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By Scott Carrier

Salt Lake City, UT – Every five years, the forest service reviews its special use permits. Tonight, There's an open house to consider wasatch powerbird guide's proposal for a five-year extension of its helicopter-skiing permit in the central Wasatch Mountains. The company wants to expand its number of runs and end a ban on Sunday and Monday flights. Scott Carrier, a backcountry skier, has this perspective.

By Scott Carrier

Salt Lake City, UT – April is national poetry month, as deemed by the academy of American poets. Some would argue that the designation simply promotes the most conventional of contemporary poetry. But many poets don't fit into the conventional category. In fact, Orem poet Alex Caldiero doesn't even like to call himself a poet. Producer Scott Carrier has this story.

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT – How has George W. Bush's evangelicalism affected his election and his administration? A new Frontline documentary looks at the Christian George W. Bush.

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT – Ann Hulbert talks about her book, "Raising America," a look at the anxious parent and child-rearing manuals.

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT – Ron Suskind talks about his book on thecareer of Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill who resigned from the Bush Administration.

By Jenny Brundin

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By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT – In a church which is largely conservative, environmentalism has found a surprising niche with some LDS faithful. Rosemary Winters discuses her new article looking at being "green" and Mormon in the latest High Country News. (repeat)

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT – KUER's operations manager Larry Holt died on Monday. KUER's Doug Fabrizio has this remembrance.

By Beth Hoffman

By Ryan Oliver

Salt Lake City, UT – Families in Utah come in many different forms due to divorce, death, adoption, second marriages and the like. Some children have just one parent, some have two sets of parents. Utah lawmakers seek to protect these families under the law. But one form of family doesn't recive their blessing. KUER intern Ryan Oliver Hansen has the story of the upcoming battle over gay marriage in Utah.

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT – Blue Vinyl is a documentry about the seemingly benign vinyl siding common on American homes. The film explores the enviromental and human impact of the production and use of vinyl siding.

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT – Medicare reform has changed the way we look at the costs of aging. Take a look at what some see as a more humane way to age and die, the hospice.

Guests: Kit Jackson, a hospice nurse for 15 years.

Sally Brown, Project Director for the health insurance information program on Medicare.

Anne Dowdy, a certified music thanatologist, playing music for for the dying using a harp.

By Steven Girard

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Doug Fabrizio explores the facts and the myths surrounding Mary Magdalene with scholars Dierdre Good of the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church and Karen King of the Harvard Divinity School.

By Dan Bammes

Salt Lake City, UT – Dan Bammes and John Bird of Albion Financial Group continue the monthly series on personal finance. This month's edition focuses on the question of corporation ownership.

By Doug Fabrizio

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Radio West celebrates National Poetry month with Rebekah Presson Mosby. Mosby is co-editor of "Poetry Speaks," an anthology of masterpieces that includes recordings of poets from Tennyson to Plath, reading their own works.

By Steven Girard

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Dr. Victor W. Sidel discusses his new book, "War and Public Health," which looks at cost of war to society.

By Doug Fabrizio

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After the September 11th terrorist attacks, more than 5,000 Arab or Muslim immigrants were taken into custody by the U.S. Justice Department and held indefinitely on the grounds of national security. "Persons of Interest" is a film that details some of those detentions.

By Jenny Brundin

Salt Lake City, UT – Ten years ago the international community watched as foreigners left Rwanda and the country descended into chaos and genocide. Some Westerners stayed behind to help and witness.

By Doug Fabrizio

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Father John Dominic Crossan, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, talks with Doug about the meaning of Jesus Christ on Easter week.

By Doug Fabrizio

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Ambassador David Malone, Canada's Ambassador to the United Nation and since 1998 the President of the International Peace Academy is talking to Doug about his life and work. Malone is being brought here by the MiddleEast Center at the University of Utah. He is to speak on the role of the UN and Peacekeeping in the MiddleEast.

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT – Listen to the showDoug Fabrizio interviews the actors and the Director of Salt Lake Acting Company's play, "The Goat or, Who is Slyvia?" by Edward Albee. The play, which opens Friday April 9th, won a Tony Award.

By Doug Fabrizio

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Salt Lake City, UT – Listen to the show Doug plays and discusses the work of Jim Metzner and Jeff Rice. Metzner has been exploring sound for 30 years, he wrote the book "Pulse of the Planet" and is an award winning radio producer, writer and sound recordist. Jeff Rice is going to be producing a Soundscapes edition exclusively for KUER which will launch April 1, and will play during Morning Edition every Thursday.

A complete list of essential jazz recordings.

By Steve Williams

Salt Lake City, UT – This is a listing of artists and recordings I believe are essential to building a basic jazz library. Some are simply a 'Best Of' recording, meant to introduce a collector to a composite of the artist's work and not necessarily the most historic recording. Numbers don't determine importance of one recording over the other.