- January 3
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Senate President John Valentine and Senate Minority Whip Gene Davis
will join Host Lee Austin for a pre-legislative discussion regarding
the Utah Legislature, which will begin its annual 45 day session later
this month.
- Commentary by Gina Wickwar
- Russell Banks, noted author of numerous novels, including The Darling, Affliction, and Searching for Survivors,
will be joining us for a discussion concerning his latest works. Banks
was in Salt Lake City last year to participate in the Dewey Lecture
Series at the Salt Lake City Main Public Library.
- January 4
- Scott Renshaw, movie critic for City Weekly in Salt Lake
City, will participate to talk about his top ten favorite movies of
2006.
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Eduardo Ortiz, graduate student of USU’s MBA program and volunteer at
Bridgerland Elementary, Ingrid Sanchez from Bridgerland Elementary, and
Richard Roberts, professor of Psychology at USU and director of the
Early Intervention Research Institute with USU’s Center for Persons
with Disabilities, will discuss the Swift & Co. meatpacking plant’s
immigration sweep and its impact on families and the community. They
will also talk about creating a dialogue between the majority and
minority populations.
- January 5
- January 8
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
- Dr. Jim Davis from the USU Student Health and Wellness Center
will join us to answer general health and medical questions and discuss
the top ten health stories of 2006. To participate, call 800-826-1495.
- January 9
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Craig Aston from the USU Plants, Soils, and Biometeorology Department will meet with Bryan Earl to discuss proper care for indoor plants during the winter season.
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Some of the most prominent musicians from Utah's 1960's folk music
scene will be returning to the stage for a concert this month in Salt
Lake City. Folklore scholar Polly Stewart, formerly of the Salt Lake
City group "Polly and the Valley Boys", will preview the upcoming
concert in an interview with Host Lee Austin to discuss the music and
the times from four decades ago in the Salt Lake Area.
- January 10
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House Minority Whip Brad King and House Assistant Majority Whip Brad Dee will join Host Lee Austin in a continuing discussion on the upcoming legislative session.
- Commentary will be provided by Thad Box
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Artist Liat Ben-Shay will talk with Host Lee Austin about The Alliance
for the Varied Arts exhibit entitled "Genetic Holocaust." The paintings
and signs in this exhibit depict the experiences of Ben-Shay's parents'
generation in Germany and Poland under Hitler's power. The exhibit will
be on display January 12-27 in the Thatcher Young Mansion in Logan.
- January 11
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Computer specialist Jonathan Choate from New Dawn Technologies
in Logan will join us in studio to discuss common computer problems and
how to take care of them. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- Richard Sher, producer and host of Says You!, will participate to talk about the upcoming Says You! event in Salt Lake City. The NPR word game Says You! airs on more than 100 stations nationwide, and is broadcast regularly on Saturday at 11:00 a.m. here at UPR.
- January 12
- Open Forum
-
Seefeldt from the USU Chemistry Department
will join us to discuss his participation in an upcoming conference
entitled “Fueling Our Future: Economic Development and Quality of
Life”. The conference will take place on Friday, January 12, in Salt
Lake City and will focus on the development of a secure, clean, and
sustainable energy source
- January 16
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Loralie Cox, USU Extension Horticulture agent of Cache County, will join Host Bryan Earl for a discussion on the All-America Selection Winners of 2007, including the woodflower, the petunia, the vinca, and the pepper.
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Two members of the music group “Red Priest” will talk with Host Lee Austin about the group’s upcoming performance. The performance will take place at the USU Performance Hall in Logan on January 16, at 7:30 p.m.
- January 17
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Representative Steve Urquhart,
sponsor of a voucher bill aimed at providing tuition tax credit to help
pay for private school costs, and Dixie Allen from the Utah State Board
of Education will join us to discuss Urquhart's voucher bill. Urquhart believes that his voucher will pass this year.
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Commentary by Gina Wickwar
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Children’s book author and illustrator Kevin Hawkes will join Host Lee
Austin to talk about his latest works. As a graduate of Logan High
School and Utah State University, Hawkes has produced more than 30
books and will be making several visits in Cache Valley and Salt Lake
City next week.
- January 18
- January 19
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
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Cathy Ives, the new general manager at Utah Public Radio (UPR), will
talk with Host Lee Austin about her plans and vision for the future of
UPR. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- January 22
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- Sara Sinclair will provide a brief commentary
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Gary Edwards, director of the Salt Lake County Health Department,
will join us to discuss the apparent reduction of cancer-related deaths
in the United States and some possible reasons for the decline. Also,
if time permits, Edwards will also discuss the new vaccine (Gardasil)
that prevents the spread of HPV - a sexually transmitted disease which
can cause cervical cancer.
- January 23
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USU Extension Fruit Specialist Brent Black will be in studio with Host Bryan Earl to discuss different fruit tree varieties.
- Novelist and Physicist Alan Lightman will join us to talk about his upcoming visit in three public events presented by the University Department of English Speakers Series
program on Wednesday, January 24. As author of several books, including
his most recent Einstein’s Dreams, Lightman is currently Adjunct
Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT).
- January 24
- Senator Lyle Hillyard, co-chair of the Executive Appropriations Committee, will join Host Lee Austin to discuss current legislative issues.
- Commentary provided by Thad Box
-
Shawn Fisher will discuss the upcoming performance for his production Scope,
an original Iraq War play that combines with two other original
"shorts" for "A Night in Iraq." The performance will be hosted at the
Caine Lyric Theatre in Logan at 7:30 p.m. January 26, 27, 31, and
February 1-3.
- January 25
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Artistic Director Marjorie Bagley, concert pianist Anton Nel, and
Metropolitan Opera Diva and Soprano Cynthia Lawrence will join Host Tom
Williams to talk about the upcoming Juniper Chamber Music Festival at the Ellen Eccles Theatre Thursday, January 25, and Friday, January 26.
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Writer Lawrence Weschler will participate with Host Lee Austin for a live discussion concerning Weschler’s upcoming appearance on the Utah State University campus as part of the art department’s Visiting Artist Program on January 29 and 30.
- January 26
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- “So, if Mars was habitable early in its
history, did life develop there, or are we alone in the solar system
and the universe?” asks Matthew P. Golombek,
a senior research scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Golombek will join us to
discuss scientific evidences gathered on Mars by the NASA exploration
rovers Spirit and Opportunity that support varying theories about life
on Mars and other planets.
- January 29
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
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IHC Senior Compliance Consultant Mary Thomason
will join us to talk about health rights and health insurance. Thomason
specializes in privacy rules and Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance.
- January 30
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Dan Drost,
USU Extension vegetable specialist and professor in the Plants, Soils,
and Biometeorology Department, will join us to discuss garden topics
such as seed starting and the gardening time table.
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An interview with Poet George Bilgere; author of four books, including Haywire;
and recipient of the 2006 May Swenson Poetry Award from USU Press, will
be broadcast. The contest judge, Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins,
wrote that Bilgere writes poems of experience and wisdom but delivers
them in the ordinary language of American speech. "[H]is ease of
language can lead us unawares into a complex terrain of the heart and
spirit. Haywire is full of bittersweet poems that are balanced between
humor and seriousness, between the sadness of loss and the joy of being
alive to experience it."
- January 31
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Robert Davies, a USU-trained physicist, will participate for a
discussion on global climate change. Davis recently returned from a
seminar with former Vice President Al Gore, where he was one of 200
people selected to attend The Climate Project, and will present the "Inconvenient Truth" slideshow to audiences throughout Cache Valley.
- Commentary provided by Gina Wickwar.
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A recorded conversation with writer Susan Straight,
who is the author of numerous fictional novels, including her most
recent, "A Million Nightingales," will be broadcast. Straight is also a
regular commentator on NPR's All Things Considered, and she also read last fall at the Great Salt Lake Book Festival.
- February 1
- February 2
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
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Joel Pederson,
director of the Optical Stimulated Luminescence lab at USU, will
participate to discuss how the lab can answer questions about geology
hazards in Utah, including earthquakes.
- February 5
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
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Dr. Jim Davis, director of the USU Student Health Services, will join
us to discuss high blood pressure and heart disease in favor of
National Heart Awareness Month. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- February 6
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Larry Sagers, USU Extension and Thanksgiving Point horticulture
specialist, will join Host Bryan Earl to talk about fruit tree
varieties.
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Arthur Caplan,
associate professor in the economics department at USU, will join Host
Lee Austin in order to discuss policies to control PM 2.5 emissions,
one of the leading factors in air pollutions and lingering inversions
in Cache Valley.
- February 7
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Richard Kendell, Utah commissioner of Higher Education,
will join Host Lee Austin for a discussion on higher education issues
and the legislature.
Since regents named Kendell as commissioner in 2003, he has been
proactively working to ensure collaboration and awareness between
higher and public education.
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Commentary will be provided by Thad Box
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Kathy Kankainen, anthropology collections manager from the Utah Museum
of Natural History, will talk with Host Lee Austin about select items
from the museum's Four Corners Collection. The collection is an
accumulation of hundreds of Native American rugs, katsina dolls,
jewelry and bead work gathered over five decades by Dorothy Haslam in
the Four Corners area.
- February 8
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Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems,
professor of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia, will join
us to discuss her position as Convocations Speaker at Southern Utah
University Tuesday, February 13, where she will give a presentation
entitled "The Complete Emmett Till Story: Theft of Different Sorts."
Dr. Hudson-Weems was the first to establish the position that Emmett
Louis "Bobo" Till's brutal lynching in 1955 was the catalyst of the
modern civil rights movement.
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David Nimkin, the Southwest Regional Director for the National Parks Conservation Association,
will join us through a recorded conversation to discuss legislature
regarding a recently released White House Budget proposal that will
increase funding to national parks in Utah by about $4.6 million.
- February 9
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
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Charles Prebish, head of the Religious Studies Program in the history department at USU, will join us for discussion.
- February 12
- Open Forum
- Sara Sinclair provides commentary
- February 13
- February 14
-
Yezid Sayigh, professor of Middle Eastern Studies in the Department of
War Studies, King’s College, London University, will discuss his
upcoming presentation at the University of Utah campus on The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Is There a Way of This Conflict?. Sayigh is also author of Armed Struggle and the Search for State: the Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993.
- Commentary by Gina Wickwar
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Freelance environmental writer Greer K. Chesher and Photographer Michael Plyler will join Host Lee Austin to discuss one of their most recent works: Zion Canyon: A Storied Land.
- February 15
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Computer specialist Jonathan Choate from New Dawn Technologies will
join us to discuss recent technology trends. To participate, call
800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- Author Ed Viesturs will converse with Host Lee Austin about his memoir No Shortcuts to the Top,
which focuses on a remarkable 18-year, death-defying obsession to reach
the summit of all 14 of the world's "8000ers" - peaks exceeding 8,000
meters (26,247 feet).
- February 16
- Open Forum
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Editors Paul Crumbley and Patricia Gantt will join us for discussion about the recently published book Body My House: May Swenson’s Work and Life.
Crumbly is an associate professor of English and co-director of
American studies at Utah State University (USU), and Gantt is a
professor of English at USU.
- February 20
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Brent Black, Utah State University Fruit Specialist will talk with host
Bryan Earl about gardening. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band members Carl LeBlanc and Michael Paz will join us to discuss the upcoming performance of this famous New Orleans ensemble on Tuesday and Wednesday night at the Ellen Eccles Theater in Logan.
- February 21
- February 22
- Ogden Standard Examiner Movie Critic Steven Salles will join Tom Williams for a discussion on the upcoming 79th Academy Awards taking place Sunday, February 25. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- Marshall Thompson,
an Army Reserve Sargent and journalist, will talk about his experiences
with journalism and the military, and also the press censorship he
witnessed during his tour of duty in Iraq.
- February 23
- Open Forum
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Author, Film Producer, and Stunt Man Frank Beddor will visit to talk
about the upcoming multimedia presentation at the City Library about
his two recent works The Looking Glass Wars and Hatter M.
- February 26
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
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Genetic Counselor Janet Williams and Health Program Specialist Jenny
Johnson from the Utah Department of Health will discuss family health
history and genetic counseling. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- February 27
- USU Extension vegetable specialist Dan Drost will join
us to discuss common issues and important information about spring
gardening.
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California garden columnist Amy Stewart will talk about her book Flower Confidential that she wrote after traveling the globe to examine the $40 billion flower industry.
- February 28
- Kim Campbell, president of the Utah Education Association,
will be speaking live with Lee Austin, providing her perspective on the
Utah Legislature’s funding increase for public education.
- Commentary by Gina Wickwar
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Christie Fox,
director of Utah State University’s Honors Program, will preview a talk
she is giving later this week for the start of Women’s History Month, Warrior Women.
- March 1
- Host Tom Williams will be speaking with leaders from the
House of Representatives, and Host Lee Austin will talk with their
colleagues from the Utah Senate, for a review of the outcome of the
Utah Legislature annual session, which will end Wednesday, February 28,
at midnight. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- March 2
- Open Forum
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Cache Valley Author and UPR Essayist Gina Wickwar will speak with Host Lee Austin about her new book, Toto of Oz. Listeners who pledge online throughout the day will be able to select as their "thank you" gift a signed edition of Wickwar’s book.
- March 5
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
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Dr. Jim Davis, director of the Student Health and Wellness Center at
USU, will talk about various kinds of medications and their uses. To
participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- March 6
- Jennifer Sinor of the USU Department of English and Rona Kaufman of Pacific Lutheran University will discuss the book they co-edited: Placing the Academy: Essays on Landscape, Work, and Identity, which is published by USU Press.
- Marita Tewes-Tyrolt, director of Red Butte Garden Horticulture, will speak about what trees and shrubs should be pruned in late winter/early spring and how to prune them.
- March 7
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A group opposed to the private school vouchers plan approved recently by the Utah Legislature
wants to put the question before voters, and to overturn the plan.
We’ll speak with a representative of the group, and with a State
Legislator who helped pass the vouchers bill.
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Patricia Stevens, the new director of the Women’s Center at USU, will talk with Host Lee Austin about the upcoming activities at the USU campus in favor of National Women’s History Month.
- March 8
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Harvard music professor Thomas Forrest Kelly previews his public lecture titled "Beethoven's Ninth: Then and
Now," which he will present on Thursday, March 8, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Vieve Gore Concert Hall of the USU Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory.
During his lecture, Kelly will reconstruct the first performance of
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony using pictures, music, and his lively
speaking style.
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Novelist, playwright, essayist, and critic Gore Vidal, author of the new memoir Point to Point Navigation, in a recorded discussion. Vidal recalls encounters
with, among others, Eleanor Roosevelt, Tennessee Williams, and Johnny
Carson.
- March 9
- March 12
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
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Gary Edwards, director of the Salt Lake Valley Health Department, discusses childhood immunizations, the cervical cancer vaccine, and
what health bills have passed or failed recently in the legislature.
- March 13
-
Garden Specialist Mark Anderson joins us for a discussion on spring gardening.
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Utah native and former Republican National Committee Chairman Richard Richards. His autobiography, Climbing the Political Ladder One Rung at a Time, was published last fall by Weber State University.
- March 14
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Tax tips, tax scams, and new tax laws passed by the Utah Legislature.
Conversation, Q&A with Dolores Furnis from the Utah Tax Commission
and Paul Gibbons from Jones-Simkins LLP in Logan.
- Conversation with artist Scott Grieger. An exhibition of his photographs and sculpture opens next week in the Nora Eccles Harison Museum of Art.
- March 15
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An interview with Ted Kooser, former United States Poet Laureate who will be reading at Utah State University next week.
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President William A. Sederburg discusses Utah Valley State College’s transition to becoming a university.
- March 16
- Open Forum
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Robert Smith, professor of Geophysics at the University of Utah and
Christine Puskus, Geophysics doctoral student at the University of
Utah, together will discuss their research on the volcanic hotspot
beneath Yellowstone National Park.
- March 19
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
- Marty Malheiro, Outreach Education Provider and Clinical Instructor for the Utah
Poison Control Center at USU, will visit with Hosts Craig Hislop and Terri Chase
Dunn for discussion.
- March 20
- Diane Alston, coordinator of Utah Extension
Integrated Pest Management (IPM), will join us to talk about pest control.
Part of Alston's research interests include the study of pests concerning tree
fruit, vegetables, and wood. For more information, visit http://utahpests.usu.edu/.
- Salt Lake City Judge Andrew Valdez will preview his autobiography, No One Makes
It Alone, a story of how a poor, fatherless Westside Salt Lake City Latino
paperboy was befriended by an Anglo businessman who mentors and fathers him.
Nearly 40 years later, Judge Andrew Valdez returns the favor when he finds his
mentor on the street, alone and destitute.
- March 21
- Representative Brad Daw, who is sponsor of the House Concurrent Resolution 3,
and Matt Yarro, who is with the CP80 Foundation, a technology-based filtering
company, will talk with Host Tom Williams about Governor Jon Huntsman Jr.
signing the anti-pornography resolution.
- Commentary by Thad Box
- Governor Jon Huntsman
Jr. will participate through a recorded conversation where he talked with
Host Lee Austin about his visit with the Cache County School Board and recently
passed bills sponsored by Cache Valley Legislators. Salt Lake City artist Ruby
Chacon will also join us through a recorded conversation where she will talk
about her participation in the Women and Leadership lecture series at
USU.
- March 22
- March 23
- March 26
- Open Forum
- Commentary By Sara Sinclair
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Dr. Ed Redd and Allena Pierce from Bear River Health will address topics related to cancer awareness and prevention.
- March 27
-
Scott McKendrick, USU-Statewide Extension Equine Educational Program
Specialist, will join us to discuss small acres issues dealing with
weeds, and also horses and other animals.
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Grand Canyon author Brad Dimock will preview his voluminous biography, The Very Hard Way: Bert Loper and the Colorado River.
Dimock has spent the last six years researching Riverman Bert Loper’s
life, who spent more than 50 consecutive years as a river runner.
- March 28
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Mary Bomar, the 17th Director of the National Park Service, will join
us for an interview about the agency, which is hosting a series of
"Listening Sessions" around the country concerning a $3 billion
centennial park initiative. One of those meetings will take place this
week in St. George.
- Commentary by Gina Wickwar
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First, a preview of Friday night's Beat poetry reading at USU will be featured. Then,
Katharine Coles,
an associate professor of English, will discuss her latest poetic works.
- March 29
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Author Richard Turley will speak with Host Tom Willams about his forthcoming book called Tragedy at Mountain Meadows.
Turley is the managing director of the Family and Church History
Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and will
give a presentation at USU the same day entitled, "The Mountain Meadows Massacre, Questions and Answers."
- Professor Trudier Harris from the University of North Carolina
will visit with Host Lee Austin to discuss this year’s Fife Folklore
Honor Lecture, "Beautiful Language, Ugly Actions: Toni Morrison’s The
Bluest Eye," on Thursday, March 29, at 11:00 a.m. in the Haight Alumni
Center on the USU campus.
- March 30
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Environmental historian and Utah State University Assistant Professor
of History Lawrence Culver will share observations from his recent
trips into New Orleans neighborhoods, some restored and others still
devastated, and the city’s ongoing recovery efforts since the disaster
of Hurricane Katrina. Culver will give a presentation on his research
next week on the USU campus.
- April 2
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
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Dr. Jim Davis, director of the USU Student Wellness Center,
will visit with Hosts Craig Hislop and Terri Chase Dunn to discuss the
latest in medicine. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- April 3
-
USU Extension Vegetable Specialist Dan Drost will be back in studio to
answer general spring gardening questions. To participate, call
800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
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Cache County Sheriff Lynn Nelson and Captain Kim Cheshire will visit with Host Lee Austin in favor of the Cache County Sheriff's Office
celebrating 150 years of service and Sacrifice. For 150 days, ending
the first of September, office staff will present a ceremony each day
to celebrate the existence of the Sheriff’s Office.
- April 4
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Washington County Commissioner Dennis Drake, along with Peter Stemple
from the Citizen's for Dixie's Future organization, will meet with Host
Tom Williams to debate Washington County's growth issues.
- Commentary by Thad Box
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Bonnie Percival and Douglas Alder will visit with Host Lee Austin to
preview the Santa Clara-Virgin River Flood Oral History Project. To
participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- April 5
- April 6
- Open Forum
-
Westminster College Poet-in-Residence Andrea Hollander Budy
will join us to preview her visit to the USU campus Wednesday, April 11
at 12:30 p.m. at the USU Haight Alumni Center, where she will give a
reading of some of her most recent works and host a book signing. Budy
is the author of three full-length poetry collections, including her
most recent, Woman in the Painting.
- April 9
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
- April 10
- Diane Alston, coordinator of Utah Extension
Integrated Pest Management (IPM), will join us to talk about pest control.
Part of Alston's research interests include the study of pests concerning tree
fruit, vegetables, and wood.
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Former NYC police officer and Ucross Craig Johnson will visit with Host
Lee Austin to talk about his most recent novel from Viking called Kindness Goes Unpunished.
- April 11
- April 12
- April 13
- Open Forum
- Oboist Michele Fiala and flutist Heidi Pintner
will visit with Host Lee Austin to discuss their upcoming performance
on Friday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the USU Performance Hall. The duo
will perform traditional music including pieces from Mozart, Telemann,
and Hindemath, Phillip Bimstein, Michael Kallstrom, as well as music
that incorporates pots, pans, meows, and purrs in a recorded track that
accompanies the live instruments.
- April 16
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
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Dr. Gerald H. Ross will join us to discuss the degenerating air quality
in and around Utah. Dr. Ross, along with a group of other medical
specialists that call themselves the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment
say that microscopic soot from cars, power plants, and industry affects
the lungs and heart in much the same way smoking does and can do
irreparable damage.
- April 17
- William A. Varga, director of the Utah Botanical Center, will join us to preview plants and the unique role they have in modern medicine.
- Kenneth Helphand, a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Oregon, will discuss his book Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime. Helphand will be the keynote speaker at today’s Sustainable Landscapes Conference at USU.
- April 18
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Matthew Prince, CEO of Unspam Technologies, and Corynne McSherry, an attorney with the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, will debate the Utah Trademark Protection Act
and the unrest it has caused with several Internet corporations,
including Google, the world’s largest Internet search engine. The law
will take effect June 30, and from that point on companies that
register trademarks in Utah will be protected from competitors seeking
to buy the right to key off of those brands; however, it will prejudice
many organizations that rely on advertising as one of their primary
sources of income.
- Commentary by Thad Box
- NPR correspondent/newscaster Corey Flintoff will visit with Host Lee Austin to discuss his continuing career with NPR and public radio in general. He will be the featured speaker at the upcoming annual UPR Dinner at Diablo event taking place later this month. Flintoff’s has been a familiar voice to NPR listeners for nearly 15 years. According to his biography,
Flintoff's job, something he likes to call "news haiku," is to
summarize the day’s complex news into short stories that will give
listeners a fair grasp of world events at any given moment.
- April 19
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Matt Heimburger from the “Put Heber Valley First” Group and Heber City Manager Mark Anderson will participate to talk about what Heber City residents are doing in response to the recently announced Wal-Mart shopping center in their city.
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Car mechanic Heath Avery from Automotive Unlimited in North Logan will
present "How-To Utah," a segment on automotive repair. To participate,
call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- April 20
- Open Forum
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Issac Goeckeritz, a junior at Weber State University majoring in geography, will preview his documentary Ogden: Junction City of the West, which will be shown for the first time at 7 p.m. On April 25 at Peery's Egyption Theater at 2415 Washington Blvd. in Ogden.
- April 21
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
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Dr. Kevin Todd Houston, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on
human audio sensory and perception technology and in teaching deaf
children to listen and to talk, will join us on Monday to talk about
the new "Sound Beginnings of Cache Valley" program at Utah State
University. The program will focus primarily on developing spoken
language and listening skills for deaf children.
- April 23
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sincliar
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Dr. Kevin Todd Houston, one of the nation?s foremost authorities on
human audio sensory and perception technology and in teaching deaf
children to listen and to talk, will join us on Monday to talk about
the new "Sound Beginnings of Cache Valley" program at Utah State
University. The program will focus primarily on developing spoken
language and listening skills for deaf children.
- April 24
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Plant pathologist Kent Evans will join us to discuss plant diseases.
Evans is an assistant professor in the Biology Department at USU.
-
Novelist, essayist, physicist, and educator Alan Lightman will
participate via recorded conversation to discuss his latest works.
Lightman is Adjunct Professor
of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His
books of fiction include: Einstein's
Dreams , Good Benito ,
The
Diagnosis , Reunion and
Ghost .
Lightman was a guest on the Utah State University campus earlier this year.
- April 25
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Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff will join us to talk about current polygamy issues and the town hall meeting that was held in St. George recently on the topic.
- Commentary by Gina Wickwar.
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Jeanetta Williams, president of the Salt Lake City branch of the NAACP,
will give an address on Utah and civil rights, which was given recently
at Utah State University.
- April 26
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USU Chief of Police Steve Meacham and USU professor of Law Wayne
McCormick will discuss campus safety issues in the wake of the recent
tragedy at Virginia Tech.
- Commentary by Patricia Gantt
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John Simpson from Culinary Concepts will visit with host Lee Austin for How-To Utah to talk about culinary arts, which will include a presentation of the recipe for Crab & Ginger Chicken Napoleon.
- April 27
- Aprli 30
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
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Dr. Lucinda Bateman, director of the Fatigue Consultation Clinic in Salt Lake City will join us to discuss chronic fatigue syndrome.
- May 1
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USU Extension Vegetable Specialist Dan Drost will participate to talk
about gardening in favor of the impending 2007 planting season. To
participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
-
Vienna Teng, an introspective singer/songwriter/pianist with folk and
pop influences will visit to preview her performance which will take
place this Friday at 8:00 p.m. at the United Church of Christ in
Holladay.
- May 2
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Kim Burningham, chair of the Utah State Board of Education, and Leah Barker, executive director of Children First Utah, will join us to discuss the pros, cons, and progress of the recent Utah school voucher.
- Commentary by Thad Box.
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Eliza Bettinger from Story Corps,
a national initiative that instructs and inspires people to record one
another?s stories in sound, will talk about the Nature of Story Corps
and what it?s doing in Cache Valley.
- May 3
- Utah House of Representative Scott L Wyatt
will discuss Henry's Law, a proposed bill that could make animal
torture a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000
fine. Henry, the poster puppy for the Seante bill, is a one-eyed
Chihuahua who's owner blinded him with a leaf blower and then threw him
in an oven with the heat on.
- Commentary by Patricia Gantt
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Hawley Eric, Accociate VP for Technology at USU, will give an update on
computer and technology trends for this segment of How-To Utah.
- May 4
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Randy Williams, folklore curator for Special Collections and Archives
in the Merrill-Cazier Labrary, will visit to talk about the Latino
Voices Project, which is part of an ongoing effort by Special
Collections staff and volunteers to include the historical voices of
all northern Utah communities.
- May 7
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair.
- Dr. Jim Davis will discuss second-hand smoke and the
heavy damage it causes to those who experience it. To participate, call
800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- May 8
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Heidi Kratsch, Assistant Professor/
Extension Ornamental Horticulture Specialist at USU, will participate in studio for discussion.
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Photographer and pilot Adriel Heisey will discuss his work and hobby:
aerial photography. Heisey takes some 15,000 aerial pictures, generally
focusing on archeology sites in the West, while literally strapped to
the outside of his plane. An exhibit of his work, From Above: Images of a Storied Land, is showing at the Utah Museum of Natural History through May 20.
- May 9
-
Enid Greene from Utah's 2nd district in the U.S. House of
Representatives will join us to discuss the latest in the Utah GOP
issues. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- Commentary by Gina Wickwar.
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Author Lawrence Weschler will discuss his most recent works, including Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences. Weschler sees commonality in seemingly diverse images, symbols, and stories, as is reflected in his work.
- May 10
- May 11
- Open Forum
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Christopher McBeth, artistic director of Utah Opera, will discuss the company's production of The Grapes of Wrath opening this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City.
- May 12
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news.
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
- Dr. John Librett, manager of the Salt Lake Valley Medical Reserve Corps., will visith by phone
to discuss emergency preparedness.
- May 15
- USU Entomology Specialists Diane Alston and Erin Hodgson will participate in studio to
talk about pest control in the garden. Alston's extension and research interests
are integrated pest management and development and validation of biorational
technologies for key horticultural pests on tree fruits, vegetables, and woody
ornamentals.
- Blues artist Janiva Magness will join us on the program in favor of her
band's participation in the upcoming Bridger Folk Music Society performance on
Friday, May 18, 7:30 p.m., at the USU Eccles Conference Center auditorium.
Magness was awarded the Blues Music Award for Best Contemporary Female Artist of
the Year in 2006, and she is currently nominated for three distinctions: Album
of the Year, Best Contemporary Female Blues Artist, and Best Contemporary Blues
Album of the Year.
- May 16
- Provo City Council Chairman George Stewart and iProvo project manager Kevin
Garlick will discuss the conflict about covering iProvo's liabilities. iProvo is a municipally owned and operated, city-wide, fiber
optic network located in Provo.
- Commentary by Thad Box
- Utah composer Phillip Bimstein and folklorist Hal Cannon will join us to talk
about Red Rock Rondo, a song cycle about the people
and history of the Zion Nation Park area. The work, which was premiered last
summer at USU, will be performed Saturday at Westminster College in Salt Lake
City.
- May 17
- Terry Ball, Steven Peck, and George Handley from BYU will participate to talk
about their book Stewardship
and the Creation. This compilation demonstrates that Latter-day Saint
scriptures and teachings provide a consistent picture of human beings as
stewards accountable before God for the use and care of His creations.
- Commentary by Patricia Gantt
- Jeff Salisbury from Beacon Financial Planning, LLC, in Logan will continue his
conversation with host Lee Austin on security fraud and identity theft. To
participate, call 800-826-1495 or email
Access Utah.
- May 18
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news. To participate,
call 800-826-1495 or email
Access Utah.
- Wildlife photographer and birder Bobby Harrison will participate to discuss the
rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Harrison is an associate professor
of art and photography at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama.
- May 21
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news. To participate,
call 800-826-1495 or email
Access Utah.
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
- Dr. Laura Shane McWorter, professor in the College of Pharmacy at the University
of Utah, will join us to talk about herbal medicine, including statistics on the
number of persons that use herbal supplements with other medications, side
effects from herbal supplements, supplemental regulation, and the measurement of
supplement potency.
- May 22
- USU Extension Fruit Specialist Brent Black will discuss the intricacies of
taking care of fruit-producing plants.
- Ralph Whitesides, USU Extension Weed Specialist, will join us to talk about
various ways of fending off those pesky green intruders.
- May 23
- Tony Yapias, director of Proyecto Latino de Utah, and Representative Carl Wimmer
will join us to talk about the Border Security and Immigration Reform Act.
Yapias immigrated to the United States at age fourteen, where he received a
bachelor’s degree in International Relations from BYU and served as Director of
the Utah State Office of Hispanic Affairs under Governors Michael
Leavitt and Olene Walker.
- Commentary by Gina Wickwar
- Maria Melendez will participate to talk about her latest poetic works. She
will be one of four poets featured at the Ojai Poetry Festival in Ojai, California May 18-19. Melendez
will give an evening reading with poet Gary Snyder and participate in a panel
discussion with the three other speakers.
- May 24
- May 25
- May 29
- Kelly Kopp, USU Extension Turfgrass and Water Conservation Specialist, will
share with us about lawn care in the summer months.
- Kathy Weiler, producer of KUED’s program Aftermath of Meth, will visit
with us to discuss her examination of the meth epidemic in the rural
Intermountain West. The KUED program will air Wednesday, May 30, at 8 p.m.
- May 30
- Daniel McCool from the University of Utah will join us to talk
about the book he edited called Native Vote, which talks about Native
Americans and voting rights.
- Commentary by Gina Wickwar
- Author Christine Allen-Yazzie will participate to discuss her recent book The
Arc and the Sediment: a Novel.
- May 31
- Representative Steven Mascaro and Bill Colbert from the Utah State Board of
Education will participate as we continue our examination of school vouchers.
- Commentary by Patricia Gantt
- Liz Fallis from Logan will share some of her favorite chocolate and dessert
recipes. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email
Access Utah.
- June 1
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news. To participate,
call 800-826-1495 or email
Access Utah.
- Christine Wicker will discuss her upcoming Lecture, "A Visit to the Town that Talks to the
Dead," which will take place Thursday, June 7, at 10:00 a.m. in Old Main, room
225.
- June 4
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news. To participate,
call 800-826-1495 or email
Access Utah.
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
- Dr. Jim Davis from the USU Student Health and Wellness Center will be in studio
to take questions on health-related issues. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or
email
Access Utah.
- June 5
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USU Extension Vegetable Specialist Dan Drost will be back in studio to
talk about summer gardening. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
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Fred Adams, founder and director emeritus of the Utah Shakespearean Festival, and festival director Scott Phillips will discuss the recent reception of the Madeleine Award.
- June 6
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We will replay an interview with Ted Kooser, former United States Poet
Laureate who did a reading at Utah State University at the end of March
this year.
-
Commentary by Gina Wickwar
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California garden columnist Amy Stewart will talk about her book Flower Confidential that she wrote after traveling the globe to examine the $40 billion flower industry.
- June 7
-
BYU history professor Matthew Mason will visit with us to discuss Politics without Partisanship
and many frequently asked questions, including what the circumstances
are that give rise to partisan feeling, if partisanship is inherently
wrong, what positive effects it might have, and if it’s harmful, what
might we do to minimize it.
- Commentary by Patricia Gantt
-
Computer specialist Jonathan Choate from New Dawn Technologies
in Logan will join us in studio to discuss common computer problems and
how to take care of them. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- June 8
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news.
-
Robert Olmstead will participate to preview his book Coal Black Horse. "In the tradition of The Red Badge of Courage,
Olmstead has created a brutally honest portrait of what war does to man
and how it allows men - even inpels them - to love what they should
hate."
- June 9
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news.
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair.
-
Sarah Rule, director of the Center for Persons with Disabilities (CPD)
at USU, and past director Marve Fifefield will join us for a visit
concerning the CPD's 35th Anniversary. The Center is Utah's University
Center for the national network of Excellence in Developmental
Disabilities Education, Research, and Services.
- June 12
- Diane Alston, coordinator of Utah Extension
Integrated Pest Management (IPM), will join us to talk about pest control.
Part of Alston's research interests include the study of pests concerning tree
fruit, vegetables, and wood. For more information, visit http://utahpests.usu.edu/.
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Author and historian Sally Denton will join us to preview her book Passion and Principle.
Denton has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award, two
Western Heritage Awards, a Lannan Literary Grant, and the Nevada Silver
Pen Award.
- June 13
-
Salt Lake Tribune editor Terry Orme, Ethan Millard, proprietor of
SLCspin.com blog site, and Ric Cantrell, assistant to majority
leadership for Republicans, will visit with us for a discussion on old
media vs. current media and media trends. To participate, call
800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- Commentary by Thad Box
- June 14
-
Filmmaker Richard Dutcher,
director of God's Army, Brigham City, and States of Grace, will join us
to talk about "Mormon" cinema, and to preview his latest projects.
- Commentary by Patricia Gantt.
-
Dr. Melinda Hillegass from the Mountain View Veterinary Health Center located in Logan and Providence will provide insights on pet health care for How-To Utah. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- June 15
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news.
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Jean Cheney, assistant director of the Utah Humanities Council, will join us for a discussion focusing on the Council's new Public Square presentation.
- June 18
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news.
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair.
-
Dr. Thomas Higbee
from the USU Special Education and Rehabilitation Department, along
with Candy Miller, mother of an autistic child, will participate to
talk about trials, experiences, and solutions associated with
disabilities and education.
- June 19
- June 20
- June 21
- June 22
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news.
- June 25
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news.
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair.
- June 26
- June 27
- C. Arden Pope from the Department of Economics at Brigham Young University will be on the program to discuss his research about EPA air quality standards. Pope's groundbreaking studies on air pollution effects have helped shaped the nation's clean air laws.
- Commentary by Thad Box
- Professor Trudier Harris from the University of North Carolina
will visit with Host Lee Austin to discuss this year’s Fife Folklore
Honor Lecture, "Beautiful Language, Ugly Actions: Toni Morrison’s The
Bluest Eye," on Thursday, March 29, at 11:00 a.m. in the Haight Alumni
Center on the USU campus.
- June 28
- Salt Lake Tribune reporter Paul Rolley,
along with attorney John Lund and Senator Howard Stephenson, will visit
with us to talk about media issues, including confidentiality of news
sources.
-
Commentary by Patricia Gantt
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Dale Widdison from Westland Ford in Ogden will feature car repair.
- June 29
- Open Forum
-
Julia Glass, author of The Whole World Over, will be our guest to talk about her recent work.
Glass is the winner of the National Book Award for her novel Three Junes, and was a 2004-2005 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advance study.
- July 2
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
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We will have Dr. Jim Davis back in studio to talk about general health care issues.
- July 3
-
Dan Drost,
USU Extension vegetable specialist and professor in the Plants, Soils,
and Biometeorology Department, will join us to discuss gardening. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- July 5
- July 6
-
Utah Public Radio General Manager Cathy Ives discusses plans for UPR and takes listener questions.
- July 9
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
- Family practitioner Dr. Matthew Welter from the Cache
Valley Specialty Hospital discusses dehydration and general summer
health issues.
- July 10
- USU Extension Entomology Specialists Diane Alston and Erin Hodgson back in studio in the first half.
- A live interview with Melvin Johnson, author of Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight’s Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas
published by USU Press. Johnson teaches history and English at Angelina
College in Lufkin, Texas. He will be making two bookstore appearances
in Utah later this week.
- July 11
-
Fire Information Officer Jean Bergerson from Cedar City and Darren
McAvoy from the USU Department of Wildland Resources join us for an
update on the fires in South Central Utah.
- Commentary by Gina Wickwar
- Michael Sweeney, author of Last Unspoiled Place, Utah's Logan Canyon
and head of the Journalism and Communication Department at USU, will
participate via a recorded conversation to discuss his book, which is
composed of pictures and essays about Northern Utah landmarks.
Sweeney’s work was published recently by National Geographic.
- July 12
-
Mayors Kelvyn Cullimore of Cottonwood Heights and Bill Applegarth of
Riverton will join Host Tom Williams to discuss the pros and cons of a
possible Jordan school district split.
- Commentary by Patricia Gantt
-
Computer specialist Jonathan Choate from New Dawn Technologies
in Logan will join us in studio to discuss common computer problems and
how to take care of them.
- July 13
- July 16
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
-
Sergeant Jeff Simmons from the Cache Rich Drug Task Force and Randy
Wilde from the Bear River Health Department will participate in this
edition of the program on the use of methamphetamine and its effects on
health.
- July 17
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USU associate professor Charlotte Brennand from the Logan Iris Society will join us for a discussion on food and nutrition.
- July 18
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Dr. Phil Allen from the BYU Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, and Senator Dennis Stowell from District 28 will discuss Utah's continuing problem with cheatgrass, which aids to fuel wildfires and can grow back fast to become a propellant for more fires.
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Commentary by Thad Box
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Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps
and its parent company Sound Portraits Productions, will join us to
discuss the company's visit in Logan. Over the past two decades Isay's
radio documentary work has won nearly every award in broadcasting
including five Peabody Awards, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, and two
Livingston Awards for young journalists.
- July 19
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Utah Vital Signs Project director Sandra McIntyre will talk about Utah
living beyond their ecological means, a story recently published by the
Deseret News.
-
Commentary by Patricia Gantt.
-
Dr. Melinda Hillegass from the Mountain View Veterinary Health Center located in Logan and Providence will provide insights on pet health care for How-To Utah.
- July 20
- Open Forum
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Geologist Joel Pederson from USU will join us to talk about Utah rock formations and earth quakes.
- July 23
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinlciar
- Dr. Robert Young from Rocky Mountain Dermatology will participate on the program to discuss skin care during the summer months. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- July 25
- July 26
- July 27
- Open Forum
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Novelist Howard Frank Mosher will visit with host Lee Austin about his recent book On Kingdom Mountain. Howard is the author of ten books, including Waiting for Teddy Williams, The True Account, and A Stranger in the Kingdom, which, along with Disappearances, was corecipient of the New England Book Award for fiction.
- July 30
- July 31
-
Kent Evans, plant pathologist and assistant professor in the USU
Biology Department, will participate on the program to discuss plant
diseases.
- Salt Lake singer and writer Stacey Board will stop by to talk about this weekend's Torrey Music Festival and also to talk about and perform some of her own music.
- August 1
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Representative Scott Wyatt
will join us for a discussion on his new position as president of Snow
College. Wyatt served as student body president at Utah State
University and served as a student regent in the mid-1980s and as a
Snow College trustee from 1993 to 2005.
- Commentary by Gina Wickwar
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We'll tour the StoryCorps recording booth, which arrived in Logan this
week. We'll also discuss the oral history project with the people who
travel with the mobile recording studios and help facilitate
interviews. StoryCorps will host an open house reception tomorrow
(Thursday, August 1).
- August 2
- USU President Stan Albrecht will join us for discussion about USU and higher education in general. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- Commentary by Patricia Gantt
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Car mechanic Heath Avery from Automotive Unlimited will answer questions on home car repair.
- August 3
- Open Forum
-
Movie critics Scott Renshaw from the Salt Lake City Weekly and Sean
Means from the Salt Lake Tribune will join host Tom Williams for movie
talk.
- August 6
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
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Orthodontist Dr. Morris Poole will join us to discuss those pearly whites. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- August 7
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Dan Drost, USU Extension Vegetable Specialist and professor in the
Plant, Soil and Climate Department, will visit with us to discuss plant
care during the late summer.
- August 8
-
Kathleen Clarke from the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, Devon
Bailey, USU Department head of Economics, and Bruce Godfrey, USU
Extension Ag Economist, will join us in studio to talk about the Utah
Partners for Conservation and Development, along with current efforts
to provide support for families, businesses, and communities impacted
by recent fires.
- Commentary by Thad Box
- August 9
-
Economist Kelly Matthews from Wells Fargo Bank and Sterling Thomas,
vice president of mortgage banking for the Utah Housing Corps will join
us on the program to talk about the affordable housing dilemmas in Utah.
- Commentary by Patricia Gantt.
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Mark Grodkowski, pastry chef from Sweetly Divine in Logan will visit
with Host Kerry Bringhurst for a discussion on tasty sweets.
- August 10
- August 13
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
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Nathan Checketts, CHIP Coordinator for the state of Utah, will join us
to discuss children’s health insurance issues. To participate, call
800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- August 14
-
Kent Mickelson from the Utah Farmer's Association will join us in
studio to discuss weed control. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- August 15
-
Mary Bomar, the 17th Director of the National Park Service,
will join us for an interview about the agency, which is hosting a
series of "Listening Sessions" around the country concerning a $3
billion centennial park initiative. One of those meetings will took
place in St. George recently.
- Commentary by Gina Wickwar
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Deirdre McNamer will join host Lee Austin for a discussion on his book Red Rover, a novel about idealism laid waste and the haunting, redemptive bonds of friendship.
- August 16
-
Representative Greg Hughes and R-Draper, House chairman of the
Education Interim Committee, will be on the program with us to talk
about high school exit exams and their alarming failure rate. Many
Utahns find it disturbing that 26 percent of this year's graduating
seniors didn't pass the state's high school exit exam.
-
Computer specialist Jonathan Choate
from New
Dawn Technologies in Logan will join us in studio to discuss
common computer problems and how to take care of them.
- August 17
- Open Forum
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Reporter Sheri Quinn will join us to talk about the 21st Small
Satellite Conference hosted by USU. All week, attendees from the
military, academia, aerospace industry, and government agencies
gathered to share ideas and explore emerging spacecraft technology.
- August 20
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
- Dr. Jim Davis, director of the USU
Student Health and Wellness Center, will join us on the program for a
discussion on general health issues and questions. To participate, call
800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
- August 21
- Entomologists Diane Alston, coordinator of Utah Extension
Integrated Pest Management (IPM), and entomologist Erin Hodges will join us to talk about pest control. Part of Alston's research interests include the study of pests concerning tree fruit, vegetables, and wood. For more information, visit http://utahpests.usu.edu/.
- Utah State University Department of English faclty member Maria Melendez will visit with host Lee Austin for an interview about her first book-length collection of poetry How Long She'll Last in This World, which was published earlier this year by the University of Arizona Press.
- August 22
- Gary Carlston, Associate Professor in the USU Elementary Education Department, and Robert Morgan, Associate Professor in the USU Special Education Department, will join us on the program to discuss teacher shortages in Utah.
- Commentary by Thad Box
- Ian Brodie, assistant professor of folklore and chair of the department of heritage and culture at Cape Breten university, will visit with host Lee Austin about his presentation on the folklore of stand-up comedy presented earlier this year at a conference of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research at USU.
- August 23
- Utah Legislature Representative Lou Shurtliff from Weber County will discuss the outcome of the legislature's special session that took place Wednesday, August 22.
- Commentary by Patricia Gantt
- Dr. Melinda Hillegass from the Mountain View Veterinary Health Center located in Logan and Providence will provide insights on pet health care for this edition of How-To Utah.
- August 24
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news.
- Scott Jones from the Plants, Soils, and Climate Department at USU, will join us to talk about the Optimization of Root Zone Substrates (ORZS) projects, which is a collaborative venture between Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory and the Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems that will help future space explorers overcome the challenges of growing plants in space. For more information, visit the following links: USU ORZS Project, NASA SpaceChronicles, and NASA ORZS.
- August 27
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news.
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
- Today in the health portion of the program Dr. David Sundwall, executive director of the Utah Department of Health. He discussed Utah's fatal prescription drug overdose. More information here.
- August 28
- Award winning documentary film director Ken Burns will join host Lee Austin to talk about his upcoming documentary The War, which will be aired on PBS in September. Among other things, Burns will discuss complaints from minority leaders overlooking contributions from Latino soldiers in the WWII series.
- August 29
- Commentary by Gina Wickwar
- Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande, author of Complications: A surgeion's Notes on an Imperfect Science and Better: A Surgeion's Notes on Performance, will join host Lee Austin to talk about his latest works. Gawande was a guest on the USU campus last week.
- August 30
- Our guests in today's first half were Lincoln Shurtz, Director of Legislative Affairs with the Utah League of Cities and Town, and Provo resident Paul Perry. They discussed rising property taxes in Utah.
- Commentary by Patricia Gantt
- In our How to Utah segment our guest was Jean Lown, professor in the USU Family, Consumer, and Human Development. She discussed getting rid of credit card debt and creating a savings account.
- August 31
- Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news.
- We have Ed Marston, former publisher of High Country News, with us today to talk about this years conference. This annual conference covers nonpoint source and other water quality issues throughout the state and region.
- September 4
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Today Dan Drost, USU Extension Vegetable Specialist, joins us for a discussion on Fall gardening.
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Sally Denton talks with us about her latest book Passion and Principle, a compelling story about the couple John and Jessie Frémont and their pursuit to push America forward.
- September 5
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Today's first guest is Robert Malko from USU Department of Business. We
discuss nuclear power in Utah and what Utah is planning in the way of
nuclear energy.
- Commentary by Thad Box
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Trimpin, the world-renowned sound sculptor, kicks off this season with
Klompen, 120 Dutch wooden clogs that "dance" a different rhythmic
pattern each time the sculpture is activated.
- September 6
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Robert Gillies joins us from USU Plant, Soils & Climate Department
to talk with us about what the department does, and it's involvement in
current climate policies. To learn more about the team click
here.
- Commentary by Patricia Gantt
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Heath Avery of Automotive Unlimited answers questions on care care and car repair.
- September 7
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Lee Austin and Tom Williams discuss the latest in the Utah news. To participate, call 800-826-1495 or email Access Utah.
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We will be meeting with members of the Utah Shakespearean Festival to
talk about what it is like in the spotlight. Our guests will be
Kathleen Conlin, director of “The Tempest”, and Brad Carroll, director
of “The Mousetrap.” Link to their website
here.
- September 10
- Open Forum
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Our regular physician guest Dr. Jim Davis, Director of the Student
Health and Wellness Center at USU, will join us in studio. Dr. Davis
will be available to answer general health care questions.
- September 11
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USU Extension Entomology Specialists Diane Alston and Aaron Hodgson
will be back in studio to address pest and bug control in the garden.
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
- September 12
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We discussed the outcome of Utah’s primary elections. Our guests were
Terry Orme, managing editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, Matthew Burbank,
Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of
Utah, Providence City resident Laura Fisher, and Providence City Mayor,
Randy Simmons.
- Commentary by Gina wickwar
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Choreographer and dancer/athlete Amelia Rudolph, Artistic Director of
Project Bandaloop, speaks with Lee Austin. Project Bandaloop creates a
blend of dance, sport, ritual and environmental awareness through its
unusual performances. The groups is in Logan this week for performances
at the Ellen Eccles Theater and at Utah State University.
- September 13
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Our guest will be Alexander Keyssar, the Matthew W. Stirling Jr.
Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy
School of Government. He will give a presentation at the University of
Utah Thursday on “Democracy as an Ongoing Project: Threats and
Challenges to Democratic Governance in the U.S.”
- Commentary by Patricia Gantt
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Heath Avery of Automotive Unlimited answers questions on care care and car repair.
- September 14
- Open Forum
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Lee Austin will host a conversation with folk singer and songwriter
John Gorka. John Gorka is performing this Friday, the 14th at 7:30 p.m.
at the Eccles Conference Center Auditorium on the USU campus.
- September 17
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
- John T. Nielsen, new Executive Director of the Utah
Health Insurance Exchange will join us in the health portion of the
program. He will discuss the Governor Huntsman’s health insurance
initiative.
- September 18
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Our guest will be Dan Drost, USU Extension Vegetable Specialist and
Professor in the Plants, Soils, and Climate Department at Utah State
University. He will join Bryan Earl for a discussion on fall vegetable
gardening.
- September 19
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Six-time Grammy nominated Jazz performer, Nneena Freelon, will join Lee
Austin in studio. She will perform September 19 and 20 at 7:30 p.m. at
the Ellen Eccles Theatre in Logan.
- Commentary by Thad Box
- September 20
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Bobbie Coray, new Utah Liquor Commissioner, will join us to discuss Utah’s liquor license permits. To find out more click here.
- Commentary by Patricia Gantt
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Computer specialist Jonathan Choate will be in studio to answer computer and technology questions.
- September 21
- Open Forum
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Lee Austin will visit with Royden Card on the upcoming exhibit “Small
Scenes: 20 Woodcuts and 20 Short Poems” on display at Caffe Ibis
October 5 as part of the Logan City Gallery Walk. The exhibit is a
collaboration between Card and Utah’s former Poet Laureate, the late
Ken Brewer. Royden Card is an artist known for his woodcuts and oil
paintings of the desert landscape of southwestern Utah.
- September 24
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
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Our guest was Dr. Duane Harris from the Intermountain Allergy and
Asthma Clinic in the Salt Lake City area. He discussed treatment for
Fall allergies.
- September 25
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Garden specialist Mark Anderson joined Bryan Earl in studio for a discussion on forcing bulbs.
- September 26
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Patty Harrington, Utah State Superintendent of Public Instruction, will
join Kerry Bringhurst for a discussion about No Child Left Behind and
other education issues.
- Commentary by Gina Wickwar
- September 27
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Our guest will be William A. (Bert) Wilson, Humanities Professor
Emeritus in Folklore and Literature at BYU. He is this year’s speaker
for the Thirteenth Annual Arrington Lecture taking place Thursday,
September 27. The lecture is titled “What’s True in Mormon Folklore?
The Contribution of Folklore to Mormon Studies.”
- Commentary by Patricia Gantt
- n our “How to Utah” segment our guest will be
Veterinarian Melinda Hillegass from Mountain View Veterinary Health
Center in North Logan and Providence. Dr. Hillegass will be in studio
to answer pet health care questions.
- September 28
- Open Forum
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Dr. Sancy Leachman, Director of the Family Melanoma Clinic at the
Huntsman Cancer Institute joins us to talk about how Utah is at the
forefront of genetic research on skin cancer. The clinic, which studies
heredity skin cancer and tracks families with the genetic mututation is
the only one of its kind in the world, according to Dr. Leachman. We
will talk about types of melanoma, risk factors, prevention, genetic
research in Utah and why the environment here can put people at greater
risk. Read more here.
- October 1
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair.
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Our regular physician guest, Dr. Jim Davis, will join us. He will be in studio to answer general health care questions.
- October 2
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Our guest will be Dan Drost, USU Extension Vegetable Specialist and
Professor in the Plants, Soils, and Climate Department at Utah State
University. He will join Bryan Earl for a discussion on fall vegetable
gardening.
- October 3
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Our guest will be Ron Monson from Cache Valley Mortgage and Loan. He will discuss about the current mortgage situation in Utah.
- Commentary by Gina Wickwar
- October 4
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Our guest will be Alice Ristroph, assistant professor in the S.J.
Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. She will discuss the
Supreme Court session that opened this week.
- Commentary by Patricia Gantt
- n our How to Utah segment, Jean Lown, professor in the
USU Family, Consumer, and Human Development Department, will be in
studio to discuss retirement plans and answer other questions on
finance.
- October 5
- Open Forum
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Mitch Tobin, author of “Legislating Noah’s Ark”, will join us. Mr.
Tobin is an award-winning journalist and one of the West’s leading
writers on the environment. He will discuss his work Wednesday, October
10th in Springdale as part of the Zion Canyon Field Institute’s Lecture
Series.
- October 8
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
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Rob Ence, director of AARP Utah, joins us for a discussion on driver
safety for the elderly and when they should give up the keys.
- October 9
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Kelly Kopp, from the Plants, Soils, and Climate Department at USU, and
Water Conservation and Turfgrass Specialist , will join us. She will
answer questions about winterizing your lawn.
- October 10
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The Bioneers Conference at Utah State University will be held October
19-21. The keynote speaker, Cheryl Charles, will be our guest in the
first half. Dr. Charles will speak on 'The Ecology of Hope-- Building a
Movement to Reconnect Children and Nature'. “Bioneers is a forum
connecting the environment, health, social justice, and spirit within a
broad progressive framework.”
- Commentary by Gina Wickwar
- October 11
- Commentary by Patricia Gantt
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In hour How To Utah segment, our guest will be Mark Minor, associate
professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah. Dr.
Minor will address automotive trend issues and will also discuss
research on the prototype for the ultimate “smart car”, an autonomous
vehicle driven entirely without human intervention.
- October 12
- Open Forum
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Sheri Quinn will visit with University of Utah Professor Mario Capecchi, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
- October 15
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
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Dr. Ed Redd and Aleena Pierce from the Bear River Health Department in
Logan will discuss breast cancer awareness and immunizations.
- October 16
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USU Entomology Specialists Diane Alston and Erin Hodgson will be back in studio to discuss pest control in the garden.
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A conversation with poet and literary scholar Persis Karim, editor of
“Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been: New Writing by women of the Iranian
Diaspora.” Karim will discuss her work during two appearances next week
in Logan. Find more here.
- October 17
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Jeffrey Durrant, BYU Professor in the Department of Geography discusses
his new book “Struggle Over Utah’s San Rafael Swell: Wilderness,
National Conservation Areas, and National Monuments.”
- Commentary by Thad Box
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Kerry Bringhurst visits with Cedar City Mayor Gerald Sherratt about a
proposal to build a railway port on Utah’s Trust land on the west side
of the city.
- October 18
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Richard Davis and Byron Daines, professors in the Political Science
Department at BYU, discuss Utah’s primary election and the presidential
campaign.
- Commentary by Patricia Gantt
- In our How To Utah cooking segment, caterer Liz Fallis shares a couple of her recipes.
- October 19
- Open Forum
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Carl Bernstein, Washington Post Journalist, discusses his recent book “A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton.”
- October 22
- Open Forum
- Commentary by Sara Sinclair
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Dr. James Blotter, ear, nose and throat specialist, from Cache Valley
Specialty Hospital in North Logan joins us in the health portion of the
program.
- October 23
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Garden specialist Mark Anderson will answer questions on fall gardening and winterizing your garden.
- October 24
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Scott Matheson, appointed by Governor Huntsman to chair a Utah Mine
Safety Commision, discusses what the panel has learned since it began
meeting after the Crandall Canyon Mine disaster. The Commission has
taken testimony in Huntington, Price, Helper and Salt Lake City. More here.
- Commentary by Thad Box.
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A recorded conversation with Steven Heine, Professor of Religious
Studies and History at Florida International University. Heine has
published more than 20 books on the “Zen” tradition. He’s also author
of the popular book “White Collar Zen.” Heine will give a presentation
at Utah State University this Friday. More here.
- October 25
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Utah State University President Stan Albrecht will discuss a 15 million
dollar Entrepreneurship and Energy Research Center USU plans to build
in the Uintah Basin. The project was made possible by a donation by
Utah entrepreneur and businessman Marc Bingham and his wife Debbie, who
will also be featured in the conversation. More
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