Saige Miller
Politics ReporterSaige is a Politics & Government reporter, as well as a co-host of KUER's politics podcast State Street. A graduate of the University of Utah with two BA degrees, Saige was a reporter and producer for The Salt Lake Tribune’s Innovation Lab before coming to KUER. When she isn’t neck-deep in politics, you can find her in a concert moshpit, watching really bad reality TV or hyper-fixating on a 1,000-piece puzzle.
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Overall, the voters KUER and PBS Utah spoke to are pleased with where the country is headed. There were, however, a few worries about the economy and the rule of law in Trump’s second term. -
As of the morning of April 28, the labor groups hit the 8% target in 15 Senate districts, and 146,480 signatures have been verified. -
There are four different kinds of special sessions in Utah. The governor says he will call for one in May, but lawmakers may also be considering their own sessions as well. -
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is thinking about precedents and the next election when it comes to how fast and how hard the Trump administration is pushing on some policies. -
Attendees at rally saw the progressive duos stop in Utah as a sign of hope. But the members of Congress don’t have the ability to flip the state on their own. -
Utah’s new law bans students from using cellphones in the classroom unless a school sets its own phone policy. -
During his visit, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he plans to tell the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation in communities nationwide. -
While not all Utah cities and municipalities fluoridate their water, the ones that do will no longer be allowed to by law starting May 7. -
The governor continues to plead with lawmakers to pass fewer bills to ease the burden on school administrators and municipal workers of implementing new laws. -
Park City Mayor Nann Worel doesn’t know why Sundance passed on the joint Salt Lake City and Park City bid but acknowledged politics could have inadvertently injected itself into the discussion. -
Colorado, like Outdoor Retailer before, has lured away another Utah institution. The film festival has called Utah home since 1978. -
Love, whose political career included serving Saratoga Springs and Utah’s 4th Congressional District, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a highly aggressive brain cancer, in 2022.
