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The Utah Foundation released a report on social capital in Utah in 2021 and they are preparing an update. We talk about social trust and cohesion, civic engagement, community, family health, and more.

On Thursday, we broadcast from Zion Canyon Mesa in Springdale. We talked to Springdale Mayor Barbara Bruno and Zion Canyon Mesa Executive Director Logan Hebner.

The Salt Lake Tribune recently reported that a Utah State University employee was paid for 2 years while he didn’t work. The employee at the school’s Price campus was supposed to oversee programs for local businesses.

On this episode we talk with Planned Parenthood Association of Utah President and CEO Karrie Galloway; and Mary Taylor, President of Pro-Life Utah.

On this episode we're joined by Chelsea Sachau and Pedro De Velasco to discuss the situation at the border and Title 42.

Today it’s another Member Drive special edition of the program and our guest is former NPR Moscow Bureau Chief Corey Flintoff. We’ll talk about the war in Ukraine, the situation in Russia, and about reporting on war.

We are joined once again by Anna Pechenkina, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Utah State University. We talk about the current situation unfolding in Ukraine, the possible future and some of the politics involved.

We talk with House Speaker Brad Wilson; Senate Majority Whip Ann Millner; and Rep. Jennifer Dailey-Provost, D-Salt Lake City.

We’ll talk about fossil fuels, renewables, nuclear, hydrogen, methane and more.

HB 147, sponsored by Rep. Lowry Snow, R-St. George, which would have repealed the death penalty in Utah and replaced it with a possible sentence of 45 years to life, was defeated in committee. The debate will go on, however, today on Access Utah.