Today on the program we hear from University of Utah Law Professor Robert Keiter, Director of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment. We’ll be examining the state of Utah’s ambitions to wrest control of public lands from the federal government. Plus, your top local headlines.
(KCPW News) After 16 days of shutdown, the federal government is up and running again. But for how long? KCPW’s Roger McDonough posed that question to Thomas Burr, Washington Correspondent for the Salt Lake Tribune and author of Political Cornflakes, a daily online roundup of Utah politics.
Today on the show we visit with retired television anchor Dick Nourse and activist Dr. Brian Moench to follow up on the Op-Ed they published in the Salt Lake Tribune decrying the decline of quality news reporting. Plus, the day’s headlines and Political Cornflakes with Tribune Washington Correspondent Thomas Burr.
Salt Lake was just ranked the seventh “most livable” city in the US by the website livability.com, which used a variety of factors to gauge their results. Today we speak with Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker about that ranking and about recent goings-on in city government. Plus, your daily local news summary.
Today we speak with urban designer, architect, city planner and city councilman Soren Simonsen about Impact Hub Salt Lake. Part shared office space, part social venture, part start-up training ground, Impact Hub began in London in 2005 and has expanded around the world from there. Plus today’s top local headlines.
Today we take a look at member-owned businesses in the United States. We’re joined by Stuart Reid, Executive Director of the American Food Co-op Initiative, who was in town for Wasatch Cooperative Market’s annual “dinner in the field” event. Plus, your local headlines and a preview of tomorrow’s interim day at the Utah State Legislature…
Today on the program we speak with Dr. Robert Davies, a physicist with the Utah Climate Center at Utah State University. We’ll discuss a new study in the journal Nature predicting that global average temperatures will be hotter than historical extremes within 35 years. Plus a round-up of local headlines and Political Cornflakes with Salt…
Advice columnist and gay rights advocate Dan Savage joins KCPW’s Ryan Cunningham for a conversation about religious views on homosexuality. Plus, an excerpt from last night’s town hall on the Affordable Care Act and your local news summary.
Today on the show we speak with Vicki Bennett, Director of the Office of Sustainability for Salt Lake City, and we look at local and regional policies surrounding electric vehicles. Plus, the governor’s education summit and your local news summary.
Rick Rasmussen is an Administrator and Investigator with the Police Civilian Review Board in Salt Lake City. We speak to Rasmussen about his role, and about the need for civilian oversight of law enforcement. That, plus Governor Gary Herbert’s new selection for Lieutenant Governor, and the results of a mail-in city opinion poll on the…
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