On Friday at 9 a.m., Salt Lake Tribune reporter Thomas Burr, columnist Paul Rolly, government and politics editor Dan Harrie and Tribune editor Jennifer Napier-Pearce join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to talk about the week’s top stories. Each Friday morning, stream “Behind the Headlines” or tune in to KCPW or Utah Public Radio for the broadcast.
(KCPW News) Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Texas Senator Ted Cruz were the big winners of Utah’s presidential caucuses on Tuesday evening, as the state bucked the Republican and Democratic frontrunners in the race for the White House. [Audio after break] Some voters waited up to several hours to cast a vote for their preferred…
(KCPW News) Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski has now been in office for a little over two and a half months, but her short tenure has not been uneventful – with the police shooting of a teenager, a major legislative push, and with national elections having a local impact (among other things). Carrying on…
(KCPW News) Republican front-runner Donald Trump was one of four presidential hopefuls to visit Utah in the days leading up to this Tuesday’s caucuses. His appearance at the Infinity Event Center in downtown Salt Lake City drew a large protest. KCPW’s Roger McDonough was there, and provided this report. [AUDIO after break] It seems that…
The final gavel fell on the 2016 Utah State Legislative Session late last night. On today’s Better Utah Legislative Update we feature a recap of what got funded, defunded, passed and shelved on the hill this year – from Medicaid to marijuana, coal exports to water pipelines, education to air quality and beyond.
Today is the last day of the 2016 meeting of state lawmakers. Today on our Better Utah Legislative Update, KCPW’s Roger McDonough speaks with Chase Thomas and Matt Lyon from Alliance for a Better Utah about last-minute funding for various legislative priorities, and at at what happened to measures to reform the so-called “Count My…
(KCPW News) A measure that would shuffle the makeup of two nuts-and-bolts legislative committees to favor Republicans passed the Utah House of Representatives on a 41-33 vote on Tuesday. House Bill 220 by Draper Republican Rep. LaVar Christensen would do away with the traditionally-equal bipartisan makeup of the Legislative Audit Subcommittee and the Legislative Management…
A bill by Democratic Senator Gene Davis would return to the governor the power to accept full Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. It (somewhat surprisingly) advanced out of committee. Meanwhile, an initiative to upset the balance of two administrative committees passed the House. Alliance for a Better Utah Strategic Advisor Matt Lyon joins…
A measure that environmentalists say is designed to fund the Lake Powell and Bear River pipelines is awaiting consideration in committee. Meanwhile, initiatives to address air quality in Utah have stalled. Alliance for a Better Utah Strategic Advisor Matt Lyon joins KCPW’s Roger McDonough for the latest Better Utah Legislative Update.
(KCPW News) With the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, there’s a new fight over whether President Obama or the next US president should name his replacement. How do Utah’s senators come down on this? KCPW’s Roger McDonough posed that question to Thomas Burr, Washington Correspondent for the Salt Lake Tribune and author of Political Cornflakes…
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