The controversial film “Bully” opens in major cities across the country this month and hundreds of other cities are demanding screenings of the film in their towns as well through a social media campaign. The documentary follows the lives of several kids who are being bullied at school. Salt Lake City Councilman Charlie Luke has entered Salt Lake City into the “Bully Demand Competition,” and is looking for enough online signatures to get a screening here.

More help is coming to Utah’s homeless. The Salt Lake City Main Library, a known hotspot for those with nowhere to go, has developed a plan to better direct those in need to basic services. KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports on the unique offerings coming to the library.

The Utah Senate approved a bill this morning that requires some welfare recipients in the state to be drug tested if they want to continue to receive benefits. Under House Bill 155, anyone applying for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or TANF will have to complete a questionnaire designed to determine the likelihood that they’re using drugs. If it suggests they are, they’ll be asked to submit to a drug test.

Enough is enough. That’s what some in Utah’s LGBT community are saying after a nondiscrimination bill considered by the state legislature failed to make it to the floor of the Senate or House for the fifth year in a row. And today, they’re taking their message to the state capitol, holding a Human Dignity Rally.

Women who want to be homemakers in Utah should aspire to graduate from college just the same as women who plan to join the workforce. As KCPW’s Whittney Evans reports, that was the message this morning at a meeting of Governor Gary Herbert’s Education Excellence Commission at the State Capitol.

  Segment 1: Why do we love chocolate? What makes high-quality chocolate? And what do those percentages mean on the labels of gourmet chocolates? On Tuesday, we get the answers from local/national experts at Amano Chocolate and Hatch Family Chocolates. Guests: Art Pollard, Amano Artisan Chocolate Steve Hatch, Hatch Family Chocolates Steven Rosenberg, Liberty Heights [...]

  Segment 1: Growing up, Lindsay Van was told she didn’t have the “right” physique, but that didn’t keep her from becoming the first Women’s World Ski Jumping Champion. Still, she wanted to show what she could do in the Olympics. But there was a problem: ski jumping for women wasn’t allowed by the International [...]

One lawmaker says he wants Utah residents to be more aware of what their options are if they decide to get a divorce. Republican Representative Jim Nielson is the sponsor of House Bill 290, which requires married couples with a minor child to take a divorce education class before they can file for divorce. He says under current law, the class is still required, but can be taken after divorce papers have been filed.

A bill that would essentially give fathers a greater chance of achieving custody of their children in a divorce passed out of the House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee Tuesday. Republican Representative Ryan Wilcox, the bill’s sponsor, says it’s time custody battles are decided by what’s in the best interest of the child.

The Executive Director of Utah’s Department of Workforce Services says the state and federal governments need to take a closer look at work exemptions for people who receive public assistance because incompatible policies and expectations do more to discourage work than support it. But as KCPW’s Whittney Evans reports, one national advocate for government assistance says not so fast.