Megan Banta
City Hall Watchdog at The Register-Guard
Data Enterprise Reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune
Data reporting for @sltrib. Midwest transplant via Oregon and @registerguard. Data, public records and accountability nerd. Often hiking when not working.
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6 days ago |
sltrib.com | Megan Banta
Note to readers: As a community-funded paper, The Salt Lake Tribune has chronicled Utah's housing crisis for years, but also looks to find solutions. In this series of stories, "Building Options," we'll look to outline the issue and why it matters, but also how state programs are showing signs of chipping away at the affordability crisis.
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1 week ago |
sltrib.com | Megan Banta
Eighteen months into an initiative to build thousands of starter homes, Utah has made progress, Gov. Spencer Cox said - but there's a long way to go. Since the governor announced plans ahead of the 2024 legislative session to add 35,000 starter houses, Cox said developers across the state have built and sold 5,100 starter homes. "We know that's not enough," Cox said Thursday afternoon.
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3 weeks ago |
sltrib.com | Megan Banta
As the wind steadily moved a storm system across the Great Basin toward Utah over the weekend, air quality worsened across the Wasatch Front. According to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data, air monitors detected spikes in ground-level ozone - the " bad ozone " that can impact breathing and aggravate asthma. But that doesn't tell the whole story.
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1 month ago |
sltrib.com | Megan Banta
Utah's average household has more buying power than anywhere else in the nation, according to research from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. That's despite rising housing costs and reflects the Beehive State's strong economic growth, Gardner Institute economists said. Utah had the highest-growing gross domestic product of any state in the country last year and is considered the top economy by a conservative, nonprofit group focused on limited government.
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1 month ago |
sltrib.com | Megan Banta
Utahns born into low-income families still have a better chance of making more than their parents than if they were born elsewhere, a new study shows, but those younger Utahns lost ground between generations. The state looks "very good in terms of economic mobility," said economist Raj Chetty. Chetty is the William A.
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More than 300,000 Utah households spend at least 30% of their income on rent or mortgage and utilities. I'm looking to talk with Utahns about their housing costs and how what they spend to keep a roof over their heads affects their health. https://t.co/vnBmCXJ6wV
RT @HUFH4M: New studies show that dust from the Great Salt Lake, when inhaled, is more likely to harm your body than other dust sources. M…
