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KSJD Local Newscast - December 10, 2021

By Lucas Brady Woods

Published December 10, 2021 at 4:32 PM MST

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More mountain towns in Colorado are taking action to try and free up housing for local workers.
The state of Utah added nearly 60 thousand people to its population from July 2020 to July of this year, according to estimates released this week by the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute.

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Lucas Brady Woods

Originally from Southern California, Lucas spent the last decade living in New York City, which is where he started his journalism career. He's been an audio journalism junkie for as long as he can remember, but really fell in love with reporting radio news at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he received his master's degree.

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