Update: this bill was approved by the House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee on Friday, January 21st. (KCPW News) In the hours after an attack, victims of sexual assault can feel exceptionally vulnerable and protective of their privacy. As a result, someone who experienced an assault can often find it difficult to go to…
This week on “In the Hive,” the first in a series of conversations we’ll be having about police reforms under consideration at the 2021 Utah legislative session. At the peak of this past year’s summer of protests, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill unveiled a number of policy reform ideas relating to law enforcement’s…
(KCPW News) Republican Spencer Cox became the State of Utah’s 18th governor on Monday during a sweeping ceremony at the Tuacahn Center For the Arts in Ivins, Utah. During his inaugural address, Cox said that America “is facing a crisis of empathy; a scourge of contempt.” “Very little feels ‘United’ about the United States today,” Cox…
Today on “In the Hive” we speak with Tom Hudachko, spokesman for the Utah Department of Health, about the state’s multi-phase plan for immunizing its residents against COVID-19. So far, Utah has given the first dose of the two-dose vaccine to a number of frontline healthcare workers and has begun the work of immunizing staff…
Today on “In the Hive,” as part of an ongoing effort to save his independent store, bookseller Ken Sanders teamed up with Fisher Brewing to release some limited-edition, literary-inspired beers. And they’ve been a hit, with each of the commemorative cans selling out the day they were released. There’s an interesting backstory here as well,…
Today on “In the Hive,” the mysterious mystery that keeps on mystifying. The obelisk. The stela. The monolith. The object. Just who put it there, and why? Utah artist Adam Bateman is coy about whether he had a role in planting a three-paneled, shiny metal thing into a remote desert location in San Juan County…
Today on “In the Hive,” we hear about Utah’s plan to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine to residents. Two drug-makers, Pfizer and Moderna, have announced promising vaccine trial results and state health officials say the first doses could be available to Utah hospital workers as early as mid-December. After that there would be a phased rollout to…
Today on “In the Hive,” with the arrival of cold weather and snow, we look at the plan homeless services providers hope to have in place to ensure there is winter overflow shelter for people who don’t have a roof over their heads. There’s a need for additional shelter as the region’s three new homeless…
“Stop the presses” is a phrase from the heyday of newspaper journalism that referred to a temporary pause on printing for a big, breaking story. The phrase is taking on a more permanent meaning this week after Utah’s two oldest and largest daily newspapers announced they’ll move to a weekly format in 2021. And the printing…
Today on “In the Hive,” we’re joined by a longtime Republican strategist who early on in the last presidential election cycle decided that Donald Trump wasn’t the right candidate for his party, or the right president for his country. Stuart Stevens is a political operative who worked on both of George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns and…
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