Vicki Barker
Vicki Barker was UPR's Moab correspondent from 2011 - 2012.
A native of Moab, she started working in radio as a teenager and earned a degree at Utah State University-Logan in broadcast performance and management. She worked as a news reporter and feature writer for radio and publications throughout the intermountain area and also worked in the national parks, in outdoor environmental education, and as an editor.
Vicki passed away in April 2012 and has left a void on UPR where her voice used to be.
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Saturday was the annual showdown between Cambridge and Oxford universities on the River Thames. Vicki Barker has the results from the historic boat race.
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Britain is expected this week to announce plans to issue a bond that will take 100 years to mature — and maybe even a bond that never matures but just keeps paying out indefinitely. It's being billed as an attempt to lock in the benefits of Britain's "safe haven" status and the low borrowing rates that come with it. It also means government borrowing wouldn't have to be repaid until the next century.
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The resignation of the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, comes at a time of tension within the Anglican Church over issues related to homosexuality as well as women bishops. Vicki Barker has reaction to the news.
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British satirists are having a field day with the latest scandal involving ties between the police and media. In 2008, Scotland Yard loaned a horse to Rebekah Brooks, a newspaper editor then working for Rupert Murdoch. The retired horse wasn't supposed to be ridden, but it was — by Brooks and by David Cameron, who would become Britain's prime minister. -
Plans by European politicians to introduce a tax on financial transactions are getting a cold reception in Europe's main financial center, London. On Wednesday the head of the EU executive branch said banks and other financial institutions should contribute to fixing Europe's economic problems ... but 80 percent of any income would come from London, and many British leaders reject the idea.
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A group of semi-nomadic Irish known as Travellers has been ordered to leave the former scrap yard east of London where they've been living. On Monday a judge will rule on their plea to remain on land that's been their home for a decade. -
British oil company BP says it will continue to finance sponsorships of art institutions, including the Tate Britain and the British Museum. This despite the activities of protesters who have tried to call attention to BP's handling of the Gulf spill disaster by smearing the Tate's main hall with a feather-covered slick.
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If you fancy a nice, cozy whodunit set in the jolly English countryside with kindly vicars and fresh-faced debutantes, then Mark Billingham's novels are definitely not for you. -
As she nears the end of her own life, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing is attempting to make some sense of her beginnings: Her new novel, Alfred And Emily, imagines a better life for her parents — one in which they marry different people. -
Scottish criminologist-turned-crime writer Denise Mina writes about slums and public housing projects — and the unlikely, imperfect characters who make their homes there. -
"Seduced" at the Barbican Gallery attempts to show 2,500 years of sexuality in world art, and to explore how attitudes about what is erotic art and what is pornography have changed through the ages. It's billed as the most sexually explicit fine-art exhibition ever staged.
