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Katie Mackinnon

Katie MacKinnon is a writer striving to build connection through storytelling. She specializes in environmental reporting, always looking to find the human angle and the untold story. She has a passion for local food systems, sustainable agriculture, and environmental justice. When not writing, she can be found reading, sewing, or spending time in the outdoors.

Magazine

Ways to Indulge | Indulgence Issue 2025

October 1, 2025 1 0 Katie Mackinnon

Ways to Indulge For twenty-five years, Yellow Scene Magazine has given you permission to treat yourself in the indulgence issue. For this special Silver Anniversary edition, we sought to luxuriate in local cuisine. Our writers traveled up and down Highway…

Foodie

How Your Credit Card Tips Get Into Servers’ Pockets | Foodie

July 31, 2024 Like 0 Katie Mackinnon

A lot has changed in the restaurant industry over the past decade, especially in the years following the Covid outbreak. At some restaurants, you may get a text when your table is ready. You may be able to swipe your…

Online News

From Film to Phone: Shooting the West at the Longmont Museum

June 2, 2024 Like 0 Katie Mackinnon

The technology photographers used to capture the West Early photographers carried heavy camera equipment over mountains in order to capture the American West on film. Now, photographers and everyday people have the ability to snap pictures of the landscape on…

Magazine

Boulder County Is Revamping Their Efforts for Wildfire Mitigation Two Years Post Marshall Fire

May 10, 2024 Like 0 Katie Mackinnon

It has been over two years since the Marshall Fire swept through the grasslands of Boulder County. The most destructive fire in Colorado history in terms of buildings destroyed, the fire took the lives of two and created irreparable damage…

Off Menu

Off Menu: Just BE Kitchen

May 7, 2024 5 0 Katie Mackinnon

The menu at Just BE Kitchen is filled with comfort food like French Toast Sliders, Chicken and Dumplings, and Shepherd’s Pie – all that just so happen to be gluten-free. That last part isn’t the first thing that comes to…

Online News

Boulder Housing Coalition Brings Back Parts of the ‘old Boulder’ with Communal Living

March 26, 2024 1 0 Katie Mackinnon

Wizards of modern housing On the corner of 9th and North Street in Downtown Boulder sits a strange-looking house. While some of its residents describe its twisting halls as reminiscent of Hogwarts, the house is home not to wizards, but…

Online News

A Local Erie Ruling May Indicate a Statewide Shift Away From Fossil Fuels

March 9, 2024 2 0 Katie Mackinnon

The drilling continues in Coyote Trails It was late spring of 2023 and David Frank was doing routine reviews of permits filed near Erie when he stumbled across something strange. Extraction Oil and Gas had filed seven new permits to…