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Revisiting 'The Science Of Sasquatch' With Jeff Meldrum On Monday's Access Utah Jun 29, 2020

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Jeff Meldrum is Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology at Idaho State University. He is author of “Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science.” He is a leading expert on Bigfoot or Sasquatch, or the term he prefers: “Relict Hominoid.” He says “...[I]t is one matter to address the theoretical possibility of a relict species of hominoid in North America, and the obligate shift in paradigm to accommodate it, but there must also be something substantial to place within that revised framework. There must be essential evidence to lend weight to the hypotheses, and counter the critics’ various aspersions. I was once confronted by a colleague, who declared, ‘After all, these are just stories.’ My response: ‘Stories that apparently leave tracks, shed hair, void scat, vocalize, are observed and described by reliable experienced witnesses. Hardly just stories.’”

COVID-19 Outbreak At JBS Meatpacking Plant On Thursday's Access Utah Jun 25, 2020

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Meatpacking plants in Cache Valley have been hit hard with COVID-19 with several hundred workers diagnosed with the disease in the past several weeks. Community organizations and individuals are trying to provide needed help to the affected families. Some of the workers at the JBS plant in Hyrum staged a walk-out to protest the company’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

'This Is Her Place' Podcast On Wednesday's Access Utah Jun 24, 2020

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This Is Her Place is a new podcast that tells the remarkable stories of Utah women, past and present, in all their diversity. Businesswomen and religious leaders, poets and politicians, healers and homemakers, artists and activists, women in the Beehive state have never fit into easy stereotypes.

Peace Corps Evacuation From Zambia With Barbara Farris On Tuesday's Access Utah Jun 23, 2020

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Barbara Farris is a retired health education teacher who lives in Cache Valley. Until March of this year she was in Zambia with the Peace Corps DREAMS program.

'Social Unrest: Resolving The Dichotomies Of Me/You And Us/Them' On Monday's Access Utah Jun 22, 2020

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Derrik Tollefson is Professor of Social Work and head of the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology at Utah State University. He also directs the I-System Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies at USU.

Revisiting Air Quality In The 2020 Utah Legislative Session On Thursday's Access Utah Jun 18, 2020

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Today on Access Utah, a look at state air quality legislation. This episode was first broadcast in March during the final week of the 2020 session of the Utah Legislature.

Revisiting Writing Auto/Biography With Evans Biography Award Winners On Wednesday's Access Utah Jun 17, 2020

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Today on Access Utah we revisit a conversation from last year with presenters at the Mountain West Center and Evans Biography Awards Writers Workshop for Auto/Biography.

Revisiting 'UNLADYLIKE2020' On Tuesday's Access Utah Jun 16, 2020

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On Tuesday’s Access Utah, Tom Williams will talk with UNLADYLIKE2020 Executive Producer Sandra Rattley and series creator Charlotte Mangin.

Revisiting 'Half Broke' With Ginger Gaffney On Monday's Access Utah Jun 15, 2020

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Today on Access Utah, Ginger Gaffney joins us to talk about her memoir “Half Broke," about an alternative prison ranch in New Mexico conducting a daring experiment: setting the troubled residents out to retrain an aggressive herd of horses.

Revisiting The Digital Folklore Trends Of 2019 On Thursday's Access Utah Jun 11, 2020

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Co-directors of the USU Digital Folklore Project Jeannie Thomas and Lynne McNeill (USU English Department Head and USU Assistant Professor of English, respectively) will join Tom Williams to talk about the 2019 Digital Trends of the Year.

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