- Covid 19 cases are continuing to spike in Montezuma County, with 63 new active cases reported in just two days.
- Governor Jared Polis is ordering Colorado hospitals to submit new plans for how they will handle a surge of coronavirus patients.
- Last weekend’s winter storm brought several inches of snow to the San Juan Mountains, but long-term drought conditions in Southwestern Colorado have not yet shown improvement.
Austin Cope is a former Morning Edition host for KSJD and now produces work on a freelance basis for the station. He grew up in Cortez and hosted a show on KSJD when he was 10 years old. After graduating from Montezuma-Cortez High School in 2010, he lived in Belgium, Ohio, Spain, northern Wyoming, and Himachal Pradesh, India before returning to the Cortez area. He has a degree in Politics from Oberlin College in Ohio.
