KSL at Night: 4-8-2024 - KSL at Night

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Hosts: Leah Murray and Maura Carabello

Playing the presidential ballot game

One of our favorite things to talk about on KSL @ Night is the presidential election. Utah will be hosting a presidential debate next week, so Maura and Leah start off the show with a discussion on who’s running and, yes, there are some unfamiliar names on the ballot.

What’s being done to address the gender pay gap in Utah?

Utah has the second-largest gender pay gap in the nation, but figuring out what causes that pay gap is the way to address it. The deal is, when we control for occupation, experience, education, and other variables, then Utah’s pay gap goes to 97 cents on the dollar. Derek Miller, President and CEO of the Salt Lake Chamber, joins Leah and Maura to discuss some solutions.

Sen. Mike Lee interviews U.S. Senate candidates

The Utah GOP is having its convention this month, which will include choosing who will be the party’s nominee for the U.S. Senate election happening in November. Ahead of that race, Sen. Mike Lee sat down with four of the candidates: Carolyn Phippen, Brad Wilson, Trent Staggs, and Jason Walton. Sen. Lee hasn’t endorsed any candidate and said he usually doesn’t, but maybe he will depending on how these conversations go…

Indiana banned cell phones in their classrooms… Why didn’t Utah?

Indiana passed a law that banned cell phones, tablets, laptops, and gaming devices in schools. Of course, this exempts educational purposes with a teacher’s permission, emergencies, etc. Why didn’t Utah follow Indiana on this? Aimee Winder Newton, Senior Advisor to Gov. Cox and Director of the Office of Families, joins the discussion.

Lawmakers plan on expanding online privacy protections

Yesterday, members of Congress released a proposal that would give consumers broad rights to control how tech companies like Google, Meta, and TikTok use their personal data. This has been a decades-long fight to adopt national online privacy protections. Maura and Leah discuss this sweeping proposal.

What’s the one big thing we can do for our kids?

Arthur Brooks recently wrote a piece for The Atlantic on the one big thing parents can do for their kids. In this piece, he brought up the concept of nature vs. nurture and research that shows that what parents do actually doesn’t have that much of an impact on kids. It’s mostly nature—not nurture—that predicts how a kid is going to do.

Southwest Airlines adds on to the long list of airline woes

Getting ready to fly this summer? Leah’s already booked flights to get to New York to visit family. What are the odds she can get there safely? Alex Stone, ABC News Correspondent in Los Angeles, joins Maura and Leah to explain what happened with a Southwest Airlines flight yesterday.

The religious significance of the total solar eclipse

Last week Leah got an email from Weber State University talking about how to treat people who had religious expectations during the eclipse. Kelsey Dallas, who covers religion, sports and the Supreme Court for the Deseret News, joins Leah and Maura to explain what the different faith communities are doing to celebrate or at least acknowledge the eclipse today.

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