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1:47 The COVID-19 virus has disrupted millions of lives across Utah, but some state legislators are proposing a law that would allow them to determine when the pandemic is over. Credit Thaut Images/Adobe Stock Utah legislators are working on a bill that would allow them to decide when the COVID-19 pandemic is officially over - or at least, what the state needs to do when the novel coronavirus is no longer a crisis. House members approved House Bill 294 - the so-called "Endgame Bill" - along party lines this week after a different measure failed that would have immediately ended the state's...

What do special interests get for providing $9 of every $10 in Utah legislators’ campaigns? Lee Davidson © Rick Egan (Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) A free lunch sponsored by Farmer's Insurance is served to Utah legislators in the Capitol Rotunda on February 12, 2016. Last year, special interests provided 87% of campaign donations to legislators, again raising questions about how much influence that may buy. Special interests provided a mammoth 87 cents of every dollar that Utah legislators raised for their campaigns last year, a new Salt Lake Tribune analysis shows. Mea...

House impeaches Trump, but Utah delegation voted against it Share this story As expected, Utah’s four Republican congressmen voted against impeachment. “Voting to impeach the president seven days before his departure from office serves little purpose given the Senate will not be able to hold a trial by that time and risks establishing this impeachment as politically motivated,” Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, wrote in a joint statement with two Texas Republicans and one from North Carolina. “Furthermore, the articles are flawed, charging crimes that are lacking the requisite element of inte...

Black Congressmen Who Objected To Certification Of Electoral Votes Sit Among Group Of Republicans Facing Calls To Resign Reps. Byron Donalds and Burgess Owens have so far refused to step down after participating in the effort to overturn the 2020 election. January 13, 2021 at 3:42 pm The two Black Republicans who participated in the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds and Utah Rep. Burgess Owens, are being hit with demands that they resign. Both Donalds and Owens have become well-known for spreading the kind of misinformation about COVID-19 and t...

Utah’s members of Congress talk about Capitol violence, blame and solutions Burgess Owens, Chris Stewart voted against electoral results after Capitol stormed. (Jose Luis Magana | AP photo) Capitol police officers in riot gear push back demonstrators who try to break a door of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. | Updated: Jan. 8, 2021, 2:34 p.m. Utah’s members of Congress were doing some thoughtful Monday morning quarterbacking — even though it was Thursday — after a long day and night of rioters storming the U.S. Capitol plus political brawling b...