UPR Station News

Part 1 of Roger McDonough's report:

The Senate voted Tuesday to proceed in their deliberations on immigration reform. KCPW’s Roger McDonough spoke with Mark Alvarez, a Salt Lake attorney, Spanish language radio host and Immigration Specialist with Telemundo Utah, to get an update on the reform process, and to hear about the human element often lost in the debate.

October: That’s when Public Radio’s favorite family doctor Zorba Paster visits Utah Public Radio.  Zorba will be in Logan and Moab. Listen to him live on Access Utah, October 17 at 9 am.  Check back here for a complete schedule as it becomes available.

Listen to  Zorba Paster on Your Health on Utah Public Radio Friday mornings at 10.

Thank you for your pledges of financial support during UPR’s Spring 2013 Pledge Drive. Our listeners' pledges will plant more than 2,500 ponderosa pine trees next year in Utah’s Manti-La Sal National Forest through our partnership with the National Forest Foundation!

The beloved NPR show Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! will be coming to the big screen on Thursday May 2, 2013. UPR will host our guests at the showing in Ogden at the Cinemark Tinseltown 14 Theatre.

Host Peter Sagal and official judge and scorekeeper Carl Kasell will be joined by panelists Paula Poundstone, Mo Rocca and Tom Bodett to play the quiz in front of a live audience - Carl reading limericks! Celebrity guests answering stupid questions! Faces made for radio! You’ve heard it in 1D, now see it live in 2D.

Friday at UPR we're giving away another package to the UPR StoryCorps event in May, with your support. Each person who fills out and submits our pledge form will be entered in to win the escape package: