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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1 week ago |
sltrib.com | Emily Anderson
Amid a slew of controversial firings by President Donald Trump's administration since he retook office, Utah's former solicitor general has become embroiled in a legal dispute over whether seemingly political terminations were illegal. Melissa Holyoak left former Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes' office last year after then-President Joe Biden nominated her to fill a vacancy on the five-seat Federal Trade Commission.
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1 week ago |
sltrib.com | Emily Anderson
A Utah audience of thousands, some dressed in years-old Bernie Sanders for President merchandise, crammed into the Huntsman Center at the University of Utah to listen to some of the most progressive members of Congress - who in many ways are the ideological opposites of their own representatives. "We are living in the most dangerous moment in the modern history of this country," Vermont independent Sen.
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1 week ago |
sltrib.com | Emily Anderson
In the months since President Donald Trump was elected, tension has emerged between the U.S. and many of its longstanding allies in the European Union. And the senior member of Utah's federal delegation, Sen. Mike Lee, has made dozens of posts magnifying the rift. "Europeans despise Americans," Lee wrote on the social platform X last month, urging the country to leave the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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2 weeks ago |
sltrib.com | Emily Anderson
After becoming the first state to ban fluoride from its water, Utah is one month away from the mineral being complete removed from Utahns' taps - a move President Donald Trump's Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has urged states to make.
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3 weeks ago |
ironcountytoday.com | Emily Anderson
By Emily Anderson Stern, The Salt Lake TribuneThis article is published through the Utah News Collaborative, a partnership of news organizations in Utah that aims to inform readers across the state. Tucked in the middle of a list of 100 bills Gov. Spencer Cox signed Thursday was “Amendments to Election Law,” or HB300 — the law that is set to end Utah’s popular universal vote-by-mail election system, forcing voters to opt in before 2029 to receive and send a ballot through the mail.
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Utah lawmakers took up RFK Jr.’s “MAHA” agenda as it became the first state to ban fluoride from water, stopped SNAP recipients from buying soda and pulled foods with certain additives from schools. Now, he’s coming to Utah for a victory lap. https://t.co/NvfDtqysUX
The question we’re all asking 👀
Hey @SpencerJCox, are you waiting for the end of this BYU game to sign/veto billa? Asking for a friend.
RT @RobertGehrke: Mia Love, the first Black Republican congresswoman, died today at age 49. No matter your politics, this is really sad. My…
