Clark Adomaitis
ReporterClark Adomaitis is a Durango transplant from New York City. He is a recent graduate of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where he focused on reporting and producing for radio and podcasts. He reported sound-rich stories on the state of recycling and compost in NYC.
Before his graduate studies, he wrote lifestyle spreads for the City College of New York's Campus Magazine about local food and drink. In his free time, he produces experimental and humorous hip-hop music.
He’s excited to learn and share stories from underrepresented voices in the Four Corners region, including reports from the Ute tribe, the Navajo Nation, the LGBTQ+ community, and the Latinx community.
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The measure to remove the statute of limitations for all sexual abuse claims failed in a bipartisan vote on Wednesday, April 17.
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Water rights, sports gambling access, funding for health clinics, and funding for teachers were at the forefront of the tribes' statements.
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During Women’s History Month, the Women’s Resource Center, a nonprofit in Durango, celebrated ten women who work as community organizers in La Plata County.
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Last week, 13 new candidates became citizens of the United States in southwest Colorado. It’s the first time a naturalization ceremony is taking place in the city of Durango.
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The City of Durango has appointed its first ever poet laureates. The two poets will provide a constant presence of poetry at community gatherings and in public spaces.
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An audience of over 100 watched the documentary “In the Dirt” on a Friday evening in Cortez, CO, a reservation border town. On the Navajo Nation, biking has grown in popularity, even though not one bike shop exists on the reservation.
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“Buffalo Soldiers: reVision” is a museum exhibit, book, and film that explores the complicated history of Buffalo soldiers in the West. During American westward expansion, cavalries of Buffalo Soldiers participated in the removal of Indigenous peoples - a history artists are trying to reckon with.
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A mobile health screening truck visited Kirtland, New Mexico, to check coal miners for black lung disease. The Navajo Transitional Energy Company operates a mine in Kirtland.
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A New Mexico composer has begun performing a song about the forced removal of Navajo people from their homelands. It will last four-and-a-half years, with long silences between single notes.
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Construction on the Sun Bear Solar Farm is set to start later in 2024 and will need over 500 laborers and electricians.