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Politics of air pollution, a resort’s overtures to Native culture, and LDS-LGBTQ therapy gone awry

Salt Lake Tribune journalists discuss the week’s top stories.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Red Heritage, a Native American performance group, sings in a drum circle and performs a hoop dance for guests at the Amangiri resort near Big Water on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Red Heritage, a Native American performance group, sings in a drum circle and performs a hoop dance for guests at the Amangiri resort near Big Water on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.

  | Aug. 17, 2023, 7:02 p.m.

Why those who suffer the most from the Salt Lake Valley’s bad air may speak out the least. A southern Utah resort practices smudging, which is rooted in Indigenous ceremonies. Is this cultural appreciation or appropriation? And a Utah therapist built a reputation of helping gay Latter-day Saints. Several men say he sexually abused them.

At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Alixel Cabrera, Palak Jayswal and Jessica Miller, along with news columnist Robert Gehrke, join Utah Public Radio’s Tom Williams to talk about the week’s top stories.

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