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Getting to know Logan Cooley and the Minnesota Wild with Jess Myers
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- Getting to know Logan Cooley and the Minnesota Wild with Jess Myers
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- 47:22
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- In the second episode of Inside the Club, Jess Myers from the Pioneer Press joins Belle Fraser to talk about this week’s game against the Minnesota Wild as well as his time covering Logan Cooley during his season at the University of Minnesota. The podcast closes with another round of fan Q&A.
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- The Utah Legislature's 2025 session will focus on mail-in voting, energy production and immigration
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- 2:09
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Utah Legislature's 2025 session is just days away. Salt Lake Tribune reporters break down some of the topics they expect to see action on this year.
Emily Anderson Stern explains what the Legislature is doing about immigration and how it hopes to help with President Donald Trump's mass deportations.
Anastasia Hufham talks about Gov. Spencer Cox's Operation Gigawatt, which has a goal of doubling the state's energy production, including fossil fuels and nuclear.
And Robert Gehrke says the biggest fight of the year will probably be over vote-by-mail and how candidates get on the ballot.
Video by Trevor Christensen | The Salt Lake Tribune
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- 'American Primeval’: Separating fact from fiction
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- 39:56
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- A Mountain Meadows Massacre historian and a Shoshone leader discuss the Netflix series 'American Primeval' — from the portrayals of Brigham Young and LDS militias to Jim Bridger and Native Americans.
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- Bill Armstrong’s path to Utah and what comes next
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- 33:27
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- In the first edition of Inside the Club, Utah Hockey Club general manager Bill Armstrong joins Belle Fraser to discuss where his team stands midway through the season, what is to come in the rebuilding process and the different stages of his own career. The episode closes out with some fan Q&A.
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- Who is most likely to leave the LDS Church?
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Nearly six years after their landmark study on generational divides within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, research duo Jana Riess and Benjamin Knoll are back with a second installment.
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- What is happening at BYU? Two LDS academics explain.
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- 38:01
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Here to discuss BYU’s new approaches to hiring and firing, as well as the atmosphere on campus are Latter-day Saint historian Benjamin Park, author of “American Zion: A New History of Mormonism,” and Latter-day Saint researcher Jana Riess, author of “The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church” and columnist for Religion News Service.
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- BYU's "Black Box" has professors afraid
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Clark Gilbert, church education commissioner, is determined to have Brigham Young University faculty members who support the faith’s teachings — or at least how his office interprets those teachings.
Staff at the three BYU campuses have to follow the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But some of the standards for staff go far beyond what is asked of other members.
Read more at sltrib.com.
Reporting and writing by Peggy Fletcher Stack
Video by Trevor Christensen
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- New podcast: Inside The Club
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- 0:42
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Inside the Club gives an in-depth look at the NHL in Salt Lake City, including analysis, team interviews and other special guests to help you get to know the new hockey team and its trajectory. It is hosted by Belle Fraser, the Salt Lake Tribune’s Utah Hockey Club beat reporter.
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- How the newest Latter-day Saint apostle, Clark Gilbert, ran BYU
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- 6:17
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- At BYU and other schools owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a crackdown on orthodoxy led by Church Education Commissioner Clark Gilbert has some faculty members afraid of losing their jobs.
The threat of retribution apparently is so real that after dozens of interviews with present and former BYU faculty and administrators across many disciplines, not one current professor (including those with tenure, known as “continuing status”) would go on the record for this story.
“Low morale is pretty universal,” said a veteran teacher. “The default position is not to trust anybody.”
If the school continues on this path, some academics warn, BYU may look less like a Latter-day Saint Notre Dame and more like Liberty University, an evangelical school founded by Jerry Falwell in Lynchburg, Virginia, which requires faculty members to agree to a lengthy list of Christian doctrines and policies, including opposition to same-sex...
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- Utah's air quality issues are already affecting the next generation, study finds
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- A University of Utah study found a "troubling" association between ozone exposure and intellectual disability. The study found that ozone exposure at all stages of pregnancy correlated with a higher risk of the baby developing an intellectual disability, but researchers say they can’t explain why it's happening.
#ozone #airpollution #utah #pregancy #newstudy #newresearch #airquality #utahnews
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- Police chase goes through multiple Utah counties, ends with suspect dead
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- At least six Utah law enforcement agencies were involved in a chase and shooting Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. The chase began when an arson suspect was spotted in Orem. The chase ended in Riverton, where the suspect's car ended upside down. The suspect, whose name has not been released, died at the scene.
This video shows a long line of police cars following the suspect on Redwood Road in West Valley City.
Read more at sltrib.com.
Video courtesy of Jeremy Harmon.
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- 2024's LDS news recap: New garments, social media stars, temple push (and pushback)
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- 50:02
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- From garments to temples to women's issues and Russell Nelson's 100th birthday, a look at big LDS news in 2024.
On this week’s show, Emily Jensen, web editor for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, and Patrick Mason, head of Mormon history and culture at Utah State University, discuss an eventful 2024.
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- Park City Mountain Resort ski patrollers union goes on strike against owner Vail Resorts
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Park City Mountain ski patrollers officially went on strike early Friday, citing unfair labor practices and marking the latest chapter in the union’s contract negotiations with the resort’s owner, Vail Resorts.
Roughly 200 workers plan to keep striking during the busy holiday season until they secure a fair contract, union vows. “A livable wage,” picket sign states, “is not a big ask.”
Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/12/27/park-city-mountain-ski-patrollers/
Video by Francisco Kjolseth and Kyle Hansen | The Salt Lake Tribune
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- How a photographer told the story of the Great Salt Lake in three images
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Salt Lake Tribune visual journalist Francisco Kjolseth has been photographing the Great Salt Lake for more than two decades. For a recent project on how the lake is drying up he had a special challenge: To do a set of three images that are related but also different. Here's how he did it.
Read the stories here:
Part 1: Researchers warned the Great Salt Lake could dry up in 5 years. Now, they’re being mocked. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/12/16/great-salt-lake-study-warned-lake/
Part 2: Researchers who warned of the Great Salt Lake’s 5-year demise neglected a major water source. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/12/19/great-salt-lake-groundwater-plays/
Part 3: A stark warning about the Great Salt Lake led lawmakers to act. Would more nuance have gotten results? https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/12/23/great-salt-lake-5-year-demise/
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- The 2024 Utahn of the Year: The Utah Supreme Court
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Each December since 1997, The Salt Lake Tribune's Editorial Board has chosen a Utah newsmaker, a person, persons or institution that has — for good or ill — had the most significant impact on the state and its people.
This year the distinction goes to the Utah Supreme Court.
The board says: "Several times over the past year, the five members of the state’s top court have stood up for the democratic process and individual rights as promised in the Utah Constitution.
"These decisions were not only bold and just, but meaningful."
Read more at https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2024/12/26/tribune-editorial-utah-supreme/
Video by Trevor Christensen | The Salt Lake Tribune
Featuring Editorial Board member James E. Shelledy, who was editor of The Salt Lake Tribune for 12 years and has more than 30 years of daily newspaper and wire service experience.
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- NFL Hall of Famer Steve Young says to stop making deals with God
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- 40:16
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Steve Young — yes, that Steve Young, the Hall of Fame quarterback and former Brigham Young University star who earned multiple MVP awards and Super Bowl rings with the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers — is talking about love and faith.
In 2022, he wrote “The Law of Love,” in part to dispel the idea that love should be transactional. “If I do this, God will love me, or God will reward me.” Rather, Young wrote, love is about following Christ, helping to heal others and embracing all people, no matter where they are in their personal journeys. He drew on his football experiences and revealed much about his own shyness, anxiety and insecurity.
Now Young is back with a follow-up book, “The Law of Love in Action,” that moves from theory to practice, from believing to doing. He turns to Latter-day Saint scriptures as well as other faith traditions and personal experiences — his own and those of dozens of others.
On this week’s show, Young ...
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- Forecasting the weather in Utah is harder than in other places. Here's why.
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Don't blame the weatherman. Predicting the weather is hard. Especially in Utah.
The North American Multi-Model Ensemble is used to estimate meteorological trends from one to five months ahead of time.
The model has been in use since August 2011, meaning researchers like Ben Kirtman, who led its creation, have had a little more than 13 years to assess its accuracy. And in many places in North America, it’s been strikingly good — “skillful” is the word modelers use — offering simulations of coming temperature and precipitation patterns that turn out to be close to what happens a season or two into the future.
In the Southeast, where Kirtman is a researcher at the University of Miami, the model is quite skillful at predicting fall and winter rainfall. Over time, it has gotten gradually better at predicting coming winter conditions across the broader South, as well as precipitation in the Pacific Northwest. But if there’s one place where ...
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- How do we know how long it takes water to move to the Great Salt Lake? Thank nuclear testing.
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- 2:01
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Scientists can track how long it takes water — from rain or snow — to get from the top of the Wasatch Mountains to the Great Salt Lake. And it's thanks to nuclear testing.
In the decades after nuclear testing in Nevada began, it became clear that the same westerly winds that reliably carry moisture from the Pacific Ocean to Utah’s mountains also carried the radioactive dust from these tests into communities far from the detonation sites. The fallout unleashed by these and other nuclear tests continue to circulate across the globe today.
Among these radioactive particles is an isotope called tritium, which enters the global water cycle as water vapor and precipitation and diminishes over time at a steady rate. That gives scientists like Paul Brooks the ability to track how long it takes for the rain and snow that fall on Utah’s mountains to reach a catchment like the Great Salt Lake.
“We can’t track every water molecule, so we can only...
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- LDS scholar Dan McClellan on the real story of Jesus’ birth
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- 41:16
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Was he born in Bethlehem? Did Mary ride a donkey? Did a jealous King Herod have infants slaughtered? LDS scholar and social media star Dan McClellan sets the story straight.
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- Syrian Americans celebrate fall of Assad regime at Utah rally
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- 1:26
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Syrian Americans in Utah were invited to rally at the Utah Capitol on Saturday.
The rally was designed, organizers said in a release, “to celebrate the liberation of Syria and the end of the Assad regime’s tyranny. This joyous occasion is a testament to resilience and the enduring hope for freedom.”
“Let’s commemorate this monumental moment with community, solidarity, and gratitude. All are welcome to stand with us in celebration and support,” the release said.
Video by Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- LDS singles discuss the quest for love
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- 35:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- "Mormon Land" podcast about the dating scene and the divide that occurs between Latter-day Saints and those not of their faith.
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- Polygamous "prophet" Samuel Bateman sentenced to prison after admitting he abused his child ‘wives’
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- U.S. District Judge Susan Brnovich sentenced Samuel Bateman on Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, to serve 50 years in federal prison.
Bateman rose to power among several polygamous families in 2019 as they broke away from the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Originally charged with more than 50 felonies, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit transportation of a minor for criminal sexual activity and conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
Video by Trent Nelson, Jessica Schreifels and Trevor Christensen
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Polygamous prophet: How an FBI informant helped put FLDS-offshoot leader Samuel Bateman behind bars
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- 7:11
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Polygamous leader Samuel Bateman thought a Utah couple was filming him and his followers for a documentary. But they were turning over their recordings to the FBI.
Christine Marie and her husband, Tolga Katas, spent months building trust with Bateman, the leader of a small offshoot of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The sect’s traditional home is in the state border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, a historically tight-knit region known as Short Creek.
On Sept. 13, 2022, the FBI finally had enough evidence to execute their search warrant and arrest Bateman, who now faces decades in prison after admitting that he took 10 girls as his “wives,” and abused nearly all of them.
Video by Trevor Christensen
Reporting by Trent Nelson and Jessica Schreifels
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Why LDS growth is soaring in Africa, and how this patriarchal faith is seen as a ‘woman’s church’
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- 25:56
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- "Mormon Land" podcast on LDS Church's exponential growth in Africa — why it's happening, the challenges and opportunities it brings.
On this week’s show, Laurie Maffly-Kipp, the director of Mormon studies at the University of Virginia, answers these questions after delivering her first major speech at the school. It was titled, appropriately enough, “Mormonism Through an African Lens.”
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- Thieves Guild Cidery: Salt Lake City’s new fantasy-themed tavern
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Salt Lake City's new fantasy-themed bar, Thieves Guild Cidery, features Dungeons & Dragons-inspired decor, board games and unique cocktails.
Full story at sltrib.com.
#SaltLakeCity #dungeonsanddragons #skyrim #utah
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- Utah’s LDS vs. non-LDS divide: How it complicates dating, sex and the quest for lasting love
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- 1:38
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- While boundary-crossing romances are more common today and often face less resistance, plenty of real and resilient guardrails remain.
It is especially fraught in a place like Utah, dominated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which teaches that the highest heaven requires a marriage, or sealing, to a practicing member of the faith.
So while Latter-day Saint children playing with classmates and neighbors not of their religion is certainly innocent enough, those kids, at some point, grow up. When teens start hanging out and falling for outsiders, the stakes soar. After all, friendships can become crushes. Crushes can become engagements. Engagements can become weddings.
Dating, then, becomes a pinch point in the “Unspoken Divide” between members of the state’s largest faith and their fellow Utahns.
Read more stories like these at sltrib.com.
Reporting by Peggy Fletcher Stack, Tamarra Kemsley and Palak...
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- How practicing gratitude can cure road rage and combat loneliness
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- 26:51
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- For more than 160 years, Americans have celebrated a public holiday to express thankfulness — whether for a bountiful harvest, a successful business, a happy marriage, healthy children or a welcoming community.
And, in 2020, President Russell M. Nelson, leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, urged members to flood the internet with messages of gratitude, even as a global pandemic was sewing death and disease in every nation.
These days, there seems to be a national trend for keeping gratitude journals or practicing mindfulness. But what’s the benefit of it? Does it really help anyone, or is it just glib talk? Can those in dire circumstances really feel grateful, or is that just a naive view of life?
On this week’s show, Marybeth Raynes, a licensed clinical social worker, discusses the benefits of giving thanks.
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- Nutty Putty Cave accident: How John Jones got stuck and never came out.
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- 5:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- It was supposed to be a fun family outing. Instead, John Jones got stuck in Utah's Nutty Putty Cave, upsidedown, with no way out.
For 27 hours, rescuers worked to get John free. They tried everything they could imagine: digging, chipping, lubricating with peanut oil. They squeezed a ball between his forehead and the cave wall so he could push with his head while they pulled with their hands and ropes on John’s ankles, the only part of him reachable through the narrow window.
Ultimately, they couldn’t extract John, nor bring out his body.
Brandon Kowallis was the last man to see John alive.
Kowallis, a caver who daylights as Salt Lake Community College’s concurrent enrollment director, got called out to Nutty Putty Cave at the 20th hour. The other cavers were injured or exhausted, and Kowallis, who helped map the cave, knew it better than almost anyone.
As the 15th anniversary of the tragedy approached, Kowallis to...
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- Final ‘Saints’ book covers key moments in LDS Church history — from priesthood ban to LGBTQ rights
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- 42:06
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Six years after the first volume in the “Saints” series hit the stands, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is out with its fourth and final installment in the faith’s latest official history.
Titled “Saints: Sounded in Every Ear,” the text documents the years of 1955 to 2020 and covers a range of milestones, including the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the end of the priesthood/temple ban against Black members, the struggles over LGBTQ rights, and the church’s opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment.
On this week’s show, Jed Woodworth, the managing historian of the series, and Tesia Tsai, a writer for the volume, discuss the memorable experiences of top church leaders and everyday members from this period in the quickly globalizing faith.
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- Why did so many Latter-day Saints vote for Trump?
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- 47:46
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins examines the 2024 election, how the Republican takeover with Donald Trump as president may affect Latter-day Saints, and why the U.S. membership needs to become more politically balanced.
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- Making uranium ready for nuclear energy: Explore Utah’s White Mesa Mill
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- 9:59
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The White Mesa Mill in southeastern Utah is the last conventional uranium mill in the country. Growing global interest in carbon-free energy, including nuclear power, and recent international instability have increased demand for the “yellowcake” that it creates — and led to proposals for new mills in the region.
Utah lawmakers celebrate the industry for providing rural, high-paying jobs. But its surge is condemned by people who are concerned about the mill's environmental impacts, including the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe’s White Mesa community, located five miles to the south, and the nearby Navajo Nation.
Here’s what the mill does, and why it’s controversial.
Video: Trevor Christensen
Reporting: Anastasia Hufham
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- The Bear Lake Monster: Is the star of Utah's urban legend the same as the Loch Ness Monster?
- Runtime
- 6:33
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- It didn't take long after the Mormon Pioneers settled in northern Utah for the urban legend of the Bear Lake Monster to appear. Brigham Young even sent a group to investigate reports that a monster would come up out of the lake and eat cattle.
And some speculate it could be related to the more-famous Loch Ness Monster.
Braydon Wright from the Merrill-Cazier Library Special Collections and Archives at Utah State University explains the folklore behind the urban legend of the Bear Lake Monster.
Video by Bethany Baker of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- Trib religion reporter, film critic give their take on ‘Heretic’
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- 41:01
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Two female missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints enter the home of “Mr. Reed,” apparently a welcoming seeker with, it turns out, his own marked-up copy of the Book of Mormon, the faith’s foundational scripture.
Could this be a heaven-sent “golden contact” eager to embrace the Latter-day Saint gospel? Hardly. The young proselytizers have instead begun a hellish descent into the dungeonous world of a bright but demented psychopath determined to test their religion — and all religions — in a terrorizing contest between belief and disbelief.
Therein lies the heart of “Heretic,” the new psychological thriller starring Hugh Grant and due out in theaters nationwide this week.
The film already has earned praise from some reviewers, drawn criticism from the church, and spurred flashbacks to real-life frightening moments among former missionaries.
The week’s show focuses on the merits and demerits ...
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- Utah 2024 election: Trump and Republicans win, but some voters had to wait hours to cast ballots
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- 0:28
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Ballot printers ran out of ink, bringing at least four voting centers to a standstill until more supplies could be delivered. Poll staffers rushed to print and drive around thousands of emergency ballots. And some voters waited up to three hours in lines so long they wrapped both inside and outside of buildings.
Election Day in Utah’s second-largest county was a disorderly and slow affair.
But at the end of the day, the results were not surprising.
Video by Trevor Christensen | The Salt Lake Tribune
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- John Curtis wins election to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S. Senate
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- 0:45
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Democratic nominee Caroline Gleich conceded defeat to Rep. John Curtis in the race to replace Mitt Romney as Utah’s junior U.S. senator Tuesday night.
Voters were still in line outside of polling places, kept open by delays at multiple locations, but national news outlets were declaring Curtis, a three-and-a-half term congressman, the victor in the race.
Video by Trevor Christensen | The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Donald Trump wins Utah's support in presidential election
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- 0:29
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Former President Donald Trump won Utah for the third presidential election in a row, multiple national outlets reported Tuesday night, as voters at numerous polling locations remained in line.
While the ex-president was expected to secure a win in the Beehive State by a solid margin, just how his share of Utah’s vote compares to the previous two presidential elections won’t be clear until the final ballots are counted in the coming days and state officials certify results Nov. 25.
Video by Trevor Christensen | The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Utah County runs out of #election ballots
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The Utah County clerk’s office is working to print more than 2,000 emergency ballots after printers at four area polling locations ran out of magenta ink.
The lack of ink is preventing the four locations in the county south of Salt Lake City — in Highland, Pleasant Grove, Payson and Orem — from printing more ballots.
Utah County Clerk Aaron Davidson said the ink is hard to quickly find. So the office is working to move ink cartridges from other polling locations over to the four affected centers. Each polling location has about three to five printers, he said.
Video by Trevor Christensen | The Salt Lake Tribune
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- What is inversion? Utah's air quality problem explained.
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- 4:11
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- If you're new to Utah or just visiting you might hear someone explain that the bad air is inversion. It can make Utah's breathtaking mountains disappear. Sometimes it's so bad you can barely see. It's not smoke, or just smog, or plain old air pollution. It's inversion.
Video by Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Former students sue, alleging UVU didn’t protect them from medical worker accused of sexual assault
- Runtime
- 1:40
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Five women have accused nurse practitioner Derrick Pickering of inappropriate touching in police reports and civil lawsuits. He denies he ever sexually touched his patients.
Draper police have been investigating Pickering during the past year, but he has not been charged criminally and his license remains in good standing with the Division of Professional Licensing.
Read more:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/health/2024/10/10/former-utah-valley-university
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- President Nelson is betting big that more LDS temples will keep more members in the church
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- 35:36
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The ever-expanding tally of temples under President Russell M. Nelson is truly staggering.
Since taking the helm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he has announced 185 — more than half — of the faith’s global total of 367 planned or existing temples.
At the recently completed General Conference, the 100-year-old religious leader explained the reason for the building blitz rather succinctly: God commanded it, he declared, because “the Savior is coming again.”
Historian Benjamin Park sees other forces at play as well. In a recent piece for The Salt Lake Tribune, titled “Russell Nelson’s billion-dollar gamble,” he points to the millions spent on each temple as among the faith’s justifications for the billions it has in its financial reserves.
Even more, top church leaders view these relatively lavish buildings, with their promises of eternal blessings, as a way to cement Latter-day Saints in the faith....
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- Utah's Jordan River Parkway offers opportunities for biking, running and water recreation
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- 3:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The Jordan River stretches across 50 miles of Northern Utah from Utah Lake to the Great Salt Lake. Alongside the river, the Jordan River Parkway provides recreational opportunities such as biking, running and even equestrian trails.
Learn more about the Jordan River at https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/07/14/slcs-struggling-jordan-river/
Video by Bethany Baker of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- 2024 election: Young Utahns share the issues that matter most to them
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The Salt Lake Tribune recently invited young Utahns to speak about the issues that matter most to them in this election, as well as the impact of their vote. Here’s what they shared.
Thank you to The American Press Institute for their support of this project.
#utah #slc #fyp #election #election2024 #voting
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- Do new sleeveless options show LDS garments aren’t about modesty?
- Runtime
- 44:36
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The biggest recent news for members, especially women, in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was the introduction in some hot, humid regions of “sleeveless” temple garments.
Faithful Latter-day Saints wear temple garments underneath their clothing as a reminder of sacred covenants. They are not meant to be seen, but the style and cut of them have been difficult to conceal under ever-evolving fashions. That is why so many women were delighted by one of the redesign options — labeled “open sleeve” — because it looks more like a tank top than the current capped sleeve alternatives. They also liked the new “full slip” and “half-slip” designs meant to be worn under dresses.
For now, these new garments are available in the Philippines and parts of Africa. But the church website shows they will be sold in the U.S. by the end of next year.
Discussing the new garments on this week’s show are Laura Brignone, a Latter-day S...
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- How much money would shoppers save if Utah dropped its grocery tax?
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- 1:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The Salt Lake Tribune followed 3 shoppers to see how much they would save if Utah dropped its grocery tax.
Read more:
https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/food/2024/10/21/utah-shoppers-have-receipts-sales
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- LDS temple garments: Women rejoice with news of sleeveless options
- Runtime
- 0:46
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The LDS Church is beginning to allow faithful members to wear sleeveless temple garments in hot climates.
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- Former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt talks about his new music gig: Tab Choir president
- Runtime
- 27:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The Mormon Tabernacle Choir was launched on Aug. 22, 1847, just 29 days after the pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley.
After the Tabernacle on Temple Square in the heart of Salt Lake City was completed, the choir performed there for more than a hundred years. Millions have heard the group’s music via a weekly devotional radio program, “Music and the Spoken Word,” which The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints started in 1929, making it the longest continuously running network broadcast in history.
The show is inspiring to insiders and outsiders but never dogmatic. Ronald Reagan called the troupe “America’s Choir.” The famed choir has sung at seven U.S. presidential inaugurations, 13 World Fairs, as well as the 2002 Winter Olympics, and toured in dozens of countries.
In 2018, the choir changed its name to The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, and, in 2020, it was sidelined by the global pandemic.
On this week’s ...
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- What is Amendment B on Utah's 2024 General Election ballots?
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Utah schools could get more money from public trust lands if Amendment B passes this November.
If Amendment B had already been in effect, schools would’ve seen about $120 million in School Learning and Nurturing Development, or "LAND," Trust distributions instead of $106 million this year.
Video by Carmen Nesbitt and Bethany Baker of The Salt Lake Tribune.
- Title
- How should parents respond when their kids leave the church?
- Runtime
- 39:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- By following an unconventional parenting path, Latter-day Saints Gabrielle and Ben Blair have learned to buck conventional parenting wisdom — and, along the way, remove a lot of the stress that comes with raising kids.
How should parents respond when their kids leave the church?
Design Mom’s Gabrielle Blair and her husband, educator Ben Blair, tackle that question and more in their new book, “The Kids Are All Right: Parenting With Confidence in an Uncertain World.”
- Title
- U.S. Senate debate: Candidates spar over climate and federal overreach
- Runtime
- 4:07
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Utah Rep. John Curtis, Caroline Gleich and Carlton Bowen squared off Thursday night on the campus of Weber State University and shared their policy views during the first and only U.S. Senate debate.
Read more at sltrib.com.
- Title
- Trader Joe’s new Sugar House store in Salt Lake City has unique local art
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Utah’s newest location of the Trader Joe’s grocery chain is filled with signs that pay tribute to Sugar House and other nearby neighborhoods — from the 9th and 9th whale taking a dive with “Scandinavian Swimmers” to a marquee sign reminiscent of the nearby Dee’s Restaurant.
The chain’s fifth Utah location — at 2160 S. 700 East, in a former Pep Boys auto parts store — was opened Friday, Oct. 11, 2024, bringing bits of nostalgia to the 170-year-old neighborhood.
The art includes:
⋅ A flamingo plushie and portrait pay tribute to Pink Floyd, the flamingo that famously escaped from Tracy Aviary and lived many years at the Great Salt Lake.
⋅ Historic photographs, rendered by local artist Laurie Gray, feature more landmarks, including the Snelgrove’s Ice Cream double-scoop sign and Raging Waters waterpark.
Reporting by Shaylee Navarro
Video by Rick Egan
The Salt Lake Tribune
