Tuesday, March 16 | Listen Forgotten Ellis Island Lee Austin speaks first with documentary producer and filmmaker Lorie Conway. Her film and companion book Forgotten Ellis Island takes a look at the immigrant hospital opened in 1902 on Ellis Island. Conway will give a presentation in Salt Lake City this week. New States Rights Bills Later, University of Utah Law Professor Wayne McCormack discusses the series of "states rights" bills passed recently by the Utah Legislature. McCormack doubts many will withstand court review. Monday, March 15 | Listen Bio Control Methods A moth, looking for love, finds not romance but a fungus that hitches a ride and ends up as a Trojan horse to other moths. Bio controls can be an effective way to depress harmful pest populations. Diane Alston, USU Extension Entemologist, discusses how gardeners can harness bio control methods for their own yards. Pine Bark Bettle Control Moth Control Video Friday, March 12 | Listen 2010 Utah Legislature Session In the 2010 session of the Utah legislature, legislators closed a 700 million dollar budget gap, passed several ethics reform bills, and scolded the federal government, passing several so-called message bills aimed at asserting state’s rights. We'll talk about what the legislature did and didn't do and what it means with house leaders: majority whip Brad Dee and minority leader David Litvack in the first half and we'll turn to the senate in the second half with minority leader Pat Jones and assistant majority whip Wayne Neiderhauser. Thursday, March 11 | Listen Freshwater Conservation Dr. Julian Olden of the University of Washington discusses freshwater conservation efforts and aquatic invasive species during a USU ecology center seminar. Three Mormon Towns Utah Photographer Mark Hedengren re-visits "Three Mormon Towns", a famous photo essay by Ansel adams and Dorothea Lange. Wednesday, March 10 | Listen Is the Electoral College Bad for America? Is the Electoral College bad for America? That's the title of a presentation Utah State University Assistant Professor of Political Science Damon Cann will be giving next week in Logan. Lee Austin will speak with Cann about the current debate over the Electoral College system in the first part of the program. Jack Hanna Later, Lee is joined by Jack Hanna host of the popular television series "Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures" and frequent guest on David Letterman. Hanna will be hosting a show Saturday night in Park City. Tuesday, March 9 | Listen Utah Legislature Update There are just three days remaining in the Utah Legislature's annual session, and negotiations on next year's budget are still underway. In the first half of the program, Lee Austin gets an update from State Senator Lyle Hillyard, Co-Chair of the powerful Executive Appropriations Committee. Quotidiana In the second half wee hear from Utah writer Patrick Madden, author of a new book of creative non fiction: "Quotidiana." Monday, March 8 | Listen Bees and Polination It's bees in the first half of the program as Cory Vorel, CAPS Coordinator in USU's Department of Biology, talks about pollination and colony collapse disorder. Lack of Freedom in African Nations In the second half Tom Williams has a conversation with economist George Ayittey about why the lack of freedom keeps African nations from prosperity. Friday, March 5 | Listen Utah's Unemployment Situation The future of this nation's space research and national defense programs will have a direct impact on the unemployment rate in Utah… as will the stock market says the state's top economist. This morning we spend the Access Utah hour discussing the state's unemployment figures with the Department of Workforce Services senior economist Mark Knold. Fight to Save Utah Jobs Utah congressman Rob bishop, a Republican from Box Elder County, is among representatives working on a non-partisan plan to convince President Obama and his administration to reconsider a plan to discontinue the Constellation program including the development of two new rockets. I spoke with the congressman about his reasons for opposing the outsourcing of some space missions and why he calls the change in NASA research a scheme that could force as many as two thousand Utahans out of work. Graduation Advice Plus international business leader Steven R. Covey offers Utah State University students advice on how to find a job once they graduate. Thursday, March 4 | Listen Effort to Revive the Logan Art Cinema First, a conversation with Jonathan Ribera, an art teacher at Edith Bowen elementary school in Logan. He's part of a group trying to revive the Logan Art Cinema. Rural America Fifty-six million people live and work in rural America and Don Albrecht, director of the Western Rural Development Center studies ways to make their lives better. In fact, last year he went around the western states asking community leaders what their top three problems were. In the second half today we'll talk about the rural west: problems and solutions. Wednesday, March 3 | Listen Raw Edges Today will take a look at two new, but very different books. First, Lee Austin talks with writer Phyllis Barber, a former Salt Lake City resident and author of a new memoir, "Raw Edges." Barber describes it as a "coming of age at middle age" story. Utah in the Twentieth Century Later, Brian Q. Cannon talks about a new book on Utah history from Utah State University Press. It's called Utah in the Twentieth Century. Cannon will give a presentation on the book tomorrow night in Logan. Tuesday, March 2 | Listen World War II Stories First we preview a new KUED television documentary that airs next week: Utah World War II Stories: Untold Stories. Lee Austin speaks with KUED Producer Liz Searles and historical consultant Geoffrey Panos. Cyber Crime Bill Later, State Representative Brad Daw and Salt Lake attorney Sean Hullinger debate House Bill 150, a bill requested by the Utah Attorney General to assist in cyber crime investivations. Monday, March 1 | Listen Winter Gardening Snow... pruning... cold... catalogs... snow... it's a winter gardening dance with the promise of spring right around the corner. USU Extension Vegetable Specialist Dan Drost discusses the gardening timetable for the entire hour. Click here for Gardening Help. Friday, February 26 | Listen Diversified Agriculture Conference Today we’re at Western Park in Vernal with the 7th annual Diversified Agriculture Conference. We'll be talking to economist Kelly Mathews, who gave the opening keynote address at the conference on the economy and how it is affecting rural Utah and small business. We'll also talk to Mark Holmes of the Uintah Basin Small Business Development Center. His presentations were titled "Getting Beyond Myths and Legends Around Funding for Small Businesses" and "Evaluating Home-Based Business Opportunities." Later in the program our guests will be Uintah County Commissioners Darlene Burns and Mark Raymond. Thursday, February 25 | Listen Take a Seat Take A Seat is the title of a documentary film being shown on the Banff Mountain Film Festival tour and the title of a soon to be published book by videographer and writer Dom Gill. Dom talks with Friend Weller about why he spent a little over two years riding a tandem bike from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina and what he discovered along the way in the first half of this morning's Access Utah. NEON NEON, the National Ecological Observatory Network, will receive $433 million from President Obama's 2011 budget to help study the impact of climate change, land use change and invasive species on natural resources and biodiversity. Utah State University College of Science Dean Jim MacMahon is chairman of the NEON board of directors and talks with Kerry Bringhurst about plans to construct research sites throughout the United States. Wednesday, February 24 | Listen Brazilian Music Brazilian music and American poetry is featured on today's program. Lee Austin is joined first by musicians Mike Christiansen, Christopher Neale and Linda Ferreira Lindford. All will be performing Friday night at Utah State University. Two selections from the program are performed live in-studio. Tomorrow's Living Room Later, Lee speaks with writer Jason Whitmash, author of "Tomorrow's Living Room." His poetry collection was the 2009 recipient of the May Swenson Prize. Tuesday, February 23 | Listen Eileen Ivers Today's program is all about music. First, Lee Austin talks with nine–time All Ireland fiddle champion Eileen Ivers. The Bronx-born Irish-American has made more than 100 recordings of traditional and contemporary music and was part of the original "Riverdance" ensemble. Ivers has created a new multimedia touring production called "Beyond the Bog Road – An Irish-American Experience," and will bring it to Logan for two performances next week. Stephen Hough Renowned British pianist Stephen Hough joins Tom Williams in the second half of the program. Stephen Hough is appearing tonight at 7:30 in the USU performance hall as a part of the Wasserman Festival with a concert of Bach, Fouret, Franck, and Chopin. Stephen Hough is also a writer and composer and is the recipient of a MacArthur Grant—the so-called genius grant among many other honors. He appears with major orchestras around the world and has several award-winning recordings to his credit. EXTRA AUDIO Here's more of my conversation with Stephen Hough (not included in Access Utah) including talk about his blog, airline travel, more on his love of hats, and a fascinating story about how Stephen Hough discovered his Australian heritage and became a dual citizen of Great Britain and Australia. Listen Visit Stephen Hough’s website for more information. Monday, February 22 | Listen All Things Fruit It’s time to prune your prunes. . .well, at least your plums and any other fruit trees in your garden. Stone fruits are pruned differently than pome fruits like apples and pears. To find out if you’ve been butchering or helping your fruit production, USU Extension Fruit Specialist Brent Black joins us for the first half of Access Utah to discuss all things fruit. Pruning the Orchard PDF Childhood Obesity First Lady Michelle Obama has introduced a campaign to fight childhood obesity. Dr. David York is director of the USU Center for Advanced Nutrition. We discuss the battle to beat childhood obesity. Friday, February 19 | Listen Funding Cuts Utah lawmakers serving on the Health and Human Service appropriations sub-committee have recommended cuts to programs serving people with disabilities and the Baby Your Baby program. Kerry Bringhurst speaks with advocacy organization leaders about the proposed funding cuts. Her guests include Republican Representative Ronda Rudd Menlove of Box Elder County. Thursday, February 18 | Listen Making Peace Kerry Bringhurst's guest is USU graduate and retired U.S. Ambassador Lynn Hansen, author of Making Peace: Confidence and Security in a New Europe. Ambassador Hansen will talk about his discussions with Soviet Ambassador Oleg Grinevsky near the end of the Cold War in the 1980s. The Infamous Stringdusters The bluegrass band, The Infamous Stringdusters is on their ski tour 2010 which will bring them to Logan on Friday and SLC and Park City on Saturday and Sunday. Tom Williams talks with fiddle player Jeremy Garrett in the second half. Wednesday, February 17 | Listen Colorado River Restoration In the first half our subject is river restoration. Scientists made a third attempt in 2008 to simulate spring floods in the Colorado River by releasing water from Glen Canyon dam to see if that would help restore the natural ecosystem of the river. We'll review the data from that experiment--which has recently begun to be released--with USU watershed sciences professor Jack Schmidt. Potential Poisons The recent deaths of two young Utah girls of apparent phosphine poisoning have many of us thinking about pesticides and other potential poisons and wondering how to prevent poisonings. In the second half of the program today we'll talk with Clark Burgess, pesticide program manager with the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food and with Barbara Crouch, director of the Utah Poison Control Center. Tuesday, February 16 | Listen The Search for Amelia Earhart Some have called her America's most famous missing person; the search for Amelia Earhart still continues but in the summer of 2010, it will involve forensic science, high-tech archeology and DNA. Friend Weller talks with Ric Gillespie, founder and executive director of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery in the first half of this morning's Access Utah. Wabi Sabi Lee Austin previews a very unusual fashion show taking place Saturday night in Moab. He speaks with Jeff Cohen, Executive Director of Wabi Sabi, and with fashion designer Abby Scott. Friday, February 12 | Listen The Science of Love Nothing is more mysterious than love. Humanities scholars say it is the motivation for everything in human life and biologists try to understand it with science. But can we use science to explain love? Join us for the exploration of love from moths to humans, and just in time for Valentine's Day. Thursday, February 11 | Listen Winter Olympic Games 2010 NPR's Howard Berkes has covered six previous Olympic Games and will join us this morning from Vancouver where he's reporting on his seventh games. We'll ask him to set the scene for us and we'll talk about the Vancouver games which begin tomorrow. Grizzly Bear Best Friend In the second half our guest is naturalist Casey Anderson, whose best friend is an 800-pound grizzly bear named Brutus. Casey Anderson and Brutus set out on a yearlong mission to chronicle the lives of Yellowstone's vulnerable grizzly bears. We'll also hear some amazing sound of Casey Anderson's encounters with bears from a National Geographic channel special called Expedition Grizzly. Wednesday, February 10 | Listen Working in Haiti Lee Austin speaks first with National Public Radio reporter Mandalit del Barco. Normally based at NPR West, del Barco returned this week from Haiti. She talks about what it's like to work in the earthquake devastated nation. Fry Street Quartet Members of the Fry Street Quartet stop by the studio. The USU-based quartet has a new violist, performs next week in Logan, and recently spent a few weeks in Brazil. Tuesday, February 9 | Listen Utah Legislature Issues The Utah Legislature is now in the third week of its annual 45 day session, debating a variety of policy issues and working on the budget. Lee Austin will be speaking with two reporters who are covering the session - Robert Gehrke of the Salt Lake Tribune, and Art Raymond of the Deseret News. Polygamy in America Lee will talk with writer Scott Anderson about his cover story in this month's edition of National Geographic Magazine: "Polygamy in America." A companion documentary: "Inside Polygamy – Life in Bountiful" airs this week on the National Geographic Channel. Monday, February 8 | Listen Heirloom Seeds Saving heirloom seeds is not only cost effective but it helps diversify the vegetable, herb, and fruit gene pool. Diane Ott Whealy, Co-founder of the Seed Savers Exchange, also discusses passing along the legacy of heirloom seeds. http://www.seedsavers.org/ Cloned Cattle Ken White, head of USU’s Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Science, talks about a new study of cloned cattle that may shed light on problems in human pregnancies. Friday, February 5 | Listen Amy Shlaes A group of conservative scholars is revising the history of the Great Depression. Among them is Amity Shlaes, my guest for the hour on the program today. She believes that both presidents Hoover and Roosevelt relied on too much government intervention to try to solve the problems of the Great Depression. Amity Shlaes is a senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations, a syndicated columnist at Bloomberg, a contributor to PRI's marketplace, and the author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. We’ll talk about the New Deal and about our current recession and what we should do about it. Thursday, February 4 | Listen Valentine Choclate Festival 23rd Annual Valentine Chocolate Festival organizers, chefs, and judges will host the public event Saturday, Feb. 6th at 6:30 p.m. in the Logan Bullen Center. Tips and recipes for professional, amateur, and parent/child entries from local chefs Grace Harvell, Heather Troyer, and Liz Fallis. Organizer Nancy Sassano shares details about the benefit event during the first half of Access Utah. Here are some featured recipes from the festival: Chocolate Tart - Heather Troyer Make Me Swoon Macaroons - Nancy Sassano Chocolate Guinness Stout Cake - Grace Harvell Singer Suzy Bogguss Award winning singer and song writer Suzy Bogguss performs in Moab and Logan later this month. Kerry Bringhurst talks with Bogguss about her upcoming release of regional folk songs. Wednesday, February 3 | Listen Black River Dreams Lee Austin speaks first with writer Maximilian Werner of Salt Lake City about his book Black River Dreams. The book is described as a celebration of the fly fishing life, the intersection between past and present, spirit and body, water and land, and ghosts and dreams. The Mormons Emmy Award winning documentary film maker Helen Whitney talks about her work, which includes the recent series on PBS: "The Mormons." Whitney is a guest this week on the Utah State University Campus, participating in the "Crossing Boundaries" project. Tuesday, February 2 | Listen Wilderness: the Great Debate Lee Austin has a preview of a new KUED documentary that will be broadcast this week. It's called Wilderness: the Great Debate. KUED Director of Productions Ken Verdoia talks about the program. Consequences of Winter Inversion Roger Coulombe Professor and Director of the Interdepartmental Graduate Toxicology Program at Utah State University, and Randy Martin, a Research Associate Professor at USU, discuss a new study assessing the human health consequences of Cache Valley’s winter inversion air pollution. Monday, February 1 | Listen Vegetables and More Vegetable planting dates, seed viability, brussel sprouts, and cat deterrents, were all part of the discussion today with USU Vegetable Extension Specialist Dan Drost. Garden Helpful Hints Wasatch Front Planting Date Guide USU Extension Horticulture Fact Sheets

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