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If you live in Salt Lake City, you’ll see on your November ballot an $85 million bond proposal. If approved, it would allow for the largest single expenditure on park and open space improvements in the city’s history and would fund eight projects across Utah’s capital city identified through the city’s Reimagine Nature Public Lands Master […]
In a white paper published this week, a logistics expert said his analysis showed that there is no market in Salt Lake City and its surroundings for a key part of the Utah Inland Port. Dr. Robert Leachman is a professor of industrial engineering and operations research at the University of California, Berkeley. His paper, […]
Whether on rock or vegetation, lichen can be found all around us and play surprising and complex roles. Steve Leavitt, an evolutionary biologist at Brigham Young University, is the curator of the lichen collection at BYU’s Life Science Museum. We talk with Steve about what lichen are composed of and why we should care about […]
The Salt Lake City Council is considering a suite of changes to zoning ordinances. The proposed changes include amending rules for areas of the city zoned as “RMF-30,” in an effort to increase so-called “missing middle housing” in certain residential zones (“RMF” stands for “residential multi-family” and “30” refers to the maximum allowed building height […]
This week, a Utah court heard a request by state attorneys to throw out a lawsuit challenging the way the legislature redrew political boundaries through a contentious redistricting process. The suit, filed by the League of Women Voters of Utah and the Mormon Women for Ethical Government, argues that maps drawn by the legislature are an […]
Today on In the Hive, we have a conversation with NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador to Utah Patrick Wiggins about something that is generally seen but not heard. Most meteors are so small and so far away that they don’t make any sound whatsoever. But that wasn’t the case with a meteor that interacted with earth’s atmosphere […]
In early July, Dr. Daron Duke, an archaeologist who does field work on the the U.S. Military’s Utah Test and Training Range was driving inside the base with a colleague, a research scientist from Cornell University named Dr. Thomas Urban. As they slowly crossed the dry playa in their truck, the two were discussing the […]
Today on In the Hive, we piggyback on some coverage provided this week by City Cast Salt Lake on the local spread of monkeypox. To date there have bee 42 cases of the viral disease in Utah, the bulk — 33 cases — in Salt Lake County. The virus primarily spreads through close physical contact involving skin-to-skin […]
Evan McMullin is running as an independent in a bid to oust Republican Sen. Mike Lee this November. He faults the incumbent for working with the Trump Administration to try to find a pathway to overturn the 2020 presidential election — something he says would have “ended our democratic republic.” If elected, McMullin says that instead […]
The Great Salt Lake has again dropped to a new historic low. The U.S. Geological Survey and the Utah Division of Natural Resources report that measurements gathered Sunday showed an average daily surface water elevation of 4,190.1 feet — a new low in the lake’s recorded history dating back to 1847. The lake is predicted […]
“Is this the toxic lake dust?” That’s a question many people in northern Utah are now asking themselves when the air turns brown with particulate pollution during windstorms. The human health and environmental risks posed to our region by the drying up of the Great Salt Lake is well documented, and is now garnering national […]
“While I respect what the delegates did, I don’t think it was good for Utah, I don’t think it was good for our party, and I think that there is a missing voice in the Senate race right now.” Kael Weston was the presumptive Democratic nominee in the race for the Senate seat currently held […]
All of Utah is in extreme or exceptional drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. A recent study from UCLA identified the current drought as the deepest dry spell the American West has experienced in more than 1,200 years. Climate change is exacerbating the problem; that same study attributed 42% of the drought to global […]
In the two and a half months since Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, nearly 1,000 companies have curtailed operations in Russia beyond the minimum required by international sanctions – as a form of boycott. Yale University’s School of Management maintains a list of companies that have (or haven’t) withdrawn from Russia in opposition to the […]
In the early 1960s, a man named Ammon Hennacy started up a shelter and aid center for homeless people and railroad tramps who needed a place to stay. The Joe Hill House of Hospitality and St. Joseph Refuge provided a roof, food, storage for day laborers and camaraderie for Salt Lake City’s unsheltered. A new […]
On this week’s episode of “In the Hive…” A new exhibit on the third floor of the Utah State Capitol features stories of the survivors of the Topaz War Relocation Center, the concentration camp in central Utah that housed more than 11,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. The exhibit, sponsored by the San Franciso-based […]
Today on “In the Hive,” the latest of our periodic conversations with Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall. We’ll talk to the mayor about pedestrian safety, homeless shelters, the deal the city struck on the Utah Inland Port, and even about the whale — a contentious new public art piece in the city’s 9th & […]
For Muslims in Utah and around the world, the holy month of Ramadan — which began with the sighting of the crescent moon on Friday — is a period of fasting, prayer and community. This week, the new local podcast City Cast Salt Lake offered a guide to being a good neighbor to Utah Muslims […]
Turn a corner in your city, and you’ll be confronted with a reminder that history is all around us. Old trees call to mind the forgotten individuals who planted them. Certain buildings seem haunted by the ghosts of an earlier era. Walk through an overgrown alleyway and a once-familiar place is suddenly…different. Digging into local […]
Today on “In the Hive,” the rebroadcast of a conversation with the author Eric Schlosser, about the theory of nuclear deterrence, the unthinkability of nuclear war, and the ‘illusion of safety.’ This show originally aired a year ago and was the second part of a two-part look at the overhaul of America’s land-based nuclear missile […]
Meritless, internet-based conspiracy theories have led to a huge uptick in threats against election workers around the nation. Last week, the Brennan Center at New York University Law School released the results of a survey of local election officials, which found that one in three felt unsafe because of the work they do, while one […]
In the two weeks since Russian president Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion, more than two million people have fled Ukraine. Thousands are believed dead in the conflict so far, according to reporting by the Associated Press, though an exact human toll remains unclear. The impact is being felt in far away Utah where a “small but […]
A rural community in Tooele County called Erda is poised to undergo some big changes. The Romney Group is pursuing development of the Lakeview Business Park, which would transform open fields into warehouses and manufacturing facilities. Part of plan involves reviving 12 miles of an old rail spur running from the main Union Pacific line […]