City Cast Salt Lake

From the symphony, to dive bars, to walks in the park, SLC is a city for love. The City Cast Salt Lake team share our perfect Salt Lake date nights + read your love letters.Do you love Salt Lake? Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter.

Rebecca Chavez-Houck and Shireen Ghorbani join Ali to make sense of the Secure Vote Utah ballot initiative – a frightening new cause that would erase vote-by-mail in Utah.Want to stay a vocal local? Sign up for our daily newsletter.

At age 61, U of U professor Gerda Saunders was diagnosed with early-onset dementia, and she has spent the last decade documenting her battle with the essence of memory. The latest installment in Gerda’s story is a documentary filmed over 6-years, “The Gerda That Remains.” Ali talks to Gerda and filmmaker Kelsie Moore about the film and Gerda’s legacy.Subscribe to the newsletter here.

Ali talks to Emily Means of KUER about what action state officials are taking to save the Great Salt Lake.Madeline is reporting Salt Lake Love Stories in the newsletter this week. Submit your story of falling in love with a place, an idea, or a person in SLC at saltlake@citycast.fm and subscribe to the newsletter here.

Ali went out to the High Star Ranch in Kamas for the 5th Annual Ski Joring Utah competition to chat with the hosts, competitors and spectators of the perfect Utah sport.Quit horsing around: Sign up for our daily newsletter.

Dr. Len Necefer, an A+ meme-maker and the founder of NativesOutdoors is here to reflect on the emerging tradition of land acknowledgements.The Natives Outdoors reading list for the outdoor industry is on their website, nativesoutdoors.com, we’ve also put the link in our newsletter.Send your worst, most hilarious, or most awkward stories of dating in SLC to saltlake@citycast.fm or text us at 801-203-0137!

One in four Utah teens can’t afford period products and Emily Bell McCormick of The Period Project is trying to do something about it.Send us your Salt Lake love stories at saltlake@citycast.fm or by calling or texting them to: (801) 203-0137.Want to learn more about Salt Lake's Vocal Locals? Sign up for our daily newsletter.

Montana just became the newest western state to legalize recreational marijuana and it has us wondering if Utah, with the recent legalization of medicinal, is crawling towards a similar trend? Ali catches up with two of Salt Lake’s finest public defenders, Grant Miller and Darnell Crandall, about the state of pot in the Utah.Make your voice heard, and take the House GOP Constituent Survey here.And while you're at it, subscribe to our newsletter here,

Salt Lake’s teachers are giving more than they’re getting right now. We asked John Arthur, Utah’s 2021 Teacher of the Year, how things are going in his 6th Grade classroom and how Salt Lakers can best show up for teachers right now.Questions, ideas, or concerns for Salt Lake City? Leave us an audio note any time, any day by calling (801) 203-0137.Here's your homework: Subscribe to our daily newsletter, if you haven't already.And some extra credit: Follow us on Twitter! @CityCastSLC

Have you heard the joke that the official bird of Utah is the crane? Just kidding, it’s the California Gull. But seriously, though, downtown Salt Lake is in a massive construction boom. To Building Salt Lake editor Taylor Anderson, that’s mostly a good thing - but not without its complications.Looking to build your Salt Lake knowhow? Subscribe to our daily newsletter. Sign up here. We’re also on Twitter! Follow us at @CityCastSLC