10K-Bed ICE Facility, Child Care Cuts, LDS Garment Hype
Happy Halloween! Host Ali Vallarta, executive producer Emily Means, and City Cast Salt Lake contributor Chandler Rosenberg make sense of some scary news headlines, from a 10,000-person ICE detention center to cutting funding for child care. Plus, joyful picks of the week.
Resources and references:
- Salt Lake County Council votes to cut parks and recreation child care program funding [KSL]
- Utah Gov. Cox said he’d welcome an ICE detention facility. Here’s what state leaders are saying now that one is reportedly in the works. [Salt Lake Tribune]
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