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SALT LAKE CITY — After a heated debate on Thursday, the Utah Senate is poised to pass a bill to drop the permit requirement for Utahns to carry a concealed firearm. HB60 co-sponsor Sen. David Hinkins, R-Orangeville, emphasized that the concealed carry permit does not include extensive gun safety training, but simply requires someone to take a three-hour class, submit an application and pay a fee. "But for people that say this somehow qualifies me to carry around my firearm with any sort of training is ludicrous. I can get this without having one minute of training with a firearm. That's the...

Tanisha McRae: Law should protect race-based hairstyles Individuals should be allowed to represent their cultural heritage without discrimination. (AP Photo/Terry Chea) Charlotte "Peaches" Smith, owner of the Dreadlocks Salon, works on a customer's dreadlocks Wednesday, July 3, 2019, in Oakland, Calif. California has become the first state to ban workplace and school discrimination against black people for wearing hairstyles such as braids, twists and locks. By Tanisha McRae | Special to The Tribune   | Jan. 28, 2021, 11:30 p.m. Whether it is conscious or unconscious, there can be a lot of ...

Utah legislators are trying to improve voter confidence and seek a major change for presidential elections, with the winner simply determined by popular vote.

| Updated: Jan. 27, 2021, 12:55 a.m. A Democratic state lawmaker is launching an impeachment probe targeting Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes over his ties to a GOP attorneys general association — an organization that encouraged people to rally at the U.S. Capitol ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection attempt. Rep. Andrew Stoddard is moving forward with the effort to impeach Reyes because of the attorney general’s “work to undermine our election process and results, and his regular failure to represent his client, the state.” He also wrote that he wanted more information about how the Rep...

SB107 would require the State School Board to reallocate a portion of a per-pupil funding from a school district that does not provide a broad-based in-person learning option for all students in kindergarten through grade 12 by Feb. 8.