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Trump to visit Utah in August for fundraiser
SALT LAKE CITY — Former President Donald Trump will visit Utah in August for a fundraiser, multiple people familiar with the plans confirmed. The fundraiser is scheduled for Aug. 29 in Park City. Official coordination efforts are being led by George Glass, a Trump campaign fundraiser and former ambassador to Portugal, and Marlon Bateman, a State Department official during the Trump administration. Both Glass and Bateman declined to comment.
Family of Utah murder victim wants 'an eye for an eye' as inmate's execution date looms
Family members of a woman slashed and stabbed to death in 1998 pressed Utah officials Tuesday to proceed with next month’s scheduled execution of the convicted killer, presenting emotional testimony about a crime they say still traumatizes their close-knit Native American community. Taberon Dave Honie is asking Utah’s parole board to commute his death sentence to life in prison as an act of mercy so he can remain in the lives of his daughter and granddaughter. He faces a planned lethal injection on Aug 8...
Opinion: There’s a missing piece to Utah’s approach to housing affordability, says one Utah planner
Picture this: A young Utah family, excited to buy a first home, finds a dream house slipping further out of reach with each passing month. Sound familiar? It should. In the Beehive State, the affordability crisis isn’t just making headlines — it’s reshaping lives. Redfin data shows that, since May 2019, median home prices have increased by a startling $206,700 — a 61.53% increase that’s left many Utahns reeling.
IOC awards 2034 Winter Games to Utah, pushes state officials to help end FBI investigation
PARIS (AP) — What was expected to be a simple coronation of Salt Lake City as the 2034 Winter Olympic host turned into complicated Olympic politics Wednesday, as the IOC pushed Utah officials to end an FBI investigation into a suspected doping coverup. The International Olympic Committee formally awarded the 2034 Winter Games to Salt Lake in an 83-6 vote, but only after a contingent of Utah politicians and U.S. Olympic leaders signed an agreement that pressures them to lobby the federal government. ...
New AmeriCorps program to aid Forest Service with wildfire, reforestation efforts
The Forest Corps is a new collaboration between AmeriCorps and the U.S. Forest Service that will see dozens of young people fan out across the West to carry out a number of projects. This week, 87 newly inducted members of the Forest Corps started heading toward project sitesin California, Oregon,...
Utah’s Olympic quest really began as a 1960s ploy for publicity — and it worked
Editor’s note • This story, republished now as Salt Lake City wins a second bid for the Winter Olympic Games, first appeared in The Salt Lake Tribune on Feb. 2, 2002. The opening of the 2002 Winter Olympics next week will culminate seven years of hard work by Utah organizers. Yet the efforts to stage a Utah Olympics began not in 1995, when Salt Lake City won the 2002 hosting rights, but 30 years earlier, when another generation of Utahns first sought the Games.
WHAT ARE THESE Amazing Ponds in Utah??
People say there's nothing more disconcerting than looking out of a plane window and seeing something "unexpected." And what they're usually talking about is an engine being on fire or an alien space ship dangling in the clouds. But sometimes you look out and you see something out in the...
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