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Utah received over $2 million in federal COVID relief to support former foster youth who’ve transitioned out of the system. So far, only about 7% has been used. And many people currently eligible won’t be after next week.
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The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects that there was a 14% dip in hydropower in the U.S. this year. The vast majority of that decline is in the West. Less moisture and higher temps meant lower reservoir levels and decreased the ability to get energy from hydro dams. While utilities have long prepared for droughts, they’re becoming more frequent due to climate change. -
Ivana Martinez/KUERFormer and current ballet students at the University of Utah are calling attention to the culture inside the dance studio. They say there have been harmful practices for a long time, and now they’re asking for change.
If each of us lives to be 80, we’ll have spent about four thousand weeks being alive on this planet — which isn’t really much time at all. So, how should we spend it?
Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, used to obsess over productivity. But now, he embraces different ideas.
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Two children were hit by a car this week as they were crossing the street in Salt Lake City. One community organization said the incident demonstrates the need for slower streets. -
In Las Vegas, county commissioners passed a resolution calling misinformation a "public health crisis," while Idaho's public health department is cracking down on misinformation on Facebook.
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People anywhere in Utah who got cancer or other diseases from nuclear fallout would be eligible under the new bill. Right now, it is just for southern Utah.
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State lawmakers are considering a bill that would put private voter records on public voter rolls. But instead of a name or any identifying information, there would just be a random number.
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Several moments during the last two years have reflected race-based problems in Loveland — at city council, school and library board meetings, during protests and in Facebook groups. Often, a key point of contention for some residents is whether racism even exists in the city, or ever did.
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Draft air tour management plans for four national parks in Utah define what routes commercial tour flights can take, when they can fly and at what altitude.
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Five Utah schools have already met the threshold for "Test to Stay,” when a school is required to test students for COVID-19 before they return to class. Despite fears that the program would get fierce pushback from parents, most have gone smoothly so far.
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Prior to World War I, Nevada’s Douglas County adopted an ordinance that prohibited Native Americans from being in the towns of Minden or Gardnerville after sunset — at the risk of jail time or worse.
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This summer, KUER producer Benjamin Bombard is traveling around Utah looking for places that are … extra. Extreme. He recently visited the hottest place in the state. If you’ve spent any time in Utah, you probably already know where that is.
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NPR's Brian Mann sends us an audio postcard from a canoe trip down a wild river in New York, in search of autumn color.
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Justin Chon's new film Blue Bayou is about a Korean-born, American-raised adoptee who faces deportation back to Korea. Many adoptees without U.S. citizenship face that same problem in real life.
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NPR's Michel Martin discusses the Biden administration's handling of immigration with Theresa Cardinal Brown of the Bipartisan Policy Center, and Democratic political strategist Chuck Rocha.
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Former U.S. Sen. Fred Harris is the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission, appointed in 1967 to study the root causes of social unrest in America. Its groundbreaking report blamed racism.
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