Wednesday January 13, 2021

As COVID-19 vaccination continues rolling out in Grand County, the Southeast Utah Health Department is receiving calls from ‘an ever widening group of people’ about eligibility. Plus, residents have spent nearly $40,000 through Moab City’s ‘Buy Local Bucks’ program. So far, locals are mostly spending their ‘bucks’ at grocers, including City Market, Moonflower Community Co-op, and Walker Drug. And later, new rules around oil and gas development in Colorado go into effect this month, giving local communities more authority to regulate the industry. But as our partners at KGNU report, two Front Range counties have radically different ideas of what ‘local control’ means.

Show Notes:

Photo: The Moab Valley Multicultural Center's Zoe Huston holds donated 'local bucks' which the nonprofit will spend to fill their food pantry.

Southeast Utah Health Department: COVID-19 Vaccine Information
https://www.seuhealth.com/covid-vaccine

City of Moab Buy Local Bucks Program
https://moabcity.org/566/Moab-Buy-Local-Bucks

City of Moab Grant Program
https://moabcity.org/568/City-of-Moab-Grant-Program

KGNU: A Tale of Two Counties – Oil and Gas Regulation Along the Front Range
https://news.kgnu.org/2020/12/a-tale-of-two-counties/