In the early 1960s, a man named Ammon Hennacy started up a shelter and aid center for homeless people and railroad tramps who needed a place to stay. The Joe Hill House of Hospitality and St. Joseph Refuge provided a roof, food, storage for day laborers and camaraderie for Salt Lake City’s unsheltered. A new…
The Ute Tribe believes a Uinta Basin rancher is “misappropriating” its water, but federal courts aren’t intervening. Almost 20 years after their parents were killed in Brazil, the Staheli siblings are still seeking justice. And remembering Orrin Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history and a “giant” on Utah’s political stage. At 9 a.m.…
On this week’s episode of “In the Hive…” A new exhibit on the third floor of the Utah State Capitol features stories of the survivors of the Topaz War Relocation Center, the concentration camp in central Utah that housed more than 11,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. The exhibit, sponsored by the San Franciso-based…
Today on “In the Hive,” the latest of our periodic conversations with Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall. We’ll talk to the mayor about pedestrian safety, homeless shelters, the deal the city struck on the Utah Inland Port, and even about the whale — a contentious new public art piece in the city’s 9th &…
For Muslims in Utah and around the world, the holy month of Ramadan — which began with the sighting of the crescent moon on Friday — is a period of fasting, prayer and community. This week, the new local podcast City Cast Salt Lake offered a guide to being a good neighbor to Utah Muslims…
Turn a corner in your city, and you’ll be confronted with a reminder that history is all around us. Old trees call to mind the forgotten individuals who planted them. Certain buildings seem haunted by the ghosts of an earlier era. Walk through an overgrown alleyway and a once-familiar place is suddenly…different. Digging into local…
Today on “In the Hive,” the rebroadcast of a conversation with the author Eric Schlosser, about the theory of nuclear deterrence, the unthinkability of nuclear war, and the ‘illusion of safety.’ This show originally aired a year ago and was the second part of a two-part look at the overhaul of America’s land-based nuclear missile…
Meritless, internet-based conspiracy theories have led to a huge uptick in threats against election workers around the nation. Last week, the Brennan Center at New York University Law School released the results of a survey of local election officials, which found that one in three felt unsafe because of the work they do, while one…
In the two weeks since Russian president Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion, more than two million people have fled Ukraine. Thousands are believed dead in the conflict so far, according to reporting by the Associated Press, though an exact human toll remains unclear. The impact is being felt in far away Utah where a “small but…
Shallow water, deep trouble. The myriad problems created by the drying up of the Great Salt Lake require our attention. Because of low water levels, scientists have been warning of the pending collapse of the ecological pyramid that sustains life in and around the lake — from microbes, to brine shrimp, to millions of birds.…
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