City Cast Salt Lake
City Cast
City Cast Salt Lake is SLC’s daily news podcast. Join host Ali Vallarta and a bevy of smart and entertaining locals for conversations about the issues that matter most. City Cast Salt Lake will celebrate the city’s triumphs, explore its history, (try to) solve its mysteries, and it’ll help you feel more connected to the Wasatch Front – whether you’ve lived here for six months or six generations. Learn more and subscribe to our daily newsletter at saltlake.citycast.fm.
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Jul 29, 2022 • 19min
Slowing Down, Judge Pohlman, and Mini Bottles
Lead producer Emily Means joins Ali to round up this week’s news.Find details on disco night here: https://www.nightfreq.com/event-details/sdc-ladies-choiceCall or text the City Cast hotline anytime at (801) 203-0137. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.
Jul 28, 2022 • 16min
Is Dog Pee Worse Than Deer Pee in the Watershed?
What makes dogs so different from every other creature that pees in the canyons, and why are the rules so strict? Ali connects with Teresa Gray, Salt Lake City’s Water Quality and Treatment Administrator, to get answers.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.
Jul 27, 2022 • 17min
Was Zhifan Dong’s Death Preventable?
Reporting from Courtney Tanner at the Salt Lake Tribune shows how the University of Utah mishandled the case of student Zhifan Dong, who was killed by her ex-boyfriend in February. Documents show the tragic similarities between her case and that of Lauren McCluskey, who was murdered on campus in 2018. Read Zhifan Dong’s obituary, written by Courtney Tanner, here. Utah’s domestic violence hotline (not the police) is 1-800-897-5465.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.
Jul 26, 2022 • 18min
A Brief History of Air Quality in Salt Lake
The history of air quality in Salt Lake, as told by Logan Mitchell, an atmospheric scientist and analyst with Utah Clean Energy. Later, Ali mentions this windyyyy reporting.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.
Jul 25, 2022 • 17min
Unsheltered Salt Lakers Try to Beat the Heat
It’s been a record hot summer in this valley, so what does that mean for our unsheltered neighbors? Lead Producer Emily Means chatted with Ron, who is trying to beat the heat (and preferred not to share his last name). And Ali connects with Wendy Garvin, Executive Director of Unsheltered Utah, about how we can all pitch in.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.
Jul 22, 2022 • 21min
The Unsafe U, Gentrification, and Cutthroat Trout
City Cast Salt Lake’s new lead producer, Emily Means, joins Ali to round up this week’s news. Find details on the Best Friends Adoption event here.Call or text the City Cast hotline anytime at (801) 203-0137. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.
Jul 21, 2022 • 18min
Anti-Pioneer Day in Salt Lake City
This weekend might mark your first Pioneer Day in Utah, or your 30th. It’s a holiday that commemorates the arrival of Brigham Young and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847. Ali talks with Denae Shanidiin, a Diné and Korean artist, and the director of MMI Who is Missing, an organization devoted to cognizance of the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives in Utah. Denae is co-hosting an event this weekend that asks us not to celebrate Pioneer Day. What does anti-Pioneer Day look like? Support for Salt Lake’s urban Indigenous community, the redistribution of wealth, and healing.Interested in joining the Utah Arts Festival board? Here's the application Ali mentioned.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.
Jul 20, 2022 • 19min
Mapping Salt Lake’s Many Stories
Utah writer Paisley Rekdal joins the program, after recently wrapping a long stint as Utah Poet Laureate, to talk about her Mapping Salt Lake project, a true community effort that relies on youSubscribe to our daily morning newsletter here.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.
Jul 19, 2022 • 18min
Utah Has Its Own Stanley Cup
What has a straw, a handle, and a matte pastel finish? Why, it’s the Stanley Adventure Quencher 40oz cup, of course. If you don’t know what we’re talking about, don’t worry, because Meg Walter, features editor at the Deseret News (and a friend of the show) is here to explain the phenomenon.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.
Jul 18, 2022 • 15min
Clever Octopus Staff Filed for a Union Vote
No store is too small to unionize! Clever Octopus store associate Samantha White and her former colleague Logan Rusho join Ali to share their experience. In the show, Ali cites this data on Americans’ support for labor unions.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.
