Utah’s House of Representatives have released what I will very, very tenuously call a “rap video” in which they rhyme, abysmally, about passing bills into law to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme-song.
After months of dull speculation, former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has announced he will be running as a Republican candidate in Utah’s 2018 Senate election. His announcement was accompanied by a stirring video that makes a valiant effort to suck up to the state of…
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Before he departed office in 2016, President Obama designated 1.35 million acres of Utah’s ruddled landscape as Bears Ears National Monument, granting it federal protection against oil and gas drilling, among other threats. On Monday, Trump is poised to undo his predecessor’s handiwork, with reports revealing his…
Nasiru Seidu, the 41-year-old man accused of raping a Brigham Young University student in 2015, was acquitted on the charge of first-degree rape on Wednesday.
One year and a lifetime ago, American society was vaguely stable and fundamentalist Mormon cult leader Lyle Jeffs was facing federal charges for food stamp fraud and money laundering. Jeffs disappeared while awaiting trial, with his court-appointed lawyer dryly suggesting that perhaps he’d been raptured into Heaven. …
This week, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has been on a “listening tour” across southeast Utah. Zinke is conducting the tour after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in late April instructing Zinke to review national monuments like Bears Ears. Bears Ears, which sits on Native American lands, was…
Utah health officials have been blocked from including questions about sexual orientation on a survey intended to get to the bottom of the rising surge of teen suicides in the state after several school districts threatened to pull out.
In 2016, Utah passed a law requiring fetuses beyond 20 weeks—the gestational point that Republican legislators argued that a fetus can feel pain—be given painkillers prior to “elective abortion.” Utah dubbed it “fetal anesthesia,” and though there is no medical evidence indicating that fetuses can feel pain, nor any…
James Green, vice chair of the Wasatch County GOP in Utah, wrote a truly astounding letter to the editor this week arguing against Senate Bill 210, which would direct employers to establish uniform pay criteria and study pay disparities between men and women. Let’s not do that, Green argued, because men should make…
Dear Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the congressman who doggedly pursued investigations of those damn emails but who refuses to consider Donald Trump’s potential conflicts of interest, got the reception he deserved when a crowd of over a thousand angry constituents booed him at a town hall Thursday night.
On Wednesday, President Obama designated two national monuments in Utah and Nevada, covering more than 1.6 million acres across the two states. While the decision is a victory for the coalition of conservationists and Native American tribes who supported the sites’ designation, it is also likely to become yet another…
William Johnson, a white nationalist, practicing California lawyer, and determined Trump supporter, placed a robocall in the state of Utah alleging that conservative independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin is gay because he’s over 40 and “doesn’t even have a girlfriend.”
New York couple Anne Hardcastle, 27, and Michael Taylor, 45, have been arrested and are awaiting extradition to Utah for their alleged attack on a woman last January.
The Browns, a polygamous family from the reality show Sister Wives, hopes to make their case for legalizing polygamy before the United States Supreme Court. They filed a request for hearing on Monday, September 12, and await a decision.
Life inside the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints continues to be surprisingly eventful: three members of the polygamous sect got themselves re-arrested this week, while already awaiting trial on federal food stamp charges. The FLDS’ acting leader, who escaped his ankle bracelet with help of…
Following a recent high profile sexual assault case, the Utah Department of Public Safety is now investigating Brigham Young University’s police department for how it handles and distributes its police reports, as well as how it accesses reports from other police agencies in Utah.
Earlier this morning, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch (Utah) published a story that he apparently wrote in the future.
At the end of this month, a law passed by Utah State Legislature and signed by Republican Gov. Gary R. Herbert, will require that women terminating a pregnancy at 20 weeks or more be given anesthesia or painkillers. Not for them—it’s called “fetal anesthesia.”
Utah Governor Gary Herbert has signed a bill requiring that doctors administer anesthesia to people receiving abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The bill, you will be non-surprised to learn, isn’t about concern for a pregnant person’s health, but is based on the bogus notion that 20-week fetuses can feel pain.
