With all the arguments in the media about immigration reform, voices of real people get lost. In this feature produced by Laurel Henderson and January Jones, we hear perspectives from two local young women in their own words.

In the March 16th edition of High Country News, Jonathan Thompson writes about Farmington, New Mexico- an extreme example of a town that has locked fortunes with the oil and gas boom and bust cycles, for the last hundred years. KDNK’s January Jones spoke with Thompson in this edition of Sounds of the High Country.

The Garfield County Commissioners formalized their support for the concept of a lease swap that would spare Thompson Divide from drilling. At their meeting on Monday, they approved a letter for US Senators Michael Bennet, Cory Gardner and Congressman Scott Tipton. KDNK's January Jones has more.

Driving the I-70 Mountain Corridor in the winter is unpredictable. Big storms can come on fast and weather-related accidents frequently close the road. But the great irony of I-70 is that when the roads are the worst is when the ski conditions are the best. This puts more recreational drivers on I-70 and not all of them are prepared. The Colorado Department of Transportation says delays from accidents caused by non-commercial vehicles has gone up significantly over the last few years. Colorado lawmakers are seeking to address this problem through the I-70 Traction Law. The law clarifies requirements for traction for passenger vehicles. Sponsored by Diane Mitch-Busch of Steamboat Springs and Bob Rank from Carbondale, House Bill 1127 has already made it through it’s first hurdle and passed out of the Colorado House of Representatives. This new bill seeks to mimic the decrease in semi-truck accidents that the Commercial Vehicle Chain law has had since going into effect in 2009. Mitch-Busch has provided statistics from CDOT for the number of hours I-70 is closed due to accidents. The winter of 2010/11, saw 109 hours of closure from commercial vehicle accidents. But after five years of the commercial vehicle chain law, closures dropped to just 43 hours for the winter of 2013/14. Representative Rankin says the Passenger Vehicle Traction bill is about getting CDOT to educate the public to prepare. It tasks the department of transportation to erect signs at appropriate places, notifying the public of the traction requirement for passenger vehicles. As of March 8th, CDOT estimates 112 hours of unplanned closures this winter, just in the stretch of I-70 from from Denver’s C-470 to Vail. That same section of road had 364 weather related crashes last winter.