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Tom Hesse joins Colorado Matters as a Western Slope producer. His reporting has taken him across the West, with stops in Alaska, Idaho and Colorado. An avid skier, he’ll work — and recreate — out of Colorado Public Radio’s Western Slope office on Main Street in Grand Junction.