Lawmakers wrapped the 2020 Utah legislative session at the stroke of midnight on Thursday. Guest host Benjamin Bombard and a panel of journos gather to take stock of what did – and didn’t – happen on Capitol Hill this year.

I’m taking paternity leave because the health and well-being of my family is priority number one. And I’m using all of it. Not just the 10 days most American dads take, but the full 12 weeks of federally job-protected and unpaid parental leave.

“When I show up at her trailer, Nicole’s dogs are in attack mode, barking murderously and threatening to break their chains.”

The Utah deer and elk archery seasons wrap up across much of the state this Friday. The Division of Wildlife Resources says there are more buck deer in the state than at any time in the last 25 years. KUER’s Benjamin Bombard sends this audio postcard of a recent hunting trip in the Uintas.  

The students didn’t say a word. They sat. They breathed. They felt what they were feeling. “Let go of everything,” Bimstein said. “Every sound. Every thought. Every sense. For one minute: Just be.”

Most mornings, I step out my front door and wonder how the world has changed shape from the day before.

In 2005, an artist in Brooklyn went on eBay, bought two acres of land in a remote part of Utah, and declared it a de facto sovereign nation: Zaqistan.

Driving south on a rural road that beamed through the desert, he smoked a joint and he chewed sunflower seeds to stay awake.

Microdosing mushroom and LSD could be the giant leap in America’s psychedelic future.

Hunting is likely one of the oldest rites in human history, and the connections it provides me and many other hunters are profound.