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“We’re low on public defenders, we’re low on prosecutors, we’re low on agency attorneys,” GOP Sen. Brady Brammer told the Senate Education Committee Jan. 29.

Does Utah need a 3rd law school? One lawmaker wants it to be at UVU.
“We’re low on public defenders, we’re low on prosecutors, we’re low on agency attorneys,” GOP Sen. Brady Brammer told the Senate Education Committee Jan. 29.
UPDATE: Students at BYU are also protesting Border Patrol’s presence at a job fair on campus at their university tomorrow.

Update: Border Patrol plans to recruit at UVU and BYU’s job fairs. Students and faculty are pushing back.
The inclusion of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on the list of employers who plan to recruit at both UVU and BYU's job fairs this week has drawn major attention online.
Starting this week, the roughly 70,000 Utahns who signed a Republican petition to put a measure on the ballot to restore the Legislature’s ability to gerrymander political districts will get a letter in the mail asking them to remove their name.

Utah GOP in final sprint for Prop 4 repeal, but Better Boundaries is trying to move the finish line
Utah voters who signed a petition for the GOP's initiative to reverse the ban on gerrymandering are being mailed letters urging them to drop their support.
Letter: How many innocent people must be shot, murdered, dragged from their cars and beaten, tear gassed, kidnapped and sent to torture prisons without due process by Gestapo-like ICE thugs before Utah's congressional delegation takes action?

Letter: A vital message for Utah’s congressional delegation: Republicans must stop enabling Trump’s criminal enterprise
Letter: How many innocent people must be shot, murdered, dragged from their cars and beaten, tear gassed, kidnapped and sent to torture prisons without due process by Gestapo-like ICE thugs before Utah's congressional delegation takes action?
The historically poor snowpack means resource managers are bracing for a bad water year.
Scott Paxman, general manager and CEO of the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District, said cities may have to enact drinking water restrictions.

‘It’s horrible’ — Utah snowpack hits worst levels on record
Is Utah losing its reputation for having the "Greatest Snow on Earth?"
As it did in 2002, the LDS Church is again providing a "significant financial donation" as well as the use of some of its property to the Utah 2034 Winter Olympics. The agreement was announced in Italy, days before the start of the 2026 Winter Games.

LDS Church pledges ‘significant financial donation’ to support Utah’s 2034 Olympics
As it did in 2002, the LDS Church is again providing a "significant financial donation" as well as the use of some of its property to the Utah 2034 Winter Olympics. The agreement was announced in Italy, days before the start of the 2026 Winter Games.