Scott Franz
Investigative Reporter at KUNC-FM (Greeley, CO)
Investigative reporter for @KUNC. Photographer. Mountain man. Tips: scott.franz@kunc(dot)org
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3 days ago |
kunc.org | Scott Franz
As some communities in far northwest Colorado discuss hosting a temporary nuclear waste storage facility, western leaders are reaffirming they want a say. Highly radioactive waste, a by-product of electricity generation, has been piling up at nuclear power plants around the country in recent years, and the federal government has been searching for a temporary location to put it. In 2010, plans for a permanent repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada fell through.
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1 week ago |
kunc.org | Alex Murphy |Beau Baker |Scott Franz
Home addresses and other personal information about Colorado state lawmakers and other officials are now offline. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold temporarily approved the removal of public campaign information after recent politically targeted killings in Minnesota. Last Saturday, Vance Boelter allegedly killed a Minnesota state lawmaker and her spouse at their home outside of Minneapolis. He shot another lawmaker in a separate attack.
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2 weeks ago |
sentinelcolorado.com | Scott Franz
This story was first published at KUNC.org Sign up for our free newsletter to receive the latest news Sign up for our free newsletter to receive the latest news DENVER | Federal agents killed 6,421 wild animals at Denver International Airport last year and hazed away more than 130,000 in their quest to protect airplane passengers from wildlife strikes.
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2 weeks ago |
kunc.org | Scott Franz
Federal agents killed 6,421 wild animals at Denver International Airport last year and hazed away more than 130,000 in their quest to protect airplane passengers from wildlife strikes. The list of 48 species trapped, poisoned or shot included sandhill cranes (10), feral cats (3) badgers (4), red-winged blackbirds (1,031) and even Colorado’s state bird, a small sparrow called the Lark Bunting (19).
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3 weeks ago |
kunc.org | Scott Franz
Nearly a third of the wolves Colorado has reintroduced in the last two years have died. They’ve lost battles with mountain lions and been struck down by a bullet from an unknown shooter. But one wolf encountered an even more sophisticated hunter: a government agency that specializes in killing hundreds of thousands of wild animals each year, from beavers to Colorado's state bird, to protect livestock and airplane passengers.
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The Colorado Senate just postponed a vote on whether to override the governor's veto on the public records bill until Friday, May 2. #copolitics https://t.co/WiHIku3sdM
I discovered Coloradans quietly lost access to funeral home inspection reports. People affected by misconduct and transparency advocates have concerns. My latest KUNC investigation: https://t.co/dELebZoDKH
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