In his book Growing A Garden City author Jeremy N. Smith documents the creation of an agriculture supported community in Missoula, Montana. Smith spoke at the Salt Lake City Library last night, discussing how creating volunteer powered farms and gardens can help solve community issues like poverty and addiction.
Today NPR’s All Things Considered will launch a three-month long series of stories titled “Beginnings” which explores pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting practices around the world. One of the program’s hosts, Melissa Block, traveled to Mozambique in Africa to research the parenting culture there.
For professional football players, the summer months generally bring mini-camps and free-agent negotiations. However, with the National Football League involved in collective bargaining agreement negotiations with the players union, the league’s players have been locked out from participating in team activities. But that’s not stopping one player with ties to Salt Lake City from keeping busy this summer.
A Salt Lake City Police officer’s missing gun has been found. After a training exercise yesterday, an officer left the gun on the trunk of his car before driving off. An extensive search of the area where the officer was parked was unsuccessful. However, Chief Chris Burbank says there is a good explanation for that.
A new report from Zions Bank says Utah is in good position to continue its strong economic rebound for the rest of 2011, and will be even stronger into the next two years.
Three Utah cities rank amongst the ten worst in the nation when it comes to wintertime air pollution, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.
A local watchdog group is calling for both state and federal investigations of an incident at Dugway Proving Ground. In late January a vial of a deadly nerve agent was misplaced, causing a twelve-hour lock down of the facility.
A bill that would allow Utah’s Constitutional Revision and Tax Review commissions to convene only when requested by the Governor or the legislature passed the House of Representatives today.
The Utah House of Representatives rejected a bill that would make it a misdemeanor to leave a child in a car under dangerous conditions today.
Eight Salt Lake City based non-profits received $1 million dollars from Walmart today as part of the company’s Fighting Hunger Together campaign.
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