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How Ogden native Bernard DeVoto and his wife Avis saved the West
This year marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of a once very famous Utah native. Today, though, the name Bernard DeVoto may not be familiar to you. Indeed, few people inside of his native state r
What is a co-op grocery store, anyway?
Over the past few years, you have undoubtedly seen signs that say Salt Lake needs a food co-op on lawns in front of houses or businesses or at the downtown farmers market. The Wasatch Cooperative Ma
Salt Lake City’s $85 million parks, trails and open space bond
If you live in Salt Lake City, youll see on your November ballot an $85 million bond proposal. If approved, it would allow for the largest single expenditure on park and open space improvements in th
While Inland Port presses pause, logistics expert says there’s no market for rail hub
In a white paper published this week, a logistics expert said his analysis showed that there is no market in Salt Lake City and its surroundings for a key part of the Utah Inland Port. Dr. Robert Leac
Learning about Lichen with BYU’s Dr. Steve Leavitt (via Science Moab)
Whether on rock or vegetation, lichen can be found all around us and play surprising and complex roles. Steve Leavitt, an evolutionary biologist at Brigham Young University, is the curator of the lich
Proposed SLC zoning changes aim to increase ‘missing middle’ and ‘shared’ housing
The Salt Lake City Council is considering a suite of changes to zoning ordinances. The proposed changes include amending rules for areas of the city zoned as RMF-30, in an effort to increase so-call
Gerrymandering lawsuit in Utah aims to change boundaries of electoral maps
This week, a Utah court heard a request by state attorneys to throw out a lawsuit challenging the way the legislature redrew political boundaries through a contentious redistricting process. The suit,
A rare, audible, meteor skips across Utah’s skies – mimicking an earlier event
Today on In the Hive, we have aconversation with NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador to Utah Patrick Wiggins about something that is generally seen but not heard. Most meteors are so small and so far aw
Chance discovery of ancient footprints extends our understanding of Utah’s human history
In early July, Dr. Daron Duke, an archaeologist who does field work on the the U.S. Militarys Utah Test and Training Range was driving inside the base with a colleague, a research scientist from Corn
Monkeypox questions answered — and a personal story (via City Cast Salt Lake)
Today on In the Hive, we piggyback on some coverage provided this week by City Cast Salt Lake onthe local spread of monkeypox. To date there have bee 42 cases of the viral disease in Utah, the bulk