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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Utah has 890,637 active Republican voters. On Super Tuesday, the most recent tally shows only 84,942 votes cast in the caucus presidential poll.
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Utah Democrats participated in a state-run primary, where the AP declared President Joe Biden the winner at 8:05 p.m. MT. Results from the state party-run GOP presidential preference poll took longer. The AP called the race for Donald Trump at 1:39 a.m. Wednesday.
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Utah lawmakers passed a recording-breaking 591 bills during the 2024 legislative session. Gov. Spencer Cox has until March 21 to either sign or veto them. If he does neither, the laws automatically go into effect.
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The bill also outlines which Utah cities get access to state homelessness funding.
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More than 300,000 cases await expungement review by the Utah Department of Public Safety and more records are added every month.
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If passed, all employers, regardless of staff size, would be required to try to accommodate an employee’s religious belief unless it presents an “undue burden” on the business.
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Utah Gov. Spencer also thinks, and feels that most Americans agree, that “it's a mistake to nominate either of the party frontrunners right now.”
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Utah Senate President Stuart Adams wants to ensure water for future generations through a new water council, but they would be exempt from public records requests.
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The idea to build a pipeline from the ocean to fill dying saline lakes isn’t new. But the feasibility (and potential cost) is the biggest hiccup.
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While Utah is just beginning to address the dust from the Great Salt Lake, Californians living near the Salton Sea are dealing with dust storms and health risks.
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Much like they did last year, Utah’s supermajority legislature front-loaded its contentious bills to the opening days of the 45-day work session.
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The bill would require an incarcerated transgender woman to be housed in the male wing of the jail or prison.