Tilda Wilson
Growth, Wealth and Poverty ReporterTilda Wilson is KUER’s Growth, Wealth and Poverty reporter based in central Utah. Before KUER she spent a year as a Kroc Fellow at NPR. This included rotations reporting for their national desk, investigations desk, and culture desk, and producing for Weekend Edition. Tilda grew up in Salt Lake City, and spent a year attending Utah State University before finishing her history degree at Cornell. Tilda spends her spare time knitting things without a pattern that couldn’t fit anyone.
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Immigration cases have spiked nationally, and in a small county, like Millard, it makes a big difference.
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Without Utah County Commissioner Tom Sakievich, who hasn’t been able to work since last December, some county business is at a standstill.
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Nearly one-fifth of Orem residents are Hispanic or Latino. The city hopes their translation project will help better accommodate them.
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The Utah Transit Authority is accepting public comment on its plan to begin charging for its UVX bus rapid transit system in Orem and Provo.
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For the third year in a row, Utah’s Legislature removed funding for an environmental impact study for a Navajo Nation road between Navajo Mountain and Blanding at the last minute.
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Haley wants to see a return to traditional Republican politics, but polls indicate her chances in Utah are slim.
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Lawmakers have passed HB29, which updates Utah’s sensitive materials law and allows for books to be banned statewide.
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The prison camp on an old Civilian Conservation Corps camp outside of Moab held 56 so-called troublemakers from other camps in 1943.
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Biologists from the Utah Department of Natural Resources have been monitoring the birds since 2019.
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Rep. Rex Shipp hopes to prevent unnecessary restrictions on local beekeeping, but some beekeepers worry about the one-size-fits-all approach.
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A lawmaker is concerned about liability and teachers’ limited time, but others worry a potty-training requirement would leave some students behind academically.
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The Provo-Orem area spent three years as the Milken Institute’s best-performing city. Officials aren’t worried because they’re still in the top 10.