About 20 tents are now set up on a gravel lot east of the Salt Lake City Main Library, following the city relocating Occupy Salt Lake protesters to Library Square from Gallivan Plaza, where the city moved them from in anticipation of the events happening there this summer. Demonstrator Justin Kramer says they have more space and visibility in their new location.
One former filmmaker at Brigham Young University says a new online video of BYU students telling their personal stories of the triumphs and tribulations of being gay and Mormon couldn’t have been made just a few years ago. As KCPW’s Whittney Evans reports, the video is a contribution to the “It Gets Better” campaign to let other Mormon LGBT youth know they’re not alone.
An exhibition coming to downtown Salt Lake City’s Utah Museum of Contemporary Art will have visitors thinking about hunger in a different way – through cupcakes. Elizabeth Tobias is the artist behind “Let Them Eat Cupcakes,” or “The Cupcake Project.” She’ll appear at UMOCA Friday night from 8 to 10 p.m.
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…
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