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Utah County Republicans pick Mike Kennedy to fill open state Senate seat


SALT LAKE CITY A former state lawmaker who ran unsuccessfully against now Sen. Mitt Romney in the 2018 GOP U.S. Senate primary is returning to the Utah Legislature this time as a state senator.
Republican Mike Kennedy won the Utah County Republican Party s special election Tuesday night to fill the vacant seat left behind by Senate Majority Whip Dan Hemmert, R-Orem, who resigned to serve as Gov.-elect Spencer Cox s director of the Governor s Office of Economic Development.
Kennedy previously served in the Utah House when he was first elected in 2012 to fill a seat left vacant by John Dougall when he resigned to run for state auditor. He won re-election twice, but announced he would not seek re-election in 2018 in order to run for U.S. Senate. He lost to Romney in the GOP primary. ....

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5 Things Utah: Biden health policy, children's mental health, AG Reyes - State of Reform


1. Rep. Marie Poulson reflects on 12 years of health reform
A member of the state’s Health Care Reform Task Force since its inception 12 years ago, Rep. Marie Poulson (Cottonwood Heights) has had a front row seat to the evolution of Utah health care since. As she nears retirement in 2021, Poulson spoke with reporter Eli Kirshbaum about the long fight for Medicaid expansion, her criticisms of the Herbert administration and expectations for the Cox administration, and her concerns as Utah begins distributing COVID vaccines.
“I know during my twelve years serving as a legislator, with the rancor coming down from our current administration, a lot of more ‘in-your-face’ partisanship, I have seen it filter down to the states in the last few years … I really am pretty positive, in spite of the fact that we have this huge supermajority in the state, that most people will rise to the occasion, knowing what a terrible economic toll the pandemic has taken on people ....

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