Utah lawmakers meet in a special session to allocate federal coronavirus relief funds — but guns, masks and critical race theory end up on the agenda as well. Plus, with the best record in basketball, the Utah Jazz head to the NBA playoffs. How far can the team go? At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Bethany Rodgers and…
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox says he’s exploring the idea of paying residents to get vaccinated. Meanwhile, he is canceling coronavirus-related unemployment payments. And Utah restaurants and bars are responding in various ways to the lifting of public health orders. At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Kathy Stephenson and Taylor Stevens, along with news columnist Robert Gehrke, join…
The Bureau of Land Management offers a $10,000 reward after a prehistoric petroglyph panel was defaced with the words “white power.” Utah’s new homeless services coordinator says that rather than building a new shelter, existing facilities need to transition people out of homelessness more quickly. And the challenge to protecting threatened cultural relics inside Bears Ears National Monument grows in…
State epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn announces she is leaving the Utah Department of Health. A draft audit recommends changes to some practices of Salt Lake City police. And the Utah Supreme Court considers a question central to the future of the Utah Inland Port: Who controls the land — and the tax revenue it generates? At 9 a.m. on Friday,…
A new “homelessness czar” is appointed to oversee Utah’s response to the growing number of unsheltered people in the state. Refugee resettlement groups express frustration that President Joe Biden has yet to expand the number of refugees the U.S. is willing to accept. And after three years in sanctuary in a Salt Lake City church, Vicky Chavez and…
The end of the statewide mask mandate is nigh. But Salt Lake City says not so fast. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland visits Utah as part of a review of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. And Weber County commissioners declare their county a “Second Amendment sanctuary.” At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Leia Larsen and…
How state leaders tried to help a Draper pharmacist import hydroxychloroquine, even as experts warned the drug wasn’t useful in treating COVID-19, and could actually be dangerous. Multiple women accuse the communications head for the Salt Lake County Republican Party of harassment, leading to the resignation of the chair of the county’s GOP. And an alleged power grab…
In the year since the pandemic forced us to cancel, the federal student loan debt has grown $100 billion. The stakes have risen for student borrowers, making it high time we rescheduled our debate on the motion: Forgive Student Loans. Facing growing discontent over the rising cost of higher education, many prominent Democrats – and some Republicans – are calling on…
A member of a prominent Utah family accuses The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of fraud and sues to try to recoup millions of dollars in tithing. There’s increased oversight coming to Utah’s “troubled teen” industry. And a look at the bills signed, left unsigned and vetoed by new Gov. Spencer Cox, including measures on…
Analysis shows that millions of dollars of COVID relief went to TestUtah for coronavirus testing. Petitioners ask Gov. Spencer Cox to veto a bill creating a bank of funds for projects of the Utah Inland Port. And with vaccine appointments opening up to Utahns 16 and older next week, what do kids, pregnant women and those who have already been infected…
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