co/HbsPXeIY12 https://t.co/cSqIxe6xJk
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