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Politics Up Close: State Democratic Party Chairman Wayne Holland Utah Democratic Party Chairman Wayne Holland is running to keep his job as party chairman. We spoke with Holland's opponent Jeff Bell two weeks ago, who criticized his leadership. Holland responds and makes his case for a third term as chairman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon With Governor Jon Huntsman set to depart for China within a few months, the governor's seat will be open for a special election in November of 2010. Does Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon have any interest in running? Is he disappointed to see a progressive Republican leader leaving the state? We talk with him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: U of U Law Professor & Israel Expert Amos Guiora President Barack Obama is demanding a halt to Jewish Settlements in the West Bank, but Israeli politicians say, not so fast. What is the future of U.S. Israeli relations under President Obama, and is there room for peace in the next four years? We talk with University of Utah law professor Amos Guiora. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Mayor Ralph Becker on Public Safety Complex Proposal Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker makes his monthly visit to our studios. The chorus of voices who are criticizing his plan to build a new police headquarters near to the Main City Library is growing. Has this caused him to re-consider, or is it stay the course? We find out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Mayor and Former Mayor on Library Proposal We have a conversation with Mayor Ralph Becker about his proposal to put a new police headquarters right next to the downtown library, and then a conversation with former Mayor Rocky Anderson about why this idea is all wrong. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: SL County Council Chairman Joe Hatch We're joined by Salt Lake County Council Chairman Joe Hatch. He's pushing a proposal that would let the county's employees choose whether they want to be represented by a union, then require the county to negotiate with those unions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Democratic Party Chair Candidate Jeff Bell Jeff Bell is challenging incumbent Wayne Holland to be chairman of the Utah Democratic Party. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Economist and NPR Commentator Russell Roberts Economist Russell Roberts tells us why global trade should be expanded during this economic downturn. He'll be in Salt Lake this week for a Zions Bank conference on international trade. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Police Headquarters on Library Square? Is a proposal to put the new police headquarters right next to the Salt Lake City Main Library a good idea or not? It's a hot topic that's got some people riled up. We talk with city councilmen J.T. Martin and Luke Garrott, who have opposing viewpoints. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Sen. Howard Stephenson on Employee Free Choice Act Joining Politics Up Close is Republican State Senator Howard Stephenson and attorney Mike Lee with SOS Secret Ballot. We heard last week from the AFL-CIO about why the Employee Free Choice Act is a good thing. Stephenson and Lee tell us why it's not when it comes to the secret ballot. Listen to a conversation with Utah AFL-CIO President Jim Judd in support of the legislation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Utah AFL-CIO President Jim Judd In this excerpt from Friday's Politics Up Close, Jim Judd, President of the Utah AFL-CIO, discusses the controversial Employee Free Choice Act. It's opposed by most of Utah's congressional delegation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: SUWA Conservation Director Stephen Bloch Stephen Bloch is Conservation Director for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. SUWA isn't happy with Senator Bob Bennett for holding up the confirmation process for two Interior Department Officials. But Senator Bennett says he's looking out for Utah's best interests after Secretary Ken Salazar put a hold on 77 controversial oil and gas lease parcels. We talk with Bloch about Bennett's actions, wilderness, and how he hopes the BLM handles a protest ATV ride this weekend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Utah AFL-CIO President Jim Judd Jim Judd is President of the Utah AFL-CIO. He and other labor leaders across the country are hoping Congress passes the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would make it easier to unionize through a process called card check. But it has little or no support from Utah's own congressional delegation, which says it will eliminate the secret ballot. We'll sort out the facts of the legislation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: House Speaker Dave Clark Defends Ethics Bills In this excerpt from KCPW's most recent episode of Politics Up Close, David Clark, Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives, defends a new law that has been criticized for failing to prevent former lawmakers from immediately becoming lobbyists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Politifact.com Examines President's Promises Politifact.com researcher and reporter Angie Holan discusses which promises from the campaign trail President Barack Obama has kept, and which he's broken, now that we're past his first 100 days in office. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Senator Bob Bennett on Blocking Interior Nominee Senator Bob Bennett discusses why he's currently blocking the appointment of a nominee for Deputy Secretary of the Interior. He wants more answers out of Secretary Ken Salazar, who's here in Salt Lake City today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Utah House Speaker David Clark The state legislature recently asked Governor Huntsman to drop the issues of redistricting and legislative ethics from his new commission, which the governor agreed to do. We ask Clark why only the legislature should have the authority to deal with these issues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Academic Freedom vs. Student Safety Lucinda Roy was chair of the English Department at Virginia Tech when she met Seung-Hui Cho, who later went on to kill 32 people in April 2007 in the worst gun massacre in American history. In this excerpt, she discusses the balance between academic freedom and student safety in light of the tragedy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Dr. Bahman Baktiari Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinajad gained no political allies in the West this week when he launched into a tirade against Israel, declaring it a cruel and repressive racist regime. President Barack Obama has been criticized by conservatives for declaring his willingness to sit down and talk with the Iranian leader, trying to calm tensions over uranium enrichment and the situation between Israel and Palestine. What is the U.S. doing wrong when it comes to Iran? Yesterday, KCPW's Jeff ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Virginia Tech Professor Lucinda Roy Lucinda Roy is a distinguished professor at Virginia Tech, and author of a new book, "No Right to Remain Silent: The Tragedy at Virginia Tech." She was Chair of the English Department in the fall of 2005 when she first met Seung-Hui Cho, who two years ago went on to commit the worst gun massacre in American History. We talk with her about how Virginia Tech failed its students when she tried to warn administrators about Cho's behavior and get him help. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: "Bootstrapping" A Business We stray from politics for a bit this week as we talk with Rich Christiansen and Ron Porter about their new book, "Bootstrap Business: A Step-by-Step Business Survival Guide." In this excerpt, they discuss why you shouldn't necessarily go into business with your golfing buddies, how you know when to sell, and why seeking funding from venture capitalists often isn't the best way to go. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: City Council Chairman Carlton Christensen Carlton Christensen is currently chairman of the Salt Lake City Council, and is seeking a fourth term this year after failing to win a seat in the Utah Senate. We'll ask him what brings him back to the job year after year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Utah Entrepreneurs Release New Book on "Bootstrapping" a Business Successful Utah entrepreneurs Rich Christiansen and Ron Porter have just released a new book on "bootstrapping" your own business venture. We get some straightforward advice from them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Steve Gunn with Gun Violence Prevention Center Politics Up Close is joined by Steve Gunn with the Gun Violence Prevention Center of Utah, who shares his concerns about a new law that tells business owners they can't prevent their patrons from carrying a gun in their cars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Excerpt: Clark Aposhian with the Utah Shooting Sports Council In this excerpt from Friday's Politics Up Close, Clark Aposhian, Chair of the Utah Shooting Sports Council, discusses a bill from this past legislative session that would have only allowed Utah residents to become Utah concealed weapons permit instructors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Gun Ownership Advocate Clark Aposhian Gun advocates fear the Obama administration wants to chip away at the right to bear arms, but a number of bills passed in the legislature this session expand 2nd Amendment rights here in Utah. We talk with Clark Aposhian with the Utah Shooting Sports Council about the future of gun ownership in Utah. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Salt Lake Convention & Visitors Bureau CEO Scott Beck Salt Lake County is studying whether to use your tax dollars to finance the construction of a hotel to go with the Salt Palace Convention Center. But in this down economy, is it a good idea to build a public venue that would compete with private interests? We talk with Scott Beck, President and CEO of the Salt Lake Convention and Visitors' Bureau. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Governor's Energy Adviser Dianne Nielson Dianne Nielson is energy adviser to Governor Jon Huntsman. The Utah legislature passed a major renewable energy incentive this session, but many lawmakers remain skeptical of the Western Climate Initiative and want Utah to withdraw. We ask her how the executive branch plans to work with the legislature on this issue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Environmental Activist Tim DeChristopher Tim DeChristopher has gained national recognition for fraudulently bidding in a controversial lease auction late last year, and now, he's been charged with two felonies. What does the future hold for this young activist, and would he have done anything differently? DeChristopher joins the show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: UTA Officials Discuss Paratransit, Land Swap (KCPW News) UTA has just proposed a very significant fare hike for disabled riders who rely on special buses to transport them, and that has disabled activists angry. And environmentalists are mad about the agency's proposed land swap down in Draper to build a TRAX station as well. Spokesman Justin Jones and General Counsel Bruce Jones join us in the studio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Dave Hansen and Tim Bridgewater So far, two men are hoping to lead the Utah Republican Party starting later this year. Dave Hansen and Tim Bridgewater are familiar faces to the GOP faithful in the state. We ask them what they'd bring to the job and how they plan on gaining more Republicans in an increasingly Democratic Salt Lake County. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Frank Gray Frank Gray is the Community and Economic Development Director for Salt Lake City. What is the outlook for building and development in the city, and what is he doing to get more people and business to move in downtown? We ask him on Politics Up Close. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Law Professor Scott Matheson In this excerpt from Friday's Politics Up Close, University of Utah law professor Scott Matheson discusses how President Abraham Lincoln violated the constitution during the Civil War. Listen to full podcasts of the show on the Politics Up Close page. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Law Professor Scott Matheson President George W. Bush's time in office continues to be the subject of debate with regard to how well he treated the U.S. Constitution. But he's certainly not the only president who raised constitutional concerns. We're joined by former US Attorney and current University of Utah law professor Scott Matheson to talk about his new book, Presidential Constitutionalism in Perilous Times. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder Salt Lake County continues to release record breaking numbers of inmates at the Adult Detention Center because they simply don't have the space to house them. How do we stop this problem? It's all about the money. We talk with Sheriff Jim Winder. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Rep. Brian King and Rep. Jay Seegmiller It's been a week since the legislature ended its 2009 general session. There were many familiar faces returning to Capitol Hill, but a couple new ones as well. We talk with freshmen lawmakers Representatives Brian King and Jay Seegmiller to learn about the legislative process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Mayor Ralph Becker on North Temple "Grand Boulevard" In this excerpt from last Friday's Politics Up Close, Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker discusses the city's plans to turn North Temple into a "Grand Boulevard," a booming business district revitalized by the TRAX line to the airport. The Utah legislature just awarded the city $20 million in state funds to re-build the North Temple viaduct. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Congressman Jason Chaffetz Congressman Jason Chaffetz is a bona fide media star who's made the rounds on national TV for his willingness to go on the Colbert Report and speak his mind at every turn. We'll talk with him about the federal budget and how he's sleeping on a cot in his office at night. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker The legislature's general session just wrapped last night at midnight. Did Salt Lake City come away relatively unscathed compared to last year, when we lost six million dollars in property taxes thanks to a controversial school equalization bill? We ask the mayor about that and the proposed "Grand Boulevard" that will be made out of North Temple when the TRAX line to the airport is built. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Lawmaker Says Getting Rid of Private Clubs Imminent In this excerpt from Friday's Politics Up Close, we speak with State Representative Greg Hughes, who says a compromise bill that will eliminate the private club designation is going to happen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: State Rep. Greg Hughes Legislators are nearing a compromise on alcohol policy as the legislature draws to a close in just four days. As it stands now, one bill in the Senate would require restaurants to prepare drinks in a back room or build a ten foot wall around the bar, a different bill in the House would get rid of the private club designation and allow Utahns to simply go to a bar without paying to get in like they can in every other state. At issue is lawmakers' concern about drunken driving incidents inc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Lincoln Nehring with the Utah Health Policy Project Last year, the Utah Legislature created a Health System Reform Task Force to meet with stakeholders and come up with policy to fix the state's broken health care system, which currently leaves about 400,000 people uninsured. Many bills came out of the effort and are moving through the Legislature. But not all of them are likely to make it all the way through the legislative process, with the session wrapping up on midnight next Thursday. So which bills are most important to health care a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Missy Bird with the Planned Parenthood Action Council Abortion, as always, is a hot topic on Utah's Capitol Hill this legislative session, which wraps up next Thursday at midnight. Three Republican sponsored abortion related bills have already been approved by both the Senate and House of Representatives. Meanwhile, a Democratic sponsored bill that would allow for comprehensive sex education while continuing to emphasize abstinence, hasn't been voted on or heard in committee at all. How will all these bills affect Utah citizens? Joining K ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon "If people are doing things wrong, we're gonna discipline them, and if it's egregious enough, we're gonna fire them, to be honest with you." Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon discusses a review of the county's planning division in this excerpt from Friday's Politics Up Close. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Attorney Brian Barnard on Summum Ruling Salt Lake City-based attorney Brian Barnard joins Politics Up Close to discuss the Supreme Court ruling against his client, the Summum religious group, and the future of the conflict between Summum and the city of Pleasant Grove. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Congressman Jim Matheson Congressman Jim Matheson joins Politics Up Close to talk about Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's decision to scrap oil shale leasing in Utah, his vote against an omnibus appropriations bill, his opposition to reinstating the ban on assault weapons, and EnergySolutions' proposal to share revenue with the state if it allows the company to import Italian nuclear waste. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon has proven to be a popular politician, but he's got a few tough issues to deal with right now. The Salt Lake County Council has been looking at a troubling review of the county's planning division, which was conducted by the mayor's office. Democrats and Republicans have sparred on the issue, with some Republicans accusing the mayor's office of pushing an agenda. Meanwhile, a Salt Lake Tribune article this week revealed some tension between the county ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Charles Kuck with AILA In this excerpt from Friday's Politics Up Close, Charles Kuck, President of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, discusses the problems of temporary guest worker visas.Download full episodes of Politics Up Close here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Todd Weiler&James Evans The GOP suffered losses in the 2008 elections, both nationally and here in Utah. The Salt Lake County Council is now controlled by Democrats with a narrow 5 to 4 margin, the Salt Lake County GOP lost a Senate seat in Cottonwood Heights with Karen Morgan's defeat of Carlene Walker, a House seat in Cottonwood Heights after Mark Walker's resignation, and Speaker of the House Greg Curtis was defeated by challenger Jay Seegmiller, who was running for the third time. And the GOP's reputation ha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Charles Kuck with the American Immigration Lawyers Association Immigration was a major issue on the presidential campaign trail, as President Barack Obama and his former rival sparred on how to fix the nation's broken immigration system. But now the Obama Administration has taken office, and little has been heard about the issue with the giant economic stimulus and the bank bailout taking the spotlight. Meanwhile, some in the Utah legislature are calling on the federal government to allow individual states to create their own, independent guest worke ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Mayor Ralph Becker on The Leonardo In this excerpt from Friday's Politics Up Close, Mayor Ralph Becker talks about his decision to recommend the city release a $10.2 million bond to the Leonardo. Download full podcasts on the Politics Up Close page. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Col. Peter Mansoor Colonel Peter Mansoor knows military strategy. He was the executive officer to General David Petraeus in Iraq from 2007 to 2008, and a Brigade Commander from 2003 to 2004. And while he was there, he realized what we did wrong and turned it into a book, Baghdad at Sunrise, A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq, released late last year. He was in Salt Lake City last night to speak to the Salt Lake Committee on Foreign Relations. Colonel Mansoor stopped by our studio to have a conversation about t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker Though almost none of Utah's Congressional delegation supported it, the federal stimulus package is now a reality. Congress is expected to iron out all the kinks by President's Day. Then, more than a billion dollars will likely be on its way to Utah, and some portion of that to Salt Lake City. Meanwhile, a bill is moving in the state legislature that is likely to take away $8 million from Salt lake City Schools. Joining KCPW to discuss these issues is Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Sen. Scott McCoy and HEAL Utah In this brief excerpt from last Friday's Politics Up Close, State Senator Scott McCoy and Vanessa Pierce, Executive Director of HEAL Utah, discuss a bill McCoy is sponsoring to increase regulation of proposed nuclear power plants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: NPR News Analyst Juan Williams The honeymoon for President Barack Obama is over, and now he's facing a tough challenge from Congressional Republicans as he tries to pass his economic stimulus package as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, the president has run into trouble with a number of his nominees for cabinet positions, including Tom Daschle, who withdrew his nomination to be Secretary of Health and Human Services earlier this week. Where does the president go from here, and where does the Republican party go from her ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Salt Lake Chamber President Lane Beattie This week, the Utah legislature cut $365 million from the 2009 state budget. But this time around, lawmakers were able to soften the blow by shifting around another $200 million in one-time funds from state building projects and other items in order to reduce the impact on critical programs like public education and health and human services. The 2010 cuts will go even deeper, and legislators are very hesitant to touch the $400 million rainy-day fund, or issue a large amount of bonds for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Sen. Scott McCoy and Vanessa Pierce with HEAL Utah Renewable energy is still a hot topic on Capitol Hill. Earlier this week, the Utah Senate had a discussion about a joint resolution regarding renewable resources, and ended up debating whether or not nuclear energy counts as renewable. Meanwhile, a Democratic Senator is sponsoring a bill that would allow the Public Service Commission to regulate proposed nuclear power plants. Senator Scott McCoy joins the show by phone from Capitol Hill, and Vanessa Pierce, Executive Director of renewabl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Rev. Barry Lynn In this excerpt of last Friday's Politics Up Close, KCPW's Jeff Robinson and Rev. Barry Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, discuss the relationship between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the Utah state government as legislators meet in the general session on Capitol Hill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Attorney Lawrence Buhler President Barack Obama signed his first bill into law yesterday. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act greatly extends the time period in which employees are allowed to sue their employer's for discriminatory pay, allowing them 180 days after receiving any discriminatory paycheck to file a lawsuit. The White House champions the bill as a victory for equal pay for equal work, while congressional Republicans denounce it as simply a vehicle for frivolous lawsuits. Well, now it's the law, and a S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Sutherland Institute on "Sacred Ground Initiative" The Common Ground Initiative launched by a group of Utah lawmakers and gay rights advocacy group Equality Utah aims to extend protection of the law to gay individuals and couples in the state when it comes to discrimination in housing and employment and in wrongful death suits. It also seeks to allow the domestic partners of state employees access to their partners' health insurance, create a statewide domestic partnership registry, and modify Utah's Constitutional Amendment 3, which state ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Rev. Barry Lynn The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints involvement in the successful battle against gay marriage in California drew national attention and protesters to temples both in California and right here in Salt Lake City. Church members donated time and millions of dollars to the campaign after a letter urging them to support Proposition 8 was read in wardhouses across the state. The church argues it was just one member of a broad coalition of religious groups that opposes gay marriage, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Mayor Ralph Becker on the Legislative Session Miss Friday's Politics Up Close? Here's a brief excerpt with Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, who discusses his concerns about the legislative session, which begins today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Max Burdick & Jani Iwamoto The Salt Lake County Council has now held two meetings this year. And already, there are weighty issues to deal with, such as an internal review of the county's planning department in the wake of the departure of its director and three employees being put on leave. And of course there's the economic downturn and what will likely be much lower tax revenues coming in this year. Dealing with all of this are the two new faces on the council, Republican Max Burdick and Democrat Jani Iwamoto. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Senator Luz Robles Didn't catch Friday's Politics Up Close with Utah Senator Luz Robles, who represents Salt Lake City's west side? Listen to this excerpt. Listen to the full podcast on the Politics Up Close page. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank Lawmakers passed controversial immigration bill Senate Bill 81 during last year's session, which the governor signed off on after it was amended to push the implementation date back to July 1st of this year. The governor's hope is that the federal government will take action on the problems with our immigration system, thus making this bill unnecessary. But with economic problems looming, we can't be sure the federal government will take any action in the next six months. So if nothing c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Utah Senator Luz Robles The Utah Legislature will have some incredibly tough cuts to make when it convenes on Monday, the 26th. And the governor has some fundamentally different ideas about how to cut the budget than many in the Republican leadership of the legislature. A 15 percent cut, which lawmakers have proposed, could force the state office of education to get rid of many school programs, lay off teachers, or even shorten the school year. And after already cutting some benefits to Medicaid recipients in Octo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: State Alcohol Policy Discussion Governor Jon Huntsman has made it clear that he believes it's time to do away with private club laws in the state that require bar-goers to purchase memberships to any establishment that serves hard alcohol. He's backed by the tourism industry, many Utah drinkers and of course, many private clubs themselves. But Republicans in the Utah Legislature are not so keen on this idea. They believe that Utah's low DUI rates are linked to the state's conservative alcohol laws, and would much rathe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: House Speaker David Clark on Ethics Reform Miss last Friday's Politics Up Close? Here's a short excerpt with Republican House Speaker David Clark on ethics reform in the legislature. Download the full conversation on the Politics Up Close page. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Editorial Cartoonist Michael Ramirez If you want to re-visit the highlights of the 2008 election, you could go back and slog through thousands and thousands of newspaper articles and broadcast media stories. Or you could look at it through the eyes of a political cartoonist. A few weeks ago we interviewed the Salt Lake Tribune's Pat Bagley. Now, to get a different perspective, we talk to a syndicated, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist whose work can be seen in hundreds of newspapers. Michael Ramirez has drawn for the L.A. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: House Speaker David Clark The state's budget picture for next year is not looking great. Lawmakers recently passed a 2010 base budget cut of 15 percent. Many have said they don't want to tap into the state's rainy day fund, although Governor Huntsman is willing to do so. They're also at odds over whether the state should bond more for roads and transportation in order to free up revenues for public and higher education, with some Republicans not wanting to go into debt. And the governor's idea to raise fees whil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Carlton Christensen and J.T. Martin President-Elect Barack Obama has made it clear that the time for a potentially trillion dollar economic stimulus package is now. Utah politicians are hoping to get their share of the pie, on the state, county, and city levels. Here in Salt Lake City, we could use hundreds of millions for TRAX, a streetcar system, energy efficient upgrades, and much more. And we definitely need this federal help if we want these projects to be accomplished in the near future. Meanwhile, the Utah legislat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Governor Jon Huntsman In this excerpt of Friday's Politics Up Close, Governor Jon Huntsman lays out the difference between his approach to the state budget and that of some in the Utah legislature. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Congressman-Elect Jason Chaffetz President Bush just announced this morning that he will go through with bailing out the auto industry to the tune of $17 billion, just like he and Congress bailed out the banks. All of Utah's Congressmen voted against the bailout when it came to the House. And Utah's new freshman Congressman Jason Chaffetz, is calling for fiscal restraint in government. He joins us to talk about it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Mayor Peter Corroon The Salt Lake County Council recently approved a budget cut of about $12 million. But one outgoing councilman tried to push the cuts much further than that, concerned that this will still leave the county with too large a shortfall to deal with next year. Meanwhile, the county approved an agreement with Kennecott to allow the company for search for ore beneath county owned open space in the Rose Canyon Ranch area of the Oquirrh Mountains. What will this mean for that open space, and does ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Governor Jon Huntsman Not satisfied with the governor's proposed 4 to 7 percent cuts for the 2010 budget, the Utah Legislature has gone ahead and approved a base budget cut of 15 percent. Meanwhile, Republicans appear to be not such big fans of dipping into the state's rainy day fund and bonding more for transportation projects in order to somewhat spare public and higher education. And they're calling for a second special session to take care of a larger deficit for this fiscal year than they initially though ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Tribune Cartoonist Pat Bagley In this short excerpt from Friday's Politics Up Close, KCPW's Jeff Robinson talks with Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley about his new book, "Fist Bump Heard Round the World: The 2008 Election in Cartoons." He'll be signing copies tonight at 7 at The King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Mayor Ralph Becker Since we last spoke with Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, the city council went on to approve his five percent across the board budget cut. The city is also now hashing out its legislative priorities for the upcoming general session in January. It could prove to be another cumbersome winter when lawmakers convene on Capitol Hill if they decide to take on Salt Lake City's riparian overlay ordinance, which the city council has faced enough difficulty with already. And the controversial i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt on Judicial Confirmation In this excerpt from last Friday's Politics Up Close, local attorneys Bob Sykes and Randall Edwards, along with Utah Senator Greg Bell, himself an attorney, discuss last week's controversial decision by the senate not to confirm Judge Robert Hilder to the Utah Court of Appeals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Local Attorneys Discuss Judicial Confirmation Process It's been an interesting week for the Utah judiciary. For the first time in recent years. By a 16-to-12 vote, the senate said no to the confirmation of Judge Robert Hilder to the Utah Court of Appeals. Hilder is currently a 3rd District Judge. His defeat is credited largely to a massive e-mail writing campaign from gun rights advocates, who felt that Hilder had little respect for the 2nd Amendment after he ruled that the University of Utah did have the authority to bar concealed weapons ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Salt Lake City Mayor Becker The economic crisis has hit every local government hard, and Salt Lake City is no exception. With sales tax and property tax revenues coming in about $4 million short, the city has to cut 5 percent from this year's budget to make it through, and no department was spared the red pen, from planning to police. But will the city have to cut the budget even further come March or April? And how will next year's budget picture look? Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker talks to KCPW's Jeff Robins ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Aric Mutchnick Aric Mutchnick is an international security expert who has served in the Israeli Defense Forces. He was in town last week to speak to the Salt Lake Committee on Foreign Relations. Mutchnick joined KCPW's Jeff Robinson for Politics Up Close on Friday. In this seven-minute excerpt, he tells Jeff about an interesting encounter he had with another American when he served in the IDF. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: International Security Expert Aric Mutchnick Aric Mutchnick is an international security expert who served in the Israeli Defense Forces. He came to Salt Lake City to speak to the Salt Lake Committee on Foreign Relations last night. He joined KCPW's Jeff Robinson to talk about his time in the Israeli military and Israeli-Palestinian relations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Sen. Scott McCoy and Will Carlson of Equality Utah Democratic State Senator Scott McCoy represents Salt Lake City in the Utah Legislature, and Will Carlson is the Manager of Public Policy at Equality Utah, an LGBT advocacy group based in Salt Lake. Earlier this week, Senator McCoy and other state legislators joined Equality Utah in opening up a conversation with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints about expanding rights for gay couples and employees, after the Church supported Proposition 8 banning gay marriage in California. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: State Senator-Elect Karen Morgan Democratic state senator-elect Karen Morgan captured 52 percent of the vote last Tuesday in District 8 representing Cottonwood Heights. She previously served in the House of Representatives for eight years. KCPW's Jeff Robinson talked with her about ethics reform and her legislative priorities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Matheson on Political Environment in Washington Democratic Congressman Jim Matheson earned his highest margin of victory ever on Election Day, trouncing his opponent by nearly 30 points as his constituents decided to send him back to Washington for a fifth term. He'll return to Congress facing an ever-increasing national debt, an economic downturn, and a broken health care system. But Matheson will also have the opportunity to work with a new presidential administration, one that has promised to reach across party lines and make signif ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New House Speaker Unveils Several Ethics Proposals Immediately after being appointed the new Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives by his Republican colleagues last night, Representative David Clark unveiled several ethics proposals he wants to enact this upcoming legislative session. KCPW's Jeff Robinson sat down with him as he described his plan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Kirk Jowers and Tim Chambless Miss Friday's Politics Up Close? Listen to this brief excerpt analyzing Utah's Congressional races with Kirk Jowers, Director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics, and Dr. Tim Chambless, political scientist at the University of Utah. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Valentine, Bramble out of Utah Senate Majority Leadership On Friday, Senate Republicans voted for change in their top leadership positions, saying goodbye to Senate President John Valentine and Senate Majority Leader Curt Bramble. KCPW's Jeff Robinson spoke with the new leadership team after the Republicans' closed caucus meeting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Kirk Jowers and Tim Chambless Kirk Jowers is the director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah. He joins Dr. Tim Chambless at the U. to provide some perspective and analysis on all the local election results from top to bottom in Utah politics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Joe Hatch and Jim Bradley Democrats on the Salt Lake County Council just gained a 5 to 4 majority on Tuesday, when Jani Iwamoto ousted incumbent Republican Mark Crockett in District 4 representing Holladay and the surrounding eastern cities. Jim Bradley and Joe Hatch join Politics Up Close. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where Will Dems Take Salt Lake County Council? With Democrat Jani Iwamoto defeating Republican Mark Crockett in his re-election bid for the Salt Lake County Council, the Democrats now move from the minority party to the majority party, holding a slim 5-to-4 lead over the Republicans come January. A new party in control will likely bring with it new priorities, along with the selection of a Democratic chair to run council meetings. But the council will still have to contend with an overwhelmingly Republican state legislature, and given ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Analysis of Utah's Tight Local Races Today, Utah voters will decide a number of close races across Salt Lake County, from the south end of the valley right up to Salt Lake City. Some are open seats with no incumbents; others have energetic challengers trying to oust long-time incumbents. And if the races get tight enough, we might not know the results until very late this evening or even beyond that. KCPW's Jeff Robinson sat down with Dr. Tim Chambless, a political science lecturer at the University of Utah, to get his thou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Paul Pugmire Didn't catch our Friday interview with Democratic Salt Lake County Council candidate Paul Pugmire? Listen to this Politics Up Close excerpt.Download the full podcast on the Politics Up Close page. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best of KCPW Election 2008 Debates No time to listen to KCPW's eight Election 2008 Debates? In this half hour special, get the highlights of some of the closest races, like House District 49 between Greg Curtis and Jay Seegmiller, Senate District One between Carlton Christensen and Luz Robles, and Salt Lake County Council Seat A between Randy Horiuchi and Steve DeBry. At the end, the special wraps up with a look at the governor's debate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Paul Pugmire Democrat Paul Pugmire is running for Salt Lake County Council District 2 representing the West Side. He lives in South Jordan, where he runs a public relations consulting firm. He's previously worked as a staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Arizona Legislature and the Arizona Governor's office, and was also on the Rexburg, Idaho city council for eight years. He served two years as president of that council. Currently, he's a member of the South Jordan Planning Commiss ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website KCPW Election 2008 Debate: Randy Horiuchi and Steve DeBry Salt Lake County Councilman Randy Horiuchi and Republican challenger Steve DeBry fiercely debated issues like growth, funding for the RSL soccer stadium, and even which of them has the endorsement of the Fraternal Order of Police in a contentious debate at the Salt Lake City Main Library Thursday morning. Listen to the full debate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website KCPW Election 2008 Debate: Peter Corroon & Michael Renckert Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon and his Republican challenger Michael Renckert debated the county budget, growth management, criminal justice and other important county issues in a KCPW Election 2008 Debate last night at the Salt Lake City Main Library. Listen to the event, moderated by KCPW's Jeff Robinson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website KCPW Election 2008 Debate: Michael Jensen & Paul Pugmire Salt Lake County Council District 2 Candidates Michael Jensen and Paul Pugmire squared off this morning at the Salt Lake City Main Library in a KCPW Election 2008 Debate. Jensen is the Republican incumbent; Pugmire is his Democratic challenger. The two discussed protecting the west side, the Jordan School District Split, funding Mountain View Corridor and much more. Listen to the full debate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Jim Matheson and Michael Renckert Didn't catch our interviews last Friday with Democratic Congressman Jim Matheson and Republican Michael Renckert, candidate for Salt Lake County Mayor? Listen to this wrap-up of Friday's Politics Up Close. Listen to the full interviews on the Politics Up Close page. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Michael Renckert Michael Renckert is the Republican candidate for Salt Lake County mayor. He works as a supervisor for Utah Adult Probation and Parole. He's also an adjunct professor at Salt Lake Community College. In this edition of Politics Up Close, he discusses law enforcement and criminal justice issues, the handling of the Real Salt Lake soccer stadium, growth and development, and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Congressman Jim Matheson Congressman Jim Matheson currently represents Utah's 2nd Congressional District. He was first elected in 2000, and has since survived three Republican challenges even after his district was re-drawn to include more traditional Republican strongholds. Before joining Congress, Matheson was an energy consultant. Now, he sits on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, as well as the House Science and Technology committee. Matheson's a member of a moderate group of fiscally conservative Dem ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Listen to KCPW's Debate Between Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck and Challenger Joe Jarvis Democratic State Representative Rebecca Chavez-Houck and Republican opponent Dr. Joe Jarvis squared off on health care, public education, politics, and much more in a one-hour debate hosted by KCPW at the Salt Lake City Main Library Wednesday morning. Listen to the full podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Michael Jensen and Jeff Morrow Did you miss our Friday interviews with Republican Salt Lake County Councilman Michael Jensen and Republican House District 28 candidate Jeff Morrow? Listen to an excerpt here. You can also listen both full interviews on the Politics Up Close page. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Jeff Morrow Jeff Morrow is the Republican candidate for Utah's House District 28 in the state legislature, representing the Foothills in eastern Salt Lake City, where he grew up. His background is in real estate. Currently, he's the principal broker for Wasatch Front Real Estate Brokerage and Wasatch Front Property Management. Morrow is also on the steering committee for Envision Utah, a member of the Downtown Rotary Club, an adjunct business instructor at Salt Lake Community College, and a former me ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Michael Jensen Republican Salt Lake County Councilman Michael Jensen represents District 2, which is nearly the entire west side. He was first elected in 2000 when the council was formed, then re-elected in 2004. He's currently chairman of the council, serving three years in that position so far. Outside of county government, he's deputy chief of the Salt Lake County Unified Fire Authority and a certified paramedic. Jensen serves on the boards of the county Redevelopment Agency, the Central Water Conse ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Listen to KCPW's Full Debate Between Governor Jon Huntsman and Challenger Bob Springmeyer (KCPW News) Governor Jon Huntsman and his Democratic challenger Bob Springmeyer took on energy, education, budget cuts, economic development and much more in a one-hour debate hosted by KCPW Thursday night in the Tessman Auditorium at the Salt Lake City Main Library. Listen to the full debate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Listen to KCPW's Full Debate Between Greg Curtis and Jay Seegmiller Last night, Utah voters came out to the Sandy Public Library as Republican Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives Greg Curtis took on his District 49 challenger, Democrat Jay Seegmiller, in a one-hour debate. They tackled issues like the Jordan School District split, immigration, health care reform, and ethics reform. The race may be quite a close one: Seegmiller is challenging Curtis for the third time after losing the race by only 20 votes in 2006. Now, listen in on our entire one-h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck and Mayor Peter Corroon Didn't catch our Friday interviews with state Representative Rebecca Chavez-Houck and Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon? Listen to this Politics Up Close wrap-up. Listen to full podcasts of both interviews on the Politics Up Close page. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck Democratic Representative Rebecca Chavez-Houck is a Utah native. She was appointed late last year to fill the vacant seat in House District 24 when Ralph Becker was elected Salt Lake City mayor. She began her career as a reporter. She's also worked as an activist for non-profits like Planned Parenthood, United Way, the YWCA and Centro de la Familia de Utah. Currently, she's co-owner of Lone Peak Realty and Management. This past legislative session in January, Chavez-Houck sponsored a b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon Democratic Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon was first elected in 2004. Before coming mayor, he was worked in development. Since taking office, he's created the Council on Diversity Affairs, expanded the Salt Palace, overseen the planning of five new TRAX lines throughout Salt Lake County, and expanded the county's purchasing of open space. He also famously torpedoed Real Salt Lake's attempt to use money from the county's hotel tax to build a new stadium, but was then circumvented by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Randy Horiuchi and Greg Curtis Didn't catch Politics Up Close last Friday? Listen in on this excerpt with Democratic Salt Lake County Councilman Randy Horiuchi and Republican Greg Curtis, Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives. Horiuchi talks about the Hogle Zoo bond, while Curtis talks about ethics reform. Download full podcasts on the Politics Up Close page. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Speaker Greg Curtis Greg Curtis is the Republican Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives and Representative for House District 49 in Sandy. Curtis has served in the legislature since 1995, and has been speaker for the past four years. Outside the legislature, he's an attorney. This past session, he sponsored a bill to removed the enrollment cap on the Children's Health Insurance Program, which passed by a wide margin. During his time as speaker, education funding in the state has increased by more th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Randy Horiuchi Democratic Salt Lake County Councilman Randy Horiuchi has been a longtime figure in the Salt Lake County Government, having served as a commissioner from 1991 through 1998. Before that, he founded Focus Government Services, a consulting and lobbying firm. When the county switched from having commissioners to a county council, he won election in 2000 and again in 2002, and is now just finishing up his first full six-year term. Horiuchi has served on the boards of many civic groups like th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AG Debate Excerpt: Candidates Discuss Abortion Legislation Polygamy, civil liberties, vouchers, immigration, and abortion were among the topics discussed Tuesday morning at the Hinckley Institute's Attorney General debate, moderated and broadcast by KCPW. Incumbent Republican Mark Shurtleff and Democratic challenger Jean Welch Hill made their case to a packed crowd about what makes them right for the job. Let's listen in on part of that debate. In this segment, moderator Jeff Robinson asks the candidates about how they would deal with abortion-r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Listen to Full Attorney General Debate from Hinckley Institute of Politics Incumbent Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and Democratic challenger Jean Welch Hill took on polygamy, education, civil liberties, immigration, and abortion issues in a packed, hour-long debate at the Hinckley Institute Tuesday morning, moderated by KCPW's Jeff Robinson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Politics Up Close" Excerpt: Steve DeBry and Jay Seegmiller Didn't catch our Friday interviews with Republican county council candidate Steve DeBry or Democratic legislative candidate Jay Seegmiller? Listen to our Politics Up Close wrap-up. You can also listen to the full interviews on the Politics Up Close page. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Jay Seegmiller Democrat Jay Seegmiller is now running for the third time for Utah House District 49 in Sandy after losing to Greg Curtis in 2006 by 20 votes. Seegmiller is a 20-year resident of the Sandy district, and has also worked for Amtrak for the past two decades. Before that, he worked for Union Pacific Railroad. He's currently active in Amtrak's employee union and serves as the state legislative director for the United Transportation Union. Seegmiller serves on the Sandy City Transportation Co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Steve DeBry Republican Steve DeBry is a candidate for County Council At-Large Seat A. Captain Debry has been a police officer for nearly three decades. He's currently the precinct commander of the Millcreek station for the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office and a long-time resident of South Jordan. DeBry was born and raised in the state, and has a degree in Political Science from the University of Utah. He's also a graduate of the FBI National Academy. His goals as a county councilman would be to i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close Excerpt: Jason Chaffetz and Brian King Didn't catch Politics Up Close last Friday? Here's a wrap up of our interviews with Jason Chaffetz and Brian King. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Brian King Democrat Brian King is running for House District 28, which encompasses eastern Salt Lake City. The seat is open after Representative Roz McGee announced she would be retiring. King is a Salt Lake City attorney who has practiced law for more than 20 years, performing litigation against health, life and disability insurance companies. Much of his work involves the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. King has been the lead attorney on more than a dozen class action lawsuits. He is c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Jason Chaffetz Republican Jason Chaffetz defeated incumbent Congressman Chris Cannon by a 20-point margin in the June primary, which gained national attention. He was Governor Jon Huntsman's campaign manager in 2004 and then served as his chief of staff for two years. He's the owner of Maxtera Utah, a corporate communications and marketing firm. Chaffetz also serves as a trustee for Utah Valley University. During the primary, he spent about half a million dollars less than the incumbent. He hopes to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Excerpt from "Politics Up Close:" Bill Dew and Jean Welch Hill Don't have time to listen to our full conversations with candidates Bill Dew and Jean Welch Hill? Listen to our brief wrap-up of last week's Politics Up Close with Jeff Robinson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Jean Welch Hill Jean Welch Hill is an attorney for the State Board of Education. She's running for Attorney General against incumbent Mark Shurtleff. Last year, she argued against Shurtleff that school vouchers should not have been implemented before the voter referendum on the issue. Her position was affirmed by the Utah Supreme Court. Before joining the board, she was a teacher at Judge Memorial High School and a columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune. Hill believes that Utah's government lacks balance ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Bill Dew Bill Dew hopes to replace incumbent Democratic Congressman Jim Matheson in the 2nd District of the Utah House of Representatives. Dew is the founder of Dewbury Homes. He was born and raised in Utah. He graduated from the University of Utah and served in the Army Reserves for almost a decade. He's also done humanitarian work with his wife in Jordan. Dew is running on a platform of energy independence and securing America's borders to reduce the effects of illegal immigration. He won th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Excerpt From "Politics Up Close:" Dr. Joe Jarvis and Bennion Spencer Don't have time to listen to our full conversations with political candidates Dr. Joe Jarvis and Bennion Spencer? Listen to our brief wrap-up of last week's Politics Up Close with Jeff Robinson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Up Close: Dr. Joe Jarvis Dr. Joe Jarvis hopes to represent downtown Salt Lake City and The Avenues in the Utah House of Representatives. He'll be challenging Democratic incumbent Rebecca Chavez-Houck, who was appointed after Ralph Becker left the position. Jarvis earned his bachelor's from BYU in 1978, then his medicine degree from the University of Utah in 1982. He's served as president and chair of the board of the Utah Health Policy Project, and also on the board of directors for the Utah Public Health Associ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, August 29th, 2008 An April audit called Salt Lake's Planning Department dysfunctional. We'll talk with Wilford Sommerkorn, the new Director, about his plans to turn restore the public's confidence in the department. We'll talk about the Public Square and the state of operations at KCPW. We're undergoing management and ownership changes, and awaiting FCC approval for the sale so we can close on it and carry on. This means changes for our community forum-The Public Square. Wasatch Public Media CEO Ed Sw ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, August 28, 2008 He's worked for Hilary Clinton's presidential campaign, a high-profile Utah legislative campaign, and is now a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, at just 18 years old. We'll talk with Apollo Pazell, the third youngest delegate ever.Attorney General Mark Shurtleff joins us to talk about Amber Alerts, his recent deal with cable companies to prevent Pornography, his efforts in helping the number of foreclosures, and Polygamy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, August 26, 2008 The Timpanogos Storytelling Festival kicks off this Thursday. We'll talk with storyteller and musician Susan Reed and storyteller and festival committee member Cheri Davis. University of Utah officials in the process of selecting two finalists for designing its ambitious mixed-use commercial project on the Rice Eccles Stadium parking lot. We'll talk with Mike Perez from University Development and Betsy Burton from Local Utah First about the project and the impact on local businesses. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, August 21, 2008 Thousands of Utahns are diagnosed with cancer every year and coping with the disease presents emotional, physical, and financial challenges. Scott Burton, author of "A Life in Balance," is a stand-up comic who is helping cancer patients to learn to laugh and love life with cancer. We'll talk with him and cancer survivor Mary Ann Gerber, who are both speaking at this year's Survivor Day at Salt Lake Community College. Plus, this months edition of "Poetry is Wanted Here." Ken Sanders and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 Cases of autism are increasing and now 1 in every 150 people has the disorder. Research now suggests that children as young as 1 year old can show signs of autism. We'll tell you what to look for with Dr. William McMahon, the new Chairman of the University of Utah Department of Psychiatry. The 2008 Breastfeeding Café is being held throughout August at the Salt Lake City Main Library. The event features classes and "Mother's Circles." We'll talk about the current public breast ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, August 18th, 2008 Described as a real-life Lara Kroft, Kira Salak, was a war reporter in the Congo, is the first woman to traverse Papua New Guinea, and was nearly gang raped. Kira has written a book called "White Mary" based on her experiences and she joins us to talk about the book. The Utah Priorities Project surveyed Utah's voters on what they think are the most important issues in our community, and is now researching those topics. We'll talk with Steve Kroes President of the Utah Foundation a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, August 15th, 2008 The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization is hosting Camp Equality on Saturday in Salt Lake. The Camp aims to train 1,500 volunteers to work on campaigns this fall and to convince the public to vote for ballot measures that will give the GLBT community more rights. Sultan Shakir, a Human Rights Campaign Regional Field Director will talk to us about the camp and the issues that the GLBT community faces. Plus, ev ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, August 14, 2008 The Leonardo's Executive Director has left and plans for a new building have been scaled back, in the midst of preparing for the hugely popular Body Works Exhibit. We'll talk with the new executive director Peter Giles about the future plans for the Leonardo. Plus, an extremely rare copy of The Declaration of Independence is coming to the Utah State Capitol Building on Friday and Saturday. The Declaration is one of only 25 surviving Dunlap copies printed on the evening of July 4th. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Over 115 police officers have died while serving in Utah. A new memorial honoring these fallen officers will be dedicated in just a few weeks. We'll share some of the fallen officer's stories and talk about why the Utah Law Enforcement Memorial is important to the community, and what we as a community can do to help. Joining us will be Robert Kirby, columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune and Honorary Board Member of the Utah Law Enforcement Memorial and Clark Christensen, the Preside ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 The University of Utah has one of the 29 nuclear engineering programs remaining in the U.S. We'll talk about the future of the nuclear industry with Dr. Paul Tikalsky the Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Utah and Peter Jenkins a Doctorate student in Nuclear Engineering. Plus, the latest survey of the Corporation for National and Community Service ranks Utah Number 1 in Volunteering, but some organizations like the Utah Food Bank still don't have enough d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, August 11th, 2008 The Outdoor Retailers show is in town, we'll talk about why the Outdoor Industry Association chose Salt Lake for the show with Frank Hugelmeyer, President of the Outdoor Industry Association. We'll also talk about growth and future of outdoor recreation sports with Paul Fish from Mountain Gear. A meeting between the group, Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons and leaders from the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been canceled, after church leaders agreed to hear the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, August 7th, 2008 A recent survey of residents living in unincorporated areas of Salt Lake County found that they overwhelmingly prefer to remain townships, rather than joining a neighboring city. We'll explore the positives and negatives of incorporating from the township perspective and what that means to the surrounding cities. We'll talk with Jeff Silvestrini, chair of the Mount Olympus Community Council, Paulina Flint with the White City Community Council, and Kevin Lundy with the Kearns Communtiy C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 There are lots of ideas going around about what can get you better gas mileage, inflating your tires, not driving as fast, but what really works? We'll talk with aerospace engineer and physicist Ernie Rogers who drove 3,000 miles to Alaska getting 65 miles per gallon. The trip was sponsored by the Utah Valley Sierra Forum. Plus, We'll get an update about Wasatch Public Media's purchase of KCPW from Ed Sweeney, CEO of Wasatch Public Media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 The 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is on August 6th. How have the dangers of nuclear weapons changed since then and what can we do to stop them? We'll talk with the former Mayor of Hiroshima, Takashi Hiraoka, who is speaking at the Main City Library August 6th at 7:30pm. Plus, How do we understand how Terrorism effects the lives of others? The No Fog West Theater, a nonprofit, student-run company based at Vassar College, is performing a new play ca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, August 4th, 2008 Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker is just back from a conference on transportation innovation, equitable economic development and local food systems. He enters the Public Square to report, as well as take your calls on other city business, including how to deal with gang violence on the west side. To demonstrate the importance of public parks, Trust for Public Land will transform the Paris Ballroom into a lush urban oasis later this month. The Public Square talks with TPL's Barry Nash. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, August 1, 2008 Project Vote Smart will bring the nation's first Voters' Self-Defense System to the People's Market Sunday from 10-3. Why do voters need such a defense? Entering the Public Square to talk about it is Adelaide Kimball, senior board member of Project Vote Smart, which wants to train voters to defend themselves against what it calls self-serving, manipulative claims made by campaigns. New micro-grants from Slow Food Utah will help local food producers. In turn, there will be more choice ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, July 31, 2008 The Romero Alternative is a new community group seeking answers from within when it comes to gangs on Salt Lake City's West Side. Organizers Michael Clara and Miles Kinikini enter The Public Square to talk about the group, which takes its inspiration from the late Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Romero. What if you could get top-notch medical care by highly-skilled, U.S.-trained physicians in a world-class medical facility, all at a cost far less than treatment in the United States? ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, July 30, 2008 Nancy Tessman has moved from books to ending poverty. Yes, it's much more complicated than that simple sentence. Tune in to find out what led the former Salt Lake City Library Director to take the helm of Choice Humanitarian. Plus the growing political power of the Intermountain West will reshape presidential politics. The Brookings Institution says the increasing urbanization of the region calls for a greater federal partnership. The Public Square talks it over with Alan Matheson of E ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, July 29, 2008 Planned Parenthood Action Council of Utah is calling on state lawmakers to implement a more comprehensive approach to the state's sexual education curriculum. PPAC executive Director Missy Bird and Kathy Burke, assistant medical director, enters the Public Square to talk about the group's new Prevention Now! campaign. Fact meets fiction in Loving Frank, the debut novel by Nancy Horan. The Public Square separates the two with Horan, who spent seven years investigating the relationship ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, July 28, 2008 After years of fund-raising and planning, the Utah Museum of Natural History is ready to break ground on a new building to house its 1.2-million artifacts. Museum director Sarah George enters the Public Square to talk about the greening of the project and what museum-goers can expect for the price of admission. Lead architect Todd Schliemann of Polshek Partnership Architects joined the conversation. Plus, more and more cyclists are taking to city streets these days, from the mayor to t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, July 25, 2008 Sgt. Alex Lemons just got back from his fourth tour of duty in Iraq, where he worked directly under General Petraeus, training the Iraqi army. He says the troop surge may have reduced the violence but has not addressed the fundamental problems plaguing the country, including the growing influence of Iranian organizations. Plus, the Department of Veterans Affairs has announced that 39 new veterans centers will be built across the nation, none of which are in Utah. Terry Schow, Executive D ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Eight treasured rivers that are among the many trout fisheries in the West are in serious trouble, including Utah's Logan River. Trout Unlimited Utah biologist Warren Coyler and Theo Spencer of the Natural Resources Defense Council's Climate Center talk about the report released today Trout In Trouble: The Impacts of Global Warming on Trout in the Interior West. Plus City Library Director Beth Elder stops by The Public Square to talk books, library events, and the role of a library in c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Long-time Chicano activist John Florez enters the Public Square to talk about the growing gang problem in the Salt Lake Valley. Florez says the solutions of the past could work today, especially peer-to-peer mentoring. With the Days of '47 upon us, the rodeo is in town. That also means animal rights protests. BYU Professor Chris Foster says Utah's founding pioneers would be disappointed that their historic efforts are celebrated with a rodeo and barbecues. The Public Square talks with F ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, July 21, 2008 Religious liberty, public education and the future of American democracy with Dr. Charles C. Haynes, senior scholar at the First Amendment Center in Washington, D.C. He'll be at Westminster College next month for a three-day conference on practical strategies for teaching religious liberty and its natural role in education. The Public Square gets a preview. Half of Utah's American Indian students drop out of high school before earning a diploma, according to the U.S. Department of Ed ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, July 18, 2008 How much do you know about the state you live in and the historical landmarks that show its history? Plus a new online tool to easily find and support the arts. The Public Square talks with Nancy Boskoff of the Salt Lake City Arts Council and Kirk Huffaker from the Utah Heritage Foundation about the fun places to take your family to learn about the unique history of Utah and to get a little culture this summer. Plus, how is Utah's economy fairing in the national economic downturn? Is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, July 17, 2008 The Sutherland Institute has recently published two reports on Education, one accuses the Utah Education system of manipulating data in order to keep certain schools open, and the other examines the rights of parents to choose curriculum to teach their home-schooled children. Dan Witte, Sutherland trustee and lawyer, enters the Public Square to explain. Plus it's the third Thursday of the month and time again for Poetry Is Wanted Here with Ken Sanders and Alex Caldiero. This month's foc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Diabetes is on the rise in Utah, and 25 percent of people with the disease don't know that they have it. Richard Bullough, Program Manager for the Utah Department of Health Diabetes Prevention and Control Program, enters the Public Square to talk about symptoms, prevention and treatment. Share your stories of living with diabetes during the show. Plus, how are you adapting your family vacation in light of high gas prices? Dan Nailen, arts and entertainment editor at Salt Lake Magazi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Is the moral conscience that we develop a result of our situation or are we born with an inner compass? If the United States was a in crisis situation like Darfur, how many of us would break the law in oder to survive? The Public Square talks with University of Utah professor of psychology Cecilia Wainryb, co-author of a new study on the moral development of children in violent society published today in the journal Child Development. Plus, the Downtown Theater Action Group (DTAG) says the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, July 14, 2008 A study released by the U.S. Census about the 2006 general election places Utah dead last among the 50 states for voter participation. What are the stumbling blocks that voters face in getting out to vote and what can be done to turn it around? Entering the Public Square to talk about voter participation - Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen and Nancy Melling, Co-President of the League of Women Voters of Utah. Plus, William Sederburg just got done launching Utah Valley Universi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, July 11, 2008 Approximately 400 refugees are slated to arrive in Utah by September. Some say that we already have too many for our resources and programs. Gerald Brown from the new state Office of Refugee Services enters the Public Square to talk about whether Utah's doors should be closed to more refugees. Plus Brinton Jones of alt-country band The Devil Whale stops by the Public Square to talk about making music, sore throats and literature of the heart. Jones will be next Wednesday's featured ar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, July 10, 2008 A nearly 160-mile long pipeline proposed to divert water from Lake Powell to a reservoir in Washington County is drawing criticism from environmentalists as well as Nevada water officials - which is ironic considering the Southern Nevada Water Authority wants to stick a straw in an aquifer the stretches across the border and could turn Utah's Snake Valley into a dustbowl. The Public Square gets an update on these and other water issues with Mike Styler of the Dept. of Natural Resources an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, July 9, 2008 Law enforcement says gang membership is on the rise. Why is the gangster life so appealing to kids across the Salt Lake Valley? The Public Square talks with Salt Lake County Sheriff's Detective Lex Bell about what he sees happening on the streets, while Sid Casillas of the West Valley Community Center talks about Project 180, the center's gang intervention program. Established in 1968, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake has grown from a single facility to three permanent club ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, July 8, 2008 An ethics investigation surrounding events in the state treasurer's primary race has been called off with the resignation of Rep. Mark Walker. But does that mean there is so ethics problem on Utah's Capitol Hill? The Public Square talks about ethics reform in the Utah Legislature with Kirk Jowers of the Hinckley Institute of Politics and veteran political reporter Paul Rolly of The Salt Lake Tribune. Plus, author Stephen Trimble has written a book about a local oil and hotel magnate and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, July 7, 2008 Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker has now spent more than 180 days in office. The Public Square talks about the hits and misses of his six-month action plan, as well as what happens now. Plus, The University Of Utah Counseling Psychology program is recruiting men to be interviewed about their romantic relationships with women. The goal is to better understand how men learn about interacting with women. The Public Square talks with lead researcher and doctoral student William Elder about ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, July 3, 2008 5,000 Indian families now call Utah home. The growing community is banding together to build a center for hosting cultural events which showcase the heritage of India and South Asia. The Public Square learns more about this part of our community with Dr. Dinesh Patel, considered by many the father of biotech and pharmaceuticals in the Mountain West region, and Sneha Kumar Kasera, vice president of the India Cultural Center of Utah. Plus, how much do you really know about Independence ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, July 2, 2008 The Utah Foundation has released a new report on housing in Utah in conjunction with its Utah Priorities Project. The Public Square pulls apart the data with the public policy think tank's executive director, Steve Kroes. Plus, Congress has passed a bill to protect teens involved in wilderness camps. Learn the best and worst practices to look for when deciding between different programs and what overall treatment is best for troubled teens. The Public Square talks with Dr. Dan Sande ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, July 1, 2008 School's out for summer - but how many high school seniors are on vacation with a diploma in hand? The Public Square runs the latest graduation numbers with Judy Park, Associate Superintendent for Data, Assessment and Accountability at the State Office of Education. For 30 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah has been pairing caring adults with at-risk kids. The Public Square explores the group's efforts to help boys and girls achieve their potential through positive adult relations ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, June 30, 2008 An on-the-ground report from Utah Red Cross Volunteer Bill Gully, who's been in Wisconsin for more than two weeks. The Public Square also talks about the financial toll floods, tornadoes and other natural disasters are taking on the relief fund of the American Red Cross with local chapter CEO Maxine Margaritis. Religion and political literacy with Professor Jeffrey Nielsen, whose op-ed two years ago against the LDS Church's stance on gay marriage led to his demise at church-owned Bri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, June 27, 2008 Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon will be here to answer your questions. You can email one right now to publicsquare@kcpw.org. More from the 32nd Annual Utah Arts Festival with cartoonist and literacy activist Phil Yeh. He's spending the festival's four days creating a mural in the window of Night Flight Comics on the plaza at Library Square. Thanks to NFC's Mimi Cruz for bringing Phil to the Public Square.Poet Sara Caldiero gives us a preview of her Arts Festival performance, wh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, June 26, 2008 The Utah Arts Festival kicks off today at Library Square in Downtown Salt Lake. Tying the event together in order to "vibrate under one umbrella," the Arts Festival will feature a 700-foot "Earth Harp" spanning Library Square and turning it into a working musical instrument. Bill Close enters the Public Square to talk about and play the Earth Harp. Plus we'll talk to some of the exhibiting artists - more than 133 have booths set up, from painting to pottery, fiber arts, metal work, s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, June 25, 2008 Get ready: 80,000 people will descend on Library Square for this weekend's 32nd Annual Utah Arts Festival. They'll find more than 130 visual artists, nearly 100 performing groups and 20 culinary vendors. It's the intersection of art and commerce. Festival Director Lisa Sewell enters KCPW's Public Square to explain the delicate balance. Plus we'll talk about the art of jazz and classical composition, as well as the 2008 Mayor's Artist Awards. Guests include festival commission director ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, June 24, 2008 The picture of today's average college kid is a student that microblogs with Twitter, rocks Guitar Hero on the Wii, and fuels late-night cram sessions with cases of Red Bull. So what drives Utah college sophomore Xanthe Webb to put all that behind for service work in Guatemala? Webb enters the Public Square to talk about Charity Anywhere and the group's summer trip to build a medical center, orphanage and clean water facility in Central America. Lindsay Jardine, a key coordinator for Cha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, June 23, 2008 The summer job that's such a rite of passage for teens - lifeguard. But what about the pressures of working poolside, where sunscreen and CPR are needed in equal measure? Guests: lifeguard Lauren Stapley and Mary Mathiessen, Health and Safety Director for the Greater Salt Lake Area Chapter of the American Red Cross, which will hold its 2008 LifeGuard Games next month.Staff reporter Jeff Robinson enters KCPW's Public Square to talk about the Republican primary in the Third Congressional Di ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, June 18, 2008 Midday Metro goes to the source on 20 years of providing health care to Utah's homeless population. Fourth Street Clinic medical director Cristina Gallop and communication director Jenn Hyvonen, will be here to talk about the health care needs of Utah's growing homeless population. Microsoft last week announced it would fund efforts by the Intermountain Healthcare Clinical Genetics Institute at Salt Lake's LDS Hospital to create an electronic tool for gathering family health histories. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Recent State inspection reports say elder care has some serious deficiencies. We'll take an in depth look at the inspection process of Nursing Homes with Matt Canham from the Salt Lake Tribune and John Inglish from the Disability Law Center. Click here to access the Trib's unique database on Utah nursing homes. Plus, how are family vacations changing? Midday Metro talks with Susan Sessions Rugh about her new book, Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations. Tell u ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, June 13, 2008 A conversation about the International Baccalaureate program in Utah high schools. Is it a front for anti-American propaganda or a way for students to gain a broader worldview? Midday Metro talks with education policy analyst Cherilyn Bacon Eagar and Rep. Carol Spackman Moss. Plus filmmaker Natalie Avery on OUTSIDE, her new documentary that follows four gay homeless youth as they face the challenging realities of daily life on the street in one of the nation's most socially conservativ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, June 11, 2008 A conversation about elder care with Elinor Ginzler, Director for Livable Communities in the Office of Social Impact at AARP and author of Caring for Your Parents, A Complete Guide. She'll be in town for a special symposium on that very issue Saturday at the City Library. KUED Community Outreach Coordinator Jacqui Voland explains the half-day conference. Plus, if health class isn't the best place for teens to learn about sex, where and when is? Midday Metro goes to the source with Dr. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Thirty years ago, the LDS Church announced a revelation extending priesthood callings to all worthy males. Midday Metro talks about race and religion with Don Harwell, president of The Genesis Group, a support group for black Mormons, and the group's mission leader, Michael Joseph Rice. Plus, the shortage of Arabic translators is an obstacle in the war on terror. Midday Metro finds out what it takes to learn the language with participants in the STARTALK summer Arabic language program ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, June 9, 2008 Father's Day is just around the corner. The number of solo dads has skyrocketed, almost doubling between 1990 and 2006 to about 2 million. Midday Metro talks with Trey Ellis, author of Bedtime Stories: Adventures in the Land of Single-Fatherhood. At 11:30 on The Bottomline: the business of modeling in the Beehive State. Following the meteoric success of Utah native-turned-super-model Ali Stephens, management agencies Elite, Pulse and X-Sport are opening an office in SLC. We'll talk pro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, June 6, 2008 Myths, stereotypes and labels are used to define communities, -- sometimes with their participation, many times without. Midday Metro talks about words like queer, gay marriage, dyke and civil unions with Yana Walton of the Utah Pride Center and Brandie Balken, part of the first couple to sign up for Salt Lake City's mutual commitment registry. Plus, how will the California Supreme Court ruling on same-sex unions affect Utah? Midday Metro hosts a conversation about marriage with Bill ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, June 5, 2008 In its attempt to salvage money for Fire Station #5, the Salt Lake City Council has proposed eliminating free Saturday parking and possibly extending parking meter hours to 10 p.m. Some business owners are crying foul. Midday Metro goes to the source on the downtown dilemma with Tony Weller of Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore, Richard Wirick of the Oxford Shop, and City Councilman Luke Garrott. Cancer never sleeps. This weekend's 24-hour Relay For Life will underscore that reality while rai ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, June 4, 2008 With crime on the rise in the capital city, one group has decided to do something about it. The first Guardian Angels patrol took place Saturday at Pioneer Park. Will their efforts help deter crime or create tension among the people who use the park? Midday Metro goes to the source with Freddie Samora, patrol leader for the Salt Lake Chapter of the Guardian Angels, Flute Holland, national director of training, and Frank Lee, national director of chapter and operational development. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, June 3, 2008 Summertime - lazy days, waterfights, picnics and outdoor fun. As temperatures start to climb in the Beehive State, thousands of kids head outside for pee wee football, swimming, hiking, fishing, and general running around - what's the best way to keep them safe and entertained? Midday Metro goes to the source with Janet Brooks from Safe Kids Utah and Kevin Condra from the Violence and Injury Prevention Program of the Utah Department of Health. Plus - what does America owe Iraqis injure ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, June 2, 2008 Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker will be here to talk with Midday Metro listeners. If you have a question or comment you'd like to be at the head of the pack, email me now - midday@kcpw.org. Or post a question or comment below. Then again, you can always call 355-TALK during the show. At 11:30 on The Bottomline - KCPW's weekly focus on business news - fraud in Utah. How to spot it, how to fight it, how to avoid being a victim. Midday Metro goes to the source with Chief Deputy Attorney G ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, May 30, 2008 Career criminals with mental illnesses are straining Utah's justice system. Expanding a mental health courts program may be the answer. Midday Metro goes to the source with Salt Lake City prosecutor Sim Gill and Dr. Alan Rice of Valley Mental Health. Senator Howard Stephenson responds to a lawsuit filed to derail implementation of Senate Bill 2, the omnibus education bill, which he sponsored during this year's legislative session. Senate President John Valentine also gives us his tho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, May 28, 2008 As President Bush touches down in Salt Lake City to raise money for presumptive Republican Party nominee John McCain, former SLC Mayor Rocky Anderson prepares to once again rally Salt Lakers to oppose the war in Iraq and what he calls flagrant violations of the Constitution and crimes against humanity. Anderson is a lead organizer in this afternoon's Peace and Human Rights rally at Washington Square. Midday Metro goes to the source on a plan to create renewable energy zones across the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, May 27, 2008 A local organization is trying to determine how health care costs are affecting Utah's low income families. Social justice advocate Adam Burgett from the Anti-Hunger Action Committee talks about the results of the organization's recent survey. Tenisha Hicks shares her story as a client. The federal and state governments have been struggling to decide who owns the 35,000-acre migratory bird refuge near the Great Salt Lake. Officials signed an agreement Friday stating that the federal g ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, May 26, 2008 Picking Up the Pieces: How Family and Faith Are Healing Veterans Back from War is a Prime Time Radio documentary that follows five families of veterans wounded by IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan.The families are coping with the aftermath of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and post traumatic stress (PTSD). This special breaks new ground by focusing on the parents, especially mothers, who have given up everything -- their jobs, retirement savings, and plans for the future - to step in and care fo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, May 23, 2008 The roller derbies of the 1920s are back, but have mutated into a hard-hitting, full contact sport for women. Midday Metro goes to the source with Lulu Garou and Nico Noir, members of the Salt City Derby Girls League. The Wasatch Front's population continues to grow, and with it comes development of more stripmalls and subdivisions, leaving little undeveloped land. The Open Space Land Advisory Board met this week to discuss current and upcoming projects in the Salt Lake Area. Emy St ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, May 22, 2008 James Evans, chairman of the Salt Lake County Republican Party, joins Midday Metro to talk about race and politics at the local and national level. Memorial Day is just around the corner. Midday Metro talks about issues veterans face when they first come home and through the years with Terry Schow the Executive Director of the Utah Department of Veterans Affairs. 11:55 AM: A daily update on KCPW's drive for independence-or-bust. KCPW listeners, we need your help to make the down ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, May 21, 2008 The rising cost of fuel and food, plus the credit crunch are pinching many a Utah wallet. Midday Metro goes to the source with Gina Cornia of Utahns Against Hunger to find out how people are coping, while Mark Alston of The Bayou, a private club for members, and The Beer Nut talks about how the economic climate is impacting local restaurants and the beer biz. Grocery Guru Ken Roesbery offers money-saving tips for MM listeners. Plus, expanding the NAACP's Stay In School Program. The NA ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, May 20, 2008 A local organization is fed up with Utah liquor laws. The Utah Hospitality Association is looking for signatures on a petition to abolish private clubs in Utah. Midday Metro goes to the source with attorney Lisa Marcy McGarry, a board member of the Utah Hospitality Association. Plus, a new book captures the history of the western U.S. and the feelings and attitudes associated with the Civil War and the Great Depression. Jack Todd talks with Midday Metro about his first work of ficti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, May 19, 2008 According to a story in the Salt Lake Tribune, Kennecott Land and Salt Lake County have reached an impasse when it comes to jointly planning Kennecott's massive west-bench development. Midday Metro goes to the source - Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon. Plus, a new program at the University of Utah is working toward making coal emissions environmentally friendly. Midday Metro goes to the source with two visiting experts working to ensure the future of coal. Guests: Dr. Joseph Strak ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, May 16, 2008 Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder says he's ready to back a unified approach to law enforcement in the county. The Jordan School District split has become a bigger project than many imagined. Midday Metro goes to the source with leaders from the transition teams - Steve Newton (Jordan East) and Ralph Haws (Jordan West). 11:55 AM: A daily update on KCPW's drive for independence-or-bust. KCPW listeners, we need your help to make the down payment on buying the station. Ed Sween ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Scientists, conservationists, and even developers are working to preserve a balance between human populations and mountain lions as development continues to encroach on predator territory. Midday Metro goes the source with USU Professor Michael Wolfe and wildlife biologist Tom Becker, who will take part in a public forum on the issue Thursday night at Westminster College. Celebrating the authentic and traditional arts of our many ethnic groups - Midday Metro goes to the source with Ca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, May 12, 2008 Many of Utah's most influential policy leaders will meet Tuesday to discuss the impact of the 2008 Legislature's decisions that affect business, the economy and taxes at the annual Taxes Now conference. It's organized by a conservative, pro-business group. Midday Metro goes to the source with the president of the Utah Taxpayers Association, Senator Howard Stephenson. At 10:30 on The Bottomline: Expanding Utah's worldview with John Winston Howard . He was Australia's second-longest se ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, May 7, 2008 University of Utah Masters in Architecture students are putting their talents to work tackling everything from downtown planning to humanitarian relief. Midday Metro goes to the source with Ryan McMullen and Matthew Swindel, who are trying to make a difference through their senior projects. Plus, David Whyte is speaking at the Utah Arts Council's Mountain West Conference on the Arts this week. Midday Metro goes to the source on "Life at the Frontier: Leadership through Courageous Con ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Salt Lake City has had a new mayor for four months. Is that enough time to judge a new administration? What's happening in the city's planning department, which a recent audit found to be dysfunctional? And is the freshman mayor's first budget ready for its City Council debut this week? All of that and more will be on the table as Midday Metro goes to the source - Mayor Ralph Becker.Another water week poem. This one from Trisha Hopkinson. Thanks to Stephanie Duer at the SLC Dept. of Publi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, May 5, 2008 It's water week in Utah. According to the Utah Rivers Council, the Lake Powell Pipeline, Bear River water development and the Las Vegas water grab in Snake Valley will dramatically alter water resources and put Utah on a path to "water folly." Midday Metro goes to the source with UTC's Ted Wilson, Paul Van Dam of Citizens for Dixie's Future, and Steve Erickson of the Great Basin Water Network. All three of today's guests take part in a Utah Water Follies panel discussion at the Salt Lake ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, May 2, 2008 Midday Metro goes to the source on prescription drug abuse - which now outpaces car accidents as the leading cause of injury-death in Utah. A new program launched by the Utah Department of Health aims to make the issue plain and simple: use meds only as directed. Our community sources: Dr. Robert Rolfs, state epidemiologist, Utah Dept. of Health, and Rep. Bradley Daw, who sponsored the 2007 Pain Medication Management and Education Bill to develop a state program addressing the misuse and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, May 1, 2008 Gambling is illegal in Utah, but many residents gamble online or in other states. Tonight's Science in Society public dialog series at the City Library talks about the addictive nature of gambling and law enforcement efforts to curb the illegal practice. Midday Metro goes to the source with Michael D of Gamblers Anonymous and Thomas Roberts of the Utah Attorney Generals Office, panelists for tonight's event. Reducing pet over population is the goal of No Home Homeless Pets in Utah. T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Each presidential candidate is proposing their own unique health reform plan, but some states, like Utah, are pushing ahead without federal guidance. Midday Metro breaks down the best options with Len Nichols, health reform expert from the New America Foundation. He's a guest of the Utah Health Policy Project during Cover the Uninsured Week. Plus, are you having trouble raising your teenagers? Maybe you should consider letting them raise you. Coming up on Midday Metro a conversation ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, April 29, 2008 SONAR - the sex offender notification and registration bill passed by lawmakers this year - takes effect next week. Bill sponsor Rep. Paul Ray and Angie Welling of the Department of Corrections explain the changes to Utah's sex offender registry, which currently includes information on approximately 6,900 offenders. The Utah Department of Community and Culture's Office of Ethnic Affairs now has a new Hispanic/Latino Affairs Director. Silvia Castro Thomas joins us on the show to talk a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, April 28, 2008 It's the first day on the job for Elizabeth Elder, new Director of the Salt Lake City Library System. She'll be here to talk with Midday Metro listeners about her plans. At 10:30 on The Bottomline: Have you had the talk with your kids ... you know, the one about ... money? Tuesday is National Teach Your Children to Save Day. The Bottomline offers up some tips with Julie Felshaw, State Office of Education Financial Education Specialist, Zions Bank's Heidi Prokop, vice president and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, April 25, 2008 Midday Metro welcomes Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon for his monthly check-in with liseners. Your questions, comments, even suggestions on county government are welcome. Plus, a new report gives a better look at Utah's uninsured. Judi Hillman from the Utah Health Policy Project and Bill Crim from United Way of Salt Lake join Midday Metro to talk about some solutions. Join the conversation. Call 355-TALK or email midday@kcpw.org during the show to participate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, April 24, 2008 First responders have to deal with all kinds of violence and carnage when they respond to car accidents, domestic violence calls, robberies and fire. What kind of psychological impact does it have on them? That subject will be addressed at the 21st Annual Crime Victims' Conference that starts today. Midday Metro talks with Shawn Josephson, who's been a peer-to-peer counselor for seven years with the Salt Lake City Police Department.A teen age rite of passage is the high school prom. But w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, April 23, 2008 The newly-created Health System Reform Task Force had its first meeting last week. With the daunting task of fixing health care in Utah, how far has this lawmaker group gotten in one meeting? Midday Metro talks with Sen. Gene Davis, a Democrat from Salt Lake County and a task force member. Business plan competitions at area universities are more than academic exercises. There's real cash at stake, and great business ideas can vault into primetime due to the exposure. Midday Metro tal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Tune in to learn how to participate in one of 11 public lands service projects Utah Backcountry Volunteers will perform in Utah this year. Jeff McCarthy is Chair of Environmental Studies and Associate Professor of English at Westminster College. In his spare time, he has written Contact: Mountain Climbing and Environmental Thinking. Midday Metro talks with him about the growing symbiosis between climbing and environmental awareness. After 11 years, Keith Lockhart is retiring as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, April 21, 2008 The number of chronically homeless on Utah's streets has dropped 15 percent, despite growth in overall homelessness. Midday Metro talks about the latest homeless headcount with Lloyd Pendleton, Utah's Homeless Task Force Director and Matt Minkevitch, executive director of The Road Home. At 10:30 on The Bottomline: It's a wonderful time to clean out the closets and make a difference in someone's life. The Bottomline talks about how you can help local women dress for success as you spri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, April 18, 2008 Nearly one-third of Utah boys and girls spend two or more hours a day in front of the TV. Many add another two hours or more playing video games. Unplug 'N Play week starts Monday. Midday Metro provides some ideas to help you get off the couch and play. Guests include Lynda Blades of the Utah Department of Health and Michelle Brown of AYSO Sandy. If a military travels on its stomach, what's cooking in the soldiers' mess? Midday Metro finds out with military chefs in town for the Free ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, April 17, 2008 Why does architecture matter? Midday Metro gets the inside scoop from Blair Kamin, architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, who will be in town to keynote the Utah Preservation Conference this week. Utah Heritage Foundation Executive Director Kirk Huffaker joins the conversation. Since its debut in the mid-80s, "What to Expect When Expecting" has been the Bible for new moms. But a lot has changed in the last 25 years - multiple births are multiplying, alternative therapies are maki ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Many wounded soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan have lost limbs in such a way that traditional prosthetics don't work very well. A method of direct bone implantation is being researched in the Beehive State. Midday Metro learns more about the technique with members of the Utah Orthopaedic Center and visiting doctors. Guests include Dr. Roy Bloebaum of the UOC and VA Salt Lake City Health Care System; Dr. Horst Aschoff, orthopedic and plastic surgeon visiting from Germany; an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, April 15, 2008 POLAR-PALOOZA is a public education project supported by the National Science Foundation and NASA that explores climate change through live presentation by 5 polar scientists, researchers, and residents. Tomorrow, join us at 10 a.m. as Midday Metro talks with one of those scientists - Julie Brigham-Grette. She leads an international team of scientists in a major field project in Siberia where they're gathering data that should provide the most detailed record of past Arctic climate to d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, April 14, 2008 The weird and wonderful sounds in the City Library's music collection. KCPW's Book Bin goes into the music stacks with librarians Andrew Shaw and Mary Anne Heider. Click "Read More" to get a list of today's Book Bin selections. At 10:30 on The Bottomline: Boomburbs expert Robert Lang will talk about smart ways to manage growth. Something we'd better think about as more than a million new people over the next 20 years will call the Salt Lake Valley home. Lang will present a lecture o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, April 11, 2008 While most teens are learning to balance their own bank accounts, one young Salt Laker is helping women in third world countries develop business plans. Midday Metro talks with Merrit Denison, who has helped to create a microenterprise program for YouthLINC. We'll also meet the program's director, Sabrina King. Do you need some fresh ideas for the dinner table? How about some recipes created by kids? Midday Metro talks about a cookbook full of recipes made by kids for kids to promote ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, April 10, 2008 Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank is back in town. He'll be in the studio to take your calls. On our list of questions - the resurgence of crack cocaine, the recent arrests of members of the Tongan Crip Gang for a string of robberies, and two "acid bomb" incidents. A revamped Washington County Land Bill is ready to go in Congress. Senator Bob Bennett tells Midday Metro why key conservation groups are supporting the legislation this time. Dave Livermore, Utah State Director for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Keeping the next generation of math teachers is essential if America is to fill the 280,000 teaching positions in math and science that are projected by 2015. Midday Metro charts a course of action with Skip Fennell, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, which opens its annual meeting at the Salt Palace today. College Democrats of Utah will hold its first-ever statewide convention Saturday. How many college Democrats are there? Midday Metro finds out with Aaron ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Gandhi's nonviolence is not passive resistance - it is active without feeding into a cycle of retaliation, according to Dr. Bart Gruzalski, a writer, scholar and peacekeeper for nonviolent demonstrations. Gruzalski will be at the City Library tonight to talk about "Gandhi's Nonviolence as a Path to Peace" in a post-9/11 world. Midday Metro gets a preview. KCPW will broadcast tonight's speech beginning at 7 p.m. Several high school Muslim students have been awarded scholarships to stud ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, April 7, 2008 He was just named Best Elected Official by City Weekly. He's still trying to beat Sandy to the boards with a Broadway-style theatre. And he's hoping to find the money for a TRAX line to the airport and a trolley in Sugar House. Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker joins us to talk about current issues in the city, including a new audit that calls the city's planning process "seriously broken." Water use and energy have become big issues for cities. What are they doing to prepare them ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, April 4, 2008 Fighting child abuse ... reining in payday lenders ... reorganizing animal services ... Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon will be here to talk about business in the county. It's spring cleaning time - what to do with cleaning fluids, batteries, even prescription drugs you no longer have a use for? Dorothy Adams of the Salt Lake Valley Health Department tells Midday Metro listeners how to dispose of hazardous household waste. Plus, now you can send a letter to an Iraq soldier on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, April 3, 2008 The Utah Attorney General's Office has formed a new task force to apply high-tech tactics to cold cases. While television may make such investigations look easy, the work is difficult and emotionally taxing. Midday Metro talks with the AG's chief of law enforcement Ken Wallentine and Sgt. Mark Scharman of the Salt Lake City Police Department's homicide unit. Autism in Utah kids has increased 2,000% since the 1980s. A new rock climbing program by SPLORE aims to help those who struggle w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, April 2, 2008 Special guest host Ted Wilson will talk with Ed Sweeney about the future of KCPW. Sweeney is the former general manager of KCPW and president of Wasatch Public Media, the newly formed non-profit seeking to buy KCPW from Community Wireless of Park City. Your questions and comments are welcome. Call 355-TALK or email midday@kcpw.org during the show to participate. Also, what advice would you give the next president of the United States? Dr. Michael O'Hanlon has assembled a collection of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, April 1, 2008 Sexual assault survivor activism with Heather Stringfellow of the Rape Recovery Center and photographer Scheherazade Tillet of Chicago-based A Long Walk Home, which uses art therapy and the visual and performance arts to document, to educate, and to bring about social change and healing from trauma. The workshops and SOARS: Story of A Rape Survivor performance take place Friday at Rose Wagner in SLC. Click here for details. Dr. Sebastian Lipina has been studying the effects of poverty ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, March 31, 2008 The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, And Why is a book that explores the 400-year chronology of America's racial history. The book's author, Jabari Asim, talks about why he thinks the N-word remains a slur and symbol of inequality. Asim is the next speaker in the City Library's Dewey Lecture Series on April 5. At 10:30 on The Bottomline: Governor Huntsman came into office with a pledge to expand economic development statewide. Has it happened? The Bottomline talks with Alan Ha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, March 28, 2008 If you've ever told someone they kick or throw like a girl, you might be sorry. Midday Metro talks with Utah-based filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie about her new documentary, Kick Like a Girl, which follows her eight-year-old daughter's all-girl soccer team as it enters a boys' league. MacKenzie, her daughter and other members of the Mighty Cheetahs will take part in a Q&A after a special screening at 7:30 tonight, Rowland-Hall St. Mark's Larimer Center Theatre, sponsored in part by the SLC ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, March 27, 2008 After the murder of a Family Dollar Store manager in the Glendale neighborhood, Salt Lake City's mayor and police chief vowed to beef up policing efforts on the Capitol City's west side. Midday Metro talks with Pioneer Patrol's Captain Jim Coleman and Officer Ben Johnson about the assignment of 16 more officers to the area. Plus, the top 10 areas of concern for voters this election year, according to the Utah Foundation's Utah Priorities Project. Steve Kroes, president of the Utah Fou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, March 26, 2008 A report from those in the trenches at last night's caucus meetings. For the Republicans, Senator Carlene Walker. For the Democrats, Polly Hart. University of Utah science seniors are getting more out of their internships than experience making copies or picking up dry cleaning. A program matches their skills with engineering issues in the real world. Midday Metro talks with Steve Blair, director of the U's Engineering Clinic Program, and students Chris Benson and Kyle Stewart. Plu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Logan-based Symbiotics LLC is proposing a hydroelectric plant near Bear Lake that could generate 85 percent of the electricity needs of Northern Utah. However, biologists are concerned about the impact on fish, not to mention the lake's crystal blue waters. Midday Metro digs into the issues with Scott Tolentino, Bear Lake fisheries biologist, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, and Eric Steimle, director of environmental compliance at Symbiotics. The Transit Riders Union is calling o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, March 24, 2008 How national and state economic conditions affect city budgets with the Utah League of Cities and Towns. Guests include Roger Tew, senior policy analyst with the league; Jamie Davidson, Lehi City administrator; and Gary Hill, budget director, Park City. Global worker migration with Lant Pritchett, BYU grad turned Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He'll be at Westminster Monday to talk about Global Capital Labo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, March 21, 2008 Utah Democrats and Republicans will hold their party caucuses next week. Are you confused about the what, where, when, and how of the process? Midday Metro talks with Utah Democratic Party Chairman Wayne Holland and Stan Lockhart, Utah Republican Party Chairman, for the lowdown on caucuses. Click here for information on Democratic caucus locations in Salt Lake County. Click here for Democratic party caucus information by county. Click here for information on Republican caucuses lo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, March 20, 2008 Fighting drugs with student art. Midday Metro visits with Marjean Searcy, project coordinator for SLCPD's COPS Meth Initiative, Lt. Mike Ross, who currently runs the vice and narcotics squads and supervises the Meth Initiative, and Xiao Han Zhang, a West High student and grand prize winner the kNOw MORE kNOw Drugs art competition. Some say climbing Mt. Everest is not worth the danger anymore - and then there's the mountain to contend with. Author Michael Kodas will be here to talk ab ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, March 19, 2008 After five years, Congress has allocated more than $522 billion to the Iraq War. That number is projected to climb past $745 billion by the end of fiscal year 2009. Midday Metro talks with Elaine Emmi and Diana Lee Hirschi of Salt Lake Quakers about local efforts to oppose the war. Operation Keep in Touch is a new statewide initiative to help Utah's deployed service members stay connected with their families through the use of Webcams at local libraries. Midday Metro talks with organiz ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, March 18, 2008 Residents and stakeholders of Millcreek Township are being asked what they'd like to be when they grow up - an unincorporated part of the county, their own city or new citizens of Holladay or South Salt Lake City. Check out this blog on the subject. A townhall meeting is scheduled for tonight, 6-9 p.m., at Skyline High School, 3251 E. 3760 S., on this self-determination process. Midday Metro learns more with Jeff Silvestrini of Millcreek's Mount Olympus Community Council and Lynn Pace, H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, March 17, 2008 In honor of St. Patrick's Day, a focus on Irish literature with the City Library's Cherie Willis and Andrew Shaw, and poet Alex Caldiero offers his favorite poems by Irishmen Yeates, Wilde and Joyce. And on today's edition of the Bottomline, celebrating 10 years of Envision Utah. Robert Grow and Alan Matheson talk about the organization's plans for this year. Join the conversation. Call 355-TALK or email midday@kcpw.org during the show to participate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, March 14, 2008 When most people think of Sudan, they may think of the conflict in Darfur. Victoria Butler is trying to change the perception of Sudan and show the daily life of the Sudanese through the exhibit Sudan: The Land and the People. We'll talk to her about living in Sudan and what she learned from the experience. If your teen is looking for something to do this spring, Wasatch Gardens has now re-started its Teen Urban Farming internships. We'll talk to Maddy Corey about sustainable organi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, March 12, 2008 A $1,700 salary bump; $10 million to pay for teacher-directed classroom supplies; performance pay programs - are teachers satisfied with their treatment at the hands of state lawmakers this year? Midday Metro goes one-on-one with Kim Campbell, president of the Utah Education Association, which represents 18,000 members in 40 schools districts. Homebuilders are seeing their workloads drop off in the face of the sub-prime crisis and talk of recession. However, greenbuilders are reporting ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, March 11, 2008 Laissez faire capitalism and social norms, governmental regulation and criminal prohibition all play into America's drug habit. Midday Metro talks with law professor and co-director of the Utah Criminal Justice Center Erik Luna about this week's two-day conference on Drugs: Addiction, Therapy, and Crime at the University of Utah. Several bills approved by lawmakers had the support of the Sutherland Institute, a conservative public policy think-tank based in Salt Lake. President Paul Mer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, March 10, 2008 Physics professor Miguel Mostafa explains the great mystery of cosmic rays, their source and phenomenal energy over a pint at Port O'Call Tuesday night. It's part of a new lecture series called Science Night Live. Sans the suds, Midday Metro gets a preview.Can the love between two people ever be an abomination? Is the chasm separating gays and lesbians and Christianity too wide to cross? Is the Bible an excuse to hate? Those are the questions addressed in the award-winning documentary film ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, March 5, 2008 It's the last day of the 2008 Legislative General Session. A live report from Utah's Capitol Hill with KCPW reporter Elizabeth Ziegler. Click here for our 2008 Legislative Coverage page. Thousands of grade-schoolers descend upon the University of Utah this week to build towers of drinking straws, catapult marshmallows and clay fish during the College of Engineering's 11th annual Elementary Engineering Week. Midday Metro gets a live report from the field with Deidre Schoenfeld, outreac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, March 4, 2008 A live report from Utah's Capitol Hill with KCPW reporter Elizabeth Ziegler. Click here for our 2008 Legislative Coverage page. State lawmakers are trying to find a way to equalize school construction funding in the wake of legislation last year that allowed school districts to split. But is their funding formula equitable? Midday Metro gets perspective from two vantage points with Barry Newbold, superintendent of Jordan School District, and Dr. McKell Withers, superintendent of Salt ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, March 3, 2008 Only three days left in this year's legislative session. Midday Metro gets a live report from Utah's Capitol Hill with KCPW reporter Elizabeth Ziegler. Click here for our 2008 Legislative coverage page. Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker will be here for his monthly check-in with Midday Metro listeners. We'll talk about how the city will pay for the airport TRAX extension given that lawmakers will not allow the use of airport fees. At 10:30, The Bottomline focuses on the arts and e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, February 29, 2008 A live report from Utah's Capitol Hill with KCPW reporter Elizabeth Ziegler. Click here for our Legislative coverage page. How does an incumbent mayor balance the duties of his office with a campaign? Midday Metro finds out in our monthly visit with Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon. Plus the NAACP's Jeanetta Williams and Edward Lewis Jr. will be here to talk about political engagement in minority communities. Plus puppets will be converging on the City Library this weekend. F ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, February 27, 2008 A live report from Utah's Capitol Hill with KCPW reporter Elizabeth Ziegler. Senate Bill 34 is on the way to the governor's desk. It would allow the confidential reporting of drivers believed to be a risk to themselves and others to the Department of Motor Vehicles for review. AARP supports the bill. Midday Metro finds out why with Utah associate director Laura Polachek. Also, a bill that would have provided protective orders for those in violent dating relationships failed again th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, February 26, 2008 A live report from Utah's Capitol Hill with KCPW reporter Elizabeth Ziegler. Cuba native Alejandro Portes, who is director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University. Portes will be at the University of Utah this week to deliver his keynote address: "Bridging the Gap: Ethnic Organizations and the Political Incorporation Process of Immigrants in the United States" as part of the Migration, Rights & Identities Conference. Midday Metro gets a preview. Pr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, February 25, 2008 A live report from Utah's Capitol Hill with KCPW reporter Elizabeth Ziegler. N. D. Wilson author of the tween book 100 Cupboards will be here, along with a couple of signed copies for Midday Metro listeners. 100 Cupboards follows Henry York and his cousin through the 99 different worlds held within the cupboards of his bedroom. He'll do a reading at King's English tonight, Deseret Book tomorrow night. At 10:30 on The Bottomline: building bridges between Utah and Chile with Miguel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, February 22, 2008 A live report from Utah's Capitol Hill with KCPW reporter Elizabeth Ziegler. Fighting back against drug dealers is the focus of his life ever since Lance Merrill's daughter lost her battle with addiction in 2005. He's on Capitol Hill backing legislation that would allow the estate of illegal drug overdose victims to sue drug dealers in civil court, as well as the creation of a tipline managed by the Attorney General's office. The founder of Dads Against Drug Dealers, Merrill shares his ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, February 21, 2008 A live report from Utah’s Capitol Hill with KCPW reporter Elizabeth Ziegler. Congressman Jim Matheson of Utah’s Second District. He accuses the department of energy of foot dragging when it comes to the cleanup of a 16 million ton pile of radioactive tailings near Moab. Midday Metro asks him about that issue, the president’s economic stimulus package and your questions. Plus another edition of Poetry is Wanted Here with Ken Sanders and Alex Caldiero. We’ll ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, February 20, 2008 A live report from Utah's Capitol Hill with KCPW reporter Elizabeth Ziegler. Edward Burke, a Chicago Alderman and former Chicago police officer, and Chicago writer Thomas J. O' Gorman will be in town next month as part of the City Library's Dewey Lecture series. Midday Metro gets a preview. Wal-mart is presenting its plans to adapt an old Kmart at the mouth of Parley's Canyon. They say their new store will not be all that bigger than the existing building's footprint, but the retail ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, February 19, 2008 A live report from Utah's Capitol Hill with KCPW reporter Elizabeth Ziegler. Should Utah become a disposal site for the world's hot waste? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has opened the public comment period on a plan by Utah-based Energy Solutions to process and dispose of 20,000 tons of Italian nuclear waste. Vanessa Pierce, executive director of HEAL Utah tells Midday Metro why approving the permit would set a bad precedent and make Utah a nuclear waste dumping ground. A new mu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, February 15, 2008 A live report from Utah's Capitol Hill with KCPW reporter Elizabeth Ziegler. Click here for our 2008 Legislative Coverage. The Utah Fund of Funds is going to get even bigger. Thanks to SB 11, the $100 Million fund will increase its tax credits capacity three-fold. Managing Director Jeremy Neilson explains how the fund will boost economic development in the face of a recession. The Bible condemns usury. But a new study finds a surprising relationship between conservative Christian ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, February 14, 2008 A live report from Utah's Capitol Hill with KCPW reporter Elizabeth Ziegler. SB 260 would make secret details about police misconduct and resulting disciplinary charges. Midday Metro talks about the bill as well as the current state of the Civilian Review Board with Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank. Ethics reform is bringing together two unlikely forces - a democratic party veteran and a conservative think-tank director. Midday Metro talks with Paul Mero of the Sutherland ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, February 13, 2008 A live report from Utah's Capitol Hill with KCPW reporter Elizabeth Ziegler. Click here to go to our 2008 Legislative Coverage page. Ted Wilson is moving into the head office at the Utah Rivers Council. Midday Metro finds out why and what's behind his first legislative battle in that position. The latest Advanced Placement tests results are out. Midday Metro finds out where Utah high schoolers rank with Mark Peterson of the Utah State Office of Education. Changes in store for t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, February 12, 2008 A live report from Utah's Capitol Hill with KCPW reporter Elizabeth Ziegler. All of our legislative coverage can be found on our 2008 Legislative Coverage page. Blue cans are popping up on the streets of West Valley City. Recycling operations manager Phil Markham talks about the official debut of reduce, reuse, recycle in the second biggest city in the state. Several bills making the rounds on Capitol Hill are under the watchful eye of the Disability Law Center. Midday ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, February 11, 2008 KCPW reporter Elizabeth Ziegler starts the show with a live update from Utah's Capitol Hill. Book Bin: the first in an occasional series with librarians at the City Library. Today, classics and new titles in the world of business books with reference librarian Tania Toro and Matt McLain, assistant manager at the Sprague Branch. If a title catches your attention, Book Bin Lists will be made available at the information desk of the main City Library or click here. Fair trade and why ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, February 8, 2008 We'll check in with Elizabeth Ziegler, one of KCPW's reporters on Capitol Hill during the legislative session. Health care reform will be debated on the floor of the Utah House of Representatives today. But has its fate been sealed in backroom deals? Judi Hillman and Lincoln Nehring of the Utah Health Policy Project give Midday Metro their perspectives as an advocate for quality health care coverage for all Utahns. Why a Fur Ball can be a good thing, with Cheryl Smith of the Utah An ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, February 7, 2008 KCPW reporter Elizabeth Ziegler joins us live from Capitol Hill with an update on the morning's committee meetings. Life on the force with members of the Salt Lake City Police Department. Midday Metro talks with Sgt. Ty Farrillas, a 10-year veteran, and rookie-in-training Jennifer Carling. To learn more about becoming a SLC police officer, click here. Utah's Magnificent Heritage, a collection of objects from Utah's 29 counties, is on display at the Utah Museum of Natural Histor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, February 6, 2008 We'll check in with Elizabeth Ziegler, one of KCPW's reporters on Capitol Hill during the legislative session. Terry Williams was elected to the Utah State House of Representatives in 1980. He won an historic election in 1982, becoming the first African American in the Utah State Senate. As part of Black History Month events, Williams will be at the City Library tonight. Midday Metro gets a preview. (NOTE: KCPW will broadcast Williams's speech live at 7 p.m.). Veteran political repo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, February 5, 2008 A live report from the Super Tuesday polls with Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen.We'll check in with Elizabeth Ziegler, one of KCPW's reporters on Capitol Hill during the legislative session. Utah's Latino community is feeling the heat as Utah lawmakers debate bills that would repeal in-state tuition and driver privilege cards for undocumented workers and consider opening an illegal immigrant detention facility. Tony Yapias of the Utah Latino Project voices his concerns on Mi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, February 4, 2008 We'll check in with Elizabeth Ziegler, one of KCPW's reporters on Capitol Hill during the legislative session. Delta Airlines is in merger talks. Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker says he'll do everything in his power to keep the carrier's hub in the Capital City. But he wants to use airport passenger fees to help build a TRAX extension to the airport - a move Delta opposes. Who's got the upper hand in these negotiations? Midday Metro talks with Mayor Becker. At 10:30 on The Botto ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, February 1, 2008 We'll check in with Elizabeth Ziegler, one of KCPW's reporters on Capitol Hill during the legislative session. Getting religion on the environment. Midday Metro talks about a faith-based approach to protecting Utah's wildlands with Ted Wilson, Vice Chair of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance's board of directors, and BYU professor of humanities George Handley. Governor Jon Huntsman will call in from Capitol Hill with an update on the Legislative session. And religion goes to t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, January 31, 2008 We'll check in with Elizabeth Ziegler, one of KCPW's reporters on Capitol Hill during the legislative session. The Salt Lake City Police Department has released its final summary of last year's shootings at Trolley Square. Midday Metro talks about it with Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank. Plus, trivia with Jeopardy champ and former Utahn Ken Jennings, who has just released Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac: 8,888 Questions in 365 Days. Join the conversation. Call 355-TALK ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, January 30, 2008 We'll check in with Elizabeth Ziegler, one of KCPW's reporters on Capitol Hill during the legislative session. In Recognition of the 50th Anniversary of Law Day, Utah State Court plans a Judge for a Day program. But will you get to wear the robe? Midday Metro finds out with Utah Court of Appeals Judge Judith Billings. The Leonardo will open before it's open. Lisa Davis explains The Leonardo Workshop, which opens at South Towne Center Mall next month. Over the next two weeks, a national ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, January 29, 2008 We'll check in with Elizabeth Ziegler, one of KCPW's reporters on Capitol Hill during the legislative session. Two conservation groups are merging to create a force of nature for the American West's wild places, wildlife and wild rivers. WildEarth Guardians has a "west-wide" scope, including conservation of the sagegrouse and prairie dogs in Utah. Midday Metro learns more with John Horning of WildEarth Guardians. The legacy of the late-LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley is one ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, January 28, 2008 We’ll check in with Elizabeth Ziegler, one of KCPW’s reporters on Capitol Hill during the legislative session. A bill making the rounds on Capitol Hill would impose civil penalties if a minor is able to access porn over a public wireless network. Xmission owner Pete Ashdown says that if HB139 passes, he'll shutdown the free WiFi he's put in place -- at company expense -- from Salt Lake to Ogden. Midday Metro explores the issues with Ashdown and the bill's sponsor, Rep. Brad Daw ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, January 25, 2008 We'll check in with Elizabeth Ziegler, one of KCPW's reporters on Capitol Hill during the legislative session. Then Midday Metro opens the phones with two Utah politicos, Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon and former Governor Olene Walker. Plus, negotiating family trips can sometimes resemble high-level diplomatic missions. So how do you manage climbing all seven of the world's highest peaks as husband and wife? Phil Erschler and his wife, Susan, did just that and are in town to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, January 24, 2008 A legislative update with KCPW's Elizabeth Ziegler, live from Capitol Hill. Columbine; Virginia Tech; Trolley Square - all scenes of horrific gun violence. Are these extreme cases or an indicator that Americans are all too willing to solve their problems by pulling the trigger? Midday Metro talks about gun crime with Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank and special guests Brett Tolman, United States Attorney for Utah, and Detective Rick Blanchard, who heads up Project Safe Neighbo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, January 23, 2008 A legislative update with KCPW's Elizabeth Ziegler. Staying safe in the backcountry with Bruce Tremper of the Utah Avalanche Center and Ian McCammon of Snowpit Technologies. They'll be part of a Science in Society panel on Snow, Cold, Brain: Choices Thursday at the City Library. Countless black women would rather attend church naked than hatless. Midday Metro talks about it with playwright Regina Taylor, who tackles the subject in her play CROWNS. It premieres in Utah later this ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, January 22, 2008 First, a legislative update with KCPW's Elizabeth Ziegler. Health care advocates are watching closely as lawmakers start their work on Capitol Hill. Will health care mandates make it out of committee? Will dental and vision be restored for Medicaid patients? Midday Metro talks with Elizabeth Garbe of the Utah Health Policy Project and Sheila Walsh-McDonald of the Salt Lake Community Action Program. Plus a new report says geothermal power capacity is set to double in the west. But th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, January 21, 2008 Spend an hour watching prime time television and you'll see evidence that soft-core porn has moved into the mainstream. Dr. Gail Dines, professor of sociology at Wheelock College in Boston, says the impact is far reaching, including a prevailing slut-culture among today's teens. Dines will be at Westminster College Wednesday evening to talk about Sex(ism), Identity, and Intimacy in a Pornographic Culture. Midday Metro gets a preview. Plus, The Bottomline will look at the Utah Legislat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, January 18, 2008 Why maintaining bone health is important as we age with physical therapist Patty Trela of the University Orthopaedic Center's Build-A-Bone program. There were 285 fatal crashes on Utah roads last year. UDOT's Adan Carrillo talks about the driving behavior that most often leads to these deadly accidents. The data was issued yesterday in the 2007 fatal crash report. And The NAACP's Jeanetta Williams and Edward Lewis Jr. will be here, with special guest Clark Newhall. The trio want ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, January 17, 2008 The Energy Solutions Arena car prowlers to a deadly shooting at Sears - Midday Metro checks in with Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank about recent cases. Dust blowing off the Colorado plateau is impacting snow reflectivity along the Wasatch. Midday Metro talks about what happens "When Deserts and Mountains Collide" with U of U geography professor Thomas Painter. Plus Darrell Kirby of the Utah Museum of Natural History, which produces The Nature of Things Lecture Series. KCPW ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, January 16, 2008 United Way of Salt Lake has its eye on four key areas this legislative session - financial stability, education, health care and building cohesive communities. President and CEO Deborah Bayle and Bill Crim, Director of Strategic Initiatives and Public Policy, talk about bringing business and community leaders together on Capitol Hill. Once every six hours, a Utah baby is born with a serious birth defect. Connecting parents with services and programs for the special health care needs o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, January 15, 2008 After months of searching, the Utah Symphony & Opera has a new president and CEO. Midday Metro talks with Melia Tourangeau. She replaces Anne Ewers, who left in June to head Philadelphia's Kimmel Center. The League of Women Voters of Utah is gearing up for the 2008 legislative session. Midday Metro finds out what this grassroots group will be watching out for on Utah's Capitol Hill. Guests include Nancy Mellon, state co-president, and Ann O'Connell, legislative action director. Th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, January 14, 2008 With changes in laws and rules governing locally chartered credit unions, some have opted to convert to federal charters or other forms of organization. Members of Beehive Credit Union are being asked to support conversion to a member-owned federal mutual savings bank. Ballots go out today. Midday Metro talks with Teri Dial and Lori Christian of Beehive Members Protecting Member Interest who oppose conversion.Plus a conversation with Scott Jorgensen, President and CEO of Beehive Credit Unio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, January 11, 2008 Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker will be here to take your calls. He’s got a plan for his first 180 days. Already he’s submitted a new ordinance to the City Council seeking the creation of a new city-wide Domestic Partnership Registry. Plus it’s been six years since the first arrival of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Midday Metro talks about it with political science professor Dr. Tim Chambless and Karen McCreary of the Utah Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Uni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, January 10, 2008 Brothers shooting at each other and a suicidal man barricading himself inside his house then turning on all the gas and threatening to blow the place up -- those are just two recent situations requiring the services of Salt Lake City's Special Weapons and Tactics team. Midday Metro learns what it takes to diffuse such tense situations with Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank and SWAT Commander Rick Findlay. One week remains until the Jan. 15 conclusion of the annual Holiday Foo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, January 9, 2008 A review of the New Hampshire primary results with Kirk Jowers of the Hinckley Institute of Politics. A new pilot program called Web Wise Kids is being unveiled today. Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and Esther Cookson of Web Wise Kids explain how games will help Utah students play it safe on the Internet. Eighteen months in the making, a new digital map is now available which shows areas of Utah that are vulnerable to landslides. Midday Metro finds out which Wasatch Front neighb ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, January 8, 2008 After more than three decades of war, Afghanistan orphans number more than 2 million with as many 600,000 sleeping on the streets. After a 2004 tour of Afghanistan, some Utah Army and Air National Guard soldiers decided to do something about it - and now they want you help them fund, build and sustain an orphanage in this war-torn nation. Learn about The Afghanistan Orphanage Project with co-founder Jared Jones and president Layne Pace. Legislative priorities for the Salt Lake City Cou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, January 7, 2008 Nightclubs are a good place for a pint, a pickup line - and an intimate conversation with a molecular scientist about genetically altering the sexual orientation of worms? Learn more about "science socials" - coming to a night club near you. Guests include Prof. Erik Jorgensen, Director of the University of Utah’s Brain Institute and a molecular geneticist and biologist, and science social supporter Pat Shea, a Salt Lake City-based attorney and former Director of the Bureau of Land ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, January 4, 2007 Although the numbers are the lowest in four years, 18 people died as a result of domestic violence in Utah last year. Midday Metro delves into the stories behind the numbers with domestic violence survivor Brandy Farmer, who serves as co-chair of public education on the Utah Domestic Violence Council, and Mark Nash, Director of the Utah Prosecution Council. It's been called the Mayo Clinic for Dogs. It's now home to 22 pitbulls that were once part of Michael Vicks' dogfighting operatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, January 3, 2008 Response to an emergency call depends on the skills of a select group of public safety personnel - dispatchers. Midday Metro talks dispatch with Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank and dispatch supervisor Jen Albrecht, who was on duty during the Olympics, the 1999 tornado, and the Elizabeth Smart and Destiny Norton cases. Midday Metro checks in with Thomas Burr, senior reporter in the paper's Washington bureau. Burr's on assignment, covering Republican presidential candidate Mitt R ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, January 2, 2008 "President Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003 ultimately may come to be seen as one of the most profligate actions in the history of American foreign policy." That's the first sentence in Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas Ricks of The Washington Post. The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter creates a compelling argument to back up his title when it comes to how and why the U.S. went to war in Iraq and how that decision has played out. Recorded October 20, 2007, for t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, December 31, 2007 Former US Senator and one-time presidential candidate Gary Hart visited Utah for the Sundance Tree Room Author Series in November. In this special rebroadcast, Hart talks about his book "The Courage of Our Convictions," urging a return to the principles bequeathed to the Democratic party by its great twentieth-century presidents. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, December 28, 2007 Our special holiday series of guest speakers continues, this time in partnership with the McCarthey Family Lecture Series which brought Arianna Huffington to Salt Lake City earlier this year.A one-time candidate for governor of California, Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post - a news and blogsite that ranks as the fifth most linked to blog on the Internet. Huffington is a nationally syndicated columnist, author of 11 books and co-host of NPR's w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, December 27, 2007 Another special presentation from the Sundance Tree Room Author Series and NPR Utah, KCPW: Fast food has become a veritable American institution, with restaurants serving a quick bite in every strip mall and roadside rest area across the country. But in Fast Food Nation, author Eric Schlosser says the fast food establishment has been serving up much more than just cheap hamburgers and greasy fries. Schlosser spoke about the growth of fast food chains after World War II and the parallel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, December 26, 2007 Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us, recorded earlier this year at the Sundance Tree Room Author Series. In his latest book, Weisman poses the question: What would happen to the earth if humans vanished? This simple question replaces the heated debate about the environment today with a powerful, yet non threatening experiment that illustrates human impact on the world. Recorded November 3, 2007, at the Sundance Tree Room. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, December 25, 2007 Author Sue Monk Kidd, recorded September 29, 2007 at the Sundance Tree Room Author Series. Kidd’s written the best-selling novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair. But her new book, Firstlight, focuses on her early work – personal essays on faith – to trace her journey as a writer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, December 24, 2007 Michael Pollan, author of Omnivore’s Dilemma, recorded December 1, 2007, at the Sundance Tree Room Author Series. Pollan talks about what we should be eating for dinner, connecting food choices to a health, sustainable environment. Pollan will change the way you look at dinner. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, December 21, 2007 He won a budget standoff with the county council, but has to trim $50K from his own requests. Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon will be here to take your calls at 355-TALK or you can post a question or comment below right now. Plus we'll talk about the future of personalized medicine with Michael Paul, CEO of the newly formed Utah bio-tech company LineaGen.Growing demand for affordable housing has nearly depleted the Olene Walker Housing Loan Fund. Midday Metro learns more from Gor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, December 20, 2007 Salt Lake City Police Sgt. Lee Dobrowolski will talk about mandatory special squad rotation and changes to physical fitness standards for the capital city's police force. Plus another edition of Poetry is Wanted Here, with poet Alex Caldiero and rare book dealer Ken Sanders. This edition's muse: winter. Join the conversation. Email midday@kcpw.org during the show to participate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, December 19, 2007 Transgender student Kourt Osborn says Southern Utah University won't allow him to sign up for male or female campus housing. Midday Metro talks with Osborn as well as Yana Walton of the Utah Pride Center. The Leonardo is still seeking to bridge a $14 million funding gap. But there's no lack of advisors to ensure the quality of the future science museum's content. Mary Tull joins Midday Metro for an update on The Leonardo in Salt Lake City. Now in its sixth week, the Hollywood write ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, December 18, 2007 The extreme skiing life with Wayne Johnson of the Park City Mountain Patrol. His new book is White Heat: The Extreme Skiing Life. Kennecott has long claimed that its West Bench development will change the face of the West Side. A new study spells out exactly how much change is coming, and when. Midday Metro talks with James Wood of the University of Utah's Bureau of Economic Business Research, which conducted the study, and Jim Schulte, vice president of long range planning for Kennec ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, December 17, 2007 More than 30 homeless people died in Utah this year - and the deathtoll is expected to rise before the end of the year. A candlelight vigil and homeless memorial will be held on the winter solstice to raise awareness. Midday Metro talks with homeless advocates about what can be done to increase access to health care and affordable housing for the homeless. Guests include Allan Ainsworth of the Fourth Street Clinic, and Jeniece Olsen and Janice Kimball of the Housing Authority of Salt Lake ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, December 14, 2007 Tune to NPR Utah, KCPW 88.3 FM, Friday from 10am to Noon for an Election 2008 special debate featuring the Democratic candidates for President. The debates will be hosted by NPR Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving and NPR Political Editor Ken Rudin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, December 13, 2007 Tune to NPR Utah, KCPW 88.3 FM, Thursday from 10am to Noon for an Election 2008 special debate featuring the Republican candidates for President. The debates will be hosted by NPR Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving and NPR Political Editor Ken Rudin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Journalists offer confidentiality to sources with something to lose - life, limb, a job. Yet Utah law doesn't shield reporters should the courts want a peak at notebooks, videotape and other news-gathering materials. Midday Metro talks about creating a reporter's privilege rule with media law professor Ed Carter of Brigham Young University. Governor Jon Huntsman wants $30 million to put Utah on the path to comprehensive health care reform. Is it enough? How will Utah's low income and disabl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, December 10, 2007 Irene Spencer, former Utahn and author of Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife. The New York Times best-seller is a stunningly detailed memoir of living 46 years in fundamentalist polygamy, from 1937 to 1983, then finding the will to leave the subculture and its religion. Spencer will be at the City Library Wednesday, Dec. 12, 5 p.m., to read from and sign her book. At 6 p.m., the documentary Damned to Heaven will be shown. Tune in at 10:28 for our weekly update on all thin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, December 7, 2007 Just when exactly do today's parents cut the apron strings? A new study by researchers at Brigham Young University finds that parents of college students around the country do not consider their 18-25 year old children to be adults - and the students agree. Guest: BYU Professor Larry Nelson. Plus, Decency in the Political Arena: Is it Really the Exception and Not the Rule? Midday Metro explores the concept with Frank Guliuzza, professor and chairman of Weber State's political science ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, December 6, 2007 Auto-theft scams to Shop With A Cop -- Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank stops by for his weekly visit with Midday Metro. Joining him will be Det. Travis Morgan from the auto theft division and Det. Tom Gallegos, who also is president of the Salt Lake Police Association. The winter selections for Salt Lake City Reads Together have been announced. The City Library's Britton Lund and Michele Widera give us their reviews, and a few choice Christmas gift picks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, December 5, 2007 He's spent the last eight years in the corner office at Salt Lake City Hall. During that time he put the Capital City on a much greener path, issued an executive order providing protection for gays and lesbians, led demonstrations against Pres. Bush and the War in Iraq, and the list goes on and on. Outgoing Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson hosts the program one last time before leaving office and all he wants is to talk with you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, December 4, 2007 Society's attitudes toward different drugs and its ways of regulating them are often inconsistent, incoherent and ultimately unjust, according to a new book by a team of University of Utah scholars. Midday Metro talks with co-authors Margaret Battin, distinguished professor of philosophy, and pharmacotherapy professor Arthur Lipman. The book is Drugs and Justice: Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, Comprehensive View. Customs and Border Protection is looking to hire 6,000 new border pat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, December 3, 2007 UNCOUNTED is an explosive new documentary that claims to show how the election fraud that changed the outcome of the 2004 election led to even greater fraud in 2006 - and now looms as an unbridled threat to the outcome of the 2008 election. KCPW's Julie Rose talks with Emmy award-winning director David Earnhardt and former Emery County elections official Bruce Funk, who appears in the film.Access Downtown updates you on events in the city. At 10:30 on The Bottomline: United Way of Sa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, November 30, 2007 An $811 million budget; a DA's office in turmoil; starting up an internal 911 dispatch; reelection -- just a few of the topics on the agenda this morning as Midday Metro receives its monthly visit from Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon. Then a pair of Christmas treats: Kurt Bestor will be here to talk about his latest Christmas production and how an American Idol-like competition has unearthed a unique soloist for this year's event -- Erica Richardson. Then the Babcock Reader ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, November 29, 2007 Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank will be in for his weekly visit. Your questions and comments are welcome. On the agenda: policies and training regarding the use of tasers. Joseph Bateman, an honors student majoring in English and communications, says society has digressed to an unsustainable point in which tomorrow's children inherit a world with even greater challenges than we face today. So he and fellow students are producing a symposium on social justice to do something a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, November 28, 2007 In the ancient days of hunter-gatherers, a wrong food choice could be one's last, as a poison mushroom or toxic root could kill the most discriminating omnivore. Today, according to Omnivore's Dilemma author Michael Pollan, we face comparable dangers in the midst of plenitude. Pollan will be at the Sundance Tree Room Author Series this Saturday. Midday Metro gets a preview. Telling the stories of the miners and farmers who settled Millard County, Utah, and White Pine County, Nevada, is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Are we winning the "right" war in Iraq? Philip Gordon, senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, says no. He'll be at the University of Utah this week to discuss a new strategy for American foreign policy that looks beyond Iraq and changes the way we think about the war on terror. Midday Metro gets a preview. What is Utah's potential when it comes to traditional and alternative sources of energy? What's the best balance in order to reap maximum benefits? That ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, November 26, 2007 Every three days someone in Utah is infected with HIV. Learn more about what you can do to fight HIV/AIDS. Plus details about the third annual Red Party. Guests include Stan Penfold of the Utah AIDS Foundation; Art Cazares, Bambara; Shawn Jackson, Hotel Monaco. To RSVP and reserve a spot at this year's Red Party, call (801) 990-9729 or email Reline Sombrero. Access Downtown brings you the latest events in downtown Salt Lake City. At 10:30 on The Bottomline -Details about Buy Local ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Found Magazine Live! Davy and Peter Rothbart brought their Found Magazine live show to the Salt Lake City Public Library on October 16, 2007.Listen to the show here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, November 19, 2007 Fifteen percent of American Muslims under the age of 30 say suicide bombings are sometimes justified in the defense of Islam. Does that mean radical Islam is taking hold domestically? Find out more with Leslie Lebl, who will be in town this month to talk about what America must learn from the course of radical Islam in Europe. On The Bottomline - property taxes will increase more than 10 percent in Utah this year. Is it time for Utah to cap property tax rates like California did with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, November 15. 2007 Salt Lake City Police announced yesterday that they've arrested more than 650 people in and around Pioneer Park since beginning a clamp down on illegal drug activity November 5th. Midday Metro goes to The Source: Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank will be here. Plus, the Salt Lake City Police Department's Solo Motor Squad is a plum assignment that takes more than a liking for Harley's. Find out about a true ticket to ride with Officer Tyler Reinwand. The Mountain View Corrido ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Whirling disease is discovered - again - in the Springville State Fish Hatchery. Midday Metro talks about it with Division of Wildlife Resources Aquatics Section Chief Walt Donaldson. Venture capital investors like what they see in the Beehive State, witness the second annual Utah Angel Summit in Salt Lake City this week. Midday Metro talks with Alan Hall of Grow Utah Ventures about what puts angel investors on Cloud 9 these days. The achievement gap in K-12 is translating in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, November 12, 2007 After almost two decades of silence, Ken Sanders is speaking out on his late friend and author, Edward Abbey, in a special lecture at Westminster College Tuesday. Abbey was the author of Desert Solitaire, a required text for all incoming freshmen at Westminster. Sanders is the publisher of the R. Crumb illustrated edition of The Monkey Wrench Gang and for 10 years published the Edward Abbey Wilderness Calendar. Sanders stops by Midday Metro to talk about the legacy of Ed Abbey 20 years s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, November 9, 2007 An hour dedicated to Utah veterans. Terry Schow of the Utah Department of Veterans Affairs talks about the state of Utah veterans past, present and future. Plus, details about the University of Utah's Veterans Day Commemoration with John Edwards and Terry Schow, executive director of the Utah Department of Veterans Affairs. For information about veterans' benefits, visit www.veterans.utah.gov or call (800) 894-9497.Sat., Nov. 10, 2 p.m., Gov. Huntsman speaks at Utah Veterans Cemetery ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, November 8, 2007 Voters were almost evenly split on Proposition 1, the $192 Million bond request to build and improve public safety facilities in Salt Lake City. But the naysayers came out on top by nearly 300 votes. Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank and District 3 City Councilman Eric Jergensen join Midday Metro to talk about what happens next. Plus classical guitarist Ottmar Liebert, who's in town for two benefit concerts this weekend. For details, call (801) 328-8414. And Poetry is Wante ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, November 7, 2007 Midday Metro breaks down election results for you. First, one-on-one Salt Lake City Mayor-Elect Ralph Becker. The fallout on the voucher vote with Rep. Greg Hughes (R-Draper, District 51), who chairs the Utah House Education Committee and campaigned vigorously for Referendum 1. Then, a conversation with Barry Newbold, Superintendent of the Jordan School District, on the future of the district given the outcome of the vote to split it into smaller school districts. At 10:45, tune ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, November 6, 2007 With Democrats in control of Congress and closing on the White House, former Senator Gary Hart says it's time the party of FDR and John Kennedy embraces moral principles and progressive leadership. But will the Democratic Party heed such a message from a man whose own presidential bid was scuttled by a sex scandal? Hart will be at Sundance this weekend to talk about his book The Courage of Our Convictions: A Manifesto for Democrats. Midday Metro gets a preview. Fires continue to be a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, November 5, 2007 Late Friday, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson came out against the $192M public safety bond request known as Proposition 1. Salt Lake City Council Vice Chair Jill Love responds to the mayor's apparent flip-flop on the matter. Anderson called the project a critical city initiative when presenting it to the City Council earlier this year. Carolyn Jessop was born into a fundamentalist Mormon sect on the Utah-Arizona border. She was forced at the age of 18 into an arranged marriage to a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, November 2, 2007 More than 6 percent of Utah children have communication disorders - with boys suffering at twice the rate of girls. University of Utah research psychiatrist Judith Zimmerman will be here to talk about the data and its implications for education in the Beehive State. In Utah last year, more than 700 teens called the national runaway hotline. Salt Lake County alone has an estimated 500 homeless and runaway teens living on the streets. Guests: Zach Bale, Volunteers of America of Utah (8 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, November 1, 2006 Rhetoric and passion are running high headed into Tuesday's election. Does that excuse police officers who stuffed pro-Proposition 1 mailers while on the clock? Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank will be here to talk about it. Then the NAACP's Jeanetta Williams and Edward Lewis Jr. join the program as co-hosts. We'll talk about the state of veterans' affairs with Terry Schow of the Utah Department of Veterans Affairs. Then Mark Peterson of the State Office of Education o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Would it really be a bad thing if humans vanished from the face of the earth? Midday Metro asks Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us. He'll be at Sundance Saturday as part of the Tree Room Author Series to talk about the issues he presents in his book. Midday Metro gets a preview. It's the final months of his eight-year tenure, and Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson shows no signs of going quietly. Today Midday Metro talks about his opposition to coal-fired power plants and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Learn more about Referendum 1 with a live debate featuring Rep. Greg Hughes, Chairman of the Utah House Education Committee, and best-selling author Richard Eyre arguing for school vouchers, while Pat Rusk, past president of the Utah Education Association, and Republican Representative Sheryl Allen, executive director of the Davis Education Foundation, argue against the referendum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, October 29, 2007 If you're still on the fence when it comes to the Salt Lake City mayor's race, listen to this live debate between Ralph Becker and Dave Buhler. Recorded live at the City Library's Tessman Auditorium this morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, October 26, 2007 Toni Johnson of the People With Aids Coalition of Utah and AIDS activist Stuart Merrill talk about this weekend's one-day conference designed for people living with HIV, their family members, friends, caregivers and AIDS service providers. Fighting pornography in a highly-sexualized media environment. Midday Metro talks with Pamela Atkinson, president of the Utah Coalition Against Pornography, which holds its 7th annual conference at the South Towne Expo Center Saturday. Also, Chris Ah ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, October 25, 2007 Crack cocaine - and the violent crime that comes with it - is back in high demand on the streets of Salt Lake City. Midday Metro talks with Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank and Narcotics Squad Detective Mike Boyd. The role of weather in the fires currently ravaging Southern California with Lis Cohen, teacher of this semester's severe and unusual weather class at the University of Utah. Is he the reasonable choice? The doer? Can a Republican get elected to Salt Lake City's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, October 24, 2007 A solid hour of intriguing authors, including Hampton Sides, editor-at-large for Outside magazine and author of Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, which is about frontiersman Kit Carson. Sides will talk about making history come alive when he visits the City Library Saturday as part of the 10th Annual Utah Humanities Council Book Festival. Americans spend more on fast food than higher education. Following the food chain in the United States turned into a best-seller and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, October 23, 2007 Cecil Castelluci, author of young adult novels geared toward girls. She's a featured speaker at this year's Utah Humanities Book Festival. Plus a vouchers debate between Royce Van Tassell of the Utah Taxpayers Association and Debbie White, president of the American Federation of Teachers of Utah. Jeanette Walls, author of Glass Castles and featured speaker at the next Dewey Lecture Series at the City Library. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, October 19, 2007 Central City, East Downtown, People's Freeway and Rio Grande - just a few of the neighborhoods that make up District 4. This fall, voters will decide if they want Nancy Saxton representing them on the Salt Lake City Council for another four years. Midday Metro goes one-one with the incumbent. Plus an interview with Bruno Tertrais, senior research fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris and former RAND Corporation fellow. He's in town next week to speak to the Salt Lake ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, October 22, 2007 The challenger in Salt Lake City Council District 4 - Luke Garrott answers your questions on Midday Metro. At 10:30 on The Bottomline: in honor of the Utah Humanities Book Festival, KCPW looks into the business of books - from writing them to selling them to promoting them with Ken Sanders of Ken Sanders Rare Books and Catherine Weller of Sam Weller's Bookstore, new Utah authors Charlotte Bell and Carla Morris, and Rebecca Batt, director of the book festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, October 18, 2007 Drug sales, stabbings, drunk and disorderly - the cons are the pros in Pioneer Park. Midday Metro talks with Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank about clamping down on the criminal element in a city park where law abiding citizens are increasingly coming into conflict with law breakers. Plus downtown resident and business owner Mickelle Weber on what residents are doing to increase their security. And Poetry is Wanted Here - Fear and Trembling or Putting the Poe in Poetry, with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, October 17, 2007 Airport lightrail, eliminating bottled water, passing the torch to the next mayor of Salt Lake City - Rocky Anderson talks with Midday Metro about his remaining months in office and what he thinks is the best course for the capital city. Fourteen ski areas in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming that helped nurture the region's fledging sport of skiing will take their place in the hallowed halls of ski history when they receive "History-Maker" awards during this year's annual Ski Affair. Midday ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Since its inception, the LDS Church has sought an audience with each president of the United States. Some were friends, some were foes - find out more this hour with Utahn Mike Winder, author of Presidents and Prophets: The Story of America's Presidents and the LDS Church. Plus, Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder on a unified police authority and wooing cities back into the County fold. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, October 15, 2007 October is breast cancer awareness month. Since 1994 the Utah Cancer Control Program has provided more than 95,000 breast and cervical cancer screenings to Utah women statewide. Learn about low-cost and free screening services with coordinator Kalynn Filion. Plus Salt Lake writer Barb Guy shares her story about breast cancer.Call (800) 717-1811 for more details on the free or low-cost screenings with UCCP. At 10:30 on The Bottomline: the first annual inventor symposium. Plus the lates ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, October 11, 2007 Det. Jeff Bedard with an update on last night's stabbings and subsequent officer-involved shooting at Pioneer Park in downtown Salt Lake City.According to the U.S. Fire Administration, there were an estimated 31,000 intentionally set fires in the U.S. last year. Those fires killed 305 people and resulted in $755 million in property loss nationwide. Midday Metro checks in with a member of Salt Lake City's arson investigation team - Crystal VanDongen - to see what fire starters have been u ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Utah-based Blue Source has a plan to capture greenhouse gas emissions from a southern Colorado natural gas processing plant. It could result in C02 reductions equal to taking 70,000 cars off the road. Midday Metro talks with Blue Source executive vice president Russell Martin. Charter schools offer the opportunity to educate with unique emphasis - for instance, a focus on math, science and technology or the performing arts. A new charter school that opened on Salt Lake City's west si ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, October 9, 2007 A more prosperous China is in the best interest of the United States, both economically and in terms of national security, according to former Ambassador Jeffrey Bader. Director of the China Initiative and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Bader is in town to talk about The Rise of China: What It Means for the United States at Westminster College. Midday Metro gets a preview. A collaboration between film and sociologists sheds light on immigration reform. Midday Metro fin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, October 8, 2007 One-on-one with Michael J. Clara, the challenger in the District 2 City Council race. At 10:30 on The Bottomline: the business of snow. KCPW gets a preview of the upcoming ski season with Nathan Rafferty of Ski Utah, Scott Beck of the Convention and Visitors Bureau and Bob Bonar, president and general manager of Snowbird. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, October 5, 2007 One day a year, the Utah Museum of Natural History opens up its storage areas to showcase some of the 1.5 million objects it doesn't have room to display. Midday Metro investigates this year's What's in the Basement theme - Water Marks - with the museum's registrar, Kara Hurst. An elementary school on Salt Lake City's west side has won a $10,000 cash grant for its innovative science curriculum. Midday Metro finds out why with Escalante principal Richard Aslett and Wendy Hawkins of the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, October 4, 2007 Police officers receive hours and hours of weapons training in order to be prepared should they need to draw their firearm. But when deadly force is used, an officer involved shooting puts the wheels of investigation into high gear. What questions are asked in an internal review? What does an officer go through psychologically? What happens if the use of deadly force is ruled unjustified? Find out with Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank. Presidential faith and pulpit politics wi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, October 3, 2007 Today's Midday Metro features a rebroadcast of a debate between the candidates for Salt Lake City Mayor, Ralph Becker and Dave Buhler. Recorded yesterday at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah and moderated by KCPW's Bryan Schott, the debate digs into the candidates views on vouchers, partner benefits and a skybridge over Main Street. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, October 2, 2007 Can a conversation on Climate Action get traction? Current and prospective mayors will gather this week to talk about climate action - how to involve governments and citizens. Find out more with Joe Andrade of the Utah Science Center at The Leonardo and Dana Williams, mayor of Park City. A conversation with author and journalist Adam Hochschild, whose best-selling and award winning book King Leopold's Ghost, is now an award-winning documentary film. The SLC Film Center will screen King L ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, October 1, 2007 According to the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, more than a book a day faces removal from free and open public access in U.S. schools and libraries. Midday Metro talks Mad magazine senior editor Joe Raiola about the Joy of Censorship, a topic he'll address Thursday evening, 7 p.m., at the City Library. Plus librarians Britton Lund and Sean Carrico on the content challenges to certain books, music and movies historically and over the last year in Salt Lake ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, September 28, 2007 Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon will be here to take your calls. Do traumatic childhood experiences change the biology of the brain? Find out with Dr. Bruce Perry, author of The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog. Plus getting ready for ski season with Dr. Daniel Horwitz, an orthopaedic surgeon from the Utah Orthopaedic Center. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, September 27, 2007 Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank explains why the city needs to spend $190 million for new public safety facilities. SLC Mayor Rocky Anderson and urbanist Roberta Gratz on what it takes to create a city of lasting value. It's a topic they'll address during a public meeting at the City Library Friday at 6:30. (KCPW will broadcast that event live.) Plus author Mark Salzman, who will be in town next month as part of the City Library's Dewey Lecture Series. Midday Metro talks t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Is the plight of the Jena 6 in Louisiana the beginning of another civil rights era in America? Is justice blind or peeking in this racially-charged schoolyard fight? Find out with special co-hosts Jeanetta Williams and Edward Lewis Jr. of the Salt Lake City Branch and Tri-State Conference of Branches of the NAACP. Guests include Jim Bringhurst of the Utah Association of Realtors and Jaren Davis of Coldwell Banker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Today Midday Metro is pre-empted for a special documentary: This months marks 15 years since the last U.S. nuclear weapons test. Between 1951 and 1992, the United States detonated a total of 928 nuclear weapons tests at the Nevada Test Site. KCPW presents Dirty Harry: When the American Dream Became a Nightmare, featuring interviews with people working at and living nearby the test site, as well as scientists, legal scholars and test officials. Dirty Harry was awarded 2006 Best Invest ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, September 24, 2007 Combining a journalist's eye, a naturalist's passion and a swimmer's stamina, author and swimmer Akiko Busch visits rivers famous and humble and meets with their protectors to document the ongoing threats to their existence. Busch is in Salt Lake City this week to talk about swimming across America's rivers. Midday Metro finds out why Utahns should support swimmable waterways in Utah. At 10:30 on The Bottomline: the relationship between women and money. Is there a different social-psyc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, September 19, 2007 Thirty-six years have passed since the last comprehensive plan for the Jordan River was completed. Recognizing the need to update this 1971 study, Salt Lake County, with the help of Envision Utah, is sponsoring a regional effort to create a new vision for the Jordan River. Midday Metro digs into a Blueprint for the Jordan River: A Lake to Lake Vision with Jason Green of Envision Utah and clean waterway advocate Jeff Salt. Filmmakers today are finding it harder and harder to access tr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, September 18, 2007 President Bush says he wants to find a solution to the stalemate with North Korea. Can he do it in the 15 months he has left in office? Donald Gregg, former ambassador to South Korea under the first president Bush, says the groundwork can at least be laid for a successful handoff to whoever may be the 44th president of the United States in 2009. Gregg will be in SLC today to talk to the Salt Lake Committee on Foreign Relations about North Korea: The Longest Running Failure in the History ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, September 17, 2007 Teach one, reach many - that's the goal of Utah doctors working to improve urological care in developing countries. Midday Metro highlights 12-year-old IVUMed with Dr. Catherine DeVries. At 10:30 on The Bottomline: building from scratch or remodeling, professional or DIY, there are easy ways to incorporate green design into any home. First hand examples from this year's Green Home Tour. Guests include homeowner Mark Smedley and Ashley Patterson of the Green Building Center. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, September 14, 2007 Statewide initiatives to improve Utah's Community College system with Dr. Cynthia Bioteau, president of Salt Lake Community College. Going back to school when you're over 50 doesn't have to mean the history of western civilization with the latest crop of freshmen. How about lessons in comedy or a class on the history of American Jazz - and with a class of your peers? Learn more with Cathy House of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Utah and Barbara Roberts, who' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, September 13, 2007 A graffiti vandal by the name of CASH is tagging businesses on Salt Lake City's East Side. While some might call it guerrilla art, law enforcement and shop owners want to stop him and other so-called artists. The Salt Lake City Police Department talks about fighting graffiti and what resources are at your disposal if you've been tagged by CASH & Co. Guests include Brent Ahlander, graffiti removal supervisor for SLC; Sgt. Michelle Ross and Det. Lance Vandongen. For free removal of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, September 12, 2007 How does a candidate's strategy change after making it through a primary election? Is it still about knocking on doors or will fundraising make the difference? Ralph Becker and Dave Buhler check in with Midday Metro. After 10 years of decline, education funding is on the rise, according to a new study. Lawmakers have added more than $500 million to education over the last two years. But what does that mean in practical application and will the trend continue? Steve Kroes of the Utah Fou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, September 11, 2007 The September Project is a grassroots effort to encourage civic events about freedom and democracy in libraries on or around September 11. Last year, the effort resulted in nearly 500 libraries in 30 countries hosting events. Midday Metro talks about this year's September Speakout with co-director David Silver and Joyce Ogburn, Director of the J. Willard Marriott at the University of Utah. Can a city make you fat? Should your city be working to make you healthier? Midday Metro talks wi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, September 10, 2007 What does it take to run a successful campaign for mayor of Salt Lake City? Mayor Rocky Anderson's done it twice and offers up an insider's look at the work of running for mayor versus being mayor. Tune is as we wrap up our series of interviews with past holders of the city's highest office. Midday Metro digs into what makes cities and towns tick with members of the Utah League of Cities and Towns, a group that will celebrate its 100th anniversary during its annual convention this week ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, September 7, 2007 Crime, big box retailers and creating a safe, walkable community are just a few of the issues facing candidates who want to represent District 6 on the Salt Lake City Council. Midday Metro hosts a debate with the candidates -- William Huckins, JT Martin, Roger McConkie, and Ellen Reddick -- and your questions and comments are wanted. Plus Midday Metro talks with some experts about the choices and challenges we face when it comes to coal, clean air and climate change. It's a preview of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, September 6, 2007 Today's show is the NPR Utah, KCPW, and FOX 13 mayoral debate. Join us live in the library auditorium at the downtown City Library or on air at 10 a.m. for a debate featuring Ralph Becker, Dave Buhler, Keith Christensen and Jenny Wilson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, September 5, 2007 Race relations in the United States went from bad to worse between 1890 and 1940, according to historian James Loewen. He says the legacy of this over-looked period in American history continues to inform race relations, yet Americans today know little about it. Loewen will talk about "Hidden in Plain View: How History Keeps Us Racist" as part of this week's 55th annual state history conference. Midday Metro gets a preview. Details on ways you can drive out racism with Scott McLeod and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, September 4, 2007 Humans are mutants, too. Ray Gesteland, vice president of research and distinguished professor of genetics at the University of Utah, will address the topic this week in the 15th annual William R. and Erlyn J. Gould Distinguished Lecture on Technology and the Quality of Life. Midday Metro gets a preview.At 10:30, a debate with the City Council candidates in District 4. What are the most pressing issues facing residents of the Central City, East Downtown, People's Freeway and Rio Grande nei ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, September 3, 2007 Midday Metro takes the day off to celebrate its labors. Join NPR Utah, KCPW, at 10 a.m. for a special radio documentary, The Migration Project.In this hour-long project, young people talk about what it's like to cross the border, learn a language and lose a language. It's not about immigration policy -- it's just the stories of young immigrants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, August 31, 2007 African-Americans make up about one percent of Utah's population. Within that tiny community is a vast religious tradition. The Rev. France Davis of Calvary Baptist Church joins Midday Metro to talk about the African-American religious experience in Utah, a subject he'll address in the upcoming state history conference. Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment and Utah Moms for Clean Air travel to Sevier County next week to voice its learned opposition to coal-fired power plants. Mid ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, August 30, 2007 K9’s were deployed 369 times to track or search for Suspects, these K9 deployments lead to the apprehension of 104 of these suspects. How do you train to be a crime-solving bloodhound? Midday Metro finds out with SLC Police Chief Chris Burbank, Officer Mike Serio and his partner J.J. of the Salt Lake City Police Department. Plus: He's known to millions as Gordon on the highly acclaimed PBS children's television series Sesame Street. But he's also a writer, having published, amon ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Marijuana, crack, meth are the street drugs people picture when it comes to substance abuse. But Utah has the highest rate of legal drug abuse. Prescription and over the counter drugs are no less lethal than street drugs. Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson talks about the crisis of legal drug abuse with Abbie Vianes, coordinator, Mayor's Coalition on Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs; Sandra Kresser, who lost her son to prescription drug abuse; and Terri Hurst of the Harm Reduction Proje ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, August 28, 2007 Justin Jones and Chad Saley of the Utah Transit Authority give Midday Metro a report on the first day of service under the agency's new bus route re-design, as well as an update on ridership numbers and how they're counted. What does size really mean when it comes to school districts? In a study commissioned by several cities looking to form smaller school districts in Utah, Andrea Rorrer, Ph.D, director of the Utah Education Policy Center at the University of Utah, says larger scho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, August 27, 2007 Former Salt Lake City Mayor Jake Garn talks about what it takes to win and hold the mayor's office. At 10:30 on The Bottomline: the history of unions in the Beehive State - past, present and future with Ed Mayne, president of the Utah AFL-CIO; Wayne Holland of the United Steel Workers; Dale Cox, district representative of Operating Engineers, Local Union No. 3; former union arbitrator turned professor of economics Garth Mangum; and Scott Mullins, president of the Smelter Unit of Local ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, August 24, 2007 While electronic voting is taking hold here in Utah, at least one of our Four Corners neighbors has returned to paper ballots. Thad Hall, political science professor at the University of Utah, talks about his study of New Mexico's move away from electronic voting to a system with a voter verifiable paper trail. Hurricanes 101 with Lis Cohen, who teaches the Severe and Unusual Weather Course at the University of Utah this fall. Plus Alice Rothchild, author of Broken Promises, Bro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, August 23, 2007 A look inside the new Child Abduction Response Team with members of the Salt Lake City Police Department and the Attorney General's Office. Guests include Lt. Patty Ismael of the AG's Office and Scott Atkinson, Assistant Chief, Salt Lake City Police Department. Plus, Congressman Chris Cannon will be here to take your calls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, August 22, 2007 The NAACP's Jeanetta Williams and Edward Lewis Jr. co-host today's program. Guests include: Civil rights attorney Pace McConkie, who earlier this year was named Director of the Center for Civil Rights in Education at Morgan State University. Tara Rollins of the Utah Housing Coalition and Shawn Tiegen, housing policy analyst, of the Utah Commuity Action Partnership Association. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, August 21, 2007 The Sutherland Institute, a Salt Lake City-based public policy think tank, has released a study showing climate scientists are far from consensus on global warming. SI president Paul Mero tells Midday Metro why the conservative group is getting involved. Back to School means the hunt is on for ... teachers. Midday Metro gets an update from both Melinda Colton of Jordan School District and Mike Fraser of Granite School Districts about the most precious of school supplies. Plus, Sal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, August 20, 2007 Palmer DePaulis was the first Roman Catholic mayor of Salt Lake City. DePaulis talks about his years of service, from 1985 to 1992, and what it takes to win and hold the office. At 10:30 on The Bottomline:Nominate a scientist: applications are being accepted for the 2007 Governor's Medal for Science and Technology Awards. Michael Sullivan of the Governor's Office of Economic Development explains. An inside look at the Economic Development Corporation of Utah, which put 34 corp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, August 17, 2007 Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon will be here to take your calls. The greening of Burning Man. Midday Metro talks with native Utahn Tom Price, environmental director for the weeklong party in the Nevada desert. Plus Greta deJong, editor & publisher of Catalyst Magazine, and a cast of Burning Man regulars give Midday Metro a first-hand account of a festival that CM writer Pax Rasmussen describes as a "culture of art, science and spirituality [that] unfolds, accessoried with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, August 16, 2007 Dealing with the mentally ill requires special training for members of Salt Lake City's police force. Midday Metro finds out what goes into the making of the department's Crisis Intervention Team with Police Chief Chris Burbank, Detective Ron Bruno and Barry Rose of Vally Mental Health. Plus, another edition of Poetry is Wanted Here with poet Alex Caldiero and bookman Ken Sanders. This month's selections will transport you in time and place. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, August 15, 2007 Those living in extreme poverty - on less than a dollar a day - will be the beneficiaries of a special concert at Library Square this weekend. Find out how you can make a difference with event organizers KereAna Buchanan and Matt Lemmon, plus Jennifer Beckstead of the Ouelessbougou Alliance. For more details on the 2nd Annual Poverty Awareness Concert, visit www.sistercommunity.org. Anne Wilde of Principle Voices with updated numbers on polygamists in Utah Every year Sa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, August 14, 2007 Are math standards tough enough in Utah schools? Senator Howard Stephenson says no. Midday Metro does the math with the senator, as well as Nicole Paulson, Elementary Mathematics Specialist, Utah State Office of Education; Diana Suddreth, Secondary Mathematics Specialist, Utah State Office of Education; and Oak Norton, a parent in the Alpine School District. State lawmakers will hit the road to tour Salt Lake County Thursday. It's going to cost $100,000, too. So what will members of th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, August 13, 2007 Political consultant Dave Owen on how to sell a mayor to the masses. Teaching civics with the Utah League of Cities and Towns, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Guests include Brian Hall, director of training and communications for the league; Kristin Fink, executive director, Utah Coalition for Civic, Character and Service Learning; and Robert Austin, K-12 social studies specialist, Utah State Office of Education. At 10:30 on The Bottomline: A DARPA Challenge upd ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, August 10, 2007 Bouldering is climbing's fastest-growing discipline - witness the Bouldering Championships that take place this afternoon as part of the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market. Competition organizer Pete Ward, plus top competitors Chris Sharma and Sasha DiGiulian join the conversation. Working toward a community free of sexual violence: Midday Metro talks with Gail Burns-Smith, Vice-President of Legislative Policy at the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, plus Laurel Duncan, Executive D ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, August 9, 2007 Utah's 4th Annual Drug Endangered Children Conference is under way at Westminster College. Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank, US Attorney Brett Tolman and Marjean Searcy, project coordinator for the Salt Lake City COPS Methamphetamine Initiative, talk about protecting children from the substance abuse of their parents. Communities of color make up a significant portion of Utah's uninsured. Sabrina Morales and Isabel Rojas of Comunidades Unidas and Judi Hilman of the Utah Health ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, August 8, 2007 A conversation with Jeffrey Nielsen, creator of the Democracy House Project. He's helping Salt Lake City's Office of Diversity start a new Citizens' Council on Immigration. Nielsen is a teacher of philosophy at Westminster College and Utah Valley State College. It looks like Salt Lake County Council support for a bond request that would allow Hogle Zoo to expand and upgrade is fading. Hogle Zoo's Craig Dinsmore talks about the odds and options for getting the $65 million bond request ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, August 7, 2007 A look inside this year's Sunstone Symposium with John Dehlin, founder of the Mormon Stories podcast and the new executive director of the Sunstone Education Foundation, and Dan Wotherspoon, editor of Sunstone Magazine. Mine safety with state Senator Mike Dmitrich and Dave Eskelsen of Rocky Mountain Power, which has sent a mine rescue response team to help in the Genwal mine collapse. Despite opposition from Utah's three congressmen, comprehensive energy legislation aimed at curbing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, August 3, 2007 Celebrating Utah Wilderness Day with Scott Groene of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and Peter Cole of Squatter’s Brewery. At 10:30 on Science Utah: the science of eating disorders with nutritionist Katherine Beals and anorexia and bulimia survivor Ingrid Middleton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, August 2, 2007 The 24th annual National Night Out Against Crime next week will bring out more than 35 million people in 11,000 communities throughout the U.S., Canada and military bases around the world. Midday Metro talks with Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank, Det. Fred Ross and Sgt. Michelle Ross talk about ways you can fight crime in SLC. Beyond the Village – Uniting to Reduce Tobacco-related Disparities – is a one-day summit being held tomorrow by the Utah Department of Healt ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, August 1, 2007 The 15th Annual CARE Fair is Utah's largest free health services clinic. The two-day event is set for this Friday and Saturday and provides low-income, under-insured and uninsured individuals and families with access to free medical tests and screenings. Junior League president Shannon Bond and past-president Missy Greis explain. Medical tourism is on the rise. Utah doctor Paul Gahlinger knows from personal experience - both advising patients to try it and doing it himself -- and he wr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, July 31, 2007 Scott Wyatt will be leaving the Utah House of Representatives to take the top job at Snow College. Midday Metro talks with the Cache County Republican about the future of the Ephraim's community college. Plus a new plan to combat prescription drug abuse in Utah. State epidemiologist Robert Rolfs outlines the new program for Midday Metro. And fire officials finally have some good news as a special fuels project slows a wildfire. Midday Metro learns more this hour with Brook Chadwi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, July 30, 2007 A look at the Salt Lake City mayor's race with Kirk Jowers of the Hinckley Institute of Politics and City Weekly political reporter Kathy Biele. At 10:30 on The Bottomline:GOED's Michael Sullivan on the 2nd Annual Utah Procurement Symposium. Call (801) 538-8775 for more details. In the fall of 2006, University Health Care opened their first Quick Clinic inside Dan's Foods in Olympus Hills. Are these cash-and-carry clinics the future of health care? Guests include Robin Lloyd, Exe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, July 27, 2007 James Yapias of Poder Para la Familia, (801) 972-2018, immigration attorney Marlene Gonzalez and Kimberli Cabazos of Wells Fargo on their unique immigration clinics and citizenship drives. Contact Gonzalez through the Multi-Cultural Legal Center, (801) 486-1183. The Third Annual Party in the Park at Hotel Monaco is scheduled for Tuesday. This year's theme is Simply Green is Simply Fun, with all proceeds going to the Trust for Public Land and its work in Utah. TPL Utah Director Shaun ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, July 26, 2007 Policing domestic violence is more than enforcing protection orders and locking up batterers. It also involves counseling. Midday Metro talks with domestic violence Sgt. Brian Purvis and Asha Parekh, director of the Salt Lake Area Family Justice Center. A grand opening is planned for August 17. For more details, call the Salt Lake Area Family Justice Center at (801) 236-3370. Plus a conversation with Congressman Jim Matheson of the Second District - energy policy, contempt of Co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, July 25, 2007 The annual Kids Count Databook from the Annie E. Casey Foundation comes out today. Utah scores well on some of the indicators, not so well on others. Terry Haven of Voices for Utah Children breaks down the data.A BYU Law professor hopes to build support for stem cell research among members and leadership of the LDS Church. Dr. Michael Goldsmith talks about his efforts and why they could have a profound impact on his own health.New data from the Utah Department of Health suggests married peo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bottomline: Hollywood and Utah's Economy Today's edition of KCPW's weekly business show features a look at the impact of the film industry on Utah's economy with Utah Film Commission Director Marshall Moore and local filmmakers Tim Nelson and Jeff Miller. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, July 18, 2007 The NAACP's Jeanetta Williams and Edward Lewis Jr. co-host the program. The minority education gap, workplace discrimination, and the NAACP's national class action lawsuit against mortgage lenders will be on the agenda. Guests include Patrick Garcia, executive director of human resources, Salt Lake School District; and April Hollingsworth, attorney, Strindberg and Scholnick. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, July 17, 2007 Why do teachers in Utah stop teaching? And how can that trend be turned around? The Utah Foundation has a few ideas, which we'll discuss this hour with the group's president, Stephen Kroes. Utah voters strongly support measures to reduce global warming, according to a new poll by the Natural Resources Defense Council. Campaign Director David Tuft joins the conversation this hour, as well as Kevin Emerson of Utah Clean Energy. Midnight Muggle Madness. Andrew Shaw and Michele Widera ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, July 16, 2007 Firefighters are slowly getting a handle on the wildfires burning in Utah. What about farmers and ranchers? Midday Metro gets an update from Leonard Blackham, Utah Commissioner of Agriculture, Brian Cottam, liaison to local governments and people impacted by wildfires this summer, and Tracey Dunford, state fire management coordinator.At 10:30 on The Bottomline: Utah is top of the class again in new rankings. Michael Sullivan of the Governor's Office of Economic Development has the details. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, July 13, 2007 Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon.Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, July 12, 2007 Find out what it takes to be a Salt Lake City Police Officer with members of the Salt Lake City Police Department, which is about to host its biggest training class ever. Guests include Lt. Jim Coleman, training unit commander, and newly-minted officer Benjamin Hone. Plus lagging enrollment at Utah universities and community colleges. Dr. Cynthia Bioteau, president of Salt Lake Community College, and Richard Kendell, Utah Commissioner of Higher Education, talk about how they are fig ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, July 11, 2007 In a study released today, the National Parks Conservation Association says global warming is already affecting parks nationwide. Spokesman David Nimkin talks with Midday Metro about Unnatural Disaster. A new Brigham Young University study shows that girls who don a sports uniform in high school are more likely to eventually sport a collegiate cap and gown. The playing field and classroom dynamics with primary researcher Kelly Troutman and her thesis mentor, BYU professor of socio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, July 10, 2007 A Salt Lake County summer program is helping boys become men. Find out more this hour with program founder and director Ranée Tademy and Jeremy Hart, program manager at the Redwood Recreation Center. Physician and attorney Clark Newhall really wants Utah lawmakers to see Michael Moore's SICKO - he's even rented a movie theater and invited them all to come. Midday Metro finds out why. Utah native and Hispanic activist John Florez says school boards are outdated and unprod ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, July 9, 2007 The State of 50+ America with Rob Ence, AARP Utah Director. Plus muggles, delight!!! The SLC Film Center is hosting an advance screening of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Find out more. Plus Midday Metro scares up a few free tickets. Marcie Collett of the film center fills us in. At 10:30, it's another edition of The Bottomline: What happens to mid-sized cities when a big fish decides to take up residence? IKEA in Draper, KraftMaid Cabinetry and Dannon Yogurt in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, July 6, 2007 The SLC International Jazz Fest with Mayor Rocky Anderson and Greg Floor. Maybe a little live jazz, too. Making Comics with Scott McCloud. He's on a 50-state tour and stopping at Night Flight Comics at Library Square this weekend. At 10:30: ScienceUtah digs into stem cells with Linda Kelley and Russell Reiss of the Stem Cell Therapy Lab at the University of Utah. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, July 5, 2007 Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank on the Dos and Don'ts of parades. Rents are going up for homes and office space. Find out with Kip Paul and Rich Nordlund of Commerce CRG. Changes are coming for cougar hunting and trapping along the Wasatch Front. Midday Metro talks with Kevin Bunnell, mammals program coordinator for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Plus you should Power Forward today. Tips on how to conserve energy with the Division of Air Quality's Glade So ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, July 3, 2007 David C. vs. Leavitt - the 14-year lawsuit that cost Utah nearly $7 million dollars and resulted in a major overhaul of the state's child welfare system - was dismissed last week by a federal judge. Are Utah foster care children better off? Midday Metro finds out with Duane Betournay, director of the Utah Division of Child and Family Services, and John O'Toole, Director of the National Center for Youth Law, which filed the class-action civil rights suit in 1993. Terry Schow on his ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, July 2, 2007 Celebrating locally-owned businesses with Buy Local First Utah, which has just released its first annual Locals Directory. Guests: Gavin Noyes, executive director, Local First Utah, and Besty Burton, owner of The King's English and board chair of Local First.At 10:30 on The Bottomline:Utah's Centers of Excellence program is 20 years old. Michael Sullivan of the Governor's Office of Economic Development talks about the state's return on investment when it comes to the COE. Inventors in Utah: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, June 29, 2007 Poverty is on the rise in Utah, despite a white hot local economy. Find out why with Heather Tritten and Paul Leggett of the Utah Community Action Partnership Association and Gina Cornia of Utahns Against Hunger. UCAPA has just released its new Poverty Data Book. The hot summer months are particularly hard on Utah's homeless population, which has few options to beat the heat. Pamela Atkinson and Teresa Stocks of Volunteers of America offer ways for you to help during Midday Metro. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, June 28, 2007 Midday Metro talks with Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank about police procedure when violent felons make a break for it. Earlier this week, Curtis Allgier killed a Corrections officer in an escape attempt that included a high-speed police chase. 9-1-1 calls spike during the summer months. Find out how to increase safety in your home with Rob Martin of the National Emergency Number Association. Utah's ecological footprint is too big and wide. Learn more with Sandra McIn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, June 26, 2007 After 30 years, Nancy Tessman is saying goodbye to the City Library system. Midday Metro gets one more interview. Dick Buehler, the new state forester and director of the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands. Kathy Dopp of the National Election Data Archive and Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen on whether the Salt Lake County Council should support the Voting Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, June 25, 2007 Triple digit temperatures and dry grass. Midday Metro talks with Brian McInerney of the National Weather Service and Battalion Chief Devin Villa of the Salt Lake City Fire Department about what that means for your summer fun. When is a massive construction project not a massive construction project? When it's the Temporary Museum of Permanent Change. Find out what three artists -- Stephen Goldsmith, John Schaefer and Gilberto Schaefer -- have planned during the construction of City ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, June 22, 2007 More from the Utah Arts Festival here at Library Square. Festival Director Lisa Sewell will be our guide. Fear No Film, Composer Commissions, artists, food, musicians, and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, June 21, 2007 A change in Salt Lake City's noise ordinance gives police a new tool in the fight against loud summer parties. Plus, details about boom cars and speedracers as Midday Metro talks about the policing of summer with Det. Steve Huffaker, Det. Jon Wallace and Sgt. Michelle Ross. At 10:30: Another edition of Poetry Is Wanted Here with bibliophile Ken Sanders and poet Alex Caldiero. Midday Metro broadcasts live on the plaza at Library Square, home of the Utah Arts Festival. Expect a fe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, June 19, 2007 Splitting up school districts - a first-hand account of the process with Robin Frodge, president of the Jordan Education Association, and Jay Blain, her counterpart in the Granite Education Association.To get a business license in West Valley City, landlords now have to go to class. Midday Metro finds out what it takes to be a good landlord with WVC spokesman Aaron Crim and Paul Smith, executive director of the Utah Apartment Association.Rotary Clubs worldwide raise money to eradicate polio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, June 18, 2007 Western Governors University just received a $3 million Department of Labor grant to help rural teachers, including scholarships. Guests include Pat Partridge, VP of enrollment at WGU; WGU grad Raylene Laird; and Dr. Phil Schmidt, director of curriculum and instruction at WGU. At 10:30 on The Bottomline: The business of Rotary, which is reaching out to a younger crowd and a more ethnically diverse one. Guests include Dr. Scott Leckman, President of Salt Lake Rotary; Fred Berthrong ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, June 15, 2007 More than 17,000 Rotarians soon will be hitting Salt Lake City for the service group's international convention. Midday Metro talks with Salt Laker Jana Farr, a new member of Rotary's Peace Fellows program, and Richard Burnett, original architect of Rotary's peace and conflict resolution project. Council on International Educational Exchange could use your help. They need families to take in high school age exchange students. Learn more this hour with Lynn Rowe. Plus the annual ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, June 14, 2007 The Salt Lake City Police and Fire Departments are in need of new digs. Find out why, how much it will cost taxpayers and what it will do to increase public safety. Guests include Lt. Melody Gray, project manager for the SLCPD and Battalion Chief Gary McCarty. Plus do you have what it takes to be a foster parent? Find out from Milissa Kaylene Keyes, a young woman who's been through the system. Details about this weekend's Chalk Art Festival at The Gateway, which highlights foster ca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, June 12, 2007 Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson hosts today's show. He'll talk about this Thursday's Freedom Forum, which will focus on what individuals can do to prevent sexual violence. Guests include Alana Kindness, victim advocate coordinator with the Salt Lake City Police Department, and Laurel Duncan, executive director, Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Plus details about a new program to combat under age drinking. Guests include Art Brown, president, Utah chapter of Mothers Against Drunk D ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, June 11, 2007 Super Sherpas Apa Sherpa and Lahkpa Gelu Sherpa will be here to talk about their historic summiting of Everest with an all Sherpa team last month. The climb will be the subject of a forthcoming book, proceeds from which will fund educational programs in Nepal. Base camp manager Jerry Mika and John Herbert of the U of U Press also join the conversation. A fundraising event for the Sherpas' book will be held June 20th at Fort Douglas. RSVP by June 15th by calling Sarah Hoffman at (801) ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, June 8, 2007 General Anthony Zinni, the head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) from 1997 to 2000, on the roots of world turmoil and how America is making matters worse, not better. He'll be at Sundance this weekend for the Tree Room Author Series to talk about his book The Battle for Peace. KCPW's Bryan Schott talks with the General for Midday Metro. A look into the heavens with members of the Salt Lake Astronomical Society. Ann House and Rodger Fry of the Salt Lake Astronomical Society talk ab ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, June 7, 2007 Violent crime is at a seven-year high in Salt Lake City. Possible causes and solutions with Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank. The Nature Conservancy on ways to get up close and personal with Utah's world-class wetlands. Guests include Heidi Nedreberg and longtime guide Sylvia Wilcox. And it's been 15 years since farmers started selling their wares at Pioneer Park. Midday Metro talks with Bob Farrington of the Downtown Alliance and organic farmer John Borski about openin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, June 5, 2007 A sound way to turn heat into electricity with Orest Symko, a University of Utah professor of physics. Symko will walk us through his team's research that uses a small device to turn heat into sound and then into electricity. Utah's brand new, multi-million-dollar electronic voting machines could be obsolete if a bill in Congress becomes law. Find out why the Utah Association of Counties' Brent Gardner and Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen oppose the Voter Confidence and Increased Acc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, June 4, 2007 Summer Fun - Dan Nailen, the Salt Lake Tribune's Urban Spelunker, will be here to talk about the best summer festivals and concerts. One of the best summertime concert series is held at Red Butte Garden. The Garden's Marc Wyerstall and Bambara Chef Robert Barker join the conversation.At 10:30 on The Bottomline: The challenges of finding and keeping talented employees when unemployment rests at less than 3 percent. Guest: Pat Vaughn, Director of Talent Access Program (TAP), Governor's Office ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, June 1, 2007 Former NBA Utah Jazz player John Amaechi, who is in town to serve as Grand Marshall for this weekend's 2007 Utah Pride Festival.Plus Pride's Festival Director Terry Mitchell Nani and Douglas Fadel, who is being recognized with this year's Dr. Kristen Reis Community Service Award. Fadel is the co-founder of the Queer Utah Aquatic Club (QUAC).At 10:30 on Science Utah: the future of the Internet with Joe Firmage of the Digital Universe, social networking theoretician Hector Postigo, and Joe An ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, May 31, 2007 The Special Olympics Summer Games and the Law Enforcement Torch Run with Salt Lake City Detective Jay Rhodes and Special Olympics CEO J.D. Donnelly. Plus the NAACP's Jeanetta Williams and Edward Lewis Jr. on the civil rights group's ex-offender re-entry program and HIV/AIDS in prisons. Special guest: Tom Patterson, executive director of the Utah Department of Corrections; helping children of inmates with Nellene Howard of the U.S. Dream Academy Mentors Program; and details about t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, May 29, 2007 Is it possible to have a favorite tax or government fee? The U.S. Census Bureau last week released the latest comprehensive figures on state and local tax burdens. Stephen Kroes of the Utah Foundation walks us through his group's analysis, which figures Utah has the third highest mandatory fee burden in the nation.Summertime means fishing time. That usually takes you into the woods, which means bears. Drew Cushing, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources Community Fisheries Coordinator, offers ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, May 25, 2007 A special Memorial Day interview in honor of Utah soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Guests include Carol Thomas Young and Steve Thomas, whose son -- Sgt. Brandon James Thomas -- was killed in Baghdad in 2005, and Matthew LaPlante, military affairs reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune. The annual motorcycle ride mentioned by Steve Thomas is www.healingfield/org/brandonsride. Operation Never Forget is raising money to cast bronze bust statues for the famili ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, May 24, 2007 KCPW digs into the growing crisis at the Salt Lake City Police Civilian Review Board. Police Chief Chris Burbank, Mayor Rocky Anderson and Board Member Scott McCoy will be here to take your calls.At 10:30: Another edition of Poetry is Wanted Here with bibliophile Ken Sanders and sonosopher Alex Caldiero. They join Lara Jones for Lost and Found: Poetry in Translation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, May 22, 2007 When art and cancer meet, it's more than just a pretty picture. Details this hour on a unique art therapy exhibit coming to the Huntsman Cancer Institute. Guest: Janet Bloch, oncology nurse practitioner and director of HCI's Wellness Center. Solar power is for the birds today at Tracy Aviary, as the latest BlueSky community project is unveiled. Guests: Tim Brown of Tracy Aviary and Rocky Mountain Power's Jeff Hymas. Plus, photographer and birder Bobby Harrison talks about the "Ca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, May 21, 2007 Why do 340 Utahns decide to take their lives every year? Midday Metro digs into Utah's new suicide prevention plan with Sherri Wittwer, Executive Director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Utah, and Dr. Douglas Gray, child and adolescent psychiatrist, University of Utah School of Medicine.At 10:30 on The Bottomline: An update on Utah teams preparing for the DARPA Urban Challenge with Marshall Wright of the Governor's Office of Economic Development. The Bottomline pan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, May 18, 2007 Midday Metro investigates the Five Lifesaving Tests for Women as University Community Clinics launches 5 for Life Day! Guests include Dr. Patty Trela and Dr. Susan Terry. Musician Alabama Slim stops by the studio to give us a taste of Living Traditions. Slim headlines the three-day cultural festival at Washington Square. Joining the conversation, drummer Ardie Dean, guitarist Albert White, and Living Traditions festival director Casey Jarman. Plus Utah exports grew to nearly $7 billion last ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, May 17, 2007 With high school graduation coming up, how can you help teens drive safe and sober? Midday Metro talks about how to encourage responsible driving with Salt Lake City Police Officer Robert Hawke and Sgt. Cameron Platt. Sugar House may soon become a destination on the map of the art world. Renowned environmental artist Patricia Johanson stops in to Midday Metro for a chat about her upcoming art commission that will connect to Parley's Creek with Sugar House Park. The President of t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Choice Humanitarian has created a business model that's helping developing countries find success in the fight against poverty. Learn more with Choice Humanitarian's Emily Franson and Nepal In-Country Director Arjun Adhikari. KCPW's Bryan Schott talks to Robert Rosenkrantz about the Intelligence Squared series of Oxford debates, which start Wednesday on KCPW. Plus a conversation with John Bolton, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, May 14, 2007 Find out how you can take a cultural tour without leaving the Salt Lake Valley during this weekend's Living Traditions Festival at Washington Square. Guests include Casey Jarman, director, Living Traditions, and Norman Nakamura, Utah State Coordinator for Refugee Resettlement. At 10:30 on The Bottomline: The Governor's Office of Economic Development on Miguel Rovira with an update on the Canadian trademission. Ever wonder how and why your tax dollars are spent? The Bottomline P ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday, May 11, 2007 Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon stops by Midday Metro to answer your questions. Post your question below or email midday@kcpw.org. May is Older Americans Month. Midday Metro gets a status report from Salt Lake County Aging Services Director Shauna O'Neil, who says county seniors are stepping up and volunteering their time in many ways. Volunteer Ann Mayne, 76, talks about being a part of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP). To volunteer, call 468-2439. Also, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, May 10, 2007 Midday Metro talks about the rate of sexual assualts in the city with Police Chief Chris Burbank, Sgt. Kelly Kent and Heather Stringfellow, executive director of the Rape Recovery Center. The 24-hour crisis line for victims of sexual assault is (801) 467-7273.This weekend you can learn how to Live Green at the Downtown Sustainable Living Festival. Utah Clean Energy's Kevin Emerson gives us a preview with 15 ways to live green. Plus festival organizer Kim Angeli. The Utah Symphony & Oper ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday, May 9, 2007 Author Joe Hill and his visit to the Sundance Tree Room Author Series last month. Hill talks about his first published novel, Heart-Shaped Box; the life of a horror writer in a post-Virginia Tech America; and the literary pressures of being the son of Stephen King. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday, May 8, 2007 Rocky Anderson has vetoed City Council action that would have accommodated a skybridge over Main Street. Find out what comes next with City Council Chairman Van Turner.Senator Bob Bennett joins Midday Metro to talk about health care reform and funding for the war in Iraq.Plus, the ups and downs of community colleges with Dr. Cynthia Bioteau, president of Salt Lake Community College, and Doug New, Director of Developmental Education at SLCC. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday, May 7, 2007 The Science of Integrative Health offers a new paradigm for healing. Find out more with Dr. Hugo Rodier about the biology of well-being. Plus Kathy Wilson, president of the Integrative Health Network, which will hold its fourth annual conference Thursday and Friday this week. At 10:30 on The Bottomline: Selling Utah to tourists with Tracie Cayford of the Utah Office of Tourism. Hispanics will account for nearly 30 percent of the state's population by 2030. With that growth comes a ... 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