Emily Anderson
Statewatch Reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune
Statewatch reporter @sltrib. Grad @MedillSchool, @UUtah. Bylines @washingtonpost, @propublica, @ICIJorg. Member @SLNewsGuild ✊.
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4 days ago |
sltrib.com | Emily Anderson
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6 days ago |
sltrib.com | Emily Anderson
Just over six months after he lost a long-shot bid to oust incumbent Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, Utah Democrats chose former state lawmaker Brian King to steer their party ahead of 2026 midterm elections. King narrowly came out on top of Ben Peck, a 25-year-old up-and-coming campaign consultant and previous executive director of the Salt Lake County Democratic Party, winning with 52% of the vote Saturday at the Utah Democratic Party's organizing convention in Ogden.
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sltrib.com | Addy Baird |Emily Anderson
On the Senate floor last week, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee argued against a bill that would allow United States Citizenship and Immigration Services offices to register new U.S. citizens to vote. "No one disputes the fact - at least no one disputes the fact now - that there are in fact noncitizens voting in federal elections," Lee claimed.
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sltrib.com | Emily Anderson
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2 weeks ago |
fox13now.com | Emily Anderson
Utah‘s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth was meant to be a moratorium, giving lawmakers the chance to reevaluate the policy once experts reviewed research on the impacts of treatment. This week, nearly 2 ½ years after the law took effect, lawmakers received the findings of that study. Utah health care experts concluded, in a more than 1,000-page report, “Overall, there were positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes” as a result of gender-affirming care.
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Update: Over 24 hours after I contacted DHHS, and the dept saying it wasn’t sure why reports were removed, deletions were attributed to “privacy concerns.” The disappearance coincided with similar actions by the Trump admin, but DHHS says there’s “no … political motivation.”
Utah’s trans teens are 3 ½ times more likely to consider suicide than their peers, per a statewide student survey. But conservative Utah, which passed anti-trans legislation for the fourth year in a row, quietly purged those figures from a state website. https://t.co/jpnIRPCLFB
Utah is getting its own DOGE — sort of. Gov. Spencer Cox said he’s “excited” about efforts to cut government, “but unfortunately, [DOGE is] not looking at outcomes.” State agencies won’t see mass layoffs, per the governor, but “There may be some changes.”https://t.co/vX3zwGqszO
Utah’s trans teens are 3 ½ times more likely to consider suicide than their peers, per a statewide student survey. But conservative Utah, which passed anti-trans legislation for the fourth year in a row, quietly purged those figures from a state website. https://t.co/jpnIRPCLFB
