KCPW, the Utah Nonprofits Association, and Utah Public Radio are partnering to spotlight the positive impacts of local nonprofit organizations. “Utah Cares” features a series of stories from diversified nonprofits in an effort to increase the visibility of nonprofits across the state, and to inspire people to give to organizations and community groups that are…
“Stupid” is how Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz describes Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to give President Obama the authority to raise the debt ceiling. But Senator Orrin Hatch isn’t so critical. The strategy would spare Republicans from having to reach a budget compromise with the President while still voicing their disapproval of raising the debt ceiling.
KCPW, the Utah Nonprofits Association, and Utah Public Radio are partnering to spotlight the positive impacts of local nonprofit organizations. “Utah Cares” features a series of stories from diversified nonprofits in an effort to increase the visibility of nonprofits across the state, and to inspire people to give to organizations and community groups that are…
Utah lawmakers who have been appointed to re-draw the state’s legislative and congressional boundaries adopted a set of redistricting principles this morning, making very few changes to the ones that were used in 2001. The committee discussed a proposal to consider creating districts represented by multiple lawmakers, but it was rejected, to the disappointment of Democratic Representative Brian King of Salt Lake City.
How is the race for clean energy playing out in Utah? What are our assets and challenges? A panel of local experts discussed the current state of clean energy in Utah during the finale of the Nature of Things Lectures on Wednesday, April 6 at the Salt Lake City Library.
Nature Conservancy Senior Scientist Jonathan Hoekstra, lead author of The Atlas of Global Conservation, took part in the 2011 Nature of Things Lecture Series, sponsored by the Utah Museum of Natural History, at the Salt Lake City Main Library on Wednesday, March 16.
Fred Krupp, President of the Environmental Defense Fund, delivered the keynote lecture of the 2011 Nature of Things series on March 2 at Kingsbury Hall. The lecture was titled “The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming.”
The unrest in Egypt has topped national headlines during the first weeks of 2011. During a round table Friday at the Salt Lake City Library, Native Egyptian experts and Middle East scholars from several Utah universities discussed the facts and causes of the conflict, explained the history and regional influences, and discussed whether democracy is possible for Egypt.
Jeff Muhs, director of Utah State University’s Energy Dynamics Laboratory opened this year’s Nature of Things Lecture Series on February 16 at the Salt Lake City Library.
KCPW, the Utah Nonprofits Association, and Utah Public Radio are partnering to spotlight the positive impacts of local nonprofit organizations. “Utah Cares” features a series of stories from diversified nonprofits in an effort to increase the visibility of nonprofits across the state, and to inspire people to give to organizations and community groups that are…
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