KSL at Night: 9-27-2023

Host: Derek Brown Countdown to shutdown: the latest The countdown to a possible government shutdown is getting close. Right now it’s three days until funding stops flowing to key branches of the federal government… including air traffic control, the EPA, and passport offices. Medicare won’t be cl…

When freight trains block your life

Host: Derek Brown Waiting for the train to pass can go from inconvenient to life-changing for residents on the West side of Salt Lake City. City Councilman Alejandro Puy of the city’s second district joins Derek to share actual Utahns’ stories and his plan for addressing the problem.

The group offering clean slates this National Recovery Month

Host: Derek Brown We know that September is National Suicide Prevention Month, but it is also National Recovery Month. And to help people who are recovering from substance addiction, an organization called Rasa is providing free expungements here in Utah. Noella Sudbury, Founder and CEO of Rasa, j…

Federal program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on the chopping block

Host: Derek Brown We’ve been talking a lot about a potential government shutdown, but not about a program made to help women, infants, and children. It’s called the WIC program, which benefits 41,000 Utah families.  KSL NewsRadio Reporter Lindsay Aerts joins the show to explain what will happen to…

Countdown to shutdown: the latest

Host: Derek Brown The countdown to a possible government shutdown is getting close. Right now it’s three days until funding stops flowing to key branches of the federal government… including air traffic control, the EPA, and passport offices. Medicare won’t be closing its doors either way. But is …

KSL at Night: 9-26-2023

Hosts: Leah Murray and Derek Brown The DWS on Utah’s unemployment rates and job opportunities Yesterday we had the President of the Salt Lake Chamber talking about how immigration is their top priority because we have such low unemployment rates and businesses are looking to hire. But that begs t…

Building bipartisan relationships through pickleball

Hosts: Leah Murray and Derek Brown We’ve talked about the rising popularity of pickleball… It’s so popular that a bipartisan group of senators are now coming together—and setting politics aside—to play for fun. It’s called the Senate pickleball caucus, and quite a lot of senators participate in it…

Previewing the second Republican presidential debate

Hosts: Leah Murray and Derek Brown The second Republican presidential debate for the 2024 election is happening tomorrow. Derek and Leah review everything you need to know to stay up to date, from the requirements to attend to the actual attendees.

An infant found abandoned at the US/Mexico border

Hosts: Leah Murray and Derek Brown One of the conversations we are always having in this country is about the border of the United States with Mexico. Today we learned of a two-month-old infant that was found abandoned at the border. Is any work being done to address this issue? How is this affect…

Speed dating: the news version

Hosts: Leah Murray and Derek Brown Since we bill ourselves as the best two hours of radio for you to learn all the things you need to know, we have chosen a number of stories that happened today that we thought we should break down. From President Biden joining the picket line to the Federal Trade…