Caroline Ballard
All Things Considered HostCaroline Ballard is a central Virginia native and a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School. Ever since 2014 – to her delight and the dismay of her East Coast family and friends – she has steadily moved further west. For five years she served as Morning Edition host at Wyoming Public Radio, as well as its newsroom editor and host of the podcast HumaNature. She earned two PRNDI (Public Radio News Directors Inc.) awards for Best Podcast for her work as lead producer on episodes of the show. In 2016, her reporting project Women Run the West, which examined the representation of women in western politics, was selected to be a part of the first NPR Story Lab. Caroline became KUER’s All Things Considered host in August 2019. When she’s not behind the mic, you can find her spending time with her husband and her rescue pup Scrappy, and cooking recipes that are far too complicated for her skill level.
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A law passed by the Utah legislature in 2020 would ban most abortions if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade. -
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Weber State’s Leah Murray said the late senator’s story is a “beautiful rags to riches American dream story.”
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We asked the editor of Utah Money Moms how best to weather this economic moment.
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The legislative session is in its final stretch, with just one week left. This is the time when lawmakers vote on a ton of the session's most important and most controversial bills.
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Utah’s real estate market is in a crunch. Now, the state Legislature is looking at one-time funding to help address affordable housing.
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Utah lawmakers tackled election security, media rules and more this week.
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The Great Salt Lake is shrinking. Utah lawmakers weigh how to save the body of water, plus what else happened at the legislature this week.
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The Utah Legislature spent its second week debating bills on education curriculum, tax cuts and no-knock warrants.
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The Utah Legislature got underway this week, and COVID took center stage as the body suspended its own rules to overturn local mask mandates. KUER politics reporter Emily Means joined Caroline Ballard to break down what happened in Week 1.
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KUER education reporter Jon Reed recapped the year in education. He said new, more contagious COVID-19 variants threw a wrench in the plans for a return to normal.
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Politics reporters Emily Means and Sonja Hutson recap the year’s biggest stories, from the pandemic endgame bill to an explosive redistricting process.
