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Mitchell trade, U. football opener, BYU volleyball probe and a canyon gondola

September 2, 2022 JCE

The Utah Department of Transportation says it prefers a gondola for Little Cottonwood Canyon — eventually. BYU continues investigating reports that racist slurs were yelled at a Duke volleyball player after video footage appeared to clear the fan originally blamed. We preview the University of Utah football season ahead of its opener against Florida in “The Swamp.” And the Utah Jazz unload Donovan Mitchell,…

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KCPW Presents

No Excuses: Race and Reckoning at a Chicago Charter School

August 29, 2022 JCE

Producer DJ Cashmere spent seven years teaching Black and brown students at a Noble Street charter high school in Chicago. Noble followed a popular model called “no excuses.” It required strict discipline but promised low-income students a better shot at college. After DJ left to become a journalist, Noble disavowed its policies–calling them “assimilationist, patriarchal,…

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Utah’s monument pushback, redistricting lawsuit and LDS Church abuse ‘help line’

August 26, 2022 JCE

Utah sues over President Joe Biden’s upsizing of national monuments downsized by former President Donald Trump. A lawsuit alleging that Utah’s redistricting process amounted to an unconstitutional gerrymander moves forward. And a deep dive with the Associated Press journalist whose reporting showed that a sex abuse “help line” for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can divert abuse…

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KCPW Presents

Standing in Two Worlds: Native American College Diaries

August 24, 2022 JCE

Native American college students take listeners inside the quest to earn degrees. U.S government boarding schools were once used to erase Indigenous culture and force assimilation. But in the 21st century, education opens opportunities. In this documentary, students take the microphone to share their stories as they strive to use a college education to support…

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LDS Church fires back over abuse story, Utah city coughs up police shooting records

August 18, 2022 JCE

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says there were “egregious errors” in a recent Associated Press report on child sex abuse. The federal government says it is “starting the process” to significantly reduce water use in the Colorado River Basin. A judge grants access to police shooting records that West Jordan sought to keep secret. And…

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Local News

The Inflation Reduction Act: What’s in the Sausage?

August 15, 2022 JCE

For nearly six decades, the US government passed no comprehensive climate legislation. Now that’s changed. The Inflation Reduction Act contains approximately $370 billion of investments in clean energy and climate solutions. But not everyone is happy. To get through the Senate, the bill offered a lot of carrots to entrenched fossil fuel interests, along with…

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Legal homeless camps, calls to suspend Davis and Alvord’s tweet to the VP

August 12, 2022 JCE

West-side Salt Lake City council members push for legal homeless encampments to clean up the area around the Jordan River. Dozens of Utah Democrats call for Gene Davis to be suspended following sexual misconduct allegations. And Salt Lake County Council member Dave Alvord faces a backlash after tweeting to Vice President Kamala Harris that fetuses aren’t part of women’s bodies. At…

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Skeptic Check: Shared Reality

August 10, 2022 JCE

One of the many shocking aspects of the Capitol attack was that it revealed how thoroughly the nation had cleaved into alternate realities. How did we get to this point? How did misinformation come to create beliefs embraced by millions? In this episode, experts in social media, cults, and the history of science join us…

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Rocky plans to run, alleged police intimidation, trees dying and orchards dwindling

August 5, 2022 JCE

Saying that the current mayor “has totally failed,” Rocky Anderson says he’s running for Salt Lake City Mayor again in 2023. A new lawsuit says Utah police intimidated animal-rights activists and violated their free speech rights. Bristlecone pines — the world’s most long-lived organisms — are being killed by beetle infestations. And new subdivisions take the place of well established…

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Documentary / Special Broadcasts

Turning Down the Heat: Decarbonizing Cement and Steel

August 2, 2022 JCE

Along with aviation, the construction industry is one of the hardest to decarbonize sectors in the global economy. Cement and steel production together are responsible for about 15% of global CO2 emissions. But look around our modern world and it’s hard to imagine doing without these materials. Radhika Lalit, Chief Strategy Officer at the energy…

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