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State and local leaders plead with Utahns not to light personal fireworks as an extreme drought persists and the promise of a terrible wildfire season looms. A Utah woman sues her landlord after getting evicted for allegedly breaching her contract by “voicing suicidal thoughts.” And Utah’s poet laureate marks a moment in history with a poem about vaccines, hope and […]

Both Sides of the Aisle – Natalie Gochnour is joined on The Right by Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, and on The Left by Shireen Ghorbani, former Salt Lake County Council member. They discuss the growing divide between vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans, the federal infrastructure bill, the eminent withdrawal from Afghanistan and the death of Donald Rumsfeld, […]

A shortage of donated blood is impacting hospitals around the country. The Salt Lake Tribune reported yesterday that one of Utah’s largest hospitals came close to running out of blood and even delayed a surgery as a result. The American Red Cross says the pandemic is partly to blame for the shortage, with a surge […]

The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Original Air Date: March 31, 2021) — This week a panel discussion on what to expect of U.S.-China relations during the Biden administration, as well as the long history between the two nations and where we go from here. The United States and China are the two largest economies in […]

Sen. Mitt Romney is part of a bipartisan group to strike a $579 billion deal on infrastructure spending. Rep. John Curtis helps launch the Conservative Climate Caucus. And as drought continues, municipalities adopt fireworks restrictions to try to stave off fires. At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Matt Canham and Leia Larsen, along with news columnist Robert Gehrke, […]

Both Sides of the Aisle – Natalie Gochnour is joined on The Right by Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, and on The Left by Shireen Ghorbani, former Salt Lake County Council member. They discuss the ongoing heatwave and drought in the western U.S., President Biden’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, another failed attempt to overturn the […]

Earlier this week, medical researchers and doctors from the University of Utah held a press conference to talk about an uptick in coronavirus infections in Utah, and to draw attention to the arrival in the state of the more-contagious Delta variant of the virus. The variant, first identified in India, was recently classified as a […]

The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Original Air Date: June 2, 2021) — This week, a panel on employment and ethics in times of crisis. Experts on Utah’s job market and economy will discuss how COVID-19 and its many societal impacts exposed and exacerbated existing inequalities, as well as potential solutions for crafting an equitable recovery […]

The big boost a small, unproven Salt Lake City company got from the pandemic, and why the Securities and Exchange Commission began inquiries. The Utah Inland Port Board approves a truck-to-train transloading facility for the city’s northwest quadrant. And some Utah officials appear to be skirting transparency laws by using their private cellphones to conduct government business. At 9 a.m. […]

Both Sides of the Aisle – Natalie Gochnour is joined on The Right by Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, and on The Left by Shireen Ghorbani, former Salt Lake County Council member. They discuss President Biden confusing Syria and Libya at the G7 Summit, the U.S. surpassing 600,000 COVID-19 deaths, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s promise to block […]