Most elementary school students across the U.S. don’t remember the tragedy of September 11th. But one Salt Lake City teacher is making sure her students, no matter how young, never forget what happened. KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports on how she is explaining the horror of that day, and why she feels it’s important.
KCPW broadcast a discussion from the Salt Lake City Main Library’s Cultural and Religious Pluralism Conference, called The Role of Youth in Building Pluralistic Society. Young leaders from Salt Lake City shared their perspectives on the role of youth in building a pluralistic society. Here is a podcast of the event.
The annual Greek Festival in downtown Salt Lake City has gone from a bake sale in the basement of the Holy Trinity Cathedral 36 years ago to the largest ethnic festival in Utah, and one of the largest Greek festivals in the west. KCPW’s Whittney Evans stopped by Old Greek Town to learn more about how the festival has grown so popular.
This Sunday not only marks the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, but also 154 years since the Mountain Meadows Massacre in southern Utah. Lysa Wegman-French, a historian with the National Park Service, says to commemorate what happened there, the site will be designated as a National Historic Landmark.
There’s another tragic event that happened on a September 11th that Utahns are familiar with – the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857. This Sunday, the site of that massacre will be formally designated as a National Historic Landmark. It was a tragic legacy of the Utah War, a conflict that may not be that well known outside of Utah, but is well known to our guest. William MacKinnon is author of At Sword’s Point, a compilation of his extensive research on the Utah War.
Utah Governor Gary Herbert is continuing his push to promote Utah’s economy with a trip to New York City. Unemployment in the state is hovering around seven and a half percent. What’s his reaction to President Obama’s jobs speech Thursday night, and what plans does he have to offer Utahns who don’t have a job and put them back to work?
Segment 1: College students have taken online classes for years. Now high school students are logging in, taking everything from biology to P.E. via computer. How does online learning stack up against the traditional classroom? On Monday, Jennifer talks with public education leaders about the virtues and limits of an online education. Guests: Kenneth Grover,…
With cooler weather fast approaching, spiders are looking to make their way indoors. Kevin Thorn, owner of Spider Spray, says hobo spiders are on the rise across the state this year, and can be harmful to humans.
A prestigious $12 million grant from a federal agency is being put into forming a new research center at the University of Utah, called the Center of Excellence in Materials Research and Innovation. KCPW’s Jessica Gail explains what this new center will do.
Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman’s Washington home hosted a viewing party for friends and family to watch his performance in Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate from thousands of miles away. And among the guests was Thomas Burr, Washington Correspondent for the Salt Lake Tribune and author of Political Cornflakes, a daily, online round-up of Utah politics, whom we speak with every Friday.
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