Sean Higgins
Reporter at KUER-FM (Salt Lake City, UT)
Politics & government @KUER, NPR Utah and @StateStreetKUER | Formerly @KPCWRadio | 2022 @UtahSPJ Best Radio Reporter 📻
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1 week ago |
kuer.org | Sean Higgins
Kimberlee Keller never really paid attention to hockey, much less attended a game. That all changed when the NHL announced last April that it was coming to Utah. “I was like, this could be fun,” she said outside the Delta Center before an April 3 Utah Hockey Club home game against the Los Angeles Kings. “And now I'm a big fan. I'm really into it.”She and Ross Jackson said they have been to about 10 games this season.
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1 week ago |
kuer.org | Sean Higgins
Southern Utah could be in for a longer than normal fire season. The region endured a very dry winter and little snowpack and dry soil is a dangerous mix. According to the most recent state data, Utah’s three southernmost watersheds barely hit 40-percent of average snowpack over the winter. “The soils are already in the bottom tenth percentile of our observations in both the Escalante-Paria region and also southwestern Utah region,” said Jordan Clayton with the Utah Snow Survey.
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2 weeks ago |
kuer.org | Sean Higgins
Global markets are swinging wildly from the effect of President Donald Trump's announcement of wide-ranging tariffs on virtually all of the United States’ trading partners. To better understand today’s situation, some historians say lessons can be learned from what happened nearly a century ago in the runup to the Great Depression. Much of what we understand about tariffs and the global economy comes from Utah Senator Reed Smoot.
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3 weeks ago |
kuer.org | Sean Higgins
With more fuel-efficient automobiles and the growing popularity of electric vehicles, states like Utah are having to get creative with how they collect tax revenue to fund transportation and infrastructure improvements. Utah’s gas tax is $0.5755 per gallon. Of that, $0.3915 goes to the state and the rest goes to the federal government. The state collected $451,893,186 through the gas tax in the 2024 fiscal year.
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3 weeks ago |
kuer.org | Sean Higgins
Although Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency dominates the headlines around federal funding, Salt Lake City leaders are still moving forward with their efforts to fund critical housing programs with federal dollars. Despite the uncertainty, they say immediate federal funding is not in danger.
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1. More reporters should consider covering rural areas and more newsrooms should see the value in rural beats. Would benefit journalism + the public. 2. Feels weird that “reporters” can refer to both people who cover small city council meetings and people who have talent agents.