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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