Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Friday, January 12, 2018

4:20 pm: Representative Jim Dunnigan joins the show to discuss the possibility of expanding Medicaid under Obamacare in Utah

4:35 pm: Willis Krumholz, a Fellow with Defense Priorities, joins the show to discuss why he says the government shouldn’t expand the ability of intelligence agencies to spy on Americans

6:05 pm: Nathan Gonzales of Roll Call joins Rod to discuss the likelihood that a flood of GOP House members in Washington, D.C. are likely to announce their retirements from public service

6:20 pm: Congressman Chris Stewart joins the show to discuss why he voted for a bill that extends a program that allows surveillance of American people

6:35 pm - Listen Back Friday: Plus, we’ll listen back to Rod’s conversation this week with Representative Gage Froerer about the possibility of speeding up the construction of new liquor stores in the state

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Thursday, January 11, 2018

4:20 pm: State Representative Gage Froerer wants faster construction of planned state liquor stores and he joins the program to discuss why he wants to fast track the process

4:35 pm: Gary Edwards, Executive Director of the Salt Lake County Health Department, joins Rod to discuss the efforts to control an outbreak of Hepatitis A originating at a 7-11 store in West Jordan

6:05 pm: Steve Moore, Chief Economist for The Heritage Foundation, joins Rod for their weekly conversation about politics and the nation’s economy

6:20 pm: Melanie Zanona of The Hill joins Rod to discuss how House Republicans in Washington are pushing to take a harder line on immigration

6:35 pm: Janis Zettle has placed her old Volkswagen Bug in a tree on her property in Clearfield and now the city wants her to remove it. Zettle joins Rod to discuss why, to this point, she is refusing to take it down, and she will explain why

4:20 pm: Brandon Beckham, Director of Keep My Voice, joins the show to discuss a new voter initiative to repeal SB54 and rid the state of the signature-gathering route for a candidate to get on the ballot in Utah and return fully to the caucus convention system

4:35 pm: Newly elected Salt Lake County Council Chairwoman Aimee Winder Newton joins the show to discuss the council’s decision to urge the state’s legislature to strengthen Utah’s hate crime laws

5:05 pm: Utah Speaker of the House Greg Hughes announced today that he will not seek re-election in 2018 and joins the show to discuss his decision

6:05 pm: Sutherland Institute President Boyd Matheson joins Rod for their weekly conversation about the world of politics, which today includes President Trump’s push to bring back earmarks, Steve Bannon and the DACA meeting earlier this week

6:20 pm: State Senator Todd Weiler faced heavy social media backlash this week when he posted that Utah’s polluted air has actually improved over time and he joins the show to discuss Utah’s air and whether more can be done to help improve it

6:35 pm: Scott Greer, Associate Editor of the Daily Caller, joins the show to discuss why he doesn’t think those who want the country to be strong on immigration should worry about President Trump going soft on DACA

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Tuesday, January 9, 2018

4:20 pm: Billy Hesterman of the Utah Taxpayers Association joins the show to discuss the group’s priorities for the 2018 Utah Legislative Session

4:35 pm: Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon joins the program to discuss his story on how federal agents were unsuccessful in their attempts to illegally buy guns from websites while posing as criminals

5:05 pm: Utah Governor Gary Herbert joins the show to discuss his testimony today before the U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee on H.R. 4532, which would create the first tribally managed national monuments

6:05 pm: Ron Maxwell, activist and film director, joins the show to discuss why he says Donald Trump is chasing Americans off public lands by shrinking national monuments

6:20 pm: Robert Keiter, Director of the Wallace Stegner Center of Land, Resources and the Environment at the University of Utah, joins the show to discuss how raising entrance fees at Utah’s national parks could backfire by making them unaffordable

6:35 pm: John Zmirak of The Stream joins the show to discuss what he sees predicts will be the top political stories of 2018

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Friday, January 5, 2018

4:20 pm: James Antle, Politics Editor at the Washington Examiner, joins the show to discuss how the national political scene may be different if Mitt Romney had never run for office in Massachusetts and had kept his political career in Utah

4:35 pm: Brent Taylor, Mayor of North Ogden and a member of the UTA Board of Trustees, joins Rod to discuss his op-ed in the Salt Lake Tribune in which he says the UTA’s current business model is unsustainable

6:05 pm: Representative Steve Eliason joins Rod to discuss youth suicide, as well as a bill that would essentially punish cities for a lack of affordable housing

6:20 pm: Penny Nance, CEO and President of Concerned Women for America, on her piece in USA Today saying the entertainment industry was dealt a disservice by Anita Hill, who was tapped to examine the issues of sexual misconduct in the industry

6:35 pm - Listen Back Friday: We’ll listen back to Rod’s conversation’s this week with Patrick Mason, Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University, on the impact of Thomas S. Monson on the LDS Church, and (at 6:50 pm) with Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and Founder of Openthebooks.com, on his “mapping the swamp” study

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Thursday, January 4, 2018

4:20 pm: Representative Justin Fawson joins Rod to discuss why he says the Board of Regents should not have the authority to hire and fire university presidents and is running a bill to give that power to a school’s trustees

4:35 pm: Syndicated radio host Joe Walsh, a former Illinois Congressman, joins the show to discuss why he says he may move to Utah and run for Senate against Mitt Romney if Romney decides to run

6:05 pm: Lynda Cox, Director of Development for Conservative Western Priorities, joins the show to discuss the organization and how it is working to ensure laws and regulations are best representing the interests of the American West

6:20 pm: Steve Moore, Chief Economist at The Heritage Foundation, joins Rod for their weekly conversation about politics and the nation’s economy

6:35 pm: Larry Gelwix of Columbus Travel joins Rod to discuss the 2018 Utah Travel Expo this weekend in Layton, and where the hot travel spots are this year

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Wednesday, January 3, 2018

4:20 pm: Senator Todd Weiler joins the show to discuss legislation he is co-sponsoring that would broaden the definition of domestic violence to include partners who had a sexual relationship, instead of just married or living together

4:35 pm: Patrick Mason, Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University, joins Rod to discuss the impact of President Thomas S. Monson on the LDS Church

6:05 pm: Matthew Sheffield, Political Writer for Salon.com, joins the show to discuss why he says it’s unlikely, if elected, that Mitt Romney would be an anti-Trump hero in the Senate

6:20 pm: Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and Founder of OpentheBooks.com, joins Rod to discuss a new study showing some revealing facts about government spending, including employee salaries

6:35 pm: Molly Davis, a Policy Analyst with the Libertas Institute, joins Rod to discuss her recent op-ed piece in which she says police officers should not be used as a revenue generator

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Tuesday, January 2, 2018

4:20 pm: Former Congressional candidate Tanner Ainge has announced he will run for a seat on the Utah County Commission and he joins Rod to discuss his reasoning

4:35 pm: Representative Carol Spackman-Moss joins the show to discuss her proposed legislation to completely ban the use of holding and speaking on cell phones while driving

5:05 pm: Boyd Matheson of the Sutherland Institute joins the show to give us his reaction to Senator Orrin Hatch’s announcement that he will not run for re-election this year

6:05 pm: Mateo Rueda, a former art teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Hyrum, joins the show to discuss his dismissal after he showed classical paintings containing nudity to his fifth and sixth grade students

6:20 pm: Paul Mero, President of the Next Generation Freedom Fund, joins Rod for a discussion about Orrin Hatch’s retirement, as well as what he calls President Trump’s gift to America

6:35 pm: Carl Cannon of Real Clear Politics joins the show to discuss Senator Hatch’s retirement announcement, as well as why he says 2017 was the year Democrats were living angrily

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Thursday, December 21, 2017

4:20 pm: Political strategist Matt Mackowiak joins the show to discuss what President Trump’s next big move could be after leading the tax cuts bill through Congress

4:35 pm: Hal Boyd, Opinion Editor of the Deseret News, joins Rod to discuss why he thinks Mormons hold the key fixing the deep political partisan divide

5:05 pm: Governor Gary Herbert joins the show to discuss why he joined a group of Governors pushing Congress to come up with a solution to help keep those in the DACA program in the U.S.

6:05 pm: Steve Moore, Chief Economist at The Heritage Foundation, joins the show for his weekly conversation with Rod about the nation’s economy

6:20 pm: Salim Furth, a research fellow with the Heritage Foundation, joins Rod to discuss new data from the Institute for Justice that shows how licensing laws are protecting special interests instead of consumers

6:35 pm: James Campbell of Rocky Mountain Power joins the show to discuss a new electric vehicle charging station opening in Utah

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Wednesday, December 20, 2017

4:20 pm: Representative Kim Coleman joins the show to discuss legislation she plans to run in the next session that will protect free speech and the civil liberties of students on the campuses of Utah’s universities and colleges

4:35 pm: Jesse Hathaway, Managing Editor of the Heartland Institute’s Budget and Tax News, on the four myths about the tax cuts and jobs act

6:05 pm: Boyd Matheson of the Sutherland Institute joins Rod for their weekly conversation about the world of politics

6:20 pm: Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform joins Rod to discuss the costs behind the DACA amnesty bill