UPDATE: The Davis County Clerk says they've finished counting packets and there are enough signatures to put SD7 over the threshold by 48 — AS OF NOW. There are still removals to be processed and whatever changes come from the secondary review of those rejected signatures.

WILDEST finish to Prop 4 repeal! GOP-led repeal group has met the statewide mark & qualified in 25 of 26 required Senate districts. But they're 8 sigs shy in SD7. Davis clerk says he has THREE packets left and "a pretty good bunch" of removal forms. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Breaking: DOJ sued LG Henderson & 5 other states, demanding they turn over complete voter registration database, including voters' private data. Henderson: No state or federal law lets "DOJ collect private information on law-abiding American citizens,” www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

The effort to repeal Prop 4's ban on gerrymandering has crossed the statewide threshold and now has close to 150k signatures. They still need to meet the targets in six more state senate districts, but they made significant progress there, as well. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Breaking: The effort to repeal Prop 4 now has 149,781 signatures, passing the statewide threshold. Still needs to get to the mark in senate districts. More analysis after I get my coffee.

So close! The push to repeal Prop 4 is now just 86 signatures from the statewide goal after the biggest day of verification yet. They have 140,662. They also have met the threshold in 14 senate districts and need 12 more. public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

Morning signature update: Prop 4 repeal now has 129,946 verified signatures and needs just 10,802 to hit the statewide mark. The repeal effort has also met its goal in nine senate districts. They need 17 more. About 3,400 people have removed their names. public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

Morning Update: As of Monday, Prop 4 repeal is on track to get to the 140,748 signatures needed statewide. They now have 123,449. But they still only have six of the 26 senate districts needed (close in several others). 2,741 have withdrawn signatures. public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

Breaking: Utah Supreme Court rejected the Legislatures appeal in the redistricting case.

Morning update on Prop 4 signatures: Repeal effort now has 107,793 of the 140,748 needed, just over 3/4. They secured a 4th senate district, 22 more to go. There have been 1,925 removals. public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

I've been negligent, but here is the 2026 Graffy, showing how much taffy I have consumed so far this session. Consumption is down significantly and my teeth are happy about it.

Glenn Beck teed off on Utah Republican legislators, calling them "hypocrites" for packing the Utah Supreme Court and warning it could be the end of the Republic. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

A bill in the Legislature would require the Jazz, Mammoth, RSL and others to allow concealed weapons into their venues. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Tensions are high as signature gatherers clash with opponents of the bid to repeal Prop 4 and restore the Legislatures ability to gerrymander. In a handful of cases, police have been called. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Gov. Cox has signed a bill into law expanding the Utah Supreme Court by two justices — but lawmakers deny they’re packing the court. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Surprise! Ben McAdams is indeed running for Congress. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Breaking: Judge Gibson rejects the Legislature’s congressional boundaries. Chooses the plaintiffs Map 1. A solid northern SLCO district that strongly favors a Democrat.

"Shh. It's a secret. ... Utah's worst kept secret. Ben McAdams is running for Congress!” www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

A landscaping company is seeking $1 Billion in damages, accusing the attorney generals office and former AG Sean Reyes of a baseless, malicious human trafficking prosecution. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Updates from this morning’s testimony from the redistricting hearing. So far we heard the expert for the plaintiffs challenging the maps saying more than 99% of randomly generated maps create one Dem district, indicating the Lege map, with 4 R seats, is an outlier. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Last night, Sen. Daniel Thatcher — who clashed with Republican leadership before leaving the party — announced he would be leaving the senate. He won’t make it official until he’s sure the Utah Forward Party will get to pick his replacement. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

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