The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour — Utah state legislators took on many contentious issues this year including homelessness, medical marijuana, transportation, and multiple ballot initiatives. On Friday, March 9th, a panel of lawmakers gathered at the Hinckley Institute of Politics to review the past session and discuss the highlights. The panelists included: Rep. Brian King, Rep. Angela…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air dates: March 7 ~ 10, 2018) —The 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, Spencer J. Cox was sworn in as Utah’s 8th Lieutenant Governor on October 16, 2013. As Lieutenant Governor, he…
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 you’re 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…
(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. Coppins is a graduate from Brigham Young University. Coppins spent time covering Donald Trump…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Re-Air dates: February 14 ~ 17, 2017) —The Hinckley Institute recently hosted a panel addressing systemic racism. 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 Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Re-Air dates: February 7 ~ 10, 2017) — It’s 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 Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Re-Air date: January 31 ~ February 3, 2018) — The Hinckley Institute of Politics recently hosted a forum addressing how immigrants and their families in Utah are responding to President Trump’s executive actions on immigration and public safety. The panelists included: Luis Garza, Executive Director of Comunidades Unidas; Marlene Gonzalez, an immigration…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Re-Air dates: January 24 ~ 27, 2017) — The Hinckley Institute of Politics recently hosted another in a series of Campus Community Dialogues: Understanding Our Differences, Shaping Our Future – Race, Class, and Gender Inequities in the U.S. The forum was sponsored by the College of Social and Behavioral Science, the…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Re-Air dates: January 17 ~ 20, 2018) — This week members of the Utah Citizens’ Counsel presented their 2017 report: Standing Up For Utah’s Needs. The group is an independent, non-partisan group of senior community advocates who are dedicated to improving public policy on complex issues through dialogue, creative problem solving,…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Re-air dates: January 10 ~ 13, 2018) – Professor Cheyney Ryan believes that people really don’t want to fight wars anymore. Prof. Ryan works with the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict. He is engaged in a multi-year project exploring the relation of pacifism and non-violence to contemporary…
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