ICYMI, Utah is looking to go big on nuclear energy with a bid for a special “lifecycle” facility that will handle fuel enrichment, recycling and disposal in the West Desert: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
ICYMI, the Utah GOP-backed citizen ballot initiative to repeal Prop. 4 will NOT be on the November ballot after enough voters pulled their signatures: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
ICYMI, water isn’t a red state/blue state issue, former U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton says. The former Biden administration water boss shared her thoughts with me on the water problems facing the West: www.fox13now.com/news/colorad... #utpol #Utah
Alright, time for the bad bills this session that passed
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Read the whole thing on @elevate_utah 's substack! #utpol #provo #utleg #utahlegislature
GOOD BILLS THAT PASSED. It's not all bad y'all. Big thank you to all the legislators that got these good things over the finish line.
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This Pat Bagley cartoon is featured in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Titled, “Lesson not learned”. A single panel featuring Bagley’s signature Utah politician: white male, blue suit, red tie, white shirt. Represented in seven different emotions, the politician at the center holds a newspaper with the headline, “Out-of-state funded legislative initiative fails!” Tantrum on the floor, pulling out his hair, stomping in anger, even a faint, Bagley’s drawing relays the recent news that the state legislators’ effort to repeal prop 4 fails to make the ballot in the upcoming election.
Political cartoon is courtesy of today’s Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com and cartoonist Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
For you not-Utahns, Utah legislators failed to get a repeal of Prop 4 (citizen passed fair maps) referendum on the 2026 ballot.
Maybe they’ll stop fighting us?
#utpol
ICYMI, Gov. Cox signs bills designed to push Utah’s top water user — agriculture — to send more water downstream to help the Great Salt Lake: www.fox13now.com/news/great-s... #utpol #Utah
ICYMI, as Utah’s gas tax declines, cities are exploring different ways to pay for road repairs: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
Article courtesy of today’s Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com
$38,000,000,000
833,000 sq ft holding pens
12,000 new ICE agents
92,000 new beds
WITELF have we become?
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‘Sense of additional doom’ over ICE facility’s purpose in the Trump deportation machine
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ICYMI, Utah is looking to go big on nuclear energy with a bid for a special “lifecycle” facility that will handle fuel enrichment, recycling and disposal in the West Desert: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
Article courtesy of the Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com
“Give me your tired, your poor|Your huddled masses yearning to be free…”
Just kidding…..
#utpol
College Republican group tapped LDS BYU student for political boss. The backlash was swift.
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Utah is looking to go big on nuclear energy with a bid for a special “lifecycle” facility that will handle fuel enrichment, recycling and disposal in the West Desert: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
Miles down a dusty dirt road in Tooele County's west desert, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and other state and local leaders gathered to mark another milestone in their race to make Utah the “energy capital of the world" — a bid to host a nuclear campus. #utpol
Tooele County leaders have blessed the bid, but @healutah.bsky.social has BIG concerns about its proximity (about an hour's drive from SLC).
"We don't want to see the creation of another generation of downwinders in this state," their director told me: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
Utah is looking to go big on nuclear energy in the state with a bid for a special “lifecycle” facility that will handle fuel enrichment, recycling and disposal in the West Desert: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
The project could generate as much economic impact as Hill Air Force Base does, Gov. Cox says. Tooele County’s council has already given support to the proposed project. We are about an hour away from SLC in the West Desert. #utpol #Utah
HAPPENING NOW: Gov. Cox announces Utah will seek a “nuclear fuel lifecycle campus” in Tooele County for small-scale nuclear power as part of Operation Gigawatt. This would be a recycling facility, if approved by the DOE #utpol #Utah
Judge Barlow, a Trump-appointee, has not yet ruled on the League of Women Voters' motion to intervene, nor the Democratic National Committee's request to file an amicus. Both parties are siding with Lt. Gov. Henderson. #utpol #Utah
NEW: A federal judge will allow the NAACP to intervene in the DOJ's lawsuit against Lt. Gov. Henderson seeking Utah's voter rolls. The NAACP is siding with the LG, saying she is protecting Utahns' private info. #utpol #Utah
ICYMI, Gov. Cox has vetoed two bills from the 2026 Utah State Legislature: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
ICYMI, the Utah GOP-backed citizen ballot initiative to repeal Prop. 4 will NOT be on the November ballot after enough voters pulled their signatures: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
Blame the democrats for wanting ICE and CBP reforms. You know cuz fu**ing protesters got murdered by these federal agents. But toss them their dough anyways?
So, nbd. Right, Moore?
I swear to god. #utpol
Lolololol. For years, the legislature made it harder for citizen initiatives to even get off the ground, and yet they did...consistently. And then the minute the legislature tries to manufacture their own groundswell, the same rules they put in place to stop initiatives BIT THEM IN THE ASS! #utpol
Article courtesy of today’s Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com
Makes sense. You’ve gotta have administrative offices to hold humans. 🤦🏽♀️🙄😡
Utah leaders: JOBS!
Watch this space.
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ICE is now looking for office space in West Valley City. Here’s what we know.
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After more than three weeks of war against Iran, Utah Rep. Blake Moore said the U.S. has accomplished several objectives but did not fully anticipate the disruptions to global shipping the conflict would spark www.ksl.com/article/5147... #utpol
Article courtesy of the Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com
@schotthappens.com reported on this earlier today as well.
It’s funny cuz the same legislators that made signature gathering on initiatives so difficult, bit them in the a** in the end.
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