Representative Ryan Wilcox discusses his proposal to keep kids safe at school and add more measures of security to classrooms.

Senate President Stuart Adams joins Dave and Debbie to discuss his priorities for the 2025 legislation. Holly Richardson with Utah Policy joins the show to discuss proposals that caught her attention including legislation around free school lunch.

Amy and Dave are joined by KSL Movie Show Hosts Andy Farnsworth and Steve Salles to discuss the big movie of the week: Wolf Man. A family at a remote farmhouse is attacked by an unseen animal, but as the night stretches on, the father begins to transform into something unrecognizable. Andy, Steve, Dave, and Amy answer the question: what is the greatest film you will never watch again?  

Animal shelters around the state of Utah are struggling with overcrowding amidst the long-term fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic. During the pandemic when many people became home-bodies by force as jobs went remote, people adopted pets in search of companionship. As people return to offices and shops, the amount of returned pets has increased. Amy Donaldson explains how people can help aid the overcrowding in shelters.  

 

The Food and Drug Administration has banned the use of red dye no. 3 from the nation's food supply, decades after it was banned in cosmetics due to cancer risk in rats. The dye, also known as erythrosine, must be removed from food manufacturing by 2027, and from pharmaceutical products by 2028. Dave and Amy discus why the FDA hasn't banned other carcinogens such as tobacco products, or other synthetic dyes, such as Red No. 40, from our food.  

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to rescue TikTok this morning  from a law that required the popular short-video app to be sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be banned on Sunday in the United States on national security grounds — a major blow to a platform used by nearly half of all Americans. Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News reporter with the latest on the ruling from SCOTUS. KSL Legal Analyst Greg Skordas explains his predictions on what happens next and if/how the law will be implemented.  

SCOTUS announced this morning its opinion on the constitutionality of a Tik-Tok ban, saying they do not believe the ban to be unconstitutional, thus clearing the way for a national ban to move forward. Utah Representative Blake Moore comments on the court's opinion, and shares the details of his most recent effort to almost double the child tax credit in Utah.  

Another big conversation within the Utah Legislature this year is energy. As the excitement towards different energy sources like nuclear amp up,  what would nuclear energy actually look like in the state of Utah? Mason Baker, UAMPS CEO and General Manager joins the show to discuss.