Sonja Hutson
ReporterSonja Hutson is a politics and government reporter at KUER. She’s been reporting on politics ever since the 10th grade, when she went to so many school board meetings the district set up a press table for her. Before coming to Utah, Sonja spent four years at KQED in San Francisco where she covered everything from wildfires to the tech industry. When she’s not working, you can find her skiing, camping, or deeply invested in a 1000 piece puzzle.
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Lawmakers are expected to accept about $1.6 billion from the American Rescue Plan Act, but they’re only planning to spend about $575 million right now. -
Gov. Spencer Cox said he chose only to lift the school mask requirement for the last week as a compromise between parents who wanted it gone immediately and those who wanted it to stay.
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Sen. Mitt Romney, R-UT, and Rep. John Curtis, R-UT, introduced legislation Thursday to designate 289,000 acres of land in Illinois as federally protected wilderness. It’s an attempt to troll Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL, who introduced America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act Monday that would designate 8.4 million acres in Utah as federally-protected wilderness areas.
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The bill would require social media companies to notify users when their post is taken down or moderated. People could appeal the decision or make a complaint to the Utah Attorney General’s office.
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Sen. Mitt Romney voted with former President Donald Trump 75% of the time, but some voters still call him a moderate or a liberal Republican.
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Biden’s message to teachers and community health workers was simple: Thank you, your president has your back.
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Es casi dos veces más probable que un blanco anglosajón haya sido vacunado contra el COVID-19 comparado con un latino o con un afroamericano en el estado de Utah. Las clínicas móviles estilo “pop-up” administradas por organizaciones comunitarias son parte de la estrategia que el estado está usando para cerrar esa brecha.
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White people are nearly twice as likely as Black and Latinx Utahns to have received the COVID-19 vaccines. Pop-up clinics run by community organizations are one strategy the state is using to close that gap.
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Utah's tech sector is growing, but the industry says the state has a reputation problem that makes it hard to attract workers. So, it's lobbying state lawmakers to push socially inclusive legislation.
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‘A Place In This Party For Everyone’: Utah GOP Delegates Elect Carson Jorgensen As State Party ChairThe Utah Republic Party elected Carson Jorgensen as the party chair Saturday. Jorgensen ran on a platform of focusing on rural elections and bringing young people into the party.
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Four candidates are vying to be the Utah Republican Party's next chair. State delegates will decide who gets the top job during the party's convention Saturday.
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The project includes helping teachers promote social and emotional learning, growing a Special Olympics program and conducting quarterly service projects.
