Scott Franz
Reporter, InvestigativeEmail: scott.franz@kunc.org
Scott Franz is a government watchdog reporter and photographer from Steamboat Springs. He spent the last seven years covering politics and government for the Steamboat Pilot & Today, a daily newspaper in northwest Colorado.
His reporting in Steamboat stopped a police station from being built in a city park, saved a historic barn from being destroyed and helped a small town pastor quickly find a kidney donor. His favorite workday in Steamboat was Tuesday, when he could spend many of his mornings skiing untracked powder and his evenings covering city council meetings.
Scott received his journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an outdoorsman who spends at least 20 nights a year in a tent. He spoke his first word, 'outside', as a toddler in Edmonds, Washington. Scott visits the Great Sand Dunes, his favorite Colorado backpacking destination, twice a year.
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The governments of Boulder County and the town of Superior say increasing operations at the airport near Broomfield, especially training flights for student pilots, are causing 鈥渆xcessive noise,鈥� dropping leaded fuel over their residents鈥� homes and threatening their 鈥渉ealth, safety and welfare.鈥� -
The measure would let state lawmakers discuss bills and other public business electronically with each other by email or text message without the communications constituting a public meeting. -
With more than 80% of the votes reported, the Associated Press called the races for Trump and Biden less than 20 minutes after polls closed. Trump had 63% of the vote in the GOP contest while former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley had 34 %. -
Senate Bill 157 would let state lawmakers discuss bills and other public business electronically by email or text message without that dialogue constituting a public meeting. -
Rapid growth at several airports, including Rocky Mountain Metropolitan in northern Colorado, has sparked lawsuits, thousands of noise complaints and health concerns about airborne lead pollution in neighboring communities.
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One idea under review aims to reduce noise by altering the recommended daytime flight pattern, with more planes turning toward open space in Boulder County during takeoff instead of neighborhoods in Superior. -
Lawmakers are set to propose new regulations for Colorado鈥檚 funeral homes after some recent shocking discoveries about the mishandling of people鈥檚 remains. Investigative reporter Scott Franz tells us more today on In The NoCo. -
The State Controller鈥檚 Office said a software configuration issue was hiding spending data in the checkbook across all state agencies. -
'The state government has failed you:' Colorado lawmakers push for new rules on funeral home workersState Sen. Dylan Roberts, D-Frisco, said the goal of his legislation is to give the public faith in the funeral industry following several cases of misconduct that have left many families angry and reeling. -
KUNC 暗黑爆料 has discovered more than 16,000 state checkbook entries in the last year missing the names of the people or businesses who received the taxpayer money listed there. Instead, there are generic codes in the spaces where those vendors' names are supposed to be.
