A Utah lawmaker wants to allow pregnant women to legally drive in the carpool lane. New Utah legislation could allow unborn children to count as another person. Pregnant people could be allowed to use the HOV lane in Utah.
Stunning. Startling. Amazing. Those are some of the words some Utah lawmakers used to describe the experience of flying over the Great Salt Lake on Tuesday to see for themselves just how much lake levels have declined amid the West’s megadrought. Another group will take the tour Wednesday or Thursday.
The Utah Air National Guard dropped three Blackhawk helicopters on Capitol Hill to pick up lawmakers, taking them on an aerial tour of the shrinking Great Salt Lake.
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Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY Attempts to prohibit some nicknames from going on election ballots had some in the Utah Senate questioning whether the motive was personal or if it violated free speech.
“I think the ballot should not be a tool for campaigning. I think that there is integrity to the ballot,” said the floor sponsor of HB152, Sen. Mike McKell, R-Spanish Fork.
HB152 would limit candidates to their given name or a nickname that they’ve “generally been known” by for at least five years and they have “documentary evidence” as proof.