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School safety, abortion politics and more on Behind the Headlines

By Tom Williams
Published February 23, 2024 at 12:18 PM MST
Yulianny Escudero with her 1-year-old granddaughter, Aranza, in a motel in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. The family of nine's journey stretched from Venezuela to Texas to New York to Utah's capital.
Rick Egan
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The Salt Lake Tribune
Yulianny Escudero with her 1-year-old granddaughter, Aranza, in a motel in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. The family of nine's journey stretched from Venezuela to Texas to New York to Utah's capital.

Parkland parents urge Utah lawmakers to pass school safety legislation. How Utah Republicans are trying to influence an active Supreme Court case. And nine Venezuelan family members landed at the Salt Lake City airport with nowhere to go; They recount their journey.

Tribune reporters Michael Lee, Emily Anderson Stern and Jose Davila IV join the show this week.

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Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.
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