How could the maps the Utah Legislature is considering change Utah's political landscape? I ran the numbers to see how each of the four districts have performed in recent elections. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Pornhub’s owners are paying Utah $5M and potentially up to $15M to settle allegations from the state and FTC that they hosted child sexual abuse and non-consensual videos and images. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

They don't like it, but Republican Lege leaders say they will obey a court order to redraw the state's congressional maps while also pursuing "every legal option." Gibson’s ruling, they said, “unconstitutionally” ties their hands and sets unreasonable deadlines. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Trump trashed an Utah judge’s decision as “unconstitutional” and “activism” aimed at tearing down the Republican majority. He says he wants to make sure the state’s “four Republican Congressmen stay right where they are!” — including Rep. Celeste Maloy. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Breaking: Judge Dianna Gibson has struck down Utahs congressional boundaries, ordering the Legislature to adopt new maps within 30 days that comply with the 2018 Better Boundaries initiative. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

On Monday, a judge will decide if Utah’s congressional boundaries were illegally gerrymandered to help Republicans. The long-awaited decision may trigger a remapping of Utah’s 4 House seats as Texas & Calif. are redrawing maps for political advantage. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Democratic Sen. Nate Blouin has called for Senate President Stuart Adams to resign over his involvement in changing a law that helped an 18-year-old high schooler facing rape charges. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

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Here’s the backstory on how Senate President Stuart Adams spurred a change to state law that helped a teen facing child rape charges. It highlights issues around how the criminal justice system deals with such cases. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Can someone please explain how movie theater popcorn is so addictive?

This rare dinosaur skeleton — which had been housed at Thanksgiving Point until last year — just sold for $30.5 million, making it the third most expensive sale of a specimen in history. www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2...

Wanna own a dinosaur? Sotheby's is auctioning off this rare Ceratosaurus that spent more 20+ yrs at the Thanksgiving Point museum before being sold last year. Paleontologists worry it may end up in private hands, away from scientists and the public. www.sltrib.com/news/2025/06...

Read the scathing letter a senior staffer for Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith sent to Mike Lee’s office, chiding Lee for joking about the slaying of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

MN Sen Amy Klobuchar rips Mike Lee for blaming deadly shooting of state lawmakers on “Marxists” and linking him to Gov. Tim Walz. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

This is all so bleak. Be safe. Be kind to each other. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Hi. I’m Robert. I’m gonna be spending a little more time over here. Come say hi.

Here is a first crack at a story on labor unions meeting the requirements to get their repeal effort on the ballot. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

BREAKING: Labor groups met the requirements to qualify a referendum for the ballot repealing HB267, which bans collective bargaining for police, fire and teachers unions. As of this morning, they had more than 148l verified signatures and met the targets in 15 senate districts.

Last month Utah’s senior senator tweeted from his @BasedMikeLee account — on average — every 10 mins every day for the entire month assuming he never slept. His already prolific social media use has gone into hyperspeed in 2025. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Here is a first pass at a story on the referendum effort. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Now: Union leaders are arriving at the Capitol to launch an effort to put a referendum on the 2026 ballot repealing a law that bans collective bargaining for public employee unions.

🚨 This is a really big deal. Gov. Cox wants to create the Beehive Development Agency that could designate project areas of any size, anywhere it wants. The agency could collect taxes and use it to finance infrastructure. Local govts would have no buy-in but would have to cooperate. t.co/xC14DFiLMg

A bill is coming that would disband the State Records Committee and give an administrative law judge the power to decide disputes over the public's access to government records. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

A provision in a bill that passed the Senate today means any future citizen ballot initiative will cost backers an extra $1.4 million. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Trevor also has a bill that specifies which flags can be displayed in classrooms. It would ban Pride flags 🏳️‍🌈 from schools. Parents could sue the school district if it’s violated. le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/st…

Rep. @votetrevorlee has a bill that would require animals raised to become food that have been vaccinated to be considered and regulated as if they were drugs. le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/st… Vaccines are commonly used to prevent diseases in the poultry, hog and cattle industries.

Rep. Stephanie Gricius wants to ban fluoride from public water systems. If I’m reading it right it wouldn’t ban toothpaste. le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/st… Flouride reduces tooth decay by about 25%.

BYU is bringing it tonight. Wow.

My favorite part of Die Hard is when the firehose reel is pulling McLean out the window. #ChristmasMoments

We’ve updated the story from the hearing before Lege leadership. Speaker Schultz used the findings to go after mail-in voting, likely a prelude to what’s to come this session.

A new legislative audit found two “likely deceased” voters cast ballots in the 2023 election. About 1,400 people presumed dead are included on the voter rolls. The audit made 20 recommendations to improve election processes and integrity. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

A new poll found nearly 80% of voters don’t want the Lege to be able to repeal or amend ballot initiatives. But 60% would have voted to do just that because of the wording of the ballot question that the Supreme Court voided because it was misleading. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...