City Cast Salt Lake

If you’ve been camping in neighboring states this summer, you might have noticed that gas prices are higher in Utah! Nazneen Ahmad, an economics professor at Weber State University, explains how we got here and if relief is in sight. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/adver...

Lead producer Emily Means joins Ali to round up this week’s news. Find details on disco night here: https://www.nightfreq.com/event-details/sdc-ladies-choice Call or text the City Cast hotline anytime at (801) 203-0137. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here.  Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

What makes dogs so different from every other creature that pees in the canyons, and why are the rules so strict? Ali connects with Teresa Gray, Salt Lake City’s Water Quality and Treatment Administrator, to get answers. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

Reporting from Courtney Tanner at the Salt Lake Tribune shows how the University of Utah mishandled the case of student Zhifan Dong, who was killed by her ex-boyfriend in February. Documents show the tragic similarities between her case and that of Lauren McCluskey, who was murdered on campus in 2018. Read Zhifan Dong’s obituary, written by Courtney Tanner, here. Utah’s domestic violence hotline (...

The history of air quality in Salt Lake, as told by Logan Mitchell, an atmospheric scientist and analyst with Utah Clean Energy. Later, Ali mentions this windyyyy reporting. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

It’s been a record hot summer in this valley, so what does that mean for our unsheltered neighbors? Lead Producer Emily Means chatted with Ron, who is trying to beat the heat (and preferred not to share his last name). And Ali connects with Wendy Garvin, Executive Director of Unsheltered Utah, about how we can all pitch in. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on Ci...

City Cast Salt Lake’s new lead producer, Emily Means, joins Ali to round up this week’s news. Find details on the Best Friends Adoption event here. Call or text the City Cast hotline anytime at (801) 203-0137. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here.  Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

This weekend might mark your first Pioneer Day in Utah, or your 30th. It’s a holiday that commemorates the arrival of Brigham Young and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847.  Ali talks with Denae Shanidiin, a Diné and Korean artist, and the director of MMI Who is Missing, an organization devoted to cognizance of the crisis of Missing a...

Utah writer Paisley Rekdal joins the program, after recently wrapping a long stint as Utah Poet Laureate, to talk about her Mapping Salt Lake project, a true community effort that relies on you Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

What has a straw, a handle, and a matte pastel finish? Why, it’s the Stanley Adventure Quencher 40oz cup, of course. If you don’t know what we’re talking about, don’t worry, because Meg Walter, features editor at the Deseret News (and a friend of the show) is here to explain the phenomenon. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our o...

No store is too small to unionize! Clever Octopus store associate Samantha White and her former colleague Logan Rusho join Ali to share their experience. In the show, Ali cites this data on Americans’ support for labor unions. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

City Cast Salt Lake’s new lead producer, Emily Means, joins Ali to round up this week’s news. Later, Newsletter Editor Terina Ria joins to say hi and share weekend events! Call or text the City Cast hotline anytime at (801) 203-0137. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here.  Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/adve...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said the end of Roe v, Wade meant a number of other landmark cases should be revisited as well. Among them: Obergefell v. Hodges, which determined the right to same-sex marriage. Ali had a chance to talk about how we maintain hard-fought rights with Senator Derek Kitchen and Jim Obergefell, both of whom were plaintiffs in cases that enshrined the right to marr...

Did you know the Salt Lake City Public Library has a very early edition of “Birds of America” by John James Audubon? It’s a marvel hidden in plain sight on the 4th floor. Apply for a Jordan River Mini-Grant here. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

The Salt Lake Health Department is administering Monkeypox vaccines within the community. What do we need to know about this virus and how should we be proceeding? Dr. Angela Dunn, the director of the Salt Lake County Health Department explains. Later, Ali wants you to know that as of Monday’s judicial ruling, you can still get a legal and safe abortion in Utah. Subscribe to our daily morning news...

The new Rad Power Bikes store in Salt Lake anticipated selling 4 e-bikes on Opening Day. Instead, they sold 54. Are Salt Lake streets ready for all these e-bikes? Building Salt Lake Editor and Sweet Streets co-founder, Taylor Anderson, joins Ali to explore. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter...

City Cast Salt Lake’s new lead producer, Emily Means, joins Ali to round up this week’s news. Call or text the City Cast hotline anytime at (801) 203-0137. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here.  Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

Ali strolls the Jordan River with Frances Ngo, Conservation Outreach Biologist at Tracy Aviary, in search of beaver activity. The Aviary launched a community study to determine how beavers impact bird habitats. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

John Oliver told us that Las Vegas is crushing it at water conservation. How are they doing it? And what can Salt Lake learn? City Cast Las Vegas Lead Producer Sonja Swanson joins Ali to share ideas.  Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

How is the overturning of Roe v. Wade and Utah’s pending abortion ban impacting Salt Lake nightlife, if at all? Is it going to change hookup culture? Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

A two parter: Ali chats with HEAL Utah’s Executive Director Lexi Tuddenham about how the new EPA ruling will impact Utahns. Later, disability advocate Shelby Hintze joins Ali to round up the news you might have missed this week. Call or text the City Cast hotline anytime at (801) 203-0137. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here.  Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our o...

Today, our guest Ashley Finley talks about the abortion that saved her life. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads atcitycast.fm/advertise.

How do you shop local for clothes? Seems hard. The founder of Salt Lake Fashion Collective, Kalei Hinano, joins Ali to share ideas for shopping local for clothes in SLC — and answers the question, how do you spot a Salt Laker? Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads atcitycast.fm/advertise.

Utah’s abortion laws are in flux right now. Former County Councilmember and Community Health Director Shireen Ghorbani is here to help make sense of it all. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

Today, we revisit an important City Cast Salt Lake conversation. Ali visits with one of Utah’s few abortion providers, obstetrician/gynecologist Dr. David Turok, about the Supreme Court memo foreshadowing the overturn of Roe v. Wade and the likely enactment of Utah’s dormant abortion ban. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here.