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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6 days ago |
sltrib.com | Emily Anderson
Editor's note * This article discusses suicide. If you or people you know are at risk of self-harm, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline for 24-hour support. You can also reach The Trevor Project, which specializes in helping LGBTQ+ youth, by calling 1-866-488-7386, or by texting "START" to 678-678.
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1 week ago |
sltrib.com | Emily Anderson
Utah's Sen. Mike Lee is pitching a sweeping reform of food stamps that would require states to take on a larger cost of the program. But if the country sinks into recession, among the Americans who would take the biggest hit are Lee's own constituents.
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1 week ago |
sltrib.com | Emily Anderson
Editor's note * This article discusses suicide. If you or people you know are at risk of self-harm, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline for 24-hour support. You can also reach The Trevor Project, which specializes in helping LGBTQ+ youth, by calling 1-866-488-7386, or by texting "START" to 678-678. When late Sen.
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3 weeks ago |
sltrib.com | Robert Gehrke |Emily Anderson
Labor groups met the signature threshold in one state senate district Tuesday, the first of at least 15 they'll need in order to get a referendum on the 2026 ballot to repeal a new law banning government entities from negotiating contracts with public employee unions. The Protect Utah Workers coalition met the requirements in Sen. Jen Plumb's Senate District 9, which covers a large portion of northeast Salt Lake City, according to data from the lieutenant governor's office.
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3 weeks ago |
sltrib.com | Emily Anderson
Every year for the last half-century, thousands of the poorest Utahns have turned to Planned Parenthood for free or discounted family planning health care, like birth control or testing for sexually transmitted infections. But under a directive from President Donald Trump's administration to freeze the federal funds that helped pay for those services, Planned Parenthood Association of Utah was forced to raise its fees earlier this month.
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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
