The Hinckley Institute Radio HourĀ (Air dates: March 7 ~ 10, 2018) āThe Hinckley Institute recently hosted a panel addressing Homelessness in Salt Lake City and updates to Operation Rio Grande. The panelists included: Lt. Governor Spencer Cox,Ā Spencer J. Cox was sworn in as Utah’s 8th Lieutenant Governor on October 16, 2013. As Lieutenant Governor, he…
The Bottom Line (Re-Air Date: March 6, 2018) ā Gabe Gundersen believes he has a better meal-ordering platform for hungry restaurant patrons, and restaurant managers who want help processing those orders. His Hello Eats will soon launch with partnering restaurants in Provo, Utah, and he thinks it will become the new go-to app for restaurants…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Re-Air dates: February 28 ~ March 3, 2017) — Do you have college loan debts? If the answer is yes, then youāre not alone. About seven in 10 graduating college seniors have borrowed for their educations. And an estimated 40 million Americans have school loan debt. Recently Jason Taylor, Assistant…
The Bottom Line (Re-Air Date: February 27, 2018) āFew events have suddenly turned so wildly popular – and profitable – as Salt Lake Comic Con. The state of Utah estimates the economic benefit from Salt Lake Comic Con’s inaugural event in 2013 at over $30 million dollars. The events continue to attract hundreds of thousands…
(Re-Air dates: February 21 ~ 24, 2018) — McKay Coppins is a political journalist and writer for the Atlantic. He authored the 2015 book, The Wilderness — Deep Inside the Republican Party’s Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House.Ā Coppins is a graduate from Brigham Young University. Coppins spent time covering Donald Trump…
Ā (Re-air Date: February 20, 2018) Filmmakers have long appreciated Utah’s majestic landscapes for imagining the “old West,” an alien planet, or a neighborhood in “anytown U.S.A.”Ā Over the past decade Utah has ramped up its financial appeal to filmmakers through tax credits. Virginia Pearce, the Director of the Utah Film Commission, talks about the state’s…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Re-Air dates: February 14 ~ 17, 2017) —The Hinckley Institute recently hosted a panel addressing systemic racism.Ā The panelists seek to not only explain what systemic racism is, and where it can be seen or felt, but what impact it has on our community here locally in Utah, and how…
The Bottom Line (Re-Air Date: February 13, 2018) ā Before Jeremy Andrus discovered Traeger Wood Pellet Grills through a search fund, he had successfully helped to lift Skullcandy as its CEO from $1 million dollars in annual sales to over $300 million dollars before eventually taking the company public. But Traeger proved to be a…
The Hinckley Institute Radio HourĀ (Re-Air dates: February 7 ~ 10, 2017) āĀ Itās generally understood that free speech is a right all Americans enjoy under the First Amendment. But some forms of speech can be threatening, or can raise fear among certain groups of people. At what point can, or should some hateful speech be shut…
The Bottom Line (Re-Air Date: February 2, 2018) ā How do you launch a sustainable food revolution? Perhaps it requires a good story, and lots and lot of crickets. When Pat Crowley realized he could make a better energy bar using “cricket flour” for protein, he knew he’d encounter the ick factor. Eating bugs simply…
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