Tag Archives: Utah

Utah School Board Member Censured And Stripped Of Committees After Questioning Gender Of Teen Athlete

Salt Lake City’s NBC affiliate reports: After discussion in an hourslong, closed-door session, the Utah State Board of Education voted publicly to strip Natalie Cline of several of her powers as a state board member in response to her post questioning the gender of a student-athlete online. The board also asked her to resign immediately. The formal censure includes stripping …

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Utah Speaker Appeared At Far-Right “Patriot” Event

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz, who has made increasing trust in government a focus of his tenure as a legislative leader, is giving conflicting reasons for keeping his calendar of speaking engagements from the public after speaking at a Christian nationalist event last month. In January, Schultz was a featured speaker at an event sponsored …

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Utah Teen Hit With “Swarm Of Cyberbullying” After State Education Official Suggests She Is Transgender

NBC News reports: A Utah state school board member is facing widespread condemnation and calls to resign after she shared a post on social media that appeared to suggest a 16-year-old girl on her school’s basketball team is transgender. Natalie Cline, a member of the Utah State Board of Education, posted earlier this week on Facebook a flier for a …

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UT Lawmakers Pass Ban On College Diversity Programs

NBC News reports: Utah’s legislature became the latest in the U.S. to pass a bill Friday prohibiting diversity training, hiring and inclusion programs at universities and in state government. The bill that cleared the state House and Senate by wide margins now heads to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican who has said he is likely to sign such a …

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GOP Rep. John Curtis To Run For Romney’s Senate Seat

The Washington Examiner reports: Rep. John Curtis (R-UT) will forgo reelection to his Utah House seat and will instead run to replace the retiring Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) in the Senate, the third-term Republican announced on Tuesday. Curtis joins a crowded field of Republican candidates seeking to replace Romney, who will step down from office when his term expires next …

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Utah Becomes First State To List RFK On 2024 Ballot

The Daily Beast reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has met the 1,000-signature threshold necessary to propel him onto the presidential ballot in Utah, according to state authorities, making it the first state to offer the independent candidate as an option to general election voters. Every state has its own requirements for independent and third-party candidates to qualify for its ballot, …

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GOP Former Aide Wins Utah US House Special Election

Politico reports: Utah Republican Celeste Maloy will be the newest member of Congress, bringing the House back to its full complement of 435 members. Maloy defeated Democratic state Sen. Kathleen Riebe and a handful of third-party candidates in Tuesday’s special election in Utah’s 2nd District. Former GOP Rep. Chris Stewart stepped away from his seat earlier this year. Maloy, a …

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LDS Nursery Worker Arrested On Child Porn Charges

Utah’s Cache Valley Daily reports: A 46-year-old Lewiston man has been arrested for downloading child pornography over the internet for years, according to law enforcement. Kent Daniel Prestwich was booked Tuesday, Oct. 10, into the Cache County Jail after state agents served a warrant to his home. According to arrest documents, Prestwich allegedly told investigators he had been viewing child …

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The MAGA Scramble Is On To Vie For Romney’s Seat

The Hill reports: Sen. Mitt Romney’s (R-Utah) decision to not seek reelection is setting off a scramble among Utah Republicans to fill his seat in 2024. Utah GOP Chairman Robert Axson told The Hill that roughly 30 people have expressed interest over the last few months in running for Romney’s seat. Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs has already declared his candidacy, …

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Mitt Romney: I Will Not Seek Reelection Next Year

The Washington Post reports: Sen. Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee in 2012 and the only member of his party to twice vote to convict former president Donald Trump in politically charged impeachment trials, announced Wednesday that he will not seek a second term in the Senate representing Utah, saying in an interview that it is time for a new …

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Utah Mormon Leader Arrested On Child Sex Charges

Salt Lake City’s CBS affiliate reports: Roselle (Rosie) Anderson Stevenson, formerly Rosie Hamblin, 70, of Provo, the ex-wife of David Hamblin who was arrested last September for aggravated sexual abuse of a child, lewdness with a child, rape of a child and several counts of sodomy on a child was booked into the Utah County Jail on one felony count …

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FBI Kills Utah Cultist Who Threatened To Shoot Biden

Salt Lake City’s Fox affiliate reports: A suspect shot and killed by FBI agents early Wednesday in Provo was connected to alleged threats against President Joe Biden and other officials. The FBI says its agents were attempting to serve arrest and search warrants in Provo when they shot and killed a suspect, now identified as Craig Deleeuw Robertson, at around …

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23 GOP Governors Skip Convention Of State Governors

Politico reports: There are 26 Republican governors. Three of them showed up here this week at the annual summer meeting of the National Governors Association. And of those three, one left after the first night, and another had little choice but to attend — his chairship of the group began at the conclusion of this year’s gathering. Striding the Hard …

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UT Gov Vows To Sue Social Media Over Use By Minors

Politico reports: Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Sunday he is getting ready to sue social media companies for the harm caused to his state’s young people. “In the coming months, you will see lawsuits being filed by the state of Utah to hold them accountable,” Cox, a Republican, said during an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” Cox signed legislation …

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Bible Returns To Utah School District After Backlash

The Associated Press reports: Officials from the Davis School District, which educates 72,000 students north of Salt Lake City, said at a board meeting Tuesday that the district had determined the sacred text was age-appropriate for all district libraries. In allowing the Bible to be accessible to students regardless of their grade level, the board sided with 70 people who …

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Utah Gov Issues Pride Proclamation Without “LGBTQ”

Salt Lake City’s Fox affiliate reports: Governor Spencer Cox issued a proclamation Wednesday, marking June as Pride Month and calling on Utahns to be more welcoming and accepting of the LGBTQ community.  “This should not be controversial,” the governor told FOX 13 News in an interview about the proclamation. “There should be nothing controversial about supporting a group of people …

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Utah School District Removes Bible From Libraries After Complaint It Violates 2022 Law On Obscene Materials

Salt Lake City’s ABC affiliate reports: Copies of the King James Bible are being removed from school library shelves at elementary and junior high facilities in Davis County, Utah, after a complaint that the scriptures feature material inappropriate for younger children. The complaint was filed by an unknown person in March after a statewide law passed in 2022 allowed residents …

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GOP Rep. Chris Stewart To Announce Resignation

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart plans to resign his seat in Congress. That announcement could come as early as Wednesday morning. Multiple sources have confirmed to The Salt Lake Tribune that Stewart announced his plan to resign, citing ongoing health issues with his wife. It was unclear what those health issues may be. First elected by …

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Pornhub Blocks Access In Utah Over Age Verification

Axios reports: The adult content website Pornhub blocked access in Utah on Monday due to new state laws requiring websites with adult content to verify users’ ages before allowing them to access the platforms. Pornhub.com now opens on devices in Utah with a message that states the company has “made the difficult decision to completely disable access to our website …

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DeSantis To Utah GOP: Florida Is the Utah Of The South

Mother Jones reports: After a recent poll put him 13 points behind Donald Trump for the GOP presidential nomination, Ron DeSantis decided to lick his wounds and head to Utah, a state where he might actually be more popular than the former president. On Saturday, the Florida governor spoke at the state’s GOP convention, where, amongst his trademark attacks on …

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