City Cast Salt Lake
🤔 Should Utah be more like California?
July 30, 2024 · — Adrian González
Good morning, Salt Lake! It’s City Cast editor Adrian González filling in for Terina today. We are just two days away from 801 Day and our party at Second Summit Cider!
There will be local food, pickleball, live music, and the official release of the 801 Day Second Summit x City Cast pear rhubarb cider. Bring all your 21+ friends. Your $5 ticket will help Seven Canyons Trust build a new park in SLC.
What's CITY Talking About?
Salt Lake Dries, Carbon Flies
The drying Great Salt Lake is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a recent study. The lake, reduced by nearly half due to water diversions and a growing regional population, emitted 4.1 million tons of greenhouse gasses in 2020 alone. [NPR]
- Related: What the Great Salt Lake Commissioner is doing to save the lake. [City Cast Salt Lake 🎧]
School Gun Detectors Dilemma
The Salt Lake City School District spent over $2 million on weapons detectors for four high schools but it has no one to operate them after a $4.5 million staffing grant was denied by the state. The district is deliberating whether to use its own funds for security personnel while facing pressure to instead allocate those same funds to student development programs. [The Salt Lake Tribune 🔒]
Housing for Olympic Athletes’ Families
On the 2034 Salt Lake Winter Olympics committee, retired ski champion Lindsey Vonn is planning a more family-friendly Olympic village on the University of Utah campus. The university will provide up to 2,000 beds for immediate family of athletes, funded by sponsors in order to preserve the event’s $4 billion budget. [AP]
- Related: Is the IOC already on its quid pro quo bullshit with us? [City Cast Salt Lake 🎧]
GOP Lawmakers Call for DA's Resignation
The Utah Legislature is going to war with Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill. Is it about more than one controversial X post? [City Cast Salt Lake 🎧]
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What To Do
Tuesday, July 30
- 🌱 Volunteer Trail Maintenance | 9 a.m.-Noon or 6-9 p.m. | Upper Avenues
- 🎨 Sip & Paint a Mug | 6-8 p.m. | $55 early, $65 day-of | Central City
Wednesday, July 31
- 🧘 Community Yoga | 6-7 p.m. | Free | West Valley
- 🇮🇹 Italian Language Film Screening: “L’Immensità” | 6-8 p.m. | Free | Poplar Grove
Thursday, Aug. 1
- 🎤 801 Day Party | 7-9 p.m. | $5 | 21+ | Millcreek
- 🎷 Experimental Jazz Night | 7-10 p.m. | Free | All ages | Central City
Today on City Cast
Strong Beer on Tap? DA’s Boiling Pot, and Trailhead Menaces
Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill is in Republican legislators’ crosshairs after a controversial tweet. Host Ali Vallarta and executive producer Emily Means ask if a new law is being repurposed to punish him. Plus, bartenders’ 2034 Olympic dreams, exercises in trailhead patience, and Park City’s best mountain biker.
Thanks for hanging with me today! And a big shout out to Park City olympian Haley Batten for picking up a silver medal in mountain biking.
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