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While the debate mostly stuck to the city’s pressing issues like affordable housing and water, it also highlighted the sharp divisions that have formed over cultural topics.

January Walker with the Utah United Party, Cassie Easley with the Constitution Party and Brad Green with the Libertarian Party didn’t qualify for Utah’s 2nd Congressional District debate, but will appear on voters’ ballots.

The city will vote on Nov. 21 if it wants to keep funding new recreation projects the way it has since the 1990s.

Bigger populations don’t always translate into bigger tax bases for cities, so investments like new fire stations and equipment are a balancing act.

A financial tool available to Utah cities and counties since 2021, HTRZs aim to encourage new housing development near already existing transit infrastructure.

Lawmakers have only 45 days to write, debate and pass laws each year in Utah. The last couple of days of the session are always a mad rush of legislation.

More than 900 bills have been numbered in under 45 days with only three days left in the 2023 legislative session

Rep. Jordan Teuscher is sponsoring a bill to disband the Unified Police Department. He says Salt Lake County is currently being treated differently than the rest of the state.

Lawmakers front-loaded some of the most controversial legislation at the beginning of the session.

“This session, we will have the foresight to find lasting solutions to Utah’s and the West’s water crisis,” Senate President Stuart Adams.

As lawmakers get back to work, the legislature will again try to balance needs, wants and big ideas with two powerful forces: the budget and a desire for tax cuts.

Majority caucus members also say they’ll cut taxes, but worry about how that could impact the state budget.