Join KCPW Thursday, February 9 at 7 PM for the first of the 2012 Nature of Things Lecture Series, presented by the Natural History Museum of Utah, featuring scientist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson. Olson will deliver a lecture titled Clear Proof Scientists Descended From Humans. In his films Flock of Dodos and Sizzle, Olson uses the power of story to put science front-and-center in an age of information overload. Join Olson for an exploration of the crucial role ...
Join KCPW Saturday and Monday evenings at 7 pm for encore broadcasts of season 9 of RadioLab. Each hour of RadioLab takes a big idea, so big that it lives everywhere; hiding in a thousand places under different names, and chases that idea, going wherever whim takes the program. Along the way, hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich interview, argue, imagine, and discover the hidden connections that make this idea so surprisingly powerful. And the sounds ...
KCPW is delighted to have Triggers & Slips in the studio for the premiere webisode of KCPW's Sounds From The Lounge featuring local and national bands performing in our Member Lounge at our studios at Library Square. This webisode features art by Gerry Swanson and Silent Swan Studios. Find out more about Triggers & Slips on Facebook
As Chief Deputy Utah Attorney General, Republican John Swallow has battled against the federal government on issues like health care reform and public lands. Now, with incumbent Mark Shurtleff retiring at the end of 2012, he’s running for his boss’s job.
A bill that could turn the tides in a lawsuit Salt Lake County Auditor Greg Hawkins has filed against Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon and the county council passed unanimously out of the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee yesterday.
The issue of forming a historic district in Salt Lake City’s Yalecrest neighborhood hit the State Capitol once again yesterday. This is the second year in a row Senate Majority Whip Wayne Niederhauser has sponsored a bill that intervenes in the dispute over larger remodels being built in the area, but as KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports, Salt Lake City leaders say they want to try and work it out on their own before the state gets involved.
Following an audit released last year that uncovered widespread mismanagement within the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, Governor Gary Herbert says there will be changes.
Not too long after dropping out of the presidential race, former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman already has a new job. Huntsman Junior will replace Huntsman Senior as chairman of the Huntsman Cancer Foundation, which supports Salt Lake City’s Huntsman Cancer Institute. Every week, we talk with Thomas Burr, Washington Correspondent for the Salt Lake Tribune and author of Political Cornflakes, a daily, online round-up of Utah politics.
