City Cast Salt Lake

Great Salt Lake National Park. It has a nice ring to it, right? That’s what ethnobotanist Paul Alan Cox is suggesting as an intervention to the ongoing crisis at the lake. Cox makes the case to host Ali Vallarta that it’s possible for everyone — tribal leaders, brine shrimp farmers, and even Republican lawmakers — to be represented in what could be Utah’s sixth national park. 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.

Two elected officials representing Salt Lake announced their resignations this week. Lead producer Emily Means joins host Ali Vallarta to explain what happens next for the soon-to-be-vacant Salt Lake City Council and Congressional District 2 seats. Plus, Happy Pride! Hey Salt Lake newsletter editor Terina Ria shares her picks for any flavor of LGBTQ+ joy you want to celebrate.Learn more about Salt Lake City’s BallparkNEXT competition. State Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, on his bill requiring porn sites to verify users’ age.KUER’s Martha Harris’ story about expressing gender and sexuality through Dungeons & Dragons.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.

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.