City Cast Salt Lake
City Cast Salt Lake is Salt Lake City’s daily news podcast. Host Ali Vallarta and a bevy of smart and entertaining locals will bring you conversations about the issues that matter most to SLC. Some days City Cast will make you proud; other days it’ll make you angry. It will celebrate Salt Lake’s triumphs, (try to) solve its mysteries, and explore its history. City Cast will help you feel more connected to the Wasatch Front – whether you’ve lived here for 6 months or 6 generations.
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What’s It Take to Unionize in Salt Lake?
What's the landscape of labor unions now?
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A Beginners Guide to Birding Salt Lake
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How the UT Leg Responded to our Housing Crisis
Did the Leg. do enough to address our housing crisis?
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2 Year Quake-aversary
It’s the 2-year anniversary of the 6.7 magnitude earthquake.
21 min
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We’ve Got Answers on the Wolverine!
What was a wolverine up to in Utah?
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Writers supporting Writers: Navigating SLC’s Cr...
Writing, vulnerability, and the importance of creative community
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Clean Slate Utah
A new law could clear the criminal records of thousands of Utahns.
10 min
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Sci Fi Meets Spiritual Traditions at UMFA
Contemplating those we’ve lost through art
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Mental Health, Climate Anxiety, and Rent
It's Friday, so we're looking back at the week that was.
21 min
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Democratizing Poetry in SLC (and everywhere)
Poetry should be accessible to everyone.
18 min
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Coming Soon: Saborrrr!
Food traditions. Careful casting. And the film Saborrr!
17 min
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Supporting Salt Lake’s Trans Community
Lessons from the passage and subsequent veto of a bill that would a ban on transgender kids participation in sports.
15 min
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Ground Rules for a More Inclusive Climbing Gym
How can we make Salt Lake’s climbing gyms more inclusive spaces.
15 min
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20 is Plenty, Drivers Licenses, and Education B...
It’s Friday, which means we’re looking back on the week with fun and thoughtful Salt Lakers.
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A Land Back Project on the Bear River
In 2018, the Shoshone Nation bought land back, and it’s now a site of restorative healing.
18 min
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Music is a Cure for the Pandemic Blues
Folk singer Alicia Stockman on her new album and getting back on the road.
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What We Learned From Free Fare Feb
It’s the end of Free Fare February, but it doesn’t have to be the end of your frontrunner weekends.
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Quiet Streets, 3rd Space, and Salt Lake Below
SLC poet RJ Walker contrasts Salt Lake’s manicured streets with Salt Lake below.
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COVID Testing, Clean Air Bills, and the DABC
We’re looking back on the week with fun and thoughtful Salt Lakers.
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Let Teachers Teach
Under mounting scrutiny, how are Salt Lake’s teachers supposed to celebrate Black History Month?
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The Elephant in the Room
It’s a uniquely Utah phenomenon: Democrats switching their affiliation to vote in Republican primary elections
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Salt Lake’s Secret Garden
Salt Lake art critic, curator, and lawyer Scotti Hill joins to discuss the bizarre beauty of Gilgal Sculpture Garden.
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Anti-trans Bills, Education Bills, and the Hous...
We’re breaking down the stories we can’t let go of this week.
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Should Salt Lake host the 2030 Olympics? (feat....
Is Salt Lake's bid for the Olympics a good thing, and why did Denver reject them?
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Hindsight is 2002 (Olympics)
We’re talking about Salt Lake’s favorite brag: the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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