Podcasts about salt lake city mayor erin mendenhall

In this episode of House Rules, Rep. Tyler Clancy sits down with Salt Lake City Police Chief Brian Redd to talk about law enforcement, homelessness, and public safety in Utah's capital city.Chief Redd reflects on his first 100 days as chief, sharing his top priorities: hiring, morale, fentanyl, mental health, and the overlap between addiction, crime, and homelessness. “The streets are a death sentence,” he says, calling for a system that offers both accountability and help.They also discuss Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall's public safety plan, lessons from Operation Rio Grande, and why collaboration between state and local leaders is key to real progress.

It was a big week for Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall, from making national headlines over new pride flags to releasing her proposed $512 million budget. Host Ali Vallarta and executive producer Emily Means break down the highlights and lowlights. Plus, touring the Walker Center, a great sauna place, and tusks up for the Utah Mammoth.    Resources and references: Book a tour for the Walker Center.  Check out the SLC Mayor's budget breakdown. [Hey Salt Lake]   Download PDFs of SLC's new flag designs. Buy Project Rainbow's “Not A Flag” merch. Attend Sweet Street's 9-Line bike ride. Try the PLUNJ bathhouse.  Become a member of City Cast Salt Lake today! It's the best way to support our work and help make sure we are around for years to come. Get all the details and sign up at membership.citycast.fm. Subscribe to Hey Salt Lake, our daily morning newsletter. You can also find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC.  Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about the sponsors of this episode:  Aura Frames - Get $35-off plus free shipping on the Carver Mat frame with Promo Code CITYCAST Salt Lake City Arts Council Salt Lake City Government Red Butte Garden Asher Adams Live Crude - Get $10 off your first CRUDE purchase with promo code CITYCASTSLC. Workshopslc.com - use code CITYCAST for 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall think about the state bossing our city around this past legislative session? Host Ali Vallarta and executive producer Emily Means discuss key takeaways from the mayor's media roundtable. Plus, a teacher dancing for lunch money, the Black Hole award, and a winning streak for U of U Gymnastics.  Resources and references: The 2025 Bills That Targeted Salt Lake City [Hey Salt Lake] A Utah teacher has raised over $11,000 for her students by dancing on TikTok. Here's why. [Salt Lake Tribune]  ‘Disregard for transparency': Utah Legislature's public records laws earn it a ‘Black Hole' award [Utah News Dispatch] Become a member of City Cast Salt Lake today! It's the best way to support our work and help make sure we are around for years to come. Get all the details and sign up at membership.citycast.fm. Subscribe to Hey Salt Lake, our daily morning newsletter. You can also find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. If you enjoyed the interview with Michael Collins, learn more here. Learn more about the other sponsors of this March 25th episode: Inn at 500 Salt Lake Bees Broadway Across America Salt Lake Sewciety Momentum Climbing Live Crude - Get $10 off your first CRUDE purchase with promo code CITYCASTSLC. Workshopslc.com - use code CITYCAST for 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosts: Leah Murray and Adam Gardiner  Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall has selected Brian Redd to be the next chief of police for the city. The City Council will still need to approve the choice. The current chief is retiring at the request of Mayor Mendenhall, who said the city's police force needed a new leader and a new direction. Today, Adam and Leah discuss the pick and what it could mean for the future of the department. 

Hosts: Leah Murray and Adam Gardiner  How might a new SLCPD chief affect the relationship between the city and the state? Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall has selected Brian Redd to be the next chief of police for the city. The City Council will still need to approve the choice. The current chief is retiring at the request of Mayor Mendenhall, who said the city's police force needed a new leader and a new direction. Today, Adam and Leah discuss the pick and what it could mean for the future of the department.  On the Hill 2025: The relationship between the legislature and the Utah Board of Education This morning, a bill that addresses the relationship between the Utah State Board of Education and the Utah Legislature passed out of committee. The bill -- House Bill 156 -- aims to clarify the relationship of the two entities: who gets to direct what. Bill sponsor State Representative Norm Thurston joins us to share more about the bill and answer a few questions.  On the Hill 2025: Changes to the Utah Fits All Scholarship program We continue our deep-dive into education-related bills by looking at some changes being proposed to the Utah Fits All Scholarship program. If you'll recall, this program launched last year and provides up to $8,000 to be used for a variety of education expenses and services. State Representative Candice Pierucci led the charge on the original bill and is working on changes now; she joins us for this discussion.  On the Hill 2025: Amendments to how some taxes are used Your property taxes may go to the state's general funds instead of local schools if the Governor signs a bill that has now passed the state Legislature. The bill is Senate Bill 37, and it would make changes to a few tax-related issues. State Senator Lincoln Fillmore is sponsoring the bill and joins us to talk more about it.  Budget cuts coming to the Pentagon, Department of Defense The last couple weeks have been pretty turbulent for government employees. There are a lot of federal worker layoffs going on around the country, including at the IRS, FAA, the National Park Service, and the US Forest Service. Could layoffs be coming to the Department of Defense too? It looks like it... The Inside Sources hosts share their thoughts on cutting this important budget.  New York Governor says she won’t fire New York City mayor The drama over the future of New York City Mayor Eric Adams continues after the New York Governor said that she won't remove him from office. It's the latest development in the situation following several pushes from the Justice Department for prosecutors to drop the bribery case against him. This whole thing can get a little weedy, but the Inside Sources hosts break down this fascinating topic.  Pres. Trump to take control of USPS, continuing trend of consolidating power President Trump is now expected to take control of the United States Postal Service. That would involve firing the Postal Service's governing board, but the board is planning to fight the pending executive order. It comes as the President takes control of other boards and government-related organizations like the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Leah and Adam discuss the consolidation of power.  Town Halls as a form of civic engagement Inside Sources host Leah Murray loves being involved in the civic process. Last night, she attended her second Town Hall meeting of the year and found the topics covered to be very interesting. She and Adam Gardiner discuss the range of issues frequently discussed in Town Halls. 

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall gave her State of the City address this week, and she said to expect more policing and a plan for the Ballpark. Host Ali Vallarta and executive producer Emily Means give the highlights and their analysis. Plus, living at Trolley Square, your lawmaker's star sign, and breaking pizza news. Resources and references: SLC Mayor Erin Mendenhall's 2025 State of the City Address Hundreds of new homes may go up near historic Trolley Square [Salt Lake Tribune]  We're doing a survey to learn more about our listeners. We'd be grateful if you took the survey at citycast.fm/survey — it's only seven minutes long. You'll be doing us a big favor. Plus, anyone who takes the survey will be eligible to win a $250 Visa gift card and City Cast City swag. Become a member of City Cast Salt Lake today! It's the best way to support our work and help make sure we're around for years to come. Get all the details and sign up at membership.citycast.fm. Subscribe to Hey Salt Lake, our daily morning newsletter. You can also find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC.  Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about the sponsors of this episode:  Live Crude - Get $10 off your facial by mentioning this ad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall unveiled a 50-page public safety plan responding to the state's threat of intervention. Host Ali Vallarta and executive producer Emily Means breakdown the highlights and their big takeaways. Plus, Crumbl deodorant, a clean slate opportunity, and National Popcorn Day.  Resources and references: Read the mayor's public safety plan and catch up on the letter that prompted it. Will Utahns stop changing their clocks twice a year? Legislature may explore the idea this session [Utah News Dispatch] Pre-register for Expungement Day at the Delta Center, Wednesday, Jan. 22, doors at 2 p.m. Become a member of City Cast Salt Lake today! It's the best way to support our work and help make sure we're around for years to come. Get all the details and sign up at membership.citycast.fm. Subscribe to Hey Salt Lake, our daily morning newsletter. You can also find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC.  Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about the sponsors of this episode:  ICO Live Crude - Get $25 off your facial by mentioning this ad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosts: Erin Rider and Leah Murray  Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall has released her plan to improve public safety and tackle homelessness in Utah's capital city. It comes following a "strongly worded" letter last month from state leaders, giving her a deadline to create a plan by January 17th. The Inside Sources hosts discuss some of the key points and share their thoughts on whether the plan sufficiently addresses the letter from the state. 

Hosts: Erin Rider and Leah Murray  Trump, Biden both looking for ways to prevent TikTok ban  In just three days, TikTok will no longer be allowed to operate in the United States. We’re waiting to find out if SCOTUS will interject. But in the meantime, President-elect Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden are both seeking possible ways to prevent a TikTok ban, including through executive orders. Would it work, even though Congress passed the bipartisan law?    GOP House leaders ask Pres.-elect Trump to scale back executive order plans  The incoming president has often touted the many executive orders he plans to sign within hours of taking office. However, House Republican leaders are pushing back, asking him to scale back his plans so they can tackle some of the former administration’s policies through budget reconciliation. The Inside Sources hosts share their thoughts on this potentially looming disagreement.    Pres. Biden gives dark, gloomy farewell address  In his 15-minute farewell address to the nation last night, President Joe Biden took a rather dark approach to his messaging, warning the country about a technology industrial complex he called an “oligarchy.” This was his ‘swan song’ -- his final speech after 50 years of public service. Was the messaging right, or should he have taken a lighter approach? Inside Sources digs into it.    On the Hill 2025: Previewing legislation on offender registry lists  Inside Sources continues previewing legislation ahead of the 2025 Legislative General Session, which begins in five days. State Representative Andrew Stoddard is running a bill that would address some ‘cracks in the system’ relating to the Sex, Kidnapping, and Child Abuse Offender Registry. He joins the program to explain what he’s hoping to do through his legislation.    SLC Mayor Mendenhall releases comprehensive public safety plan  Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall has released her plan to improve public safety and tackle homelessness in Utah's capital city. It comes following a "strongly worded" letter last month from state leaders, giving her a deadline to create a plan by January 17th. The Inside Sources hosts discuss some of the key points and share their thoughts on whether the plan sufficiently addresses the letter from the state.    On the Hill 2025: Previewing legislation on protecting child welfare workers  We’ve discussed the need to protect children from abuse on KSL NewsRadio several times throughout 2024. But one often overlooked part of the conversation deals with child welfare workers – who protects them as they do their job? State Senator Evan Vickers joins Inside Sources to discuss a piece of legislation he’s running that would focus on this.    On the Hill 2025: Previewing legislation on child labor amendments  Every so often, you might see a news story reporting on a business that gets in trouble for child labor. According to State Representative Melissa Garff Ballard, publicity and a warning are often the only real punishments those businesses get. She joins Inside Sources to outline a new bill she’s working on that would provide stricter punishments and more oversight regarding child employment.   College admissions exams – are they outdated or still relevant?  Inside Sources hosts Leah Murray and Erin Rider have both done a lot of schooling throughout their lives. And that schooling has often required admissions exams. There’s new discussion nowadays about ending college admissions exams; Leah and Erin walk through the pros and cons and give their thoughts. 

Like Salt Lake City's mayor, he oversees a major Western municipality founded by 19th-century Mormon pioneers. Like Salt Lake City's mayor, the heart of his diverse, dynamic and growing city features a historic temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint bounded by a sparkling mixed-use development built by the Utah-based faith. And like Salt Lake City's mayor, he supports Kamala Harris for president. But unlike Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall, Mesa Mayor John Giles is a Republican and a Latter-day Saint — and that's why his support of the Democratic ticket is grabbing national headlines. A graduate of Brigham Young University, Giles is a lawyer serving his 10th and final year leading Arizona's third-largest city. He also has run dozens of marathons, but it's his stance in 2024′s presidential race — in a swing state that could determine who wins the White House — that catapulted this moderate Mormon mayor into a prime-time speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention. On this week's show, Giles discusses his decision to buck Donald Trump and instead back Harris, along with his desire to see the reemergence of a more-centrist Republican Party and a less-polarized political climate.

Hosts: Rusty Cannon & Adam Gardiner Biden withdraws from presidential race, endorses Kamala Harris An historic decision – President Biden withdrawing from the race for re-election. He made the announcement on Sunday, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to take the top of the ticket shortly thereafter. Reactions poured in immediately, including some calling for him to resign immediately (in addition to withdrawing from the race). Mason Hughes, Communications Director for the Utah Democratic Party offers his insight into the decision and helps explain what happens now as we move towards the national convention. Listen to hear detailed commentary from KSL at Night hosts and political junkies Adam Gardiner and Rusty Cannon.  Secret Service Director grilled by Congress over Trump assassination attempt Today, the House Oversight Committee heard from Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle during the first Congressional hearing into the attempted assassination of former President Trump. Director Cheatle took responsibility for the Secret Service’s failure, but continued to insist she wouldn’t step down. The KSL at Night hosts talk about the assassination attempt and share their thoughts on the Director’s decision to not resign.  Salt Lake County DA faces calls for resignation over social media post Over the weekend, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill made a post on social media comparing “a dead body” to former President Trump. The post has sparked outrage among Republicans in Utah, with many calling on him to resign. The DA insists that his comments were not meant to be incendiary. We discuss how this kind of messaging compares to national calls to tone down the political rhetoric.  Examining SLC Mayor Mendenhall’s plans for a “Green Loop” One of Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall’s key focuses of her term is the creation of a Green Loop. However, recent concerns have surfaced from City Council members over the plan. SLC Council Chair Victoria Petro joins the program to share her thoughts on the project. The hosts discuss the nitty gritty of the plans, including how taxpayer dollars will fund this new Green Loop.  Previewing the Olympic announcement for Salt Lake City 2034 We’re expecting to hear the official announcement on Wednesday morning: the Winter Olympics heading back to Utah for Salt Lake City 2034. We’ll have extensive coverage this week on KSL NewsRadio. The KSL at Night hosts fill our listeners in on what they can expect, while also sharing their own experiences with the 2002 Olympics. 

Hosts: Rusty Cannon & Adam Gardiner One of Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall’s key focuses of her term is the creation of a Green Loop. However, recent concerns have surfaced from City Council members over the plan. SLC Council Chair Victoria Petro joins the program to share her thoughts on the project. The hosts discuss the nitty gritty of the plans, including how taxpayer dollars will fund this new Green Loop. 

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall is asking for a $44,000 raise. Has she earned it? Executive producer Emily Means joins host Ali Vallarta to discuss how this pay bump measures up to other mayors and how residents can weigh in. Plus, the hottest new mode of transportation, Memorial Day pool openings, and a (probably) last-ever sidewalk sale.  Resources and references: SLC Mayor Erin Mendenhall wants to give herself a hefty raise. Here's what Tribune readers are saying. [Salt Lake Tribune] How Salt Lake City mayor's proposed salary compares to other cities [Axios] Participate in Salt Lake's budget process Utah launches first air taxi that can transport packages, people via the sky [Fox 13]  Shops on Broadway sidewalk sale Five Salt Lake County pools open this weekend. We're doing our annual survey to learn more about our listeners. We'd be grateful if you took the survey — it's only seven minutes long, and you'll be doing us a big favor. Plus, anyone who takes the survey will be eligible to win a $250 Visa gift card and City Cast Salt Lake swag. Consider becoming a founding member of City Cast Salt Lake today! It's the best way to support our work and help make sure we're around for years to come. Get all the details and sign up at membership.citycast.fm. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosts: Greg Skordas and Taylor Morgan KSL at Night hosts Taylor Morgan and Greg Skordas kick off the show with news that broke this afternoon: former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley says she’ll support Donald Trump’s bid for election. Then the hosts switch gears and talk about a rather large raise that Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall is requesting for herself and the City Council members. A 26% raise … who wouldn’t want that?

Hosts: Greg Skordas and Taylor Morgan Nikki Haley says she’ll support Trump & SLC Mayor Mendenhall wants a large raise  KSL at Night hosts Taylor Morgan and Greg Skordas kick off the show with news that broke this afternoon: former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley says she’ll support Donald Trump’s bid for election. Then the hosts switch gears and talk about a rather large raise that Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall is requesting for herself and the City Council members. A 26% raise … who wouldn’t want that?  Legal drama in the GOP primary race for Utah Attorney General A text message has come to light between a current candidate for Utah Attorney General, Frank Mylar, and a former candidate, Trent Christensen. It’s now sparked a police investigation, and could hold severe consequences. KSL Legal Analyst Greg Skordas walks listeners through the Utah Criminal Code to see what laws may have been broken.  Utahns among those believed to lead failed coup attempt in Congo  Two Utahns are among a group of people believed to have led a failed coup attempt in Democratic Republic of the Congo. KSL NewsRadio’s Peter Johnston joins the program to walk us through all the twists and turns of this story. He also shares some insight from people who knew the two when they lived in Utah.  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could address the U.S. Congress  United States House Speaker Mike Johnson says he’s moving ahead with an invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress. This comes after International Criminal Court prosecutors say they want arrest warrants issued for Netanyahu’s alleged involvement in war crimes. The KSL at Night hosts look at the response from other U.S. leaders towards this idea.  What’s the status of the SLC downtown revitalization plan?  The Salt Lake City Council heard hours of public comment last night, all focused on the new sports and entertainment district downtown. Strong opinions on both sides, but as KSL-TV’s Lindsay Aerts tells the KSL at Night hosts, a majority of the sentiment is negative. She joins the show to give an update from all sides involved in this plan.  Affordable housing – is it in the SLC downtown revitalization plan?  As Salt Lake City looks to revitalize a large section of downtown, some have raised concerns about the city’s lack of affordable housing and how this project would affect those experiencing homelessness. One of the organizations voicing these concerns is Crossroads Urban Center. Executive Director Glenn Bailey joins the program to talk about an open letter he penned to elected officials about the project.   President Biden releases 1 million barrels of oil ahead of holiday weekend  Contrary to the usual summer price hikes, Americans are seeing a decrease in gas prices across the country right now. At the same time, the Biden Administration is releasing one million barrels of oil from the Northeast Reserve, hoping that will continue to drive prices down. The KSL at Night hosts debate whether this small release will actually help.  How to properly fly the American flag on Memorial Day  Did you know there’s a specific way one should fly the U.S. flag on Memorial Day? We bring vexillologist DeVaughn Simper from Colonial Flag onto the show to walk us through the proper etiquette for all sorts of situations. If you’re going to fly a flag this weekend or place a flag on a headstone at a cemetery, you’ll definitely want to listen to Simper’s advice. 

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown recap the historic reduction in crime Salt Lake City experienced in 2023. Debbie and Taylor take the news conference live and share their thoughts.

The spirit of the 2002 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City still resonates across the state. This July, there will be more cause for excitement as it's anticipated that the International Olympic Committee may name Salt Lake City-Utah as the 2034 host for the Winter Games. To learn more, Last Chair gathered in the Governor's Mansion to hear from Utah Governor Spencer Cox, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall, and SLC-UT 2034 Board Chair Catherine Raney Norman.One of the key assets of Utah's candidacy is its robust winter environment as home to the Greatest Snow on Earth™. Every venue from 2002, across all sports, has been in continual use. Resorts, including Park City Mountain, Deer Valley Resort, and Snowbasin Resort, are expected back again.Through its candidacy, Utah has enjoyed strong public support – over 80%! Elected officials from small venue communities, up through the state legislature and governor, have forged a strong partnership to bring the Games back, with the accompanying benefits of bringing communities together.Both Governor Cox and Mayor Mendenhall have been visionaries who are looking to the benefits to their state and community. Governor Cox grew up on a farm in Fairview, Utah, and talks about the small ski hill near his home. Mayor Mendenhall reflects back on her memories of growing up near Little Cottonwood Canyon and working the switchboard at Snowbird. Both are now outdoor enthusiasts who embody the spirit of the state.With a background in air quality and environment advocacy work, the mayor started as an activist and learned quickly that she could be more impactful as an elected official. After six years on the City Council, she ran for mayor and won. She was just inaugurated for a second term. “Being the mayor is just the greatest gig – especially in Salt Lake City in the state of Utah at this time. We have so much good happening. And the Olympics in 2034 is one of those big things.”Now in the third year of his first term, Governor Cox has announced he'll run again in 2024. “It's been a wild ride from the farm to the governor's mansion in Salt Lake City. But we feel very fortunate to be able to serve the state.”Catherine Raney Norman is a four-time Olympic speed skater who still holds some U.S. records. She grew up in Wisconsin, but has long lived in Utah. She and her family are enthusiastic skiers. In her role as board chair, she has brought a distinct athlete vision to her leadership.Here's a sampling from a riveting conversation on Last Chair with Utah leaders about the benefits of the Games and how they view the importance to the state and its communities.Governor Cox, thank you for the invitation to the mansion. Tell us a bit about it?This is the Kearns mansion – Thomas Kearns was a young man who came out here to seek his fortune. He hit the motherlode – a silver mine in Park City. He came down with his amazing wife, he married a seamstress from Park City, and they built the first orphanage in Utah, which is amazing – St. Ann's orphanage, same architect, beautiful building. Then, he helped build the Cathedral of the Madeleine. They were so generous. This house was built in 1902.Catherine, you not only competed as an Olympic athlete, but you also rose up early on as a leader amongst your peers.I've spent a lot of my pre-post and athletic career advocating for athletes across the Olympic and Paralympic Movement, and have been so fortunate to stay involved in sport in many different ways, from coaching to administration to fundraising, and to now being able to help serve our community and our people here in Utah as the chair of the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games.Mayor, there are 11 Utah ski resorts within an hour's drive of downtown Salt Lake City. What do you see as the assets of your city as a ski town?I think it's something you have to experience. People come here to ski, and they end up not leaving. They say, ‘we're going to come spend four months or six months, get some great experience on the mountain, then go back wherever we came from.' They don't leave. And it's because you can actually call it a ski town. We're the capital city of the fastest-growing state in the nation, the state has the strongest economy. I'm giving the governor's talking points now, but more than 16 years running, we're doubling our downtown population. We have incredible sports, culture, recreation, and amenities. You can walk out of this Governor's Mansion and be on a foothill trail in the wilderness up in City Creek Canyon, or other places in ten minutes. The proximity to the ski resorts and to year-round recreation is just phenomenal. So we are both an urban capital, a growing city, a strong economy, lots of cultures celebrating our diversity, and a ski town.Governor, what importance does the Olympic and Paralympic Movement bring to you?I love the idea of hope at a time when institutions are being torn apart, really important institutions, politically and otherwise, not just here, but all across the world. And as we start to become a little more selfish as human beings and focus internally, this reminds us of the best of us and that there are other people of different backgrounds, and it brings us together. It's one institution that has survived some of the worst parts of history. I just watched Boys in the Boat and the Olympics in Germany at that time and, the impact that those Games had on the world as we were heading into a World War and all of these difficulties that had post 9-11 when Utah was at the forefront. So I love that idea of hope and kind of unifying, bringing people together.Mayor, how does the city feel about the possibility of another Winter Games to your community?What we experienced in 2002 is still with us every single day. As Salt Lakers, as Utahns, we have a growing population. We've added 20% more people to Salt Lake City proper since we hosted the Games last, and we still have over 80% support in the state of Utah for hosting a future Games. What that says is that even people who've come here who maybe hadn't been born yet (in 2002) feel and they get the Olympic spirit, it's in our DNA as Utahns. And that ability to bring the global community together – we will ensure that it does have a long-standing daily positive impact for generations to come after 2034.Governor, how has Utah's penchant for service and volunteerism helped?One of the things that that Cat, the mayor and I love to talk about is how the volunteers came out of the woodwork for that Olympics the first time – the Olympic movement had never seen anything like that. had to turn volunteers away. It's ingrained in people. We lead the nation in volunteerism and giving back. That combination of us participating together, not just something we watched or saw, but we experienced – that makes a big difference and has really helped us to unify.Mayor, you had the honor of dedicating a brand new airport in the past few years?Our New SLC is one of the busiest airports in the Americas in the Delta system. We have 26-million passengers a year. When this airport is completed, we'll be able to host 34-million passengers a year through Salt Lake City. The amount of direct and connecting flights is ever-increasing, and it's the newest airport in a couple of decades. It's an incredible, beautiful space, and we're proud of it. It's just minutes away from the...

The spirit of the 2002 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City still resonates across the state. This July, there will be more cause for excitement as it's anticipated that the International Olympic Committee may name Salt Lake City-Utah as the 2034 host for the Winter Games. To learn more, Last Chair gathered in the Governor's Mansion to hear from Utah Governor Spencer Cox, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall, and SLC-UT 2034 Board Chair Catherine Raney Norman.One of the key assets of Utah's candidacy is its robust winter environment as home to the Greatest Snow on Earth™. Every venue from 2002, across all sports, has been in continual use. Resorts, including Park City Mountain, Deer Valley Resort, and Snowbasin Resort, are expected back again.Through its candidacy, Utah has enjoyed strong public support – over 80%! Elected officials from small venue communities, up through the state legislature and governor, have forged a strong partnership to bring the Games back, with the accompanying benefits of bringing communities together.Both Governor Cox and Mayor Mendenhall have been visionaries who are looking to the benefits to their state and community. Governor Cox grew up on a farm in Fairview, Utah, and talks about the small ski hill near his home. Mayor Mendenhall reflects back on her memories of growing up near Little Cottonwood Canyon and working the switchboard at Snowbird. Both are now outdoor enthusiasts who embody the spirit of the state.With a background in air quality and environment advocacy work, the mayor started as an activist and learned quickly that she could be more impactful as an elected official. After six years on the City Council, she ran for mayor and won. She was just inaugurated for a second term. “Being the mayor is just the greatest gig – especially in Salt Lake City in the state of Utah at this time. We have so much good happening. And the Olympics in 2034 is one of those big things.”Now in the third year of his first term, Governor Cox has announced he'll run again in 2024. “It's been a wild ride from the farm to the governor's mansion in Salt Lake City. But we feel very fortunate to be able to serve the state.”Catherine Raney Norman is a four-time Olympic speed skater who still holds some U.S. records. She grew up in Wisconsin, but has long lived in Utah. She and her family are enthusiastic skiers. In her role as board chair, she has brought a distinct athlete vision to her leadership.Here's a sampling from a riveting conversation on Last Chair with Utah leaders about the benefits of the Games and how they view the importance to the state and its communities.Governor Cox, thank you for the invitation to the mansion. Tell us a bit about it?This is the Kearns mansion – Thomas Kearns was a young man who came out here to seek his fortune. He hit the motherlode – a silver mine in Park City. He came down with his amazing wife, he married a seamstress from Park City, and they built the first orphanage in Utah, which is amazing – St. Ann's orphanage, same architect, beautiful building. Then, he helped build the Cathedral of the Madeleine. They were so generous. This house was built in 1902.Catherine, you not only competed as an Olympic athlete, but you also rose up early on as a leader amongst your peers.I've spent a lot of my pre-post and athletic career advocating for athletes across the Olympic and Paralympic Movement, and have been so fortunate to stay involved in sport in many different ways, from coaching to administration to fundraising, and to now being able to help serve our community and our people here in Utah as the chair of the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games.Mayor, there are 11 Utah ski resorts within an hour's drive of downtown Salt Lake City. What do you see as the assets of your city as a ski town?I think it's something you have to experience. People come here to ski, and they end up not leaving. They say, ‘we're going to come spend four months or six months, get some great experience on the mountain, then go back wherever we came from.' They don't leave. And it's because you can actually call it a ski town. We're the capital city of the fastest-growing state in the nation, the state has the strongest economy. I'm giving the governor's talking points now, but more than 16 years running, we're doubling our downtown population. We have incredible sports, culture, recreation, and amenities. You can walk out of this Governor's Mansion and be on a foothill trail in the wilderness up in City Creek Canyon, or other places in ten minutes. The proximity to the ski resorts and to year-round recreation is just phenomenal. So we are both an urban capital, a growing city, a strong economy, lots of cultures celebrating our diversity, and a ski town.Governor, what importance does the Olympic and Paralympic Movement bring to you?I love the idea of hope at a time when institutions are being torn apart, really important institutions, politically and otherwise, not just here, but all across the world. And as we start to become a little more selfish as human beings and focus internally, this reminds us of the best of us and that there are other people of different backgrounds, and it brings us together. It's one institution that has survived some of the worst parts of history. I just watched Boys in the Boat and the Olympics in Germany at that time and, the impact that those Games had on the world as we were heading into a World War and all of these difficulties that had post 9-11 when Utah was at the forefront. So I love that idea of hope and kind of unifying, bringing people together.Mayor, how does the city feel about the possibility of another Winter Games to your community?What we experienced in 2002 is still with us every single day. As Salt Lakers, as Utahns, we have a growing population. We've added 20% more people to Salt Lake City proper since we hosted the Games last, and we still have over 80% support in the state of Utah for hosting a future Games. What that says is that even people who've come here who maybe hadn't been born yet (in 2002) feel and they get the Olympic spirit, it's in our DNA as Utahns. And that ability to bring the global community together – we will ensure that it does have a long-standing daily positive impact for generations to come after 2034.Governor, how has Utah's penchant for service and volunteerism helped?One of the things that that Cat, the mayor and I love to talk about is how the volunteers came out of the woodwork for that Olympics the first time – the Olympic movement had never seen anything like that. had to turn volunteers away. It's ingrained in people. We lead the nation in volunteerism and giving back. That combination of us participating together, not just something we watched or saw, but we experienced – that makes a big difference and has really helped us to unify.Mayor, you had the honor of dedicating a brand new airport in the past few years?Our New SLC is one of the busiest airports in the Americas in the Delta system. We have 26-million passengers a year. When this airport is completed, we'll be able to host 34-million passengers a year through Salt Lake City. The amount of direct and connecting flights is ever-increasing, and it's the newest airport in a couple of decades. It's an incredible, beautiful space, and we're proud of it. It's just minutes away from the...

On Jan. 30, newly re-elected Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall will give her annual State of the City address. The mayor is expected to lay a vision for our city in her second term. She joins host Ali Vallarta to talk through some of the city's biggest projects — both the challenges and the opportunities. Watch the State of the City address Tuesday, Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. Learn more about the Perpetual Housing Fund. Consider becoming a founding member of City Cast Salt Lake today! It's the best way to support our work and help make sure we're around for years to come. Get all the details and sign up at membership.citycast.fm. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can also find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about the sponsors of this episode: Women's Work Utah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another week of the Utah Legislature in the books. Host Ali Vallarta and executive producer Emily Means talk about the bills that caught their eyes, including on beekeeping, judges, and renters' rights. Plus, Salt Lake City residents ask Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall to prioritize publicly funded housing, and Ali and Emily share their picks of the week. Bills discussed: HB 257 Sex-based Designations for Privacy, Anti-bullying, and Women's Opportunities HB 297 Utah Bee Inspection Act Amendments Public-Private Child Care Development Pilot Program HJR 14 Proposal to Amend Utah Constitution - Statewide Initiatives HJR 8 Joint Resolution Amending Rules of Civil Procedure on Disqualification of a Judge HB 355 Residential Rental Modifications Learn more about Utah's childcare crisis. Consider becoming a founding member of City Cast Salt Lake today! It's the best way to support our work and help make sure we're around for years to come. Get all the details and sign up at membership.citycast.fm. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave & Dujanovic Full Show - November 29th, 2023: Live from Olympic Announcement at City and County Building. The International Olympic Committee announced on November 29th that Salt Lake City, Utah is the preferred host for the 2034 Olympic Games.   Dave and Dujanovic broadcasted live outside of the Salt Lake City and County Building before, during and after the announcement. Dave and Debbie spoke with many important voices about bringing the games back to Utah.   9:05 AM  00:00 - 08:30 - KSL Newsradio Reporter Adam Small joins the show to discuss what is expected with today's announcement from the International Olympic Committee    9:20 AM 08:30 -19:13 - Fraser Bullock, CEO and President of the Utah Olympic Committee speaks with Dave and Dujanovic about what it would mean for Salt Lake City to be named preferred host of the Olympic games.   9:35 AM 19:15 - 29:42 - Shelley Osterloh long time KSL TV and Winter Games Reporter. Shelley covered 7 different Winter Games and speaks to Dave and Debbie about how Salt Lake's Olympic Games compared to others in 2002, what it was like experiencing the first bid in 1995, and how SLC can stand out for 2034.    9:50 AM 32:17 - 37:59 - Olympian, Trace Worthington joins Dave and Debbie to discuss his experience as an Olympic Athlete and the importance of winter sports in Utah as they await the announcement on the preferred host from the International Olympic Committee.   (10AM -11 AM) Press Conference and IOC Announcement 38:15 - 41:04  SLC Mayor Erin Mendenhall begins speaking ahead of the IOC announcement   41:04 - 52:00 International Olympic Committee Announcement begins    52:27- Press Conference: Officials share reaction to SLC being named preferred host for 2034   Fraser Bullock, CEO and President of Utah's Olympic Committee.   53:33 - Governor Spencer Cox   56:26 - SLC Mayor Erin Mendenhall   1:02:48 - Olympic Athletes    Live Interviews:  1:10:31 - SLCO Mayor Jenny Wilson speaks with Dave and Debbie about the importance of Salt Lake City being named preferred host for 2034 and what role Salt Lake County will play in the Olympics.   1:16 - 1:25:27 - Former Utah Governor Gary Herbert speaks with Dave and Debbie about starting the process to bring the Olympics back to Salt Lake City in 2011 and the cost of bringing the Olympic Games back to Utah.   1:25:50 - 1:32:00 - Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall joins Dave and Debbie to speak about what this announcement means for kids today and in the coming years around the world and in Utah as well as what lies ahead for Salt Lake City to bring in the games.   1:33:20 - 1:36:30 - KSL Newsradio Reporter Adam Small shares insight from conversations he has had with officials since the announcement of SLC being the preferred host of 2034.   1:36:25 - 1:43:56 - Shannon Bahrkey, 3 time Olympian and America's first metal in 2002, shares her excitement of this announcement and what this means for the athletes and the community.   (11AM-12PM)   11:05 AM 1:46:00 - 1:49:50 - KSL 5 TV Reporter,  Alex Cabrero who has covered many Olympic Games joins Dave and Debbie about how Salt Lake City is unique compared to other areas as a host of the Olympic Games   1:49:56 - 1:54:00 -  Fraser Bullock, CEO of Utah's Olympic Committee joins Dave and Debbie once again to share his reaction to the announcement and the next steps for Salt Lake City.   11:20 AM 1:54:55 - 2:04:22-  Boyd Matheson, Host of Inside Sources and Shelley Osterloh, Former KSL 5 TV and Winter Games Reporter speak on what it means to bring the world to Utah.   11:35 AM 2:05:00 -2:12:21 -  Dave and Debbie speak with Laurie Stringham, SLCO Council Member and previously served on the Board of Trustees of the Kearns Oquirrh Recreation and Parks District which operates the Kearns Oquirrh Park Fitness Center and owns the Utah Olympic Oval. D2 discusses Utah's readiness to bring in the games and how Salt Lake City has always been the backup plan for the Winter Olympics as Utah is one of the only Olympic sites that still has the Olympic venues open.   11:50 AM 2:12:21 - Chris Bertram, who was a supervisor with the Salt Lake County Sheriff's office during the 2002 Olympics, speaks with Dave and Debbie on what it takes to prepare security and law enforcement personnel when bringing in the Olympic Games to Utah.

President Biden meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco, Boyd breaks down the stakes at today's meeting. How is Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall feeling ahead of Utah's election next week?

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You can also subscribe to the free tier below:WhoDeirdra Walsh, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Park City, UtahRecorded onOctober 18, 2023About Park CityClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Vail ResortsLocated in: Park City, UtahYear founded: 1963Pass affiliations:* Epic Pass: unlimited* Epic Local Pass: unlimited with holiday blackouts* Tahoe Local: five non-holiday days combined with Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Crested Butte, Keystone* Epic Day Pass: access with All Resorts tierClosest neighboring ski areas: Deer Valley (:04), Utah Olympic Park (:09), Woodward Park City (:11), Snowbird (:50), Alta (:55), Solitude (1:00), Brighton (1:08) – or just ski between them all; travel times vary massively pending weather, traffic, and time of yearBase elevation: 6,800 feetSummit elevation: 9,998 feet at the top of Jupiter (can hike to 10,026 on Jupiter Peak)Vertical drop: 3,226 feetSkiable Acres: 7,300 acresAverage annual snowfall: 355 inchesTrail count: 330+ (50% advanced/expert, 42% intermediate, 8% beginner)Lift count: 41 (2 eight-passenger gondolas, 1 pulse gondola, 1 cabriolet, 6 high-speed six-packs, 10 high-speed quads, 5 fixed-grip quads, 7 triples, 4 doubles, 3 carpets, 2 ropetows – view Lift Blog's inventory of Park City's lift fleet)View historic Park City trailmaps on skimap.org.Why I interviewed herAn unfortunate requirement of this job is concocting differentiated verbiage to describe a snowy hill equipped with chairlifts. Most often, I revert to the three standbys: ski area, mountain, and resort/ski resort. I use them interchangeably, as one may use couch/sofa or dinner/supper (for several decades, I thought oven/stove to be a similar pairing; imagine my surprise to discover that these words described two separate parts of one familiar machine). But that is problematic, of course, because while every enterprise that I describe is some sort of ski area, only around half of them are anywhere near an actual mountain. And an even smaller percentage of those are resorts. Still, I swap the trio around like T-shirts in the world's smallest wardrobe, hoping my readers value the absence of repetition more than they resent the mental gymnastics required to consider 210-vertical-foot Snow Snake, Michigan a “ski resort.”But these equivalencies introduce a problem when I get to Park City. At 7,300 acres, Park City sprawls over 37 percent more terrain than Vail Mountain, Vail Resorts' second-largest U.S. ski area, and the fourth-biggest in the nation overall. To call this a “ski area” seems inadequate, like describing an aircraft carrier as a “boat.” Even “mountain” feels insubstantial, as Park City's forty-some-odd lifts shoots-and-ladder their way over at least a dozen separate summits. “Ski resort” comes closest to capturing the grandeur of the whole operation, but even that undersells the experience, given that the ski runs are directly knotted to the town below them – a town that is a ski town but is also so much more.In recent years, “megaresort” has settled into the ski lexicon, usually as a pejorative describing a thing to be avoided, a tourist magnet that has swapped its soul for a Disney-esque welcome mat. “Your estimated wait time to board the Ultimate Super Summit Interactive 4D 8K Turbo Gondola is [one hour and 45 minutes]”. The “megas,” freighted with the existential burden of Epic and Ikon flagships, carry just a bit too much cruise ship mass-escapism and Cheesecake Factory illusions of luxe to truly capture that remote wilderness fantasy that is at least half the point of skiing. Right?Not really. Not any more than Times Square captures the essence of New York City or the security lines outside the ballpark distill the experience of consuming live sports. Yes, this is part of it, like the gondola lines winding back to the interstate are part of peak-day Park City. Those, along with the Epic Pass or the (up to) $299 lift ticket, are the cost of admission. But get through the gates, and a sprawling kingdom awaits.I don't know how many people ski Park City on a busy day. Let's call it 20,000. The vast majority of them are going to spend the vast majority of their day lapping the groomers, which occupy a small fraction of Park City's endless varied terrain. With its cascading hillocks, its limitless pitch-perfect glades, its lifts shooting every which way like hammered-together contraptions in some snowy realm of silver-miners - their century-old buildings and conveyor belts rising still off the mountain – Park City delivers a singular ski experience. Call it a “mountain,” a “ski area,” a “ski resort,” or a “megaresort” – all are accurate but also inadequate. Park City, in the lexicon of American skiing, stands alone.What we talked aboutPark City's deep 2022-23 winter; closing on May 1; skiing Missouri; Lake Tahoe; how America's largest ski area runs as a logistical and cultural unit; living through the Powdr-to-Vail ownership transition; the awesome realization that Park City and Canyons were one; Vail's deliberate culture of women's empowerment; the history and purpose of those giant industrial structures dotting Park City ski area; how you can tour them; the novel relationship between the ski area and the town at its base; Park City's Olympic legacy; thoughts on future potential Winter Olympic Games in Utah and at Park City; why a six-pack and an eight-pack chairlift scheduled for installation at Park City last year never happened; where those lifts went instead; whether those upgrades could ever happen; the incoming Sunrise Gondola; the logic of the Over And Out lift; Red Pine Gondola improvements; why the Jupiter double is unlikely to be upgraded anytime soon; Town Lift; reflecting on year one of paid parking; and the massive new employee housing development at Canyons.      Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewIf only The Storm had existed in 2014. Because wouldn't that have been fun? Hostile takeovers are rare in skiing. You normally can't give a ski area (sorry, a super-megaresort) away. Vail taking this one off Powdr's lunch tray is kind of amazing, kind of sad, kind of disturbing, and kind scary. Like, did that really happen? It did, so onward we go.Walsh, as it happened, worked at Park City at the time, though in a much different role, so we talked about what is was like to live through the transition. But two other events shape our modern perception of Park City: The Olympics and The Lifts.The Olympics, of course, came to Park City in 2002. On this podcast a few weeks back, Snowbird General Manager Dave Fields outlined the dramatic changes the Games wrought on Utah skiing. Suddenly, everyone on the planet realized that a half dozen ski resorts that averaged between 300 and 500 inches of snow per winter were lined up 45 minutes from a major international airport on good roads. And they were like, “Wait that's real?” And they all starting coming – annual Utah skier visits have more than doubled since the Olympics, from around 3 million in winter 2001-02 to more than 7 million in last year's amazing ski season. Which is cool. But the Olympics are (probably) coming back to Salt Lake, in 2030 or 2034, and Park City will likely be a part of them again. So we talk about that.The Lifts refers to this story that I covered last October:Last September, Vail Resorts announced what was likely the largest set of single-season lift upgrades in the history of the world: $315-plus million on 19 lifts (later increased to 21 lifts) across 14 ski areas. Two of those lifts would land in Park City: a D-line eight-pack would replace the Silverlode six, and a six-pack would replace the Eagle and Eaglet triples. Two more lifts in a town with 62 of them (Park City sits right next door to Deer Valley). Surely this would be another routine project for the world's largest ski area operator.It wasn't. In June, four local residents – Clive Bush, Angela Moschetta, Deborah Rentfrow, and Mark Stemler – successfully appealed the Park City Planning Commission's previous approval of the lift projects.“The upgrades were appealed on the basis that the proposed eight-place and six-place chairs were not consistent with the 1998 development agreement that governs the resort,” SAM wrote at the time. “The planning commission also cited the need for a more thorough review of the resort's comfortable carrying capacity calculations and parking mitigation plan, finding PCM's proposed paid parking plan at the Mountain Village insufficient.”So instead of rising on the mountain, the lifts spent the summer, in pieces, in the parking lot. Vail admitted defeat, at least temporarily. “We are considering our options and next steps based on today's disappointing decision—but one thing is clear—we will not be able to move forward with these two lift upgrades for the 22-23 winter season,” Park City Mountain Resort Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Deirdra Walsh said in response to the decision.One of the options Vail apparently considered was trucking the lifts to friendlier locales. Last Wednesday, as part of its year-end earnings release, Vail announced that the two lifts would be moved to Whistler and installed in time for the 2023-24 ski season. The eight-pack will replace the 1,129-vertical-foot Fitzsimmons high-speed quad on Whistler, giving the mountain 18 seats (!) out of the village (the lift runs alongside the 10-passenger Whistler Village Gondola). The six-pack will replace the Jersey Cream high-speed quad on Blackcomb, a midmountain lift with a 1,230-foot vertical rise. These will join the new Big Red six-pack and 10-passenger Creekside Gondola going in this summer on the Whistler side, giving the largest ski area on the continent four new lifts in two years. …Meanwhile, Park City skiers will have to continue riding Silverlode, a sixer dating to 1996, and Eagle, a 1993 Garaventa CTEC triple (the Eaglet lift, unfortunately, is already gone). The vintage of the remaining lifts don't sound particularly creaky, but both were built for a different, pre-Epic Pass Park City, and one that wasn't connected via the Quicksilver Gondola to the Canyons side of the resort. Vail targeted these choke points to improve the mountain's flow. But skiers are stuck with them indefinitely.On paper, Vail remains “committed to resolving our permit to upgrade the Eagle and Silverlode lifts in Park City.” I don't doubt that. But I wonder if the four individuals who chose to choke up this whole process understand the scale of what they just destroyed. Those two lifts, combined, probably cost somewhere around $50 million. Minimum. Maybe the resort will try again. Maybe it won't. Surely Vail can find a lot of places to spend its money with far less friction.All of which I thought was rather hilarious, for a number of reasons. First, stopping an enormous project on procedural grounds for nebulous reasons is the most U.S. American thing ever. Second, the more these sorts of over-the-top stall tactics are wielded for petty purposes (ski areas need to be able to upgrade chairlifts), the more likely we are to lose them, as politicians who never stop bragging about how “business-friendly” Utah is look to streamline these pesky checks and balances. Third, Vail unapologetically yanking those things out of the parking lot and hauling them up to BC was the company's brashest move since it punched Powdr in the face and took its resort away. It was harsh but necessary, a signal that the world keeps moving around the sun even when a small group of nitwits want it to stop on its axis.Questions I wish I'd askedOn Scott's Bowl accessI wanted to ask Walsh about the strange fact that Scott's Bowl and West Scott's Bowl – two high-alpine sections off Jupiter, suddenly closed in 2018 and stayed shut for four years. This story from the Park Record tells it well enough:Park City Mountain Resort on Tuesday said a high-altitude swath of terrain has reopened more than three years after a closure caused by the inability of the resort and the landowner to reach a lease agreement. …PCMR in December of 2018 indefinitely closed the terrain. The closure also included terrain located between Scott's Bowl and Constellation, a nearby ski run. The resort at the time of the closure said the landowner opted not to renew a lease. There had been an agreement in place for longer than 14 years, PCMR said at the time.A firm called Silver King Mining Company, with origins dating to Park City's silver-mining era, owns the land. The lease and renewals had been struck between the Gallivan family-controlled Silver King Mining Company and Powdr Corp., the former owner of PCMR. A representative of Silver King Mining Company in late 2018 indicated the firm traditionally accepted lift passes as compensation for the use of the land.The lease went to Vail Resorts when it acquired PCMR. The two sides negotiated a one-year extension but were unable at the time to reach a long-term agreement, the Silver King Mining Company side said in late 2018.Land ownership, particularly in the west, can be a wild patchwork. The majority of large western ski areas sit on National Forest Service land, but Park City (and neighboring Deer Valley), do not. While this grants them some developmental advantages over their neighbors in the Cottonwoods, who sit mostly or entirely on public land, it also means that sprawling Park City has more landlords than it would probably like.On Park City Epic Pass accessThis is the first Vail Resorts interview in a while where I haven't asked the question about Epic Pass access. I don't have a high-minded reason for that – I simply ran out of time.On the strange aversion to safety bars among Western U.S. skiersWhen you ski in Europe or, to a lesser-extent, the Northeastern U.S., skiers lower the chairlift safety bar reflexively, and typically before the carrier has exited the loading terminal. While I found this jarring when I first moved to New York from the Midwest – where safety bars remain rare – I quickly adapted, and now find it disconcerting to ride a chair without one.This whole dynamic is flipped in the West, where a sort of tough-guy bravado prevails, and skiers tend to ride with the safety bar aloft as a matter of stubborn pride. Many seem shocked, even offended, when I announce that I'm lowering it (and I always announce it, and bring it down slowly). Perhaps they are afraid their friends will see them riding with a lame tourist. It's all a bit tedious and stupid. I've had a few incidents where I've passed out for mysterious reasons. If that happens on a chairlift, I'd rather not die before I regain consciousness. So I like the bar. Vail Resorts, however, mandates that all employees lower the safety bar when in uniform. That doesn't mean they always do it. This past January, a Park City ski patroller died when a tree fell on the Short Cut liftline, flinging him into a snowbank, where he suffocated. Utah Occupational Safety and Health (UOSH) fined the resort a laughably inadequate sum of $2,500 for failing to clear potential hazards around the lift. UOSH's report did not indicate whether the patroller, 29-year-old Christian Helger, had lowered his safety bar, and experts who spoke to Fox 13 in Salt Lake City said that it may not have mattered. “With that type of hit from the weight of that type of a tree with that much snow on it, I don't know that the safety bar would have prevented this incident,” Travis Heggie, a Bowling Green State University professor, told the station.Fair enough. But a man is dead, and understanding the exact circumstances surrounding his death may help prevent another in the future. This is why airplane travel is so safe – regulators consider every factor of every tragedy to engineer similar failures out of future flights. We ought to be doing the same with chairlifts.Chairlifts are, on the whole, very safe to ride. But accidents, when they do happen, can be catastrophic. Miroslava “Mirka” Lewis, a former Stevens Pass employee, recently sued Vail Resorts after a fall from one of Stevens Pass' antique Riblet chairs in January of 2022 left her permanently disabled. From a local paper out of Everett, Washington:The lawsuit claims the ski lift Lewis was operating was designed in the 1960s by Riblet Tramway Company and lacked several safety precautions now considered standard in modern lifts. The lift suspended two chairs from a single pole in the center, with no safety bars or bails on the outside to confine passengers.Lewis suffered a traumatic brain injury, collapsed lung, four fractured vertebrae and other severe injuries, according to the complaint. She required multiple surgeries on her breasts and knees.The plaintiff also reportedly had to relearn how to speak, walk and write due to the severity of her injuries.It is unclear which lift Lewis was riding, but two centerpole Riblets remained at the resort last January: Kehr's and Seventh Heaven. Kehr's has since been removed. Vail Resorts, as a general policy, retrofits all of its chairlifts with safety bars, but these chairs' early-1960s recessed centerpole design is impossible to retrofit. So the lifts remain in their vintage state. It's a bit like buying a '57 Chevy – damn, does that thing look sweet, but if you drive it into a tree, you're kinda screwed without that seatbelt.Vail Resorts, by retrofitting its chairlifts and mandating employee use, has done more than probably any other entity to encourage safety bar use on chairlifts. But the industry, as a whole, could do more. In the east, safety bar use has been normalized by aggressive enforcement from lift crews and ski patrol and, in some cases (Vermont, Massachusetts, and New York), state laws mandating their use. Yet, across the West and the Midwest, hundreds of chairlifts still lack safety bars, let alone enforcement. That, in turn, discourages normalization of their use, and contributes to the blasé and dismissive attitude among western skiers, many of whom view the contraptions as extraneous.Technology can eventually resolve the issue for us – the new Burns high-speed quad at Deer Valley and the new Camelot six-pack at The Highlands in Michigan both drop the bar automatically, and raise it just before unload. But that's two chairlifts, at two very high-end resorts, out of 2,400 or so spinning in America. That technology is too expensive to apply at scale, and will be for the foreseeable future.So what to do? I think it starts with dismantling the tough-guy resistance. There are echoes here of the shift to widespread helmet use. Twenty years ago, almost no one, including me, wore helmets when skiing. I held out for a particularly long time – until 2016. But wearing them is the norm now, even among Western Bro Brahs. As the leader of a major Vail ski area who has watched the resort evolve first-hand, I think Walsh would have some valuable insights here into the roots of bar resistance and how Vail is tackling it, but we just didn't have the time to get into it.What I got wrongI noted that Nadia Guerriero, who appeared on this podcast last year as the VP/COO of Beaver Creek, had “transitioned to a regional leadership role.” That role is senior vice president and chief operating officer of Vail Resorts' Rockies Region.Park City personnel also provided a few clarifications following our conversation:* When discussing our 2023 closing date and “All the Way to May!” Deirdra said we had already extended our season by a week. In fact, our first extension was for two weeks: from April 9 to April 23. On April 12, we announced an additional eight days.* When discussing how we memorialize our Olympic legacy, Deirdra stated, “We have a mountain in the base area.” That should have been “monument.”* When discussing our lift upgrade permit, Deirdra said, “Our permit was upheld.” This should have been EITHER withheld, OR “The appeal was upheld.”Why you should ski Park CityPark City is a version of something that America needs a lot more of: a walkable community integrated with the ski area above it in a meaningful and seamless way. In Europe, this is the norm. In U.S. America, the exception. Only a few towns give you that experience: Telluride, Aspen, Red River. Park City is worth a visit for that experience alone – of sliding to the street, clicking out of your skis, and walking to the bar. It's novel and unexpected here in the land of King Car, but it feels very natural and right when you do it.The skiing, of course, is outstanding. There's less chest-thumping here than up in the Cottonwoods – less snow, too – but still plenty of steep stuff, plenty of glades, plenty of tucked-away spots where you look around and wonder where everyone went. Zip around off McConkey's or Jupiter or Tombstone or Ninety-Nine 90 or Super Condor and you'll find it. This is not Snowbird-off-the-Cirque stuff, but it's pretty good.But what Park City really is, at its core, is one of the world's great intermediate ski kingdoms. I'm talking here about King Con and Silverlode, the amazing jumble of blues skier's right off Tombstone, Saddleback and Dreamscape and Iron Mountain. You can ride express lifts pretty much everywhere as you skip around the low-angle glory. The mountain does not shoot skyward with the drama of Jackson or Palisades or Snowbird or Aspen. It rises and falls, rolls on forever, gifting you, off each summit, another peak to ride to.Before Vail bought it and stapled the resort together with the Canyons, no one talked about Park City in such epic – no pun intended – terms. It was just another of dozens of very good western ski areas. But that combination with its neighbor created something vast and otherworldly, six-and-a-half miles end-to-end, a scale that cannot be appreciated in any way other than to go ski it.Podcast NotesOn Vail's target opening and closing datesIn previous seasons, Vail Resorts would release target opening and closing dates for all of its ski areas. Perhaps traumatized by short seasons, particularly in the Midwest, the company released only target opening dates, and only for its largest ski areas, for 2023:The remainder of its ski areas, “expect to open consistent with target dates shared in years past,” according to a Vail Resorts press release.On Hidden Valley, MissouriWalsh's first ski experience was at Hidden Valley, a 320-footer just west of St. Louis. It's one of just two ski areas in Missouri (both of which Vail owns). Vail happened to acquire this little guy in the 2019 Peak Resorts acquisition. Here's a trailmap:Not to be confused, of course, with Vail's other Hidden Valley, which is stashed in Pennsylvania:Rather than renaming one or the other of these, I am actually in favor of just massively confusing everything by renaming every mountain in the portfolio “Vail Mountain” followed by its zip code. On the Vail-Powdr transitionI'll reset this 2019 story from the Park Record that I initially shared in the article accompanying my podcast conversation with Mount Snow GM Brian Suhadolc in August, who also worked at Park City during Vail's takeover from Powdr:In some circles, though, the whispers had already started that something was afoot, and perhaps not right, at PCMR. Powdr Corp. for some unknown reason was negotiating a sale of its flagship resort, the most prevalent of the rumblings held. The CEO of Powdr Corp., John Cumming, late in 2011 had publicly stated there was not a deal involving PCMR under negotiation, telling Park City leaders during a Marsac Building appearance in December of that year the resort was “not for sale.” Later that evening, he told The Park Record the rumors “always amuse me.”The reality was far more astonishing and something that would define the decade in Park City in a similar fashion as the Olympics did in the previous 10-year span and the population boom did in the 1990s.The corporate infrastructure in the spring of 2011 had inadvertently failed to renew two leases on the land underlying most of the PCMR terrain, propelling the PCMR side and the landowner, a firm under the umbrella of Talisker Corp., into what were initially private negotiations and then into a dramatic lawsuit that unfolded in state court as the Park City community, the tourism industry and the North American ski industry watched in disbelief. As the decade ends, the turmoil that beset PCMR stands, in many ways, as the instigator of a changing Park City that has left so many Parkites uneasy about the city's future as a true community.The PCMR side launched the litigation in March of 2012, saying the future of the resort was at stake in the case. PCMR might be forced to close if it did not prevail, the president and general manager of the resort at the time said at the outset of the case. Talisker Land Holdings, LLC countered that the leases had expired, suddenly leaving doubts that Powdr Corp. would retain control of PCMR. …Colorado-based Vail Resorts, one of Powdr Corp.'s industry rivals, would enter the case on the Talisker Land Holdings, LLC side in May of 2013 with the aim of wresting the disputed land from Powdr Corp. and coupling it with nearby Canyons Resort, which was branded a Vail Resorts property as part of a long-term lease and operations agreement reached at the same time of the Vail Resorts entry into the case. Vail Resorts was already an industry behemoth with its namesake property in the Rockies and other mountain resorts across North America. The addition of Canyons Resort would advance the Vail Resorts portfolio in one of North America's key skiing states.It was a deft maneuver orchestrated by the chairman and CEO of Vail Resorts, Rob Katz. The agreement was pegged at upward of $300 million in long-term debt. As part of the deal, Vail Resorts also seized control of the litigation on behalf of Talisker Land Holdings, LLC. …The lawsuit itself unfolded with stunning developments followed by shocking ones over the course of two-plus years. In one stupefying moment, the Talisker Land Holdings, LLC attorneys discovered a crucial letter from the PCMR side regarding the leases had been backdated. In another such moment, PCMR outlined plans to essentially dismantle the resort infrastructure, possibly on an around-the-clock schedule, if it was ordered off the disputed land.What was transpiring in the courtroom was inconceivable to the community. How could Powdr Corp., even inadvertently, not renew the leases on the ground that made up most of the skiing terrain at PCMR, many asked. Why couldn't Powdr Corp. and Talisker Land Holdings, LLC just reach a new agreement, others wondered. And many became weary as businessmen and their attorneys took to the courtroom with the future of PCMR, critical to a broad swath of the local economy, at stake. The mood eventually shifted to exasperation as it appeared there was a chance PCMR would not open for a ski season if Talisker Land Holdings, LLC moved forward with an eviction against Powdr Corp. from the disputed terrain.The lawsuit wore on with the Talisker Land Holdings, LLC-Vail Resorts side winning a series of key rulings from the 3rd District Court judge presiding over the case. Judge Ryan Harris in the summer of 2014 signed a de facto eviction notice against PCMR and ordered the sides into mediation. Powdr Corp., realizing there was little more that could be accomplished as it attempted to maintain control of PCMR, negotiated a $182.5 million sale of the resort to Vail Resorts that September.Incredible. Here, if you're curious, was Park City just before the merger:And Canyons:Now, imagine if someone, someday, merged this whole operation with the expanded version of Deer Valley, which sits right next door to Park City on Empire Peak:Here's a closer look at the border between the two, which is separated by ropes, rather than by any geographic barrier:Right around the time Vail took over Park City, all seven major local ski areas discussed a “One Wasatch” interconnect, which could be accomplished with a handful of lifts between Brighton and Park City and between Solitude and Alta (the Canyons/Park City connection below has since been built; Brighton and Solitude already share a ski link, as do Alta and Snowbird):This plan died under an avalanche of external factors, and is unlikely to be resurrected anytime soon. However, the mountains aren't getting any farther apart physically, and at some point we're going to accept that a few aerial lifts through the wilderness are a lot less damaging to our environment than thousands of cars cluttering up our roads.On the Park City-Canyons connector gondolaWe talked a bit about the Quicksilver Gondola, which, eight years after its construction, is taken for granted. But it's an amazing machine, a 7,767-foot-long connector that fused Park City to the much-larger Canyons, creating the largest interconnected ski resort in the United States. The fact that such a major, transformative lift opened in 2015, just a year after Vail acquired Park City, and the ski area is now having trouble simply upgrading two older lifts, speaks to how dramatically sentiment around the resort has changed within town.On Park City's mining historyAn amazing feature of skiing Park City is the gigantic warehouses, conveyor belts, and other industrial artifacts that dot the landscape. Visit Park City hosts free daily tours of these historic structures, which we discuss in the podcast. You can learn more here.On the Friends of Ski Mountain Mining HistoryWalsh mentions an organization called “Friends of Ski Mountain Mining History.” This group assumes the burden of restoring and maintaining all of these historic structures. From their website:More than 300 mines once operated in Park City, with the last silver mine closing in 1982. Twenty historic mine structures still exist today, many can been seen while skiing, hiking or mountain biking on our mountain trails. Due to the ravages of time and our harsh winters, many of the mine structures are dilapidated and in critical need of repair. We are committed to preserving our rich mining legacy for future residents and visitors before we lose these historic structures forever.Over the past seven years, our dedicated volunteers have completed stabilization of the King Con Counterweight, California Comstock Mill, Jupiter Ore Bin, Little Bell Ore Bin, two Silver King Water Tanks, the Silver Star Boiler Room and Coal Hopper, the Thaynes Conveyor and the King Con Ore Bin. Previous projects undertaken by our members include the Silver King Aerial Tramway Towers and two Silver King Water Tanks adjacent to the Silver Queen ski run. Our lecture with Clark Martinez, principal contractor on our projects and Jonathan Richards who is our structural engineer, will provide you insight as to how we saved these monuments to our mining era.Preserving our mining heritage is expensive. Our next challenge is to save the Silver King Headframe located at the base of the Bonanza lift and Thaynes Headframe near the Thaynes lift at Park City Mountain Resort. These massive buildings and adjacent structures will take 6 years to stabilize with an expected cost of $3 million. We are embarking on a capital campaign to raise the funds required to save these iconic structures. You can learn more about our campaign here.Here's a cool but slow-paced video about it:On the 2030/34 Winter OlympicsWe talk a bit about the potential for Salt Lake City – and, by extension, host mountains Park City, Deer Valley, and Snowbasin – to host a future Olympic Games. While both 2030 and 2034 are possibilities, the latter increasingly looks likely. Per an October Deseret News article:It looks like there's no competition for Salt Lake City's bid to host the 2034 Winter Games.International Olympic Committee members voted Sunday to formally award both the 2030 and 2034 Winter Games together next year after being told Salt Lake City's preference is for 2034 and the other three candidates still in the race are finalizing bids for 2030.“I think it's everything we could have hoped for,” said Fraser Bullock, president and CEO of the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games, describing the decision as “a tremendous step forward” now that Salt Lake City was identified as the only candidate for 2034.Salt Lake City is bidding to host the more than $2.2 billion event in either 2030 or 2034, but has made it clear waiting until the later date is better financially, because that will avoid competition for domestic sponsors with the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.The next step for the bid that began more than a decade ago is a virtual presentation to the IOC's Future Host Commission for the Winter Games during the week starting Nov. 19 that will include Gov. Spencer Cox and Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall. IOC Executive Board members will decide when they meet from Nov. 30 through Dec. 1 which bids will advance to contract negotiations for 2030 and 2034, known as targeted dialogue under the new, less formal selection process. Their choices to host the 2030 and 2034 Winter Games will go to the full membership for a final ratification vote next year, likely in July just before the start of the 2024 Summer Games in Paris. The Summer Olympics have evolved into a toxic expense that no one really wants. The Winter Games, however, still seem desirable, and I've yet to encounter any significant resistance from the Utah ski community, who have (not entirely but in significant pockets) kind of made resistence to everything their default posture.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 96/100 in 2023, and number 482 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer (unless you sound insane, or, more likely, I just get busy). You can also email skiing@substack.com. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

The topic of homelessness has dominated the Salt Lake City mayoral race, and earlier this year, City Cast Salt Lake was quick to get candidates on the record about the issue. In the second of three interviews, host Ali Vallarta talks with former SLC mayor and current mayoral candidate Rocky Anderson about his record on this issue, stretching all the way back to the 2002 Olympics. Later, Ali and lead producer Emily Means offer analysis and deeper context.  Yesterday, candidate Michael Valentine gave his take on homelessness, and finally, current Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall shares her perspective on Thursday's episode.  Should SLC abandon shelters for permanent supportive housing? What's in Salt Lake City's new housing plan? How new incentives can help SLC's housing crisis. Consider becoming a founding member of City Cast Salt Lake today! It's the best way to support our work and help make sure we're around for years to come. Get all the details and sign up at membership.citycast.fm. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can also find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about the sponsors of this episode: Tecovas at City Creek Mall State of Utah Rowland Hall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall says that building affordable housing would be cheaper than building homeless shelters.  Cheaper on a per-person basis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The new mayor of Denver recently declared a state of emergency around homelessness to unlock more resources. Could — and should — Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall do the same? Plus, what plans are in the works for sanctioned camping? Andrew Johnston, Salt Lake City's director of homeless policy, answers some of host Ali Vallarta's burning questions about the city's approach to our homelessness crisis.  Register for Dr. Sarah Canham's community consultation on the stigma of homelessness. Listen to our conversation with SLC Mayor Erin Mendenhall on homelessness. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This morning Utah Governor Spencer Cox and Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall unveiled Salt Lake City's newest public art piece which is Utah's largest above-ground art installation. According to a press release, The final piece, Trade Balance, is a 25,000-pound, 40-foot-long shipping container engineered to tower in the air at an angle, 39-feet at the highest point and 13-feet at the lowest. Debbie and Marty speak with Salt Lake CitySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board dropped some hot commentary on how Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall is responding to homelessness. Lead producer Emily Means joins host Ali Vallarta to break it down. Plus, is Utah the best place to get married?  Get your $5 ticket to City Cast Salt Lake's 8/01 Day celebration! Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall introduced the EPA's regional administrator to local leaders and residents today to talk about federal funds and plans for Salt Lake's west side.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This year, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall has announced the city will be replacing all traditional fireworks shows with a drone show for Utah's holiday. Lynze Twede, with the Department Of Public Lands for the Salt Lake City Corporation, joins the program to discuss what we can expect. We speak to listeners about whether they prefer the old fireworks or new innovative ideas like drone shows.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Covered, Brett is joined by his friend and new voice to the show, Kevin Murray to kick off part 1 of the Parade of Mayors! For this special episode, Brett and Kevin speak with Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall about policing and crime in Salt Lake City, Utah after the George Floyd Riots of 2020. Stay tuned for Part 2 of the Parade of Mayors where the Covered Crew is joined by yet another Utah mayor that's fighting for you!For more information about the Utah Fraternal Order of Police, visit our website:www.UtahStateFOP.com

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall hosted an “Ask Me Anything” on homelessness this week. Lead producer Emily Means joins host Ali Vallarta to talk about their takeaways. Plus, Salt Lake City Public Library staff file their intent to unionize. And with 80-degree temps on the horizon, Ali and Emily share what they're manifesting this summer. Listen to our interviews with SLC Mayor Erin Mendenhall and candidates Rocky Anderson and Michael Valentine about the city's approach to homelessness. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A group of influential Utahns have a big pitch for Salt Lake's Fairpark neighborhood: a Major League Baseball team and a shiny new ballpark to house it. Plus, SLC Mayor Erin Mendenhall has officially announced her re-election campaign and the Sugar House Kum & Go proposal gets shot down. Lead producer Emily Means joins host Ali Vallarta to break down the stories of the week and have a little gripefest together. See which Salt Lake neighborhoods are experiencing flood danger. Our one-on-one interviews about homelessness with Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and current challengers Rocky Anderson and Michael Valentine.  Background on the Kum & Go drama. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall joins the show as D2 continues their water watch. What lessons did she learn 40 years ago this month that helped her plan for a snowpack like we've never seen before? Are there specific neighborhoods that she's most worried about?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's the freezing cold start to an election year, so we wanted to get Salt Lake City's candidates for mayor on the record about one of the city's most urgent issues: homelessness. In the second of three interviews, host Ali Vallarta talks with former SLC Mayor and current mayoral candidate Rocky Anderson about his record on this issue, stretching all the way back to the 2002 Olympics.  A little housekeeping:  Yesterday, candidate Michael Valentine gave his take on homelessness, and finally, current Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall shares her perspective on Thursday's episode.  These are not debates — each conversation focuses on the candidates' own record and proposals. None of our guests heard the others' interviews prior to recording theirs. And as always, we edited the conversations for length and clarity. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the freezing cold start to an election year, so we wanted to get Salt Lake City's candidates for mayor on the record about one of the city's most urgent issues: homelessness. In the first of three interviews, host Ali Vallarta talks with mayoral candidate Michael Valentine about how his experience with homelessness influences his policy proposals.  A little housekeeping: Tomorrow, candidate Rocky Anderson gives his take on the issue, and finally, current Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall shares her perspective on Thursday's episode.  These are not debates — each conversation focuses on the candidates' own record and proposals. None of our guests heard the others' interviews prior to recording theirs. And as always, we edited the conversations for length and clarity. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall recently announced plans to fund a new approach to affordable housing. The program would put money back into renters' hands to help them buy a home in the future. Perpetual Housing Fund Co-Director Ashley Atkinson joins host Ali Vallarta to explain how this fits into solving Salt Lake's housing puzzle.     Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall graded the city's performance this week. Would lead producer Emily Means and host Ali Vallarta also give it an “A?” Plus, Sundance rages on despite a setback from the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services, and we announce the nominees for the “Oscars of Food.” Here is our episode on the Rio Grande Plan [16-min listen]. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC and Twitter @CityCastSLC. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosts: Maura Carabello and Taylor Morgan Last week Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall announced the Bee's is moving to South Jordan. Taylor and Maura discuss the repercussions the city could face by the move.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  Hosts: Maura Carabello and Taylor Morgan Gov. Cox and AG Reyes To Sue Social Media Companies Today, Governor Cox and Attorney General Sean Reyes had a press conference at the Capitol announcing plans for a lawsuit by the state of Utah against social media companies for allegedly harming children. We call KSL Legal Analyst Greg Skordas to go over the significance of this lawsuit. Utah State Board Of Education Votes To Oppose School Choice Bill As the school choice bill continues to advance through the House and Senate, the Utah State Board of Education today voted to oppose the bill. Utah State Board of Education Board Member Sarah Reale joins our show to discuss why she voted to oppose the bill. Utah Legislature On Education A New leaked audio by the executive director of Kaysville-based Education Opportunity for Every Child has sparked some controversy. KSL Newsradio Reporter Lindsay Aerts joins us to give the details. Legislation Gameplay During the first weeks of the legislative session, the bills making it through the floor are often not as important or controversial, but that's not what we have seen this year. Maura and Taylor discuss why we are seeing so many controversial big bills getting passed so early. Biden & McCarthy To Meet On Debt Ceiling The U.S. started the year by reaching its debt limit. Last week, the U.S. hit its borrowing cap of around $31.4 trillion dollars. ABC News Correspondent Elizabeth Schulzet joins the show to discuss the upcoming meetings between Speaker McCarthy and President Biden. Supreme Court Releases First Opinion The Supreme Court today finally handed down the first ruling of its term, and it comes unusually late. Zach Schonfeld, Reporter for The Hill, joins the show to discuss why it is taking longer for SCOTUS to hand down their opinions. What To Do About Gun Violence Over the weekend we had another tragic shooting in Monterey Park, California. Maura and Taylor talk with the chairman of the Utah shooting sports council Clark Aposhian on what solutions we should be discussing. The Impact of Moving The Bees Last week Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall announced the Bee's is moving to South Jordan. Taylor and Maura discuss the repercussions the city could face by the move.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown – “Wingman Wednesday,” December 14, 20225:05 pm: Representative Mike Schultz joins Greg and Rod to discuss the results of the legislative audit of the 2022 election in Utah, what is being done well and where some problems still exist6:05 pm: Amy Hawkins, Chair of the Ballpark Community Council, joins the program to discuss Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall's order that several vacant homes in the neighborhood be demolished following a string of fires that that have made the properties uninhabitable

Washington Post national political enterprise reporter Robert Samuels and Washington Post senior writer Frances Stead Sellers host back-to-back conversations with Jackson, Miss., Mayor Chokwe Lumumba and Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall about the impact of climate change on their cities as part of a new, special week-long series, “This is Climate.” Conversation recorded on Tuesday, December 6, 2022.

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown – Monday, October 24, 20224:20 pm: Former Ambassador Robert C. O'Brien, former U.S. National Security Adviser, joins Rod to discuss why he is supporting Senator Mike Lee for reelection4:38 pm: Dr. Wayne Winegarden, Senior Fellow in Business and Economics at the Pacific Research Institute joins Rod to discuss how the inflation crisis is worsening homelessness in the United States6:05 pm: Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall joins Rod for a conversation about the $85 million parks, trails and open space bond that Salt Lake City voters will take up in November6:20 pm: Adam Coleman, Founder of WrongSpeak Publishing joins the show to discuss his piece about how the media's political propaganda kept him from understanding conservatives6:38 pm: William Hayden Smith, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri joins the program to discuss why he told Utah lawmakers last week that renewable energy is a failed path

About Darlene McDonald: A Quaker, she currently serves on the board for the American Friends Service Committee as a member-at-large and on the Friends Relations Committee. Previously, she's served as Outreach Director for the Utah Women's Democratic Club — the oldest women's Democratic club in the country, and on the board for Alliance for a Better Utah. In 2019, Ms. McDonald was elected Chair of the Utah Black Roundtable and served in that role for a one year term. In 2020, Ms. McDonald was elected to serve as the Democratic National Committeewoman for Utah.Following the summer of protest after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Ms. McDonald was one of 6 community leaders appointed by Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall to serve on the Salt Lake City Racial Equity in Policing Commission. Find all of her socials at @VoteDarlene as she looks to unseat Burgess Owens. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The old waterpark, then known as Seven Peaks, closed in 2018.Three years later, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall announced plans for a regional park. As we dive into communities North of Salt Lake County, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall joins us live to bring an update on the project.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on “In the Hive,” the latest of our periodic conversations with Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall. We'll talk to the mayor about pedestrian safety, homeless shelters, the deal the city struck on the Utah Inland Port, and even about the whale — a contentious new public art piece in the city's 9th & […]

Today on “In the Hive,” the latest of our periodic conversations with Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall. We’ll talk to the mayor about pedestrian safety, homeless shelters, the deal the city struck on the Utah Inland Port, and even about the whale — a contentious new public art piece in the city’s 9th & […]

Ethan Millard and Alex Kirry get together for their weekly session of news bytes, stupid rants, and Tom Cruise shenanigans.  Alex compares Elon Musk to Willy Wonka, Ethan is approached at a local grocery store about how many coyotes he could kill if he was attacked by a pack of them and Amazon Prime is streaming the Mission Impossible movies, which Alex finds impossible to stomach.  A #zenheadline featuring a challenge from a gym owner to shovel your neighbor's walkways and a local Salt Lake City donut shop is opening a location near Alex's house and it's going to be a real problem for his diet.  Don't worry, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall gives herself an 'A' for her grade on Mayor-ing last year.      See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Salt Lake City has made a significant amount of progress in creating a good environment for businesses and in the fight against crime, rounding out 2021 with a drop in overall crime. Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall joins us on the line to talk about how to keep the momentum going in 2022. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The pandemic has wreaked havoc on many people's livelihoods. But many people have stepped up to help others out during this trying time. Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall talked with Boyd about a couple of programs that have successfully bridged the gap for those in need. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall is asking for an extension of the school mask mandate. KSL NewsRadio's Paul Nelson was at her news conference today and chats about the differences in cases between districts and the overall COVID-19 numbers in kids. Guest Host: Marty Carpenter See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall announced on Inside Sources that she has signed a mask mandate for grades K-12 in city schools. Mayor Mendenhall answers questions about why she issued the mandate and why she thinks it's best for kids to be masked this fall.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall unveiled a plan to help people who are experiencing homelessness. She talks with Boyd about how we can best solve this complex issue. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Salt Lake City officials have declared racism a public health crisis. If you are a member of different minorities, you are three times more likely to get Covid. You are less likely to be screened for cancer. There are more incidences of low birth weight and higher infant mortality rates. KSL Newsradio's Amanda Dickson wanted to hear from her guests on A Woman's View on this important topic. Her guests this week are Sui Lang Panoke, Senior Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Zions Bank, Sharon Goodrich, retired Foundation Director at Primary Children's Hospital and Susan Wood, Director of Communications for the Utah League of Cities and Towns.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Host Ryan Coonerty talks with Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall, who is leading the charge on equitable growth in one of the fastest-growing cities in the country. They talk about her role championing police and criminal justice reform after the George Floyd Movement, her work to build a more Democratic Utah, and her passion for learning from her constituents.

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall talks about SLC Corps, a new volunteer effort whose first task is to help the homeless. She'll also update us on the Other Side Village and share her excitement about First Lady Jill Biden's visit. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall green lights a potentially innovative way to help the homeless off the street, and into a home, during the announcement of a key partnership today See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For years, mayors across the United States have been implementing climate action plans in their cities. Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall, the Chair of the Conference's Alliance for a Sustainable Future, joins this discussion on how her city is advancing climate change goals.

Today on “In the Hive,” we check in with Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall. We’ll hear about why the mayor decided to extend the city’s mask mandate, even as the state requirement came to an end. Mendenhall also tells us why she thinks our region needs another homeless resource center. Plus, we visit the […]

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown –Thursday, April 1, 20214:20 pm: William Jacobson, a professor at Cornell Law School and blogger at Legal Insurrection, joins the program to discuss recent comments by NBC’s Lester Holt that fairness in the media is overrated4:35 pm: Heritage Foundation Chief Economist Steve Moore joins Rod for their weekly conversation about politics and the nation’s economy5:05 pm: Deseret News columnist Jay Evensen joins Rod to discuss his recent piece where he says lifting mask mandates too early will make some in the U.S. look foolish6:05 pm: Paul Hickey, President of medical mask maker PuraVita Medical, joins the program for a conversation about how Chinese mask manufacturers are attempting to put American mask-makers out of business by offering cheaper, less effective mask to the American market6:20 pm: Utah County Commissioner Bill Lee joins Rod to discuss the commission’s decision to take greater control of the county’s budgeting process by removing the oversight process from the county auditor/clerk and putting the commission in control6:35 pm: Jean Hill, co-chair of the Salt Lake Valley Coalition to End Homelessness joins Rod to discuss why she and Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall say there is a need for another homeless shelter in Salt Lake County

Join us for a conversation with Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall.