Utah Gov. Spencer Cox issued a call Monday for a special session later this week, primarily so lawmakers can accept more than $1.5 billion in federal coronavirus relief money.
SALT LAKE CITY Utah is a place that has nation-leading levels of social capital, family stability and social mobility.
But it is also a place that is becoming increasingly diverse and has wide disparities in education, housing and health outcomes between most minority groups and whites.
The effort to close those gaps took a big step forward Thursday with the release of a landmark data book on race, ethnicity and sex authored by the University of Utah s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute s data team.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said he s been in many discussions about Utah s strengths and challenges but we didn t have much firm data to back up the anecdotes and assumptions.
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Before President Barack Obama designated Bears Ears National Monument in December 2016, San Juan’s Republican-controlled County Commission was already devising a strategy to get it rescinded.
Phil Lyman, then a commissioner and now a state legislator, had signed a representation agreement between the county and the Louisiana-based Davillier Law Group two months earlier in a closed-door meeting. And as soon as President Donald Trump took his oath of office in early 2017, the attorneys and commissioners went on the offensive.
Over 70 organizations coming to our Utah event next week! Kaylor Erickson | Apr 5, 2021
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Next Wednesday, April 14th, we are honored to convene the 2021 Utah State of Reform Health Policy Conference! With over 70 organizations already registered to be represented at this year’s conference, there is bound to be a considerable amount of energy and engagement at this event, even in a virtual format.
We typically get quite a surge of registrants in the final days ahead of our conference, so I expect this number will grow!
If you want to get a look at which organizations are already joining us at State of Reform next week, take a look below. It’s an impressive list and one that we’re honored to host and convene on April 14th!
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