City Cast Salt Lake

Rose Park Elementary hosted its final bike bus of the school year, where dozens of students and chaperones wheeled or walked to school together in a critical mass. Host Ali Vallarta tagged along as a guest chaperone and talked to bike bus originator Trina Perez about why it’s important to get students — and parents — out of the school drop-off line.We’re doing a survey to learn more about our listeners, so we can make City Cast Salt Lake an even better, more useful podcast for you. We’d be grateful if you took the survey at citycast.fm/survey — it’s only 5 minutes long. You’ll be doing us a big favor. Plus, anyone who takes the survey will be eligible to win a $250 Visa gift card.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads.

Welcome to pool season, Salt Lake. Not only are pool parties fun, they also provide an important avenue for cooling off during our hot summers. Host Ali Vallarta joins lead producer Emily Means to give a rundown on the best pools to dip your toes into this season. Plus, Ali has an update on Salt Lake County’s lifeguard shortage.Learn more about tree equity in Salt Lake.Apply to be a Salt Lake County lifeguard. We’re doing a survey to learn more about our listeners, so we can make City Cast Salt Lake an even better, more useful podcast for you. We’d be grateful if you took the survey at citycast.fm/survey — it’s only 5 minutes long. You’ll be doing us a big favor. Plus, anyone who takes the survey will be eligible to win a $250 Visa gift card.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads.

People have legal rights. Should nature? Host Ali Vallarta talks with Grant Wilson, executive director of Earth Law Center, about the Rights of Nature movement and how it could help save the shrinking Great Salt Lake. This episode originally aired on Oct. 19, 2022.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads.

It’s Memorial Day weekend, and Salt Lake Tribune reporter Andy Larsen may have found the cheapest beer in the county! He joins host Ali Vallarta and lead producer Emily Means to make sense of the week’s top stories, including the Utah Inland Port Authority’s strange rebrand and tales from local national anthem auditions.Listen to our episode on the results of the inland port audit. Read the 51-page whitepaper on the inland port, if you really want to.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads.

Sure, I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream on a hot Memorial Day weekend. But what about our vegan and lactose-intolerant friends? What do they get to scream for? Producer Emily Means talks with Jill Onofrietti of The Skoop Instagram account about the best vegan ice cream options in Salt Lake.This episode originally aired on Sept. 14, 2022.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads.

competition asked Salt Lakers to submit their best ideas for the diamond and parking lot across the street. Host Ali Vallarta joins lead producer Emily Means to break down the proposals and give a temperature check on how Ballpark community members feel about them.View the finalists and vote for your favorite at BallparkNEXT.com. Winners will be announced May 31, 2023.Utah Falconz player Lacy Mile’s pitch for a women’s sports complex.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads.

There’s always a need for blood donations, and with summer adventures approaching, the need is even more urgent. So while Salt Lake-based lab ARUP welcomes the news that gay and bisexual men can donate blood after a decades-long ban, that doesn’t mean a flood of the good stuff will come rushing in by Memorial Day. ARUP medical director Dr. Waseem Anani joins host Ali Vallarta — as she sits in the donation chair — to share the new line of questioning and what barriers still remain.Read pathologist Benjamin Mazer’s piece “The FDA’s New ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Policy for Blood Donation” in The Atlantic.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads.

All that water Utah got this winter means we’ll have a cool, fire-free summer, right? Not necessarily. And the threat of wildfires in the West, plus low pay, makes it difficult to recruit much-needed firefighters. Former wildland firefighter Jonathon Golden joins host Ali Vallarta to give a preview of fire season and share tips for keeping you — and firefighters — safe.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads.

Brace yourself: The Utah Legislature is back in town. Lead producer Emily Means joins host Ali Vallarta to break down what they accomplished. Also in town: a new almost-czar of the Great Salt Lake. Plus, the Living Traditions festival hits SLC this weekend, and Emily makes the case for moving the 9th and 9th whale to a different street.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC.Listen to Ali interview State Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, on the PornHub debacle and consent.Living Traditions Festival Program Guide.Apply to be SLC’s Public Art Coordinator.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads.

You’re hosting a summer party, and your grand vision includes a stunningly crafted cheese board that gets every guest talking. But you don’t know a brie from a blue — so where do you start? Adri Pachelli, director of education and senior manager at Caputo’s Market & Deli, joins host Ali Vallarta to make the case that cheese is for peasants and explain why it tastes best with bubbles.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads.