City Views

CityViews 11/26/12: The Creative Process/Found Footage

  Segment 1: Novels, poetry, film – it’s all storytelling, but how do you take a narrative from one form and translate it to another? On Monday, we’ll talk with author/screenwriter/filmmaker Mel Donalson about the creative process and variations in media. Guest: Mel Donalson, “Communion”   Dr. Mel Donalson will deliver the lecture, “From ‘Close-up’…

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CityViews 11/21/12: Food Assessment Study/The Pioneer Table

  Segment 1: Salt Lake City recently completed a study that looked at the local food stream, from the garden to the table to the scrap heap. The report concluded that while a growing number of people don’t know where their next meal is coming from, more food is also being thrown away. On Wednesday,…

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Protesters Gather Bring Attention to Tar Sands Decision

Protesters gathered outside the Bureau of Land Management Office in downtown Salt Lake City yesterday, angry over the agency’s recent decision to approve thousands of acres of Utah land for tar sands development.

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Local News

Herbert Wants More Answers About Federal Health Insurance Exchange

Utah Governor Gary Herbert wants more answers about what the federal health insurance exchange means for Utah. ​Monday, he sent a list of questions to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that he wants answered before considering whether joining the federal heath exchange would be in the best interest of the state. Norm Thurston, Utah’s Health Reform Implementation Coordinator, says the state has run its own program since 2009 and there are still a lot of questions that need to be answered before the federal government’s December 14th deadline.

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Legislature Releases Redistricting Records to the Public

More than a year after a request by the Utah Democratic Party, the Utah Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel have released more than 14,000 documents relating to the 2011 redistricting process.  Democratic Party Chair Jim Dabakis says the party feels vindicated after paying thousands of dollars in legal fees in an attempt to…

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