RadioACTive: March 11, 2019

  • March 11, 2019
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Live music from Jazzy Olivo, day 42 of 45 at the Utah Legislature with League of Women Voters and Action Utah, affordable housing and lawmakers' promises

Tonight’s lineup:

Live music from Jazzy Olivo with guitarist Andres Reyes. Jazzy will have her seven-piece band backing her up Wednesday, March 13, when she hits the Gallivan Plaza stage at 7:30 p.m. to close out the Excellence in the Community series. It’s FREE!

Ermiya Fanaeian called in from the Utah State Capitol where she and other activists were engaging lawmakers in the Utah House chambers. With last week’s demise of the bill to ban conversion therapy upon minors, the activists were lobbying lawmakers outside the Utah House chambers to commit to protecting LGBTQ youth through legislative efforts, including transgender youth.

Carrie Chalverus, who started Salt Lake Schools Are Awesome to save Bennion Elementary from closure. This Wednesday from 5:30-7:15 p.m., SLC Schools Are Awesome invites the public to a planning meeting at the school, located at 429 S. 800 E., SLC. Email saltlakeschoolsareawesome@gmail.com with questions.

Day 42 of 45 at the Utah Legislature, featuring:

  • Catherine Weller and Helen Moser of the League of Women Voters of Utah, which will hold its last brown bag lunch during the legislative session at 11:30 a.m. in the Seagull Room of the Utah Senate Building, next to the visitor parking lot.
  • Andrea Himoff of Action Utah, which will hold its last lobby day during the session tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. in the Seagull Room.

Affordable housing – the people are here and keep coming, so will anyone build it? Panelists included:

Tune in 90.9fm KRCL weeknights at 6 for a fresh edition of RadioACTive. Got a story you'd like to share on the show? Record a voice memo on your smart phone, then email it to radioactive@krcl.org. Keep it under 3 minutes and be sure to include a name and phone number in the message.

RadioACTive is a production of Listeners' Community Radio of Utah. Tonight's team included:

  • Exec. Producer/Host: Lara Jones
  • Assoc. Producer/Host:  Billy Palmer
  • Volunteer: Tommy Sutter

 

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