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
In the five years since the death of George Floyd, efforts to reform Salt Lake City’s approach to policing have effected some change. But with state politicians cracking down on DEI initiatives and city control, the future of policing in Utah’s capital is now facing different pressures. Derek Chauvin, a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, murdered Floyd, a Black man, on May 35, 2020 after kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine-and-a-half minutes.
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2 weeks ago |
kuer.org | Sean Higgins
Downtown Salt Lake City is home to two major league sports teams: The Utah Jazz and the Utah Mammoth. Both are owned by the Smith Entertainment Group. SEG also has big plans to invest heavily in the downtown core with what the city calls a “sports, entertainment, culture and convention district.” It spans from 500 West all the way to West Temple and contains the Delta Center, Salt Palace Convention Center and The Gateway shopping center.
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2 weeks ago |
kuer.org | Sean Higgins
You can find an English-language version of the story here. —Incluso con la incertidumbre económica que se avecina, las cosas se ven bastante bien en Salt Lake City. “Si vas a elegir en algún estado, que sea en Utah, y si vas a estar en Utah, que sea en el Utah urbano”, dijo Natalie Gochnour, directora del Instituto de Políticas Kem C. Gardner de la Universidad de Utah, al Concejo Municipal de Salt Lake City el 13 de mayo.
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3 weeks ago |
kuer.org | Sean Higgins
This is a breaking story and will be updated... After a hard-fought nominating convention, Utah Republican state delegates ultimately chose to stay the course. The 2,650 delegates, by a vote of 1,340-1,250, reelected party chair Rob Axson to a second term at the May 17 GOP gathering at Utah Valley University. He defeated former state representative and gubernatorial candidate Phil Lyman. Voting was done via paper ballots, and the hand count was done by volunteers.
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3 weeks ago |
kuer.org | Sean Higgins
Even with looming economic uncertainty, things look pretty good in Salt Lake City. “If you're going to be in any state, be in Utah, and if you're going to be in Utah, be in urban Utah,” University of Utah Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute Director Natalie Gochnour told the Salt Lake City Council on May 13. “And [the city] is the center of both of those.”Gochnour presented the economic forecast to the council as the city’s budget discussions for FY26 get underway.
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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.