(Salt Lake City, UT) — A state senator is apologizing for repeating claims that opponents of a data center in Box Elder County were funded by the Chinese Communist Party. Republican Senator Todd Weiler claimed he was deceived in a social media post on Monday. The post included a statement […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — State lawmakers are advancing two bills that deal with police quotas and unmarked squad cars. Republican State Senator Dan McCay has a bill that would ban police in unmarked cars from making stops that only involve an infraction, like speeding. He thinks it’s often inappropriate […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Senator Todd Weiler will soon receive radiation therapy to treat his cancer. Weiler was diagnosed with prostate cancer years ago, and said he believed he was in the clear after he had his prostate removed in 2020, but recent testing confirmed the cancer isn’t […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-A new Utah law will enable family members of crime victims to request a review of cases that have been stalled for more than a year. KUTV-TV reported the law allows family to check on the progress of felony cases including homicides and missing persons. Under the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A bill that calls for Utah’s required, semester-long high school financial and economic literacy course to include units on socialism and communism has won final passage in the state Senate. The Deseret News reports the bill passed Friday after its Senate floor sponsor, Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Supporters of a push to create an independent commission in Utah are steeling themselves for a potential challenge to the ballot initiative that voters narrowly passed into law last year. Leaders of the effort aimed at combatting gerrymandering say they’re staying vigilant amid talk of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The recent beating of a young man and his father at their Salt Lake City tire shop by an attacker who told police he targeted them because they were Mexican is renewing criticism of the state’s hate crime law, which one prosecutor is calling unusable. […]
