A new course is helping under-served high school kids at Salt Lake’s East High develop a love a learning. It is called the Clemente Course and it’s an interdisciplinary humanities course for sophomores who hope to be the first in their families to attend college. Today on The Rundown we’ll speak about this innovative program,…
(KCPW News) The state of Utah’s legal arguments in the same-sex marriage debate have changed repeatedly through the course of its filings. This, according to an article published Monday by Adam Liptak, Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times. KCPW’s Roger McDonough spoke with Liptak earlier today and asked him to outline the changing…
Today on the show we spend a fair amount of time on the recent developments in the ongoing legal (and societal) debate over same-sex marriage in Utah. That, a look at the interplay between religion and diplomacy, and your top local headlines.
US Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the federal government would recognize same-sex marriages performed while gay marriage was legal in Utah. KCPW’s Roger McDonough reports.
It’s been several months since Utah paid the federal government to reopen the national parks during the government shutdown – but the state still hasn’t been repaid. Any chance the state will get a check sometime soon? KCPW’s Roger McDonough posed that and other questions to Thomas Burr, Washington Correspondent for the Salt Lake Tribune…
The enormous landslide at the Kennecott Copper Mine last year was likely the largest non-volcanic slide in North American history, and the first known to have triggered earthquakes. We’ll speak to the authors of a new study on the slide by University of Utah Scientists published earlier this week. Plus, your local headlines.
Today on the show we feature the next in our monthly series of conversations with Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker. We’ll look at the mayor’s State of the City Address, same-sex marriage, development in Salt Lake’s downtown, and more. Plus, your daily news summary.
The State of Utah has said that it will not recognize the marriages of same-sex couples who were married after a federal judge struck down Utah’s ban on gay marriage last month. As a result same-sex couples married in Utah between that December 20th decision and the order on Monday by the US Supreme Court…
John Herbert is the Program Director of Utah Digital Newspapers at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library. For the past 11 years, he and his staff have been scanning collections of old Utah newspapers, and making them freely available for the public online. We’ll speak to John about the collection and his work,…
Today on the program we speak with Clifford Rosky, a law professor at the University of Utah who teaches courses on criminal law, constitutional law, and sexuality, gender and law. We’ll delve into the debate over gay marriage in the state of Utah. That conversation, plus your top local headlines.
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