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Thanks to rights to more than 650,000 acre-feet of water, the tribe, and its leader Stephen Roe Lewis, are a power player in a parched region.

“If you expect me to be Mitt Romney, I'm going to disappoint you. If you expect me to be Mike Lee, I'm going to disappoint you. I'm John Curtis,” he said. “And I think it's just fair to say I'm really different than both of them.”

Despite a right flank challenge and Phil Lyman's strong showing at the state nominating convention, Utah Republican voters opted to give Gov. Spencer Cox a shot at a second term. He'll face Democrat Brian King in November.

The deal announced by Houston-based Fervo Energy is by far the largest deal for a new generation of geothermal power, which engineers have been advancing for years so that traditional power plants that cause climate change can be closed down without a loss of needed, 24/7 electricity.

It remains a matter of scale and urban versus rural. Not all of Utah’s 29 counties experience election mistrust to the same degree.

Water levels in the Great Salt Lake are still below healthy levels, while many reservoirs around the state are full or near full. A resident at this year’s Sailfest wondered why they don’t send that water to the lake.