jennifer plumb

How much did the state front in the budget? Are lawmakers angling for federal funding? And what's the political will look like? All is answered.

Funding key pieces of Gov. Spencer Cox’s proposal made the early budget while reshaping existing dollars to focus on high‑utilizers, emergency shelter and behavioral‑health services.

Life under a supermajority isn’t easy, but Utah Democrats in the House and Senate are making the most of the “Utah Way” — reaching across the aisle and being persistent.

The restrictions sent to the governor include a ban on adult inmates receiving gender-affirming care and the assigning of cells for juveniles based on sex at birth, not gender identity.

A review by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project of account ledgers, budget documents, funding proposals and other public records found that a majority of counties in the state have spent little to none of the opioid funding they’ve received.

HB269 sets guidelines on where transgender students can live based on their sex at birth, not their gender identity. There are no exceptions included in the bill, even if they have received gender-affirming surgery and changed their birth certificate.

Plumb’s primary win was the easy part. There’s still an election, the rest of Senate District 9 and the Republican-led Legislature to worry about.

Plumb won’t face a Republican challenger in the general election. Instead, she’ll face an unaffiliated write-in candidate.

State Sen. Jim Dabakis announced his exit from the Legislature earlier this year https://youtu.be/-eQi6I3hil8" target="_blank">in a video that captured…