Clark Adomaitis
Reporter, Voices From the Edge of the Colorado PlateauClark 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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The Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute tribal chairmen gave their annual address to the Colorado state legislature last week as part of the celebration of Ute Day at the capitol. It’s the tribes’ second annual address to the state.
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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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Immigrants from Mexico, Cambodia, Germany, and Russia recently gathered at the La Plata County Courthouse for their ceremony.
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In January, the city announced a 3-year grant-funded position to elevate two local poets' voices. Zoe Golden and Esther Belin recently read their poetry at the Durango Public Library.
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The sport is growing in popularity on the Navajo Nation, even without a single bike shop.
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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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The health screening truck was set up near the Navajo Transitional Energy Company coal mine. Active and retired coal miners were screened for black lung, a disease from inhaling coal silica particles.
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Construction on the Sun Bear Solar Farm is set to start later in 2024 and will need more than 500 laborers and electricians.
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Last year, teen harm reduction activists in Durango successfully lobbied the 9R School District to allow students permission to carry and administer Narcan. Now they've helped draft a bill to help change school drug policies across the state.