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 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.
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Similar clergy-penitent privilege bills have failed in the past. However, Rep. Anthony Loubet’s proposal has one major difference, resulting in a lack of opposition from the state's dominant faith.
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After approval from the Legislature, HB257 now heads to Gov. Spencer Cox’s desk for consideration.
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A day after softening the bill, Sen. Dan McCay added another substitution that returned many of the House version’s restrictions.
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The bill continues to restrict transgender kids in public K-12 schools from using the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity.
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“We value our rivers and streams, wetlands, whatever it may be, our lakes,” said the bill’s Republican sponsor. “But trying to mix the idea that it's actually a human person is not appropriate.”
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To clean the air, experts urge taking public transit, using clean energy — and spending political capital — with an Olympic deadline looming.
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Three days after it was introduced, and in the first week of the session, the bill is headed to the state Senate for consideration.